Post a song you slow-danced to at a Junior High (or Middle School) Dance.

[Bicoastal]

Here's a good one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZcG0NBMcDA

Ahh, the memories--the girl I liked had grown about a fool taller than me over the summer. Still managed to get my dance on with her, though. :loveya:

[Kali]

1. hee hee

I don't know how to work the YooToobs, but Hey Jude was the song. swooon.

[redqueen]

2. I didn't slow-dance till I was in my 20's. (nt)

When I finally did, it was with this co-worker. I had a huge crush on him. It was at a jazz bar to a live band performing "Just the Two of Us." This was in 93 or so.

[143tbone]

3. I'm really dating myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX9Q5zFUcaU

[elleng]

6. THANK YOU, 143 and Florida!

And received Thanksgiving e-mail from h.s. bf today, talking about our families. Now I'll have to do some research!

Having a wonderful time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKaW4HSnmDU

[Justpat]

39. The best slow dance song ever.

That was my choice also.

[FloridaJudy]

4. I'm really dating myself here

Ah! I can still smell that junior high gymnasium! Cafeteria food, old gym socks and hormones...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf-8tMlye4g

[HopeFor2006]

37. Ooh I have always loved that song!

[MissMillie]

5. Junior High

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4k9kf3s8CU

[gblady]

7. Where the boys are....

Connie Francis....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdfze6zGdbQ

[elleng]

8. Not slow, but

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

[elleng]

10. AHA!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C20EPnjJnm4

(Sorry, not slow.)

[Shardik]

9. Rainy Night in GA

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

And Hang on Sloopy

[MrSlayer]

11. Journey - Open Arms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTMzPpwc36M

The crap I put up with just to cop a feel still amazes me.

[RandomThoughts]

12. Sorta missed out on that.

I worked 32-40 hours a week in the 11th grade, 12th grade left school to work the morning shift for a few more dollars, never went to a dance...

[Flaxbee]

13. oh.my.god. That was the first song that popped into my

head. Damn... some very funny memories. :D Thanks for posting, MrSlayer.

[Sebastian Doyle]

14. Yeah, it was either that one or this.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-mw1HGJjdA

[bluesbassman]

15. Here's both years of Jr. High slow dance songs.

Wow, there's a little trip down memory lane! Where's my striped bellbottoms? Nice thread Bicoastal.

1971 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1O4XoKB_MA

1972 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wpof8s5ZTg

[Lyric]

16. Very first slow-dance at a school event:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaP40PHDYrY

With Mike M. I'll remember that one forever. My Mom and Dad were chaperones, so they were out there dancing too!

Edit: Erm--the video seems to be a bit...Adult. Viewer beware. :blush:

[livetohike]

17. Junior High - 7th grade 1964

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTkcu4GVRe8

Could there be a better slow dance (or make out song)?

[City of Mills]

18. Bryan Adams - Heaven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrxwhc11Rmc

Jr. High in the '80s...

[flvegan]

23. My 8th grade prom theme song.

Ah, memories. One of those nights that at the time, I wished had gone on forever.

[bluesbassman]

26. And the name of that song would be?

:shrug:

[flvegan]

30. Heaven, by Bryan Adams.

[City of Mills]

27. Worst night of my life.

Alright, slight exaggeration. But, I remember trying to screw up the courage to ask the prettiest girl in school for a dance. Finally, I did and she said YES! So we head out to the dance floor, and the DJ announces it's the last song...she looks at me painfully and tells me she's sorry but she was saving the last dance for my friend Pete, and I could dance with her at the next dance. Dejected, I agreed and sat back down and watched them dance. There were no other dances that year, and she moved away over the summer and I never saw her again.























Years later I came across her profile on MySpace and she got ugly, so that made me feel better :)

[fizzgig]

19. no one wanted to slow dance with me in jr. high

i did it plenty with my hs boyfriend, though

[Enrique]

20. "Miracles" by Jefferson Starship

at a summer camp dance. The authorities clearly didn't vet the lyrics.

[DarkTirade]

21. Dance? In middle school?

There's no dancing in middle school dances... just boys on one side awkwardly staring at the girls on the other with bad music in the background. :P

[mcctatas]

22. For some reason I can't remember the slow songs...

aside from the obligatory Stairway to Heaven that was always the last song of the night. I do however remember dancing to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yczYg42GRCg

(and yeah, we did that dance thing from the video :dunce: )

[AwakeAtLast]

24. Jr. High, 1984 - Careless Whisper!

GAAAHHHH!

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

[distantearlywarning]

25. Jr. High in the '80s

My crush asked me to dance and this song was playing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcWspfgk9c8

I still remember it, 20-ahem years later, because I was so thrilled that he asked. I wasn't wearing red, though. :-)

I wonder what ever happened to that guy...

