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The Milestones Repertoire MOTOWN CHART HITS ABC – Jackson 5 Good as Hell – Lizzo Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Higher Love – Kygo & Whitney Houston Terrell Promises – Calvin Harris ft. Sam Smith Baby I Need Your Lovin – Four Tops All About The Bass – Meghan Trainor Baby Love – The Supremes Blurred Lines – Robin Thicke Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) – Four Tops Budapest – George Ezra Dancing In The Street – Martha and The Vandellas Can’t Stop The Feeling – Justin Timberlake Endless Love – Diana Ross & Lionel Ritchie Feel It Still – Post Malone Higher Ground – Stevie Wonder Forget You – Cee Lo Green How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) – Marvin Gaye For You – Payne/Ora I Heard It Through The Grapevine – Marvin Gaye Get Lucky – Daft Punk I Want You Back – Jackson 5 Happy – Pharrell Williams I Wish – Stevie Wonder Havana – Camila Cabello I’ll Be There – Jackson 5 Moves Like Jagger – Maroon 5 Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye Only Girl In The World – Rihanna My Girl – The Temptations Shake It Off – Taylor Swift Reach Out I’ll Be There – Four Tops Shape Of You – Ed Sheeran Signed Sealed Delivered – Stevie Wonder Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran Stop In The Name Of Love – The Supremes Treasure – Bruno Mars Tears Of A Clown – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Uptown Funk – Ronson/Mars Tracks Of My Tears – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye You Can’t Hurry Love – Supremes Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher – Jackie Wilson FUNK All This Love That I’m Giving – Gwen McCrae Brick House – The Commodores Dance To The Music – Sly & The Family Stone DISCO Get Down On It – Kool & The Gang Ain’t No Stoppin Us Now – Mc Fadden & Whitehead Higher Ground – Stevie Wonder Blame It On The Boogie – The Jacksons I Feel Good – James Brown Boogie Oogie Oogie – Taste Of Honey I Got The Feeling – James Brown Car Wash – Rose Royce It’s Your Thing – Isley Brothers Disco Inferno – The Tramps Jungle Boogie – Kool & The Gang Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough – Michael Jackson Let’s Go Round Again – Average White Band Good Times – Chic Move On Up – Curtis Mayfield I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor Mr Big Stuff – Jean Knight I’m Coming Out – Diana Ross Papa Was A Rolling Stone – The Temptations Le Freak – Chic Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry Let’s Go Round Again – Average White Band Rock Steady – Aretha Franklin Rock With You – Michael Jackson Sex Machine – James Brown September- Earth Wind & Fire Street Life – Randy Crawford Shake Your Body Down To The Ground – The Jacksons Superstition – Stevie Wonder Upside Down – Diana Ross Young Hearts Run Free – Candi Staton JEWISH HORA ROCK ‘N’ ROLL Bashana CC Rider – Elvis Choson Kale Mazel Tov I Saw Her Standing There – The Beatles David Melech Yisrael I’ve Got A Woman – Ray Charles Freylech Jailhouse Rock – Elvis Hatikiva (for toasts) Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry Hava Nagila Never Can Tell – Chuck Berry Sholom Aleichem Proud Mary – Ike & Tina Turner Siman Tov Route 66 Ufaratsta Shake Rattle And Roll – Bill Haley & His Comets Twisting The Night Away – Sam Cooke POP SOUL American Boy – Estelle Ain’t No Body – Chaka Khan Billie Jean – Michael Jackson Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers Black And Gold – Sam Sparrow All Night Long – Lionel Richie Can’t Get You Out Of My Head – Kylie Minogue At Last – Etta James Celebrate – Kool & The Gang Chain Of Fools – Aretha Franklin Could You Be Loved – Bob Marley Everybody Needs Somebody – Solomon Burke Crazy – Gnarls Barkley Feel Like Makin’ Love – Roberta Flack Crazy In Love – Beyonce Give Me The Night – George Benson Deja Vu – Beyonce Hard To Handle – Otis Redding Don’t Stop The Music – Rihanna In The Midnight Hour – Wilson Pickett Faith – George Michael It’s A Shame – The Spinners Hey Ya – Outkast I’m Every Woman – Whitney Houston version I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas Knock On Wood – Eddie Floyd Is This Love – Bob Marley Let’s Stay Together – Al Green I Wanna Dance With Somebody – Whitney Houston Lovely Day – Bill Withers Killing Me Softly – The Fugees Love Train – The O’Jays Kiss – Prince Midnight Hour – Wilson Pickett Mercy – Duffy Mustang Sally – Wilson Pickett Moondance – Van Morrison Natural Woman – Aretha Franklin No Diggity – Blackstreet Never Too Much – Luther Vandross One Way Or Another – Blondie Rescue Me – Fontella Bass Poker Face – Lady Gaga Respect – Aretha Franklin Rehab – Amy Winehouse Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay – Otis Redding Rolling In The Deep – Adele Somebody Else’s Guy – Jocelyn Brown Seven Nation Army – The White Stripes Something’s Got A Hold On Me – Etta James Shy Guy – Diana King Soul Man – Sam & Dave Sing It Back – Moloko Try A Little Tenderness – Otis Redding Single Ladies – Beyonce We Are Family – Sister Sledge Teardrops – Womack And Womack The Way You Make Me Feel – Michael Jackson This Love – Maroon 5 Toxic – Britney Spears Umbrella – Rihanna Valerie – Amy Winehouse Walk Like An Egyptian – Bangles Waterfalls – TLC Word Up – Cameo You Can Call Me Al – Paul Simon You Got The Love – Florence & The machine .
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