There have been numerous posts asking what songs should be played for a particular audience, and most of the time the answers from forum members have been pretty much right on the money. However, there's now an easier way to determine what songs to perform.

IMO, most folks, especially those who wish to dance, usually go for songs that were at the top of the charts when they were between the ages of 15 and 30, songs they either fell in love to, or fell out of love to. Therefore, if you know the average age of your audience, you can go to a site that Eddie (Btweengigs) Shoemaker emailed to me this afternoon.

"Billboard has been charting since 1940. Its interesting to see how the number one songs have evolved over the years and see the artists that made them famous."

http://tinyurl.com/bg76f

Have fun,

Gary



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Travlin' Easy

That's neat. Here's one that I'm sure a lot of folks on here are familiar with. But for those who aren't, at the top of the page in this link you'll see 'Top 40 hits 1930-1999'. Then if you go back to the main index you can get to the lyrics to a lot of those songs.
http://ntl.matrix.com.br/pfilho/html/main_index/[/URL]

Cool huh?

[This message has been edited by renig (edited 03-01-2006).]

Here's one I recently found:

PopCultureMadness

You'll find the top hits of each year from 1920 to 2006 plus some other info as well.

[This message has been edited by Stephenm52 (edited 03-02-2006).]

The Lyrics World site also offers the hit songs for every year back to the 40's.
http://ntl.matrix.com.br/pfilho/html/main_index/index.html

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Joe Ayala