on the subject of ageless music

[smithpeter]

( I'm happy I stayed up late tonight)
this is not a contest.
I want to make a video of me and my daughter dancing now.
The grand kids can be added later.
Get it? We are digital. All of us.
I want a shot of us, me now and my kid and her kids and me dancing with them.
They can be added later in a sort of ballet of grandpas fantasy
Who knows when. I get to pick the song,
What song do you want to dance to when you are too old to get up with your little loved ones?

My choice:
Joan Armatrading- "Down To Zero"
warrior music

what would you choose?

 

[Angeline]

I am going to be sorry I admitted this

I just know it.....

but when my kids were little we danced together all the time. The three of us--and our favorite was Cheek to Cheek because of course after the serious (!) Fred Astaire, and Ginger Rogers, and the other Ginger Rogers (lol) dancing ("Heaven, I'm in heaven..."), we could do the bump (the song is Cheek to Cheek, after all), and collapse cracking up.

So I might pick that song. But I also loved line dances when I was little--you know like they did on American Bandstand? So maybe I'll teach my grandchildren the um swim, and the monkey, and the twist, and the one I personally excel at: the mashed potato (spelled without an "e").

Or maybe some Motown, which is very cool dancing music. Maybe Goin to au Go Go? Or earlier. Little Richard. Everyone should dance to Little Richard at some point. Maybe jitterbug to Sweet Little Rock and Roller.

I don't think they'll dance with me now though. Now they think I'm really weird. And you know what I say to that?

Wop bop a lu op a bop bam boom!

 

[karmadog]

If I post this, I will have thought 3x

Ahh, see. Here's the thing. I don't want to have kids of my own, but when I'm old, I'd like to rock out with my nephew to 'My Generation'. I hope that we could dance with both irony and understanding. I also hope one day to have a woman that I've been married to for a portion of a century. And we would dance to (yes, Angeline) 'Cheek to Cheek' or 'Just the Way You Look Tonight'.

It's brutal and even awful to admit, but, at heart, I remain a romantic.

 

[Angeline]

Karmadog?

I think I would really like to see you dancing ironically. You could dance that way during the part where they sing "Hope I die before I'm old." And maybe "Why dontcha just f-f-fade away."

I'm not trying to cause a big sensation.

 

[JUDO]

I think a ballad would be best for the oldest among us, something wonderfully romantic would drain the sentiment. How about "My One and Only Love?"


- Judo