Alternative Songs for the Electric Slide Line Dance

From the Author: I live in Southern California and have been country dancing for over 7 years. I have spent many nights out both line dancing and partner dancing and like to travel to find all the good places to dance. I still really enjoy dancing the Electric Slide! Author bio here. If you have any questions I respond quickly to comments!

As a country line dancer, I am very fond of the Electric Slide! This post is for fellow dancers also crazy about the Electric Slide! Besides your local saloon, it is enjoyed constantly at weddings and parties. Yay! More chances to do it! If you’re hiring a DJ, this post will equip you to mix things up and get away from just the expected songs.

There are hundreds of songs besides the original “Electric Boogie” that you can dance the Electric Slide to. This list is from an alphabetical post I found that you can see here. (Thank you Country DJ Staci!) I wanted to take it a little further and break this list down a bit. I’ve broken it down by years and added the song BPM (Beats Per Minute). But I’ve also broken out the good country dance songs.

The country songs are my favorites and I have danced the Electric Slide to most of those. Enjoy these two tabled lists, I hope they give you some options for your DJ, and read on for more Electric Slide fan “need-to-knows.” and videos. Or, if you just want to start learning it or download a step sheet click on this post: 20 Beginner Line Dances You Need to Know! (The Electric Slide is #3).

What other songs can you do the Electric Slide to?

Country songs first! Here’s a list of 31 common and not-so-common country songs that might get played when the Electric Slide is called out. Some of my favorites here are the two Dwight Yoakum songs: Fast as You, and Little Sister and also I Feel Lucky by Mary-Chapin Carpenter. Songs spanning 39 years!

It can be fun to try out songs on the two ends of the BPM numbers. Try playing Alan Jackson’s Don’t Rock the Jukebox. At 148 BPM it is a pretty fast Electric Slide to keep up with. And, the most common song here to get called will probably always be Achy Breaky Heart, which at 124 BPM is perfect.

Country Songs to do the Electric Slide to:

YEAR	SONG	ARTIST	BPM
1974	Jolene	Dolly Parton	111
1985	Baby’s Got Her Blue Jeans On	Mel McDaniel	107
1987	Little Sister	Dwight Yoakum (Elvis Presley)	139
1990	Put Some Drive in Your Country	Travis Tritt	108
	Two of a Kind Workin’ on a Full House	Garth Brooks	126
1991	Don’t Rock the Jukebox	Alan Jackson	148
1992	Cleopatra Queen of Denial	Pam Tillis	123
	I Feel Lucky	Mary-Chapin Carpenter	120
1993	A Little Less Talk & A Lot More Action	Toby Keith	125
	Fast as You	Dwight Yoakum	126
	Rock My World Little Country Girl	Brooks & Dunn	120
1994	Down on the Farm	Tim McGraw	128
	Indian Outlaw	Tim McGraw	110
	My Kind of Girl	Collin Raye	116
1995	I Like It, I Love It	Tim McGraw	124
	Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under	Shania Twain	132
1997	Man! I Feel Like a Woman	Shania Twain	125
2001	Drinkin’ Bone	Tracy Byrd	110
2001	Only in America	Brooks & Dunn	138
2002	Beer for my Horses	Toby Keith	119
	I’m Gonna Getcha Good	Shania Twain	124
2004	Here for the Party	Gretchen Wilson	124
2005	Play Something Country	Brooks & Dunn	115
2006	Ladies Love Country Boys	Trace Adkins	116
2007	Hick Chicks	Cowboy Troy	–
2008	One in Every Crowd	Montgomery Gentry	111
2009	Sideways	Dierks Bentley	108
2010	Why Wait	Rascal Flatts	122
2011	Outta My Head	Craig Campbell	107
2013	Aw Naw	Chris Young country	110

Now here is a long list of 100+ non-country genre songs! These songs span 55 years and fall into nearly any genre of music you can think of. Many well-known & some rather obscure…

Additional Songs to do the Electric Slide to:

