Holy Crap! Your right!
Speaking of Christmas, there’s that theme from A Charlie Brown Christmas, Christmas Time Is Here.
That was the first dance of at our wedding reception.
Yes, we’re geeks. Our wedding ceremony ended with the music from the final scene of Star Wars.
I’ll add Manilow’s Weekend in New England
“Breakaway” by Kelly Clarkson. Seems to me like Avril Lavigne or Christine Aguilera had one too, but it’s not coming to mind.
I Me Mine - The Beatles
** A Taste of Honey** - The Beatles
Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis
Happy Christmas (War is Over) - John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Carol of the Bells
Sofa - Frank Zappa
I suppose you could waltz to Natural Woman by Aretha Franklin.
A lot of traditional southern gospel is in 3/4 time…which is kind of odd, considering many of the churches back in the day forbade dancing.
“Sathington Waltz” by Primus. You could try using it, if you want the experience of an entire room full of people hating you. 
Not exactly. I’ve seen it arranged as 3/4 in sheet music but couldn’t remember the meter Oldfield used.
Various sheet music transcribers seem to have made a pretty thorough mess of this tune. You and I have discussed this before..
Also “Fairytale of New York”, another song that could evoke interesting reactions.
Well, if you want a really brief waltz, “Shiny Happy People” by R.E.M. goes into waltz-time for a few bars.
Not “popular” I guess, but there are many Cajun songs that are great waltzes.
Ok, like, how does one know the “time” of a song: 3/4, 4/4, 6/8 (ain’t that 3/4?), 5 and 3/8, 7 and 11/16? Huh?
Maybe someone could explain this to a lay person like me?
Is “Whiter Shade of Pale” a waltz? 'Cause it sounds kinda waltzy to me.
Dylan’s “Wallflower”. Also, I think, “Winterlude”.
Holy crap! I’ve got an electric guitar-laden version of Carol of the Bells, and that will make the most epic waltz ever!
Also, “Norwegian Wood”. Dylan’s “Fourth Time Around” (6/8), “Hickory Wind” by Gram Parsons or the Byrds (depending on how you want to look at it), and about half of everything the Cowboy Junkies ever did.
And this is snipped from the Popular Waltzes section of the Waltz entry on Wikipedia:
From the 1950s: The Tennessee Waltz, If, I Went To Your Wedding, (How Much Is) The Doggie in the Window, Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart), True Love, Allegheny Moon, Rock and Roll Waltz, Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom), Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be), Tammy, Around the World, The Chipmunk Song, El Paso, Edelweiss, My Favorite Things.
From the 1960s: Moon River, Charade, Dear Heart, Somewhere, My Love (Lara’s Theme from Dr. Zhivago), The Sweetheart Tree, What the World Needs Now Is Love, (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, The Last Waltz, Jean.
From the 1970s: Time in a Bottle, Annie’s Song, When I Need You, You Light Up My Life, If You Don’t Know Me By Now, Three Times a Lady.
No. I would say that Whiter Shade of Pale is 4/4. Play it and try counting one…two…three…one…two…three to it.
It won’t ‘fit’.
Basically the ‘time signature’ tells you how many beats to the bar and the value of those beats.
So 3/4 indicates 3 beats to the bar (a waltz - 1-2-3, 1-2-3) and the 4 indicates quarter notes.
6/8 indicates 6 beats to the bar and eighth notes. To the layman, 6/8 is 3/4.
If you are a fan of Pink Floyd, hum or listen to ‘Money’ from DSOTM. It is in 7/4 time. You can count to 7 and it ‘fits’. ‘Take 5’ by Brubeck is named because it is in 5/4.
‘Mars’ from Holst’s Planets (very famous) is also in 5/4.
I must say, if ‘waltz’ as a description of music is to mean anything, then quite a few - perhaps most- of these aren’t waltzes. I mean calling a piece of music a waltz should imply that one could indeed waltz to it. I find it difficult to imagine anyone performing anything that could be called a waltz step to “You Light Up My Life” or “Manic Depression”.
Good Lord people, a waltz is more than just any old song in 3/4 or, God forbid, 6/8. At a minimum it should be in a slow-medium (waltzable) tempo, with minimal tempo variation and very few pauses or other suspensions of the beat (in a word, danceable); have a fairly steady three beat, with only a minor to medium accent on the first beat; and have a reasonably smooth and flowing sound. Of course, there are going to be judgement calls at the boundaries, but since the OP refers to actual, you know, dancing, I say we should be concentrating on real waltzes, not just any music with a vague three-beat. (And aren’t “Taste of Honey” and “I Me Me Mine” in 4/4 anyway?)
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From another lay person -
More or less, the top number says “the ryhthm in this music is in sets of __ beats.” So, when you listen to the rhythm of WSoP, you can hear “chord, drum, drum, drum, chord, drum, drum, drum, chord, drum, drum, drum” or a bunch of groups of 4.
If you listen to “House of the Rising Sun,” you can hear groups of 6 in the guitar.
When waltz dancing, the steps come in groups of three - so it needs to be done to music where the beats come in groups of three (or a multiple of three). If you try to do it to a music where there are four beats, there’s this extra beat hanging around where you have nothing to do.
(Assuming we’re talking about the Beatles’ arrangement of the former; I don’t know how it was originally written…) Both songs have 3/4 verses and but go to 4/4 for the bridge. In the Let It Be movie you actually see John & Yoko waltzing to “I Me Mine.”