Fire Island Playlist

After reading Pal Joey's moving account of life on Fire Island I thought it would be fun to make a playlist of your favorites to add to your memories of summer fun there. Be they "all night music" or Broadway favorites, music is a huge motivator to our psyche. So in no particular order, my "all night" list is:

- Waiting For Sex/Dead Of Night/Sacred - Erasure

- Cuckoo/Shady - Adam Lambert

- Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps/Quizas, Quizas, Quizas - Doris Day/Pink Martini

- Don't Stop The Dance - Bryan Ferry

- Swipe To The Right - Cindy Lauper and Jean Michel Jarre

- All Night Long/Dance The Night Away/Come Unto Me - The Mavericks

- In These Shoes?/ Here Comes That Man Again - Kirsty MacColl

- Can You Hear Me? - Amber Mark

- Mayhem - Imelda May

- Heaven Must Have Sent You - Bonnie Pointer & Pointer Sisters

- (If You Want It) Do It Yourself/ How High The Moon/Anybody Wanna Party - Gloria Gaynor

- I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing/ Go West - Pet Shop Boys

- Drive By - Train

- Ich Dich Liebe (I Love You) - Pink Martini

- Rapture/I Want That Man/Love Level - Debbie Harry/Blondie

- Sunshine and Ecstasy/Call Of The Wild/Suboceana - Tom Tom Club

- I've Been Thinking About You - Londonbeat

- Undecided/When I Get Low I Get High/A-Tisket, A-Tasket - Ella Fitzgerald

- Metroland/History Of Modern - Orchestral Manouvres In The Dark

- San Francisco/In Hollywood/Hot Cop - Village People

- This Time I Know It's For Real/Journey To The Center Of Your Heart/Dim All The Lights - Donna Summer

- Bad Romance/Judas/Poker Face - Lady Gaga

- Hard Times/Rose-Colored Boy - Paramore

- Back In Baby's Arms/Walkin' After Midnight - Patsy Cline

- More Than A Dream/Minimal/Psychological - Pet Shop Boys

- Diplomat's Son - Vampire Weekend

- Lip's Are Movin' - Meghan Trainor

- Danceophobia/The Chauffeur - Duran Duran

- Moves Like Jagger/Misery - Maroon 5

- Hung Up - Madonna

- Marching Through The Wilderness - David Byrne

- Tom's Diner - Britney Spears and Giorgio Moroder

- Voulez-Vous/Lay All Your Love On Me/The Visitors - ABBA

That should get me through several hours of "Fast and Slow" motion. I didn't even get into George Michael. What are your favorites?

Updated On: 6/10/17 at 09:03 AM

All those 70s songs are on my Spotify playlist.

Two songs nail the days I first roamed Christopher Street:


ON BROADWAY, and especially

NATIVE NEW YORKER.

Hearing Native New Yorker now can still choke me up pretty good. All the possibilities in those words....

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Updated On: 6/10/17 at 04:03 PM