Playlist For A 35th Wedding Anniversary? I Need Good 70's & 80's Cuts

UniquelyDivine

UniquelyDivine

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So I'm planning a surprise 35th wedding anniversary party for my parents and I need a good playlist of old school jams!

My parents are 58 & 59 so they grew up partying and kicking it in the 70's & got married in the early 80's, what are some good party/love songs from that era?
 
I'll name some artists that were popular in the 70s and early 80s. Funk and disco were popular genres in the 70s but got watered down in the 80s.

All of these artists had some good jams and ballads back in the day:
Isley Brothers, Earth Wind and Fire, Parliament, Ohio Players, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Stevie Wonder, The Jacksons, Michael Jackson, Prince, Rick James, Teena Marie, Donna Summer, Cameo, Kool and the Gang, Switch, Atlantic Starr, LTD

For love songs, definitely pick something from The Isley Brothers (For the Love of You, Voyage to Atlantis, Make Me Say it Again), Earth Wind and Fire (Can't Hide Love, Love's Holiday), Atlantic Starr (Send for Me, Am I Dreaming, Secret Lovers) Rufus and Chaka (Sweet Thing), LTD (Love Ballad), Stevie Wonder (You and I, Knocks Me Off My Feet, Send One Your Love).

ETA: Got to Give it Up by Marvin Gaye always gets people on the dance floor.
 
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Kool and the Gang ( Celebration, Cherish)
Luther Vandross and Gregory Hines ( There's nothing better than love)
Jeffrey Osborne ( on the wings of love, in your eyes, love ballad)
Anita Baker( giving you the best that I got, just because, no one in the world)
Ashford and Simpson( Solid)
Atlantic Starr( Always)
Billy Winters( Just the two of us)
Billy Preston( With you I'm born again)
The Stylictics( Betcha by golly wow, you make me feel brand new)
The Four tops( I believe in you and me)
Freddie Jackson( You are my lady)
Larry Ingram( One in the million you)
Teddy Pendergrass and Whitney Houston( Hold me)
 
Luther Vandross-A House is Not a Home
Teddy Pendergrass-Close The Door
Chaka Khan-Ain't Nobody
Tell Me Something Good
Chic-Dance, Dance, Dance
Le Freak
Cheryl Lynn-Got To Be Real
Barry White-You're The First, The Last, My
Everything
The Dazz Band-Knock Knock
Peabo Bryson-Feel The Fire
Funkadelic-One Nation Under A Groove
Parliament-Flashlight
 
They have to love these: mostly 80s stuff and soooo good.

Jeffrey Osborne- Stay with Me Tonight
SOS Band- Take Your Time
The Whispers- Rock Steady
Cameo- Candy
Phyllis Nelson - I like You
Phyllis Nelson- Move Closer ( please use this one :pray:)
Val Young- If You Should Ever Be Lonely
Evelyn Champagne King- Love Come Down
Evelyn Champagne King- Betcha She Don't Love You
Earth Wind and Fire- September
Rockwell-Somebody's Watching Me
Ready for the World- Oh Sheila
Hall and Oates- I Can't Go For That
Hall and Oates- Kiss on My List
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam- I wonder if I take You Home :giggle:
Jermaine Stewart- We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off
LaBelle- Lady Marmalade
ok maybe not the last one lol
 
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Autumn~Tint~Of~Gold said:
They have to love these: mostly 80s stuff and soooo good.

Jeffrey Osborne- Stay with Me Tonight
SOS Band- Take Your Time
The Whispers- Rock Steady
Cameo- Candy
Phyllis Nelson - I like You
Phyllis Nelson- Move Closer ( please use this one :pray:)
Val Young- If You Should Ever Be Lonely
Evelyn Champagne King- Love Come Down
Evelyn Champagne King- Betcha She Don't Love You
Earth Wind and Fire- September
Rockwell-Somebody's Watching Me
Ready for the World- Oh Sheila
Hall and Oates- I Can't Go For That
Hall and Oates- Kiss on My List
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam- I wonder if I take You Home :giggle:
Jermaine Stewart- We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off
LaBelle- Lady Marmalade
ok maybe not the last one lol
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Yaaaasss....I was just listening to Oh Sheila the other day at work, lol.
 
I.HATE.THIS.SONG!!!!!

When this song came out, they played it into the ground, revived it, played it back into the same hole they put it in the first time, revived it again, then played it into a hole in their neighbor's yard. Ughhhhhh!

If I never hear it again it will be too soon. :lachen: :lachen: :lachen: :lachen: :lachen:

***rant over***

Sharpened said:
This was played at the end of middle and high school dances for many years:
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