| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | SONGS OF YOUTH $600: "No regrets, just love, we can dance until we die", sang Katy Perry, who was "livin"' one of these, also her album title Teenage Dream |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BILLBOARD'S 500 BEST POP SONGS $400: At No. 1, Billboard picked this Whitney Houston hit that made hitting the floor "feel like an issue of life-or-death urgency" "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $1000: The finale of "& Juliet" features the cast performing this Justin Timberlake hit
"Come on /
All those things I shouldn't do /
But you dance, dance, dance /
And ain't nobody leavin' soon, so keep dancin'" "Can't Stop The Feeling!" |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | MAKING MUSIC $1200: Songs from "Psycho Killer" to "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" have used the Roland TR-808, one of these that replaces a human a drum machine |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | PALINDROMES IN POP CULTURE $400: Songs by this Swedish quartet include "Waterloo" & "Dancing Queen" ABBA |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | HITS OF 2002 $600: This dance anthem by Pink says, "We'll be lookin' flashy in my Mercedes Benz" "Get The Party Started" |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | SIGNATURE SONGS $800: It's a drum, it's a dance, it's Miami Sound Machine's signature song "Conga" |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | 20th CENTURY POP CULTURE $800: Popular dance songs of the '60s included ones called this & the Peppermint this the "Twist" |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | FOUNTAINS $800: Beginning in 1998, the fountains at this Las Vegas casino shoot 460 feet in the air & dance to various songs nightly the Bellagio |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | FROM "T" TO SHINING "T" $400: Chubby Checker reached the Top 40 5 times with songs about this dance the twist |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $2000: What a feeling! This disco & electronic dance music pioneer won for "Flashdance" in 1983 Giorgio Moroder |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | PLOTS OF 1970s NO. 1 SONGS $800: 17-year-old girl looks for her "king" on the dance floor on a Friday evening "Dancing Queen" |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | POP SONGS OF 2015 $400: Watch out, Radioactive Man! This band sang, "She wants to dance like Uma Thurman, bury me 'til I confess" Fall Out Boy |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | MOVIE MUSICALS BY SONGS $1600: 1956:
"I Whistle A Happy Tune" &
"Shall We Dance?" The King and I |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | WHAT'S ON YOUR iPOD? $200: (Hi, I'm Isaac Mizrahi.) This dance pop diva from New York has her own sense of fashion & is all over my iPod with songs like "Bad Romance" Lady Gaga |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | ALL-TIME 100 SONGS $400: Her "Bad Romance" "is an infectiously catchy dance song about all of the... messed-up feelings people have for one another" Lady Gaga |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | WEDDING SONGS $800: Perfect for a dance with a parent is this show tune that begins, "Is this the little girl I carried" "Sunrise, Sunset" |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | MUSICALS BY SONGS $400: "I Whistle A Happy Tune",
"Shall We Dance?" The King and I |
| #5100, aired 2006-11-10 | POP GOES THE MUSICAL $1,000 (Daily Double): (Before the clue is given, Toni Award-nominated actress Carolee Carmello from the Broadway play Mamma Mia! helps with the clue.)
"Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh /
You can dance /
You can jive /
Having the time of your life /
Ooh-ooh-ooh, see that girl /
Watch that scene /
Dig in the dancing queen /"
"Dancing Queen" is one of many hit songs in "Mamma Mia!" that were originally made famous by this Swedish group ABBA |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | LET'S DANCE! $400: Grab your baby and do this dance as its "Kings Play Songs of Love" the mambo |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | "N"VELOPED $800: This "Dance" by the Pointer Sisters was featured in the film "Beverly Hills Cop" "The Neutron Dance" |
| #4733, aired 2005-03-16 | ROLLING STONE'S 500 GREATEST SONGS $800: In the '60s Little Eva had to make up a dance to go along with this song, No. 350 "The Loco-Motion" |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | MADONNA SONGS $800: An obvious title:
"Hey Mister D.J., put a record on, I wanna dance with my baby" "Music" |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | OLD SWEET SONGS $400: In 1958 Chuck Berry sang, "All over St. Louis, way down in New Orleans, all the cats wanna dance with" her "Sweet Little Sixteen" |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2,000 (Daily Double): His "Songs To Remember" include about 40 mazurkas written in a 3/4 dance rhythm Frederic Chopin |
| #3261, aired 1998-11-09 | SONGS BY THE NUMBER $500: In September 1996 "The Drew Carey Show" began using a dance routine to this Vogues hit as its opening theme "Five O'Clock World" |
| #3105, aired 1998-02-13 | LOVE SONGS $400: Hit in which Sinatra sang, "Love was just a glance away, a warm embracing dance away" ...dooby dooby do "Strangers In The Night" |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | POP ICONS $2,000 (Daily Double): This artist was named Canada's Country Female Vocalist of the Year from 1979 to 1986:
"I'll always remember the songs they were playing..." Anne Murray ("Could I Have This Dance") |
| #2520, aired 1995-07-14 | STATE EMBLEMS $800 (Daily Double): Its folk dance is the square dance; one of its songs is a waltz Tennessee |
| #2284, aired 1994-07-07 | MOTOWN SONGS $200: The Contours sang, "Do you love me, now that I can" do this dance |
| #1367, aired 1990-07-10 | SING-ALONG SONGS $100: "Oh! How we" did this "on the night we were wed" dance |
| #1291, aired 1990-03-26 | MOVIE MUSICALS $500 (Daily Double): The only Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire film for which these 2 brothers wrote songs was 1937's "Shall We Dance" George & Ira Gershwin |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | SONGS OF THE '60s $400: This dance was "a graveyard smash" & "caught on in a flash" in 1962 & again in 1973 "Monster Mash" |
| #882, aired 1988-06-07 | BALLADS & FOLK SONGS $400: "Ballad" is derived from the Late Latin "ballare", meaning to do this dance |
| #790, aired 1988-01-29 | DANCE $1000: This dramatic dance is often accompanied by songs of great misery called "Cantes Jondos" Flamenco |
| #730, aired 1987-11-06 | QUESTIONABLE SONGS $200: Title question asked in the beginning, middle & 3 times at the end of a "King & I" song "Shall We Dance?" |
| #648, aired 1987-06-03 | SONGS THAT "DO" $400: Question asked by both The Contours & Dave Clark 5, "now that I can dance" "Do You Love Me" |
| #583, aired 1987-03-04 | BLUE SONGS $100 (Daily Double): If he'd been alive in 1952, R. Valentino might have slunk across the dance floor to this hit:
[Instrumental music plays.] "The Blue Tango" |
| #352, aired 1986-01-14 | ATHLETIC SONGS $200: If you wanted the Pointer Sisters' love in 1984, you had to do this "Jump!" |
| #295, aired 1985-10-25 | DANCE SONGS $100: A version of the Twist was named for this famed N.Y.C. lounge the Peppermint Lounge |
| #295, aired 1985-10-25 | DANCE SONGS $200: It's the official state song of Missouri "The Missouri Waltz" |
| #295, aired 1985-10-25 | DANCE SONGS $300: Edie Gorme "blamed" this dance for her romance the Bossa Nova |
| #295, aired 1985-10-25 | DANCE SONGS $400 (Daily Double): Request the Drifters make of their girl in this song:
"You can dance every dance with the guy that gives you the eye /
Let him hold you tight..." "Save The Last Dance For Me" |
| #264, aired 1985-09-12 | "DANCE" SONGS $100: Tina Turner turned her career around with this '84 album Private Dancer |
| #264, aired 1985-09-12 | "DANCE" SONGS $200: Anna & the King of Siam's mutual musical question Shall we dance? |
| #264, aired 1985-09-12 | "DANCE" SONGS $300: Loggins & Messina's 1973 "maternal" hit "Your Mama Don't Dance" |
| #264, aired 1985-09-12 | "DANCE" SONGS $400: "Swayin' To The Music" is real name of the '77 Johnny Rivers hit better known as this "Slow Dancing" |
| #264, aired 1985-09-12 | "DANCE" SONGS $500: "Men Without Hats" should have worn hard hats to sing this '84 hit "The Safety Dance" |