[Mad_Dem_X]

28. My first slow dance with a boy:

I have more than one memory attached to this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyKRp8DkusM&feature=related

[crim son]

29. Stairway to Heaven.

Only recently have I been able to listen to that song w/out getting the heebie jeebies.

[foxfeet]

31. "Blue Velvet," the Bobby Vinton version.

[MineralMan]

40. That's another one I remember...

We're really old....

[foxfeet]

43. Yep, we are. But considering the alternative,

I'm happy.

[MineralMan]

52. Indeed!

[AlCzervik]

32. Always and Forever by Heatwave.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veoq02P6dBk

still love that song.

another one

Wishing on a star by Rose Royce

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxcJUSb9RYg

[Iggo]

33. Washington JHS Bellflower CA 1974.

For my money, still the best...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-1my7SeKKc&feature=related

[Symarip]

34. Never went to a dance

Have no input to share.

[Joey Liberal]

35. We didn't have dances in Middle School

Not only that, I needed beer money, so I wouldn't have gone to any dances. I did in high school though.

[HopeFor2006]

36. Beth

Then I found out that the guy I was dancing with had just been dumped by a girl named Beth. And I thought he was clinging to me because he was really into me! :silly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbtO_Ayjw0M

[MineralMan]

38. Ahh..."April Love"

The year was 1959, and I was dancing with the prettiest girl in the eighth grade. We had ballroom dancing once a week in PE class.

Thing was...she was about 8 inches taller than me...I caught up the next year.

[tigereye]

41. Pieces of April - Junior high 1972?, I think

gawd am I old. And wow, Three Dog Night had a lot of hits.


(D. Loggins)
from the album The Best of Three Dog Night


April gave us springtime and the promise of the flowers
And the feeling that we both shared and the love that we called ours
We knew no time for sadness, that's a road we each had crossed
We were living a time meant for us, and even when it would rain
we would laugh it off.

I've got pieces of April, I keep them in a memory bouquet
I've got pieces of April, it's a morning in May

We stood on the crest of summer, beneath an oak that blossomed green
Feeling as I did in April, not really knowing what it means
But it must be then that you stand beside me now to make me feel this way
Just as I did in April, but it's a morning in May.

I've got pieces of April, I keep them in a memory bouquet
I've got pieces of April, but it's a morning in May

I've got pieces of April, I keep them in a memory bouquet
I've got pieces of April, but it's a morning in May

[nytemare]

42. "Crazy for You"

:D

[Corgigal]

44. Misty Blue by Dorothy Moore

You'll remember this song when you click on the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBzG_37rmCQ

[Whoa_Nelly]

45. Camp Lake Hubert-end of camp dance with Camp Lincoln boys from across the lake

His name was Dana.

He went up and requested "My Girl"-The Temptations

Best and first slow dance ever...I was in heaven O8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltRwmgYEUr8

[RushIsRot]

46. The Platters - The Great Pretender

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55wWiFi6BFo

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

47. None.

I was an unpopular, dateless geek who never got to slow-dance with anybody until years later.

[d_b]

48. Right here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNarn1MY6kY


Wendler Jr. High 1994

[Oeditpus Rex]

49. I can't believe nobody's posted the greatest post-Big Band slow-dance song

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



(Not that I know this from experience. I just know it in my soul.)

[Justpat]

51. One of the best. n/t

[MorningGlow]

50. Ah, the cheesy '70s

"Love Hurts", Nazareth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soDZBW-1P04

You have GOT to see the video. Worst hair EVER.

Clarification: Because I was painfully shy and not at all popular, I did not get to slow dance in junior high. My first slow dance was in high school, senior year, with a British exchange student. I wasn't popular then, either, but the English guy didn't know he wasn't "supposed" to dance with me. I was already an anglophile, so his asking me to dance just put me over. the. moon. Interestingly enough, I don't remember the song we slow danced to! :crazy:

[Guava Jelly]

53. Here is one I remember

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNDH1deRxX4
Boz Skaggs Look What You've Done To Me
Her name was Alice and she was at least 3 inches taller than me.
It was a good night.

[Peregrine Took]

54. The theme to the movie "Peyton Place" and, also, "Moon River."

[Capn Sunshine]

55. Because-Dave Clark Five ca 63-64

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIc5TZa8qKU

Paige Dale , where are you today............

[Evoman]

56. grade 6, total eclipse of the heart, bonnie taylor version. Strangely enough, danced to the Nikki

French version of it in grade 12 with a girl I really liked.

But I was too much of a geek to ask her out.

Wasted youth, I tell ya.

[VOX]

57. The quintessential last-dance instrumental, unavoidable in the 50s, 60s, 70s...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogxTQXAgY3Q