"Dance" Music (25 Questions) by BruceM

What band had (according to The Today Show) "the inescapable summer hit" of 2015 with "Shut Up and Dance"? This Ohio band's name is a slight tweak on the title of a song by The Police.

Two answers required. What two words fill in these blanks from a lyric in David Bowie's "Let's Dance"?

"Because my love for you
Would break my heart in two
If you should fall into my arms
And [BLANK] like a [BLANK]"

Speaking of David Bowie, the cover of "Dancing in the Street" with arguably the most hilarious music video is a duet by Bowie and which British rock vocalist? He abandoned his studies at the London School of Economics many years ago to pursue a music career.

Speaking of "Dancing in the Street," which Motown band had a Billboard #2 hit with that song in 1964? This band also sang "Jimmy Mack" and "Heat Wave."

"All She Wants to Do is Dance" was a top ten hit for Don Henley, off the 1984 album Building the Perfect Beast. What was the lead single from that album? The Ataris covered this song several years later, changing "Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac" to "Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac"

"We Danced," off the 1999 debut album Who Needs Pictures, was the second Country #1 hit for which singer, more recently seen in insurance ads alongside an NFL quarterback drafted in 1999?

Which U.S. state is the childhood home (according to the first verse) of the protagonist of Tom Petty's "Last Dance With Mary Jane"?

"Don't forget who's takin' you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darlin'..."

What song title completes the lyric from a hit by The Drifters later recorded by (among others) Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, and Michael Bublé?

Men Without Hats had hits other than "The Safety Dance." What 1987 song was actually the band's biggest Canadian hit (#2 up north, #20 stateside)?

("Johnny played guitar, Jenny played bass...")

Staying in Canada, which pop/country crooner sang "Could I Have This Dance" (as featured on the soundtrack to the John Travolta movie Urban Cowboy)? She's won three CMA awards, four Grammys, and 24 Junos.

"Blue jean baby, L.A. lady,
[BLANK] for the band"

What specific word (for the heroine's vocation) fills in that blank from the first line of Elton John's "Tiny Dancer"?

Elton John also co-wrote (and plays piano on) the 2006 hit "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" by what disco-reviving American band, also known for a cover of "Comfortably Numb"?

A parking lot replaced the supermarket, and a bowling alley replaced the local Palais, in the first verse of "Come Dancing," a 1983 hit by what British band?

This band almost didn't release "Come Dancing" in the U.S. because its subject matter (dance halls) is so British. But frequent MTV video play help "Come Dancing" become this band's biggest U.S. hit since "Tired of Waiting For You."

Along those lines, "Dance Hall Days" was the only UK Top 40 hit for which other British band, whose far better-known (to Americans) hit contains the band's own name in the chorus and has a bridge that refers to "a ship of fools sailing on"?

"And you can dance for inspiration"

Which 1985 Madonna hit (recorded for the movie Desperately Seeking Susan) begins with that spoken exhortation?

Who recorded the 2018 album Dancing Queen, made entirely of covers of ABBA songs? It is her first album in five years and 26th overall.

"If I had the chance I'd ask the world to dance..."

Who co-wrote "Dancing With Myself" with Tony James (his Generation X bandmate) before it became his first U.S. solo hit?

What actress (before she became truly famous) was featured in the music video of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark"? Three of her best-known characters have the surnames Geller, Weathers, and Cobb.

"Clock strikes upon the hour
And the sun begins to fade."

Who won a Grammy for singing the song that begins with those lyrics? (We want the singer, not the song!) She also covered a song that begins,"I believe the children are our future."

"Went to a dance
Looking for romance
Saw [BLANK]
So I thought I'd take a chance."

What female compound name fills in the blank to that Beach Boys lyric and also titles that song?

The death of Mikey Tandino drives the plot of which 1984 movie, whose soundtrack contains both the Pointer Sisters' "Neutron Dance" and a Harold Faltermeyer synth-pop instrumental named for the main character?

Billboard described the 2011 song "Till the World Ends" (chorus: "Keep on dancin' till the world ends") as a cross between Usher's "OMG" and Baltimora's "Tarzan Boy." Rolling Stone described it as "sky-sucking synth streaks, a beat that sounds like blimps fucking and a thousand shirtless drunken sailors chanting along on the chorus."

Who sang "Till the World Ends," off her seventh studio album, Femme Fatale? (She's only six years older than Kesha, who wrote it.)

"The [BLANK] is dancing with me, cheek to cheek
There's nobody here, it's just you and me
It's where I want to be
But I hardly know this beauty by my side
I'll never forget the way you look tonight."

What title heroine fills in the blank from that Chris De Burgh ballad?

"Dancing in the Moonlight" (1972) was the only U.S. #1 hit for what Parisian band (formed by American ex-pats)?

"Dedicated to the [BLANK] of America. Keep reaching for that rainbow!"

What profession is name-checked in the closing frame of "Homer's Phobia," an episode of The Simpsons guest-starring John Waters? The song "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" is featured in that episode, as we learn that members of this profession work hard but also play hard.