Dancing with the Stars - Soundtrack

Porfirio Landeros

Porfirio Landeros

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Hey All, I thought it might be cool to create a compilation of the season's songs for a soundtrack, since you can find this music at various legal sources as performed by the original artists.

Week 1:

Cha Cha
Respect - Aretha Franklin
September - Earth, Wind & Fire
Crazy in Love - Beyonce

Waltz
Come Away with Me - Nora Jones
Three Times a Lady - Lionel Richie / Commodores
I Have Nothing - Whitney Houston
 
Porfirio Landeros said:
Hey All, I thought it might be cool to create a compilation of the season's songs for a soundtrack, since you can find this music at various legal sources as performed by the original artists.

Week 1:

Cha Cha
Respect - Aretha Franklin
September - Earth, Wind & Fire
Crazy in Love - Beyonce

Waltz
Come Away with Me - Nora Jones
Three Times a Lady - Lionel Richie / Commodores
I Have Nothing - Whitney Houston
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It will be really hard to dance to some of those 'original' ones, since they were not arranged for dancing...
 
flyingwolf said:
It will be really hard to dance to some of those 'original' ones, since they were not arranged for dancing...
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At least 4 out of 6 of those I could dance to out-of-the-box. The only two I would question are Beyonce's, which technically is still a good/funky cha-cha, but the hardest one would be Whitney's, as it is more a Viennese tempo. Some pitch adjusting would be all that is necessary.
 
DancingMommy said:
I like this idea.... Maybe ABC will packagese in a spiffy box and try to sell it to us? ::ducks::
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I wouldn't be suprised. I have the album from the first season of BBC's 'Strictly Come Dancing'
 
The ABC version would probably be the TV version, and I have to say I'd strongly prefer music by the original artists. Yes, it's nice to have contemporary music for dancing, but the music on TV sounded a little elevator-ish to me. No offense to the people who said they liked it. At least it is contemporary music. I just think the original artists' songs have more ... spice.
 
pygmalion said:
The ABC version would probably be the TV version, and I have to say I'd strongly prefer music by the original artists. Yes, it's nice to have contemporary music for dancing, but the music on TV sounded a little elevator-ish to me. No offense to the people who said they liked it. At least it is contemporary music. I just think the original artists' songs have more ... spice.
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I agree with this. I think the originals are far better than the TV version. I think it was a good idea to go with more contemporary music for the show, simply because it would appleal to a wider variety of people...and, let's face it, the network wants it to appeal to the mass market.
 
I guess I should also say that, if there is a soundtrack, I will buy it to support the cause, elevator music or no. 8)
 
Porfirio Landeros said:
Week 1:
Cha Cha
Respect - Aretha Franklin
September - Earth, Wind & Fire
Crazy in Love - Beyonce

Waltz
Come Away with Me - Nora Jones
Three Times a Lady - Lionel Richie / Commodores
I Have Nothing - Whitney Houston
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I watched clips of the show, and with 4 out of the six songs thought "why are they dancing that, the song is a West Coast"
 
Yea, that and I head the first four songs listed all the time at dances and events. And I really don't like Crazy in Love. But I LOVE September.
 
I LOVE September, too, but hate to see a great song like that get hacked so badly. Sorry, I guess I'm a purist; and nobody does it quite like EW&F!
 
Very true, somethings should not be touched.

Strange versions of September are wrong. Not as wrong as Kenny G dubbing over Louis Armstrong (Wonderful World), but still very wrong.
 
flyingwolf--where did you buy your soundtrack to the BBC's show? I live in the US, so if it's from a local shop, I won't be able to buy it there. ;)
 
Porfirio Landeros said:
Week 1:

Cha Cha
Respect - Aretha Franklin
September - Earth, Wind & Fire
Crazy in Love - Beyonce

Waltz
Come Away with Me - Nora Jones
Three Times a Lady - Lionel Richie / Commodores
I Have Nothing - Whitney Houston
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Week 2:

Rumba
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith
Endless Love - Lionel Richie / Diana Ross
Hero - Enrique Iglesias

Quickstep
You're The One That I Want - Grease Soundtrack, John Travolta / Olivia Newton-John
Let's Face the Music And Dance - Fred Astaire (Various Others)
It Don't Mean a Thing (If You Ain't Got That Swing) - Tommy Burgos and His Swing Shift Orchestra (Various Others)
 
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