YEAR	Song	Artist	Genre	BPM
1960	Breaking Up is Hard to Do	Neil Sedaka	Pop	117
1965	California Dreamin’	Mamas & the Papas	Sunshine Pop/Folk rock	112
1966	Mustang Sally	Wilson Pickett	Classic Soul	110
	Summer in the City	Lovin’ Spoonful	Folk-Rock	110
1967	Bernadette	The Four Tops	Soul, Pop	111
1968	Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da	Beatles	Rock, Folk, Pop	113
	Think	Aretha Franklin	Classic Soul	110
1969	Down on the Corner	Credence Clearwater Revival	Rock	108
	Na Na Hey Hey–Kiss Him Goodbye	Paul Leka	Rock, Pop	117
1970	Get Up	James Brown	R&B/Soul	118
	Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Your’s	Stevie Wonder	Classic Soul	109
1974	Lady Marmalade	Patty Labelle	Soul/Disco	117
1975	December 1963 (Oh What a Night)	The Four Seasons	Pop	104
	Get Down Tonight	KC & the Sunshine Band	Dance/Electronic	113
	That’s the Way I Like It	KC & the Sunshine Band	Dance/Electronic	109
	Walk This Way	Aerosmith	Hark Rock, Funk Rock	109
1976	Life in the Fast Lane	The Eagles	Classic Rock	110
	Play that Funky Music	White Cherry	Funk Rock	109
	Shake Your Booty	KC & the Sunshine Band	Disco	112
1977	Brick House	The Commodores	R&B, Soul	108
	Feels Like the First Time	Foreigner	Rock, Hard rock	108
	Heart of Glass	Blondie	Alternative/Indie	114
	I Will Survive	Gloria Gaynor	Pop	117
1978	A Night to Remember	Shalamar	Funk, R&B/Soul	109
	Do Ya Think I’m Sexy	Rod Stewart	Disco	112
	Got to Be Real	Cheryl Lynn	Disco	115
	Old Time Rock & Roll	Bob Segar	Rock, Blues	120
	Renegade	Styxx	Classic Rock	106
1979	And the Beat Goes On	The Whispers	Post-Disco	115
	Ladies Night	Kool & the Gang	R&B/Soul	112
1980	Another One Bites the Dust	Queen	Funk rock, Classic rock	110
	Enjoy the Silence	Depeche Mode	Dance/Electronic	113
	Hungry Heart	Bruce Springsteen	Heartland Rock	110
	Upside Down	Diana Ross	Disco	108
1981	Get Down on It	Kool & the Gang	R&B/Soul	111
1982	Atomic Dog	George Clinton	R&B/Soul	108
	Billie Jean	Michael Jackson	Pop	117
	Come On Eileen	Dexy’s Midnight Runners	Pop	107
	Forget Me Nots	Patrice Rushen	Funk	115
	I Want Candy	Bow Wow Wow	Dance/Electronic	110
1983	All Night Long	Lionel Ritchie	Pop	109
	Break My Stride	Matthew Wilder	Electropop	110
	Cruel Summer	Bananarama	Pop	108
	Legs	ZZ Top	Blues Rock, Synth-Pop	125
	Sharp-Dressed Man	ZZ Top	Classic Rock	125
1984	All She Wants to Do Is Dance	Don Henley	Adult contemporary	115
	Caribbean Queen	Billy Ocean	Pop	114
	Obsession	Animotion	Pop	115
	Somebody’s Watching Me	Rockwell	Pop	124
1985	Addicted to Love	Robert Palmer	R&B/Soul	112
	Anything, Anything	Dramarama	Rock	122
1986	Keep Your Hands to Yourself	Georgia Satellites	Rock	115
	Kiss	Prince	R&B/Soul	111
	Tuff Enuff	The Fabulous Thunderbirds	Electric Blues	116
1987	Bad	Michael Jackson	R&B, Dance-Pop	114
	Looking for a New Love	Jody Watley	Pop, Freestyle	109
	My Eyes Don’t Cry	Stevie Wonder	R&B/Soul	115
