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This song makes me feel like I need to jump out of my chair and boogie! I love AJR's implementations of diverse instruments/sounds.

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A Million Dreams- The Greatest Showman Cast

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A Million Dreams- The Greatest Showman Cast

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This song is just so hopeful because it talks about dreams and working towards your dreams!

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The Greatest Showman Cast - A Million Dreams (Official Audio)

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"This is the music that makes me better..."

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Ingrid Michaelson - "Celebrate Feat. AJR" (Official Music Video)

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They are two sisters that are related to Edger Allan Poe. Nice Vibe.

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A new music service with official albums, singles, videos, remixes, live performances and more for Android, iOS and desktop. It's all here.

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This song makes me think of my happy place :)

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This song is a fantastic pump-up song! (Warning: technically punk, explicit language). It's impossible for me not to get excited listening to this song!

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Bring Me The Horizon - Happy Song (Official Audio)

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This was my theme song for New Year's Day this year. The classic 70's hairstyles are a bonus... you're welcome! ;-)

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Boston - Don't Look Back (Official Video)

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I love Kimya Dawson and the second half of this song really helped me through my first few years of working with kids.

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I just recently found this song and I love it, I feel like it's really catchy and mellow.

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Bastille - survivin' (Official Music Video)

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The perfect groove to sing and dance around the house to!!

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Digable Planets-Rebirth of Slick (Cool like Dat)

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Digable Planets-Rebirth of Slick (Cool like Dat)

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This song got me through Graduate School...okay, it was the early 1990's, but I still play it for my grad class at the beginning of a semester.

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Digable Planets - Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) (Official Music Video)

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This song is great because if I'm feeling down, I can still be in my feels, but it's so joyous-sounding and easy to sing along to that it's impossible to make it to the end and still be upset.

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If you're feeling down, this song will certainly lift your spirits! Really, just know that "you've got the music in you!"

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New Radicals - You Get What You Give (Official Music Video)

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Jason Mraz - Have It All (Official Video)

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Jason Mraz - Have It All (Official Video)

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When your favorite artist films a feel-good music video in a school AND donates proceeds to arts education, it feels good to share!

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Jason Mraz  - Have It All (Official Video)

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This song can makes you very comfortable. I like the melody. I want to share.

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This song can makes you very comfortable. I like the melody. I want to share.

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Because who doesn't feel good as hell when they do their hair toss and check their nails???

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Lizzo - Good As Hell (Official Music Video)

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It just keeps going, on and on, like the seasons turn and turn and it reminds me of late summer heat on the cusp of autumn and dancing with my older sister in the kitchen when I was a kid.

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If you've ever been to a wedding reception in the U.S., you know there's one question that can get a whole family on the dance floor: "Do you remember the 21st night of September?"

Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" even shows up at fictional weddings, as in the opening of the 1997 movie Soul Food. It's made its way into TV shows, commercials, sporting events and video games. HBO named a movie after the song. In 2008, it played at both the Republican and Democratic national conventions.

The story of the song begins in 1978. AlleeWillis was a struggling songwriter in LA - until the night she got a call from Maurice White, the leader of Earth, Wind & Fire. White offered her the chance of a lifetime: to co-write the band's next album.Willis arrived at the studio the next day hoping it wasn't some kind of cosmic joke.

"As I open the door, they had just written the intro to 'September.' And I just thought, 'Dear God, let this be what they want me to write!' Cause it was obviously the happiest-sounding song in the world," Willis says.

Using a progression composed by Earth, Wind & Fire guitarist Al McKay, White and Willis wrote the song over the course of a month, conjuring images of clear skies and dancing under the stars. Willis says she likes songs that tell stories, and that at a certain point, she feared the lyrics to "September" were starting to sound simplistic. One nonsense phrase bugged her in particular.

"The, kind of, go-to phrase that Maurice used in every song he wrote was 'ba-dee-ya,' " she says. "So right from the beginning he was singing, 'Ba-dee-ya, say, do you remember / Ba-dee-ya, dancing in September.' And I said, 'We are going to change 'ba-dee-ya' to real words, right?' "

Wrong. Willis says that at the final vocal session she got desperate and begged White to rewrite the part.

"And finally, when it was so obvious that he was not going to do it, I just said, 'What the f*** does 'ba-dee-ya' mean?' And he essentially said, 'Who the f*** cares?'" she says. "I learned my greatest lesson ever in songwriting from him, which was never let the lyric get in the way of the groove."

I asked Jeffrey Peretz, a professor of music theory at New York University's Clive Davis Institute, what makes that groove so powerful. He says a lot of it has to do with how the music unfolds. The song's very structure is an endless cycle that keeps us dancing and wanting more.

