Top Ten Group Dance Requests at the Piano Bar/Dueling Pianos Show

Who doesn't like a good dance song to get the party going? Even at the piano bar, the right song can get a crowd up and boogeying to their hearts content.

And of course, there are those songs where everyone can do the same dance, together. Line dances, synchronized dances, step dances...they have many names, but like many other kinds of music (see our earlier post this morning) you either love them or hate them.

So, here is our top ten list of group dances.

Now, to be fair, in many parts of the USA, country music and line dances are extremely popular. Not so much here in the Northeast, and NYC area specifically, where Shake Rattle & Roll Dueling Pianos is based. So before the protests begin, we would like to honorably mention all the Boot Scootin' Boogey-ers and Achy Breaky booty shakers out there.

#10 - GANGNAM STYLE - Psy

This flash in the pan dance is surely going the way of Soulja Boy, The Dougie, and the many other dance crazes that could have been clocked with an egg timer. But, it still hangs on by its pop culture fingernails, and people still seem to remember the giddy-up moves that make this one linger on. This one goes out to all the piano players out there who took the Rosetta Stone course in Korean...

#9 - YMCA - Village People

All we're gonna say is, if you require a dance step to remind you how to spell Y-M-C-A, you might need more help than this blog can give.

#8 - GREASE LIGHTNING - Grease

Every junior high bobby-soxer, community theater participant and veteran of the VH1 late night movie marathons knows this one. It's for those who didn't actually live through the 50s, but wanna pretend they did.

#7 - THE TWIST - Chubby Checker

But if you DID live through the 50s, then here you go. The real deal. The dance that proved a little hip-swivel never hurt anyone. Except at the Ed Sullivan Show.

#6 - PROUD MARY - Tina Turner

Oh yes. Just like Tina said, we can do this one nice. Or we can do it nasty. Once those windmills start flyin', and those choo-choos start chuggin', the dance floor is a burnin', churnin' engine of ladies who cannot be stopped, and are out to prove that Tina isn't the only one who can dance in heels.

#5 - CUPID SHUFFLE and MACARENA

It's a tie here. This is for everyone who needs someone to tell them EXACTLY what steps to take, for the ENTIRE SONG. STEP BY STEP. That's right. Just listen to the track, and do exactly what you're told. And no one will get hurt.

#4 - TIME WARP - Rocky Horror Picture Show

Yes, there's even a group dance for the goth-set. Or the semi-goth set. Or the 'we-only-act-goth-when-this-song-comes-on' set. But hey, a little pelvic thrust goes a long way.

#3 - SINGLE LADIES - Beyonce

Taking the I WILL SURVIVE estrogen brigade, and moving the ball down the field a few more yards, it's Beyonce and those dance moves that everyone tries to do...for at least a few seconds, anyway.

#2 - BABY GOT BACK - Sir Mixalot

Okay, so this isn't quite an organized dance, so much as it is a bunch of people given an excuse to shake their booties. But it sure is fun. Tomato, to-mah-to. And pulling this one off on a piano never gets old.

#1 - THE HOKEY POKEY

There's the G rated version, the PG version, and the R version, but anyway you slice it, everyone knows the Hokey Pokey, and young and old alike can shake it all about. Add alcohol to the mix and this is a memory that will live on Instagram forever.

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