Be sure your Playlist 2 contains bursts of "classic dance music." I'm talking about dance tunes from the '50s and '60s. Do bursts of 2 or 3 songs at a time in between your more contemporary stuff.
Use this for ideas:
100 Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Songs of the '50s
100 Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Songs of the '60s
A lot of that stuff is perennial and can get even the most reluctant to surge out onto the dance floor. Think of the high energy, get-down-on-the-dance-floor kind of stuff rather than the sentimental or hippie stuff.
Every wedding reception deserves a turn of "Johnny B. Goode."
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
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—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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