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]

Wow, these are even “more classic” classics to exercise by! (And some vintage photos mixed in as well.) You are the collecting connoiseur of 78 rpm’s with a very large collection, aren’t you?

[Fiji Hill]

Chicken fat? How about Bacon fat?

[Fiji Hill]

You are the collecting connoiseur of 78 rpm’s with a very large collection, aren’t you?

I have more than 1,000 78's and about the same number of 45's. However, I'm amazed at what's on Youtube, where I've found songs that I've spent years and even decades searching for as well as collector's items that I didn't know existed, such as Big Daddy's version of "Bacon Fat," which I just posted on this thread.

[Heart-Rest]

There are some really good sounding beats/tunes there in your list to exercise by.

The "Sharped Dress Man" song was sort of a more modern song along the lines of the older song "Mohair Sam". (Link for the ZZ Top song below.)

Sharped Dress Man

[Clay Moore]

Thanks! That’s it. It just doesn’t have all the crackle, hiss and distortion that I remember.

[Heart-Rest]

I know, I'm amazed at all the stuff I've found on youtube too. (When I find good music there that I like, I really enjoy sharing it with other people. That's why I put some links I found that I liked into this thread.)

It's not just music either. Someone recently posted a link to a speech by General Patton. I had heard earlier from a WWII vet who heard Patton speak in person, that Patton had a very high-pitched, almost falsetto voice, but when I heard Patton's actual voice on a youtube clip (NOT George C. Scott, but the real Patton), it didn't sound that bad.

[Heart-Rest]

Did that collection include this song?

Tutti Frutti

[Heart-Rest]

Well, you were probably exercising your eyes and ears.

[Charles Henrickson]

Here’s what I had on the other thread, plus a few new ones (25 total):

William Tell Overture, by Rossini
1812 Overture, by Tchaikovsky
Ride of the Valkyries, by Wagner
Stars and Stripes Forever, by John Philip Sousa
Sing, Sing, Sing, by Benny Goodman Orchestra
Bumble Boogie, by Freddie Martin Orchestra or B. Bumble & the Stingers
Whole Lotta Shakin’, by Jerry Lee Lewis
Peter Gunn, by Henry Mancini
Wipeout, by Surfaris
Twist and Shout, by Beatles
Devil with a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly, by Mitch Ryder
Travelin’ Band, by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Lake Shore Drive, by Aliotta, Haynes, and Jeremiah
Layla, by Derek and the Dominoes
Black Magic Woman, by Santana
All the Young Dudes, by Mott the Hoople
Frankenstein, by Edgar Winter Group
Radar Love, by Golden Earring
Roll on Down the Highway, by Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Katmandu, by Bob Seger
Sharp-Dressed Man, by ZZ Top
Baker Street, by Gerry Rafferty
Everybody Have Fun Tonight, by Wang Chung
Queen of the Broken Hearts, by Loverboy
Uprising, by Muse

[Fiji Hill]

You listed those songs in chronological order—1829 to 2009!

[Heart-Rest]

A lot of good ones there. I'll just post a link for the first one in your list. However, if I try to exercise to the rapidly galloping beat of that Rossini music, I'm sure I will pull a lot of muscles, even some I don't even know I have, so I think I will just let my horse "Goldy" exercise to that beat.

William Tell Overture, by Rossini

[Fiji Hill]

Little Richard's version of "Tutti Frutti" is hot. I also like Pat Boone's version. Although it's considerably different, I find Slim & Slam's version from 1938 to be enjoyable.

[Charles Henrickson]

You listed those songs in chronological order—1829 to 2009!

I tried to do it in roughly chronological order, just guessing, without looking things up. Don't know if I got it exact.

[Winstons Julia]

I am 41. All is appreciated.

[Winstons Julia]

This one sums up my life right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuXvpkOLmM

[Heart-Rest]

How about this Jackie Wilson song?

Baby Work Out - Jackie Wilson

[Fiji Hill]

The William Tell Overture consists of four movements--Dawn, Storm, Ranz des Vaches (Cattle Call), and Galop, or "Cavalry Charge," the best-known movement, which concludes the piece. If the sweet and slow Ranz des Vaches puts you to sleep, the Cavalry Charge, to which you provided a link, will surely wake you up.

[Fiji Hill]

Jackie Wilson ought to give you a good workout.

[Heart-Rest]

Well, if the B.O. administration gets its way, we all might soon have a government internet id, and when he hooks them all together to keep an eye on all of us, we might all know what everyone else is thinking. (As your song link says, "...I want to know what you're thinking...")

(See this link for that story about the B.O. plans to monitor everyone more closely.)

Obama Administration Reportedly Plans to Create Internet ID for All Americans

Maybe you should switch songs to this one for a while:

Joy, Joy, Joy in my Heart

(The second verse in this song says "I have the peace that passes understanding down in my heart...")   :-)

[Heart-Rest]

You possess a wealth of information about all kinds of music!

It probably wouldn't have been a very good idea for the Lone Ranger to listen to that third "sleepy" movement while moseying along the dusty trail.