# Skating Music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 11, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skating-music/771441 "2016-11-11T02:07:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skating-music/771441/21 "2016-11-12T18:34:25Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > “Fifties to seventies” spans two completely different genres. Here’s what skating music sounded like in the 50s: > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woqBMCb61OA&list=PLqEIpsEqNOJyCLwO16oTKEche3kLtV\_-m](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woqBMCb61OA&list=PLqEIpsEqNOJyCLwO16oTKEche3kLtV_-m) Yeah, but, though he violates the Law of Seven w/his new gf, there are only a couple of us who remember the glory days of the Hammond B3. “What happened to that old organ backstage at your high school?” “I dunno. They probably threw it out.” “Without calling me first?” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skating-music/771441/22 "2016-11-12T18:46:19Z")
> [@DMC](#): > > [Slave - Watching You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSZjR9_8TWE) > [Brick - Dazz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpr9qvuodVA) > [Brothers Johnson - Stomp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPBDMihPRJA) > [Chic - Good Times](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSV74NsIPg8) > [Cameo - Candy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn8KYD1Vco0) > [George Clinton - Atomic Dog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyS9M8T03A) > [D Train - You’re the One for Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXl7f757gqI) > [One Way - Push](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5n_WnCKO1A) > [Zapp - More Bounce to the Ounce](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK6wOG_aDl8) > [Yarbrough & Peoples - Don’t Stop the Music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tbS73I1N-I) > [Commodores - Brick House](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5EmnQp3V48) > [Newcleus - Jam On It](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEmg5GaAHbk) > [Donna Summer - I Feel Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2qI6UDD2uQ) > [War - Low Rider](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xTGrfs5TXM) > > If any of these are what you’re looking for, let me know, as I can do this all night (I began my DJ career back in that time frame). Yeah! That’s the stuff! Bow wow oh, yippy oh, yippy ay. But I assume you played extended, club mixes. FTR, some you folk embarassingly white. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skating-music/771441/23 "2016-11-12T20:00:15Z")
Don’t forget Car Wash by Rose Royce. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skating-music/771441/24 "2016-11-12T23:06:54Z")
We always skated to Love Stinks. Very popular with the jilted junior high set. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skating-music/771441/25 "2016-11-14T03:34:03Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Yeah! That’s the stuff! Bow wow oh, yippy oh, yippy ay. But I assume you played extended, club mixes. Yes, 12" singles (we called them “maxi-singles” in Germany), which often contained a cappellas or remixes as well. You could physically see where to make the transition on the vinyl and for fun I’d try (often successfully) to identify records by their groove patterns. 🙂 > [@](#): > > FTR, some you folk embarassingly white. 😉 I’m both embarrassingly old and white, but was in the right place at the right time. [I ran across something that will likely be down your alley](http://playlists.net/old-school-funk-roller-skating-class). While I don’t agree with all of the choices, at a glance I’d recommend about half of them for your needs. It even has a few songs that overlap with my previous recommendations. It also has a song that I’m ashamed I forgot, as it is the perfect song for the situation, [Vaughan Mason & Company - Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j2WnpIYr5g). If you happen to want to entertain the youngsters (those in their 40s), a few more for the road: [Johnny Kemp - Just Got Paid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl1mQASHc48) [Heavy D and the Boyz - Now that We Found Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNEgUPKxk7A) [Montell Jordan - This is How We Do It.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hiUuL5uTKc) [Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1D9wWxd2w) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skating-music/771441.md?page=1)