BBC Banned Disco Queen dies

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:30:15 +0000

Donna Summer died today. Just 63. A long battle with cancer ended a life too early. For those old enough to remember she caused a big stir with her lyrics in the 70′s. Tame by todays standards. Can you imagine “Love to Love you Baby” was banned by the BBC and many stations around the country and even she refused to sing it on stage after becoming a born again Christian in 1979.

Now we can only chuckle knowing that songs with the F-bomb in the title of the song, and b**ch, hoe, nig*a, and more are embedded in the lyrics of most rap songs.

It’s tough to see a true icon of the disco era pass. Also tough to see the innocence of the disco era pass.

Freak Dancing Puppets

admin — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:29:32 +0000

You know that Freak Dancing (Grinding) has gone mainstream, when “street performers” capitalize on it with nasty dancing string puppets. This is enough to make Pinocchio turn red.

Click here to view the embedded video.

TOP 30 Safe Songs (May 15)

admin — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:05:27 +0000

Thanks to Daryl Thomas at 1-800-DISC JOCKEY who had several great ideas to help improve the School Dance Network service, we have added a new column in our TOP 30 safe song list. From now on, when we add songs to the list we will identify them as being appropriate only for High School aged kids (not middle schoolers). As you know some songs are safe enough for High School aged kids, but simply are over the top for younger students. Keep in mind when they are cleared for High Schools it is only if the song has a clean radio edit, not necessarily in its original form. This week’s adds include “Leave You alone” by Young Jeezy…and that has been cleared for High schoolers only.

Also,if you have a listing in the 1-800-DISC JOCKEY directory, you can now be identified in your listing as a “Responsible DJ” if you are a DJ member of the School Dance Network. Join Here.

This Weeks Safe Songs Top 30

LW	TW	Artist	Title	Notes/info	Prime Cuts #	BPM	HS Only
7	1	Nicki Minaj	Starships	References Bud LIte. Edited only	201209	125
6	2	The Wanted	Glad You Came		201134	128
3	3	Gym Class Heroes	Self Back Home	Re do of “A** back home”	201203	130
17	4	Justin Bieber	Boyfriend		201214	97
19	5	Drake /Rihanna	Take Care		201150	122
1	6	Kelly Clarkson	Stronger		201201	116
5	7	Katy Perry	Part of Me		201210	130
4	8	David Guetta/Nicki Minaj	Turn Me on	Just don’t watch the video
2	9	J. Jessie	Domino		201135	127
20	10	One Direction	What Makes You Beautiful		201213	129
10	11	Rihanna	You Da One		201147	127
9	12	Chris Brown	Turn Up The Music		201206	130
14	13	B.O.B	So Good	Reference to Dominican Beer	201209	86
16	14	Calvin Harris	Feel So Close		201131	64
27	15	Pitbull	Back In Time		201214	127
11	16	Flo Rida	Good Feelin		201137	128
21	17	Goyte	Somebody that I used to Know
8	18	Pitbull/w Chris Brown	International Love	Requires edited version	201140	120
12	19	Rihanna	We Found Love		201140	128
24	20	Chris Rene	Young Homie		201209	80
13	21	LMFAO	Sorry for Party Rockin	Play Xtra clean version	201201	134
29	22	Jennifer Lopez	Dance Again		201215	128
*	23	Maroon 5	Payphone	Wiz Kjalifa	201217	111
15	24	Hot Chelle Rae	I Like it Like That	FT-New Boyz	201139	101
28	25	Karmin	Broken Hearted		201207	120
*	26	Rihanna	Where have you been?		201216	128
*	27	Carly Jepsen	Call Me Maybe		201210	120	Yes
*	28	Young Jeezy	Leave you alone	w/Neyo. Edit required	201208	95
*	29	David Guetta	Titanium
*	30	Calvin Harris	Lets Go	w/Neyo