Some "classic" (older) workout songs for the more "seasoned" (older) posters (ecumenical exercise)

[Heart-Rest]

Here are some links to "vintage" exercise / workout songs to incorporate into your brand new New Year's resolution exercise routine. (With an appreciative nod to FReeper "Winstons Julia" for the original idea.)   Feel free to add your own "more classic" / "further aged" exercise workout song suggestions and links to the list. I have to go run an errand right now, but I will check back later to see if there is more than just this "1" post on this thread (if I can remember to do that).   :-)

Bits and Pieces

Hippy Hippy Shake

Twist and Shout

Funky Broadway

Papa Oom Mow Mow

The Way You Do The Things You Do

Whole Lotta Shaking

Smokestack Lightning

I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Chain of Fools

Shop Around

Shotgun

19th Nervous Breakdown

Baby What You Want Me To Do

Mohair Sam

Trying To Get To You

Do It Again

You Gotta Serve Somebody

Amazing Grace

I Saw The Light

Up Above My Head

Just A Closer Walk With Thee

Thank You Jesus

When The Saints Go Marching In

The Long Arm Of Love

You Got To Move

He Washed My Eyes With Tears (eye workout and cool down)

There Is A Fountain (post-workout cool down stretch song)

[Heart-Rest]

For those of you who haven't broken your New Year's exercise resolutions yet (or like me, have procrastinated and have not even started implementing them yet), here are some classic historic exercise / workout songs from long, long ago. (There was a thread here the other day where the poster was asking for workout song suggestions after joining a gym, and many good song suggestions were made which I liked. However, I wanted to add some songs for the more seasoned (aged) posters like myself. I added some song links to that thread, but I think I was just a bit too late. That thread had already left the station, receding (as all threads do eventually) into the past where it disappeared from view. I decided to start a new thread for the more "seasoned" poster, with links to exercise songs they might actually recognize. (Like I told that previous poster, down here at the "seasoned citizens home", we all like to sit around and vigorously exercise our thumbs and pinky fingers to the tune and beat of these classic old songs, and maybe some other seasoned folks could use them here too!)

(And maybe some of these songs can exercise your faith muscles in addition to your bodily muscles.)

Happy New Year to everybody, and I hope you have fun exercising to these and other "moldy oldies"!   :-)

[Smokin' Joe]

I’m not so ambitious. Anything by Perry Como...

[massgopguy]

For Boston for Boston (oldest in the country)
Notre Dame Victory March
The Victors
On Brave Old Army Team
On Wisconsin
Buckeye Battle Cry

[massgopguy]

For Boston for Boston (oldest in the country)
Notre Dame Victory March
The Victors
On Brave Old Army Team
On Wisconsin
Buckeye Battle Cry

[NavyCanDo]

Sure miss that 20 Minute Workout Cable TV exercise show from the early 1980’s. Didn’t exercise to them but wow! sure enjoyed watching.

[mrsmith]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oco3cZ8IYM&feature=related

Muleskinner Blues (for those vigorous reps).

[Spunky]

CHUBBY CHECKER LETS DO THE TWIST 1960

[GOP Poet]

excellent pick :).

[Fiji Hill]

Some of my favorite "oldies" that would make good workout songs:

• Bolshevik

• Alone at Last

• Mine, All Mine

• Half a Moon

• Charleston Charlie

• Slue Foot

[GreenHornet]

A few more to consider:

Peter Gunn Theme (Original or Blues Brothers version)

Let's Work Together (Canned Heat version)

Tuff Enough (Fabulous Thunderbirds)

Sharp Dressed Man (ZZ Top)

[Fiji Hill]

I like this version of Mule Skinner Blues.

[Fiji Hill]

Fans of the Twist might enjoy The New Twister.

[smalltownslick]

Add Jackie Wilson’s Higher and Higher to that list. Oh, yeah.
I used to like Lou Christie’s Beyond the Blue Horizon for simple running in place, because of the way each verse builds, and the last one slows back down.

[Sax]

[Clay Moore]

I still remember “Go you chicken fats go!” blasting full volume out of the 78 rpm record player when I was in elementary skrool.

Did I just date myself?

[Heart-Rest]

"I’m not so ambitious. Anything by Perry Como..."

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That sounds like "relaxercising music".

[Heart-Rest]

To: Winstons Julia - I referred to you and your earlier thread about exercise music in this slightly different kind of music thread, and just wanted to ping you.

[Heart-Rest]

That’s a great exercise song from that same time.

[Heart-Rest]

That’s a great Dolly yodeling and exercise song too. Can I do a rep every 4th or 5th beat?

[Fiji Hill]

I still remember “Go, you chicken fat, go!” blasting full volume out of the 78 rpm record player when I was in elementary skrool. Did I just date myself?

Chicken Fat--Robert Preston, 1961. If this sounds like a production number from a Broadway show, remember that Preston starred in Broadway productions such as The Music Man.