Under the Moonlight: Best Version of "Do You Want to Dance"

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Completely stole this idea from a La Lechera post on the obituary thread the other day:

"do you wanna dance" died? :(

that's one of my favorite songs of all time, i was going to do a poll of the different versions once but didn't feel like linking to all the versions

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, February 3, 2017 3:35 PM (two days ago)

I posted something on Facebook later that day, and I keep finding more and more good versions. The options are taken from Wikipedia--anything asterisked may not have made it onto record, but they're all on YouTube. I've listened to about 10 so far.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
1977 – Ramones	3
1958 - Bobby Freeman	1
1983 – Neil Young*	1
1998 – Darlington	0
1996 – Wax	0
1996 – Petty Booka	0
1994 – Queers	0
1993 – Jazz Butcher Conspiracy	0
1993 – Peter Andre	0
1990 – Belinda Montgomery*	0
1998 – Walter Beasley	0
1998 – Attaque 77	0
2014 - Velvet Ants	0
2012 – Rachael MacFarlane	0
2012 – Juliana Hatfield (can't find this myself)	0
2012 – Ash	0
2008 – Andreas Johnson	0
2008 – Energy	0
2007 – Lucy Lawless*	0
2006 – Laurent Voulzy	0
2001 – Raimundos	0
1988 – David Lindley & El Rayo-X	0
1987 – Barbie & the Rockers*	0
1963 - Bobby Fuller (date approximate)	0
1963 - Ann Christine (Finnish version: "Mennään Tanssimaan")	0
1964 – Four Seasons	0
1964 – Del Shannon	0
1965 – Sonny & Cher	0
1966 – Mamas & the Papas	0
1966 – Johnny Rivers	0
1966 – We Five (not the folk-pop band--Greek)	0
1972 - Bette Midler	0
1974 – Hurriganes (also Finnish--it's like the national anthem there)	0
1975 - John Lennon	0
1975 – T. Rex	0
1976 – Sleepy Sleepers ("Mennään Karjalaan"...Finnish!)	0
1978 – Ray Stevens	0
1982 - Bruce Springsteen*	0
1982 – Jan & Dean	0
1985 – Dave Edmunds	0
1962 - Cliff Richard & the Shadows	0

― clemenza, Sunday, 5 February 2017 22:30 (eight years ago)

When you check the lyrics on Google Play, the songwriting credit goes to "John Edmund Andrew Phillips and Michelle Gilliam." Ouch.

― clemenza, Sunday, 5 February 2017 22:32 (eight years ago)

(not on youtube)

http://images.45cat.com/the-bachelor-pad-smoothie-1991-2.jpg

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 February 2017 22:46 (eight years ago)

Beach Boys

― new noise, Sunday, 5 February 2017 22:51 (eight years ago)

(xpost) Found it elsewhere. Fast--maybe slightly faster than the Ramones. (Going to put together a file with everything.)

― clemenza, Sunday, 5 February 2017 22:53 (eight years ago)

And they start off with "Sunday Morning"!

― clemenza, Sunday, 5 February 2017 22:54 (eight years ago)

Ramones, specifically the one on It's Alive.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 6 February 2017 02:01 (eight years ago)

ha i think its generational, i automatically think of the ramones version.

― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Monday, 6 February 2017 02:30 (eight years ago)

Do we need a mod to fix this to get the Beach Boys in?

― timellison, Monday, 6 February 2017 03:41 (eight years ago)

Dammit--sorry. They aren't included in Wikipedia's "other versions" section, because they get their own mini-section. Ditto Cliff Richard, but I caught that; Bette Midler's in both places for some reason. You can't fix a poll's options. I guess just vote for the Beach Boys in the comments, or else I can repost the whole thing and include both them and the Bachelor Pad.

― clemenza, Monday, 6 February 2017 04:01 (eight years ago)

The wiki (unsurprisingly) mentioning Juliana Hatfield is wrong, her 2012 cover album doesn't include this song.

She does have a song called "Don't Wanna Dance" though.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 6 February 2017 04:07 (eight years ago)

Thanks. I'm going to repost this.

― clemenza, Monday, 6 February 2017 04:08 (eight years ago)

Under the Moonlight: Best Version of "Do You Want to Dance" (reposted)

― clemenza, Monday, 6 February 2017 05:03 (eight years ago)

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