1988	It Takes Two	Rob Base	Hip-Hop/Rap	112
	My Prerogative	Bobby Brown	Contemporary R&B	110
	She Drives Me Crazy	Fine Young Cannibals	Pop Rock	109
	The Wanderer	Dion	Easy Listening	116
1989	Bust a Move	Young MC	Hip-Hop/Rap	117
	Funky Cold Medina	Tone Loc	Funk	117
	Ice Ice Baby	Vanilla Ice	Hip-Hop/Rap	116
	Like a Prayer	Madonna	Pop Rock	111
	Rhythm Nation	Janet Jackson	Pop	109
1990	A Mover La Colita	Sonora Dinamita	–	110
	Feels Good	Tony Toni Tone	Contemporary R&B	117
	Poison	Bel Biv Devoe	Contemporary R&B, Hip-Hop/Rap	112
	The Power	Snap!	Eurodance, Hip House	109
1991	Emotions	Mariah Carey	Contemporary R&B	115
	Even Flow	Pearl Jam	Grunge, Rock	105
1992	Humpin’ Around	Bobby Brown	R&B/Soul	110
1995	Just a Girl	No Doubt	Alternative/Indie, Pop	108
1996	Disco Inferno	Bee Gees	Disco/Funk	130
	Escandalo	Sonora Dinamita	Latin American	103
	Shake a Pudding	Dub Narcotic Sound System	Dub	–
	Wannabe	Spice Girls	Dance-Pop	110
1997	Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)	Backstreet Boys	Pop	108
	Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It	Will Smith	Hip-Hop/Rap	108
	Miami	Will Smith	Hip-Hop/Rap	108
1999	Larger Than Life	Backstreet Boys	Rock	108
2001	Island in the Sun	Weezer	Alternative/Indie	105
	She Hates Me	Puddle of Mud	Hard Rock, Rock	110
2002	Arrepegaito	Raza Obrera	–	109
	Hot in Herre	Nelly	Dirty Rap/R&B	107
	Turn Me On	Kevin Lyttle	Reggae, R&B/Soul	106
	Without Me	Eminem	Hip-Hop/Rap	112
2004	Fuego	Kumbia Kings	Cumbia	114
	Hollaback Girl	Gwen Stefani	Pop	110
	Milkshake	Kelis	R&B/Soul	113
	Sabes a Chocolate	Kumbia Kings	Cubia, Latin Pop, Hip-Hop	110
2006	Crazy	Gnarles Barkley	R&B/Soul, Pop	115
	Dime Quien Es	Los Rieleros del Norte	Regional Mexican	107
2007	Lean Like a Cholo	Down AKA Kilo	Hip-Hop/Rap	120
	Midnight	Pitbull	Hip-Hop/Rap	99
2010	Everyday People	Sly & the Family Stone	Funk	115
	Rollin’ in the Deep	Adele	Pop	106
2013	Get Lucky	Daft Punk	Dance/Electronic	116
	Habits (Stay High)	Tove Lo	Alternative/Inde, Pop	110
2015	Can’t Feel my Face	The Weeknd	Pop/Disco-funk	108

Electric Slide Original Song – The Electric Boogie

I’ve never actually danced the Electric Slide to the original song “The Electric Boogie.” But, originally this is where it all started! Created originally in 1976 by the choreographer, pianist, and Broadway performer Richard L. “Ric” Silver to the song by Marcia Griffiths & Bunny Wailer. See a popular YouTube video below with Marcia Griffiths singing…

https://youtu.be/jW3TSBu7J94

One great thing about the Electric Slide is that it is a line dance that gives you the opportunity to add some of your own stylings. The above Tutorial shows some variations that you can add to it. The most common is to make your grapevines, rolling grapevines. I’ve even seen people facing the wrong way, but still keeping time and stepping in line.

Have fun with this list of Electric Slide song options and… Slide on!