What party songs are popular in your region?

In My Humble Opinion
1

This is inspired partially by the “black vs. white” middle-aged party songs thread and partially by a discussion I recently had with my husband.

A friend of my husband’s who recently attended a wedding in Buffalo, NY asked him to ask me if Meatloaf’s “Paradise By the Dashboard Light” caused everyone where I’m from in Northern New York* to (I’m quoting his friend) “freak out and start singing along”. I said, “Of course! Why?”

His friend said that he’d never seen anything like that here in Albany and neither had my husband. His friend described it as such: “It was like everyone was in a musical all of a sudden!” I was left wondering if other regions had their own “Paradise By the Dashboard Light”.

[sub]*Never mind that Buffalo is a few hundred miles away from Massena, but whatever. Some people think Northern New York means Buffalo, but that’s a rant for another day.[/sub]

2

I don’t go to many parties, but I’d have to say that YMCA, Love Shack, and Lonestar’s Amazed tend to be singalong and dancealong favorites.

3

I don’t know if this is true elsewhere, but I don’t remember the last time I went to a wedding and they didn’t play “What I Like About You” by the Romantics.

4

What? Did they stop playing the Bunny Hop and the Hokey Pokey?

5

When a jukebox plays David Allan Coe’s You Don’t Have To Call Me Darlin’, you can count on several people singing along.

6

Bob Segers Old Time Rock and Roll . Never been to a party/dance where this didn’t get everybody off their arses.

7

Oh, that’s really popular in NNY, too. In high school, I hated it so much that when the song came on and my friends literally dragged me on to the dance floor, I would stand there in protest. I was kind of an asshole about music sometimes. Everyone was into Def Leppard and I was listening to The Cure, so Bob Seger wasn’t on any of my mix tapes.