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| Songs for swing dancing | |
|---|---|
| Our Love is Here to Stay | First verse: Jane, second verse: Beth |
| All of Me | Lead sung by Jim Baird |
| You Turned the Tables on Me | Lead: Beth Holmgren |
| Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine | Jane and pianist Glenn Mehrbach |
| Dream a Little Dream of Me | Jane and pianist Glenn Mehrbach |
| You'll never get away from me | Jane and pianist Glenn Mehrbach |
| As Long as He Needs Me | Jane and pianist Glenn Mehrbach |
| When I Fall in Love | Jane and pianist Glenn Mehrbach |
| When I Take my Sugar to Tea | Jane and pianist Robert Griffin |
| A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square | Jane and pianist Robert Griffin |
| What a Wonderful World | Jane and pianist Robert Griffin |
| Making Whoopie | Uh, not safe for serious weddings. |
| Waltzes - "first dance" | |
|---|---|
| Enrichez Vous | Also played at contradances for the last dance. |
| South of Andromeda | Written by David DiGiuseppe, one of our partners and leader of the contradance band "Contrazz." |
| Jewish dance tunes (we're also a klezmer band) | |
|---|---|
| The Heyser Bulgar | A very famous klezmer tune, even Itzhak Perlman plays it! |
| Araber Tanz | We like the oriental feel of this one |
| Lustige Khsidim | Extremely mysterious tune... |
| Sirba | One of the cheeriest klezmer tunes ever! |
| Baym Rebns Sude | "At the rabbi's table." Wonderful for preludes. |
| Goldene Khasene | Means "A Golden Wedding." With Glenn Mehrbach. |
| Russishe Sher | Excellent for dancing. |
| Yiddish, Hebrew, and Sephardic songs: | |
|---|---|
| Di Arbuzn | "My love for you is as ripe as the plums. Come already, let's not wait any longer." |
| Vos du vilst, dos vil ikh oykh | "What you want, that's what I want too." Jane and pianist Robert Griffin |
| Yerushalayim Shel Zahav | Known in English as "Jerusalem of Gold." By Naomi Shemer. |
| Ikh Zing | Excellent 50s feel to it! With pianist Glenn Mehrbach. |
| Tayere Malkele | "My dear little Malke, she's hotter than the month of Tamuz..." |
| Ma Navu | This is one of many Israeli folk dances we play, and usually at least a few of the guests start dancing spontaneously. |
| Una Noche (Sephardic) | An extremely tender love song in Ladino. |
| Harshl | Well, we usually save this one for a bar mitzvah, it's about a gangster in the Jewish underworld. |
| Vos du vilst, dos vil ikh oykh | "Whatever you want, that's what I want, too!" You are the white of my eyes, you are my soul... |
| Spanish language, Greek, and other... | |
|---|---|
| Amorcito Corazon | A Mexican bolero, as a tango. Jane and pianist Glenn Mehrbach. |
| Mil Besos (A thousand kisses) | Jane and pianist Robert Griffin |
| San Kemene Polikari | Sung by Ken Bloom, who used to play all night in the Greek bars on his bouzouki |
| Kokkino Gramma | Learned from the singing of Grigoris Maninakis |
| Feiruz | Learned for a Greek - Jewish wedding |
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