[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...

[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

[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)

[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]

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.

[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