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Some "classic" (older) workout songs for the more "seasoned" (older) posters (ecumenical exercise)
Posted on 01/11/2012 8:59:01 AM PST by 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)
TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment; Religion
KEYWORDS: exercise; music; oldies; workout
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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"! :-)
To: Heart-Rest
I’m not so ambitious. Anything by Perry Como...
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posted on
01/11/2012 9:07:52 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Smokin' Joe
For Boston for Boston (oldest in the country)
Notre Dame Victory March
The Victors
On Brave Old Army Team
On Wisconsin
Buckeye Battle Cry
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posted on
01/11/2012 9:26:12 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: Smokin' Joe
For Boston for Boston (oldest in the country)
Notre Dame Victory March
The Victors
On Brave Old Army Team
On Wisconsin
Buckeye Battle Cry
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posted on
01/11/2012 9:26:45 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: Heart-Rest
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.
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posted on
01/11/2012 9:38:57 AM PST
by
NavyCanDo
To: Heart-Rest
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posted on
01/11/2012 9:40:26 AM PST
by
mrsmith
(It's 2012 now. Have you found a Tea Party nominee for your House seat yet?)
To: Heart-Rest
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posted on
01/11/2012 9:42:57 AM PST
by
Spunky
(Sarah Palin on Polls "Poles are for Strippers and Cross Country Skiers")
To: Spunky
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posted on
01/11/2012 9:44:18 AM PST
by
GOP Poet
To: Heart-Rest
Some of my favorite "oldies" that would make good workout songs:
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posted on
01/11/2012 9:46:46 AM PST
by
Fiji Hill
To: Heart-Rest
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)
To: mrsmith
To: Spunky
To: Heart-Rest
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.
To: Heart-Rest
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posted on
01/11/2012 10:47:38 AM PST
by
Sax
To: Heart-Rest
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?
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posted on
01/11/2012 11:24:57 AM PST
by
Clay Moore
(The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: Smokin' Joe
"Im not so ambitious. Anything by Perry Como..."
That sounds like "relaxercising music".
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posted on
01/11/2012 2:41:39 PM PST
by
Heart-Rest
("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
To: Heart-Rest; Winstons Julia
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.
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posted on
01/11/2012 2:45:45 PM PST
by
Heart-Rest
("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
To: Spunky
That’s a great exercise song from that same time.
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posted on
01/11/2012 2:49:30 PM PST
by
Heart-Rest
("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
To: mrsmith
That’s a great Dolly yodeling and exercise song too. Can I do a rep every 4th or 5th beat?
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posted on
01/11/2012 2:58:57 PM PST
by
Heart-Rest
("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
To: Clay Moore
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.
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