"There's four chords in the chorus that just keep moving forward and never seem to land anywhere - much like the four seasons," he says. "It's the end of summer, it's the beginning of fall, it's that Indian summertime, it's the transition from warm to cool."

The trigger for that yearning feeling, Peretz says, is the opening line. White asks, "Do you remember?" and we supply the memories. It's a song that can bring all of the generations together, which makes it perfect for family gatherings. The true meaning is up to us - including, Allee Willis says, that strangely specific date.

"We went through all the dates: 'Do you remember the first, the second, the third, the fourth ... ' and the one that just felt the best was the 21st," Willis explains. "I constantly have people coming up to me and they get so excited to know what the significance was. And there is no significance beyond it just sang better than any of the other dates. So ... sorry!"

That's OK, Allee. Maurice was right. It doesn't matter what it means.When we hear it, it's September 21st, and we are dancing again with our family, in a song that never really ends.

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The Song That Never Ends: Why 'September' Sustains

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If you've ever been to a wedding reception in the U.S., you know there's one question that can get a whole family on the dance floor: "Do you remember the 21st night of September?" Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" even shows up at fictional weddings, as in the opening of the 1997 movie Soul Food.

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is one of my favorite movies and this song never fails to make me feel hope.

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Jose Gonzalez   Step Out The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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I play this song whenever I feel like I need an instant dose of happy!

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Kishi Bashi  - "Honeybody" (Official Audio)

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Just rediscovered this one, my dad used to sing it to me & my brothers when we were little little kids. It was definitely a favorite, he says we used to get upset and correct him when he got the words wrong :)

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David Gray - Please Forgive Me (Official Video)

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This song never fails to make my heart happy

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This song never fails to make my heart happy

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This song is something that makes you feel like a main character- it always gives me that feeling of a nice summer day drive with the windows down and it’s something that I love to shout-sing even just by myself because it just brings me so much happiness. Fleetwood Mac never fails to put a smile on my face no matter how happy or even sad the song is because everything they create just sounds like magic!

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Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy (Official Music Video)

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"As we roll down this unfamiliar road...Just know you're not alone..."

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Going back to school as a mom has been exhausting. My kids and I jam to this song every morning on our way to school and it puts us all in a good mood. I dare you to listen to this and not dance!

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TONES AND I - DANCE MONKEY (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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Earth, Wind & Fire's "Let's Groove" is a soul classic. Every time I hear it, it bring me back to car rides with my parents, and dancing at weddings. You cannot listen to it without wanting to get up and move.

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Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove (Official HD Video)

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Guardians of the Galaxy brought this one back

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Guardians of the Galaxy brought this one back

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There's a reason why they chose to include this song in the movie! Video is a live version, Link is to the studio version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc0KhhjJP98

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Midnight SpecialRedbone _Come And Get Your Love_

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If you don't want to hear 4 letter words then don't play this one

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If you don't want to hear 4 letter words then don't play this one

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Todrick Hall has fabulous attitude and swagger with this super danceable song, and then he has a great sense of humor too. Love that he parodies his own song with a COVID version. (Here's a link to the COVID version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WYA6dE8QPk&list=RDMM&index=2)

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Todrick Hall - Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels (Official Music Video)

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I know that this is old and overplayed. But I still love it.

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The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (Official Music Video)

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MUCH more than Stephen Colbert's backup band...

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MUCH more than Stephen Colbert's backup band...

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Jon Batiste has SUCH talent. This song makes me happy.

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This video is such fun. Who knew that Christopher Walken was such a good dancer?!!

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Fatboy Slim ft. Bootsy Collins - Weapon Of Choice [Official 4k Video]

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I love videos that show everyday people dancing and being themselves. It makes me want to dance too!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQsqBqxoR4

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Janelle's energy is infectious!

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Janelle Monáe - Tightrope (feat. Big Boi) [Official Music Video]

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This is one of my FAVORITE songs of all time. I always listen to it before the start of another semester because it makes me want to dance. This is a live version from the 1970's and as you listen to Aretha and watch everyone dance, you will want to dance yourself!
Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin

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I love listening to this song because it gives off very good vibes and the lyrics are pretty awesome!
https://youtu.be/tv3gjE3zIIs

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I listen to this song every time I am feeling down or unmotivated. It reminds me to be grateful for all the other positive things happening in my life and not focus only on the negative. It feels good to feel good.

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Mary J. Blige - Just Fine (Official Music Video)

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...for the scarce sunshine we get during a typical gray Rochester winter. On those rare sunny winter days, I can play this song and just appreciate the simple joy of a blue sky and sunshine. And this videa makes me smile (and cringe a little) remembering 80s fashion, terrible dancing, and overdone eyeliner! :-)

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Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine (Official Music Video)