Last month's 10

1 'Kitchen Man' by Bessie Smith

2 'Jenny Jenny' by Little Richard

3 'Foxy Lady' by the Jimi Hendrix Experience

4 'Boys' by Britney Spears

5 'Groove is in the Heart' by Deee-Lite

6 'Cross the Tracks' by Maceo & the Macs

7 'Out Of Space' by the Prodigy

8 'TV Party' by Black Flag

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10 'Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying' by Ray Charles

Here is what some you thought:

Sorry Bessie, but the party song to beat all others is 'Let's Start the Dance' by Hamilton Bohannon. Seven and a half minutes of funky disco bliss, with a tendency to send people berserk within seconds of hearing the first pounding beats. As the great man himself sang, 'The message is in the mu-u-u-u-u-sic'. All hail!
Alan Meldrum
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If I was at any party that deemed 'Babycakes' the tune to get the place jumping, I'd either:

a) smash the stereo

b) hang the DJ

c) assume I was at my three-year-old nephew's birthday party or

d) demand Nitzer Ebb's 'Join in the Chant' - a tune that could wake the dead.

Neil Smith
by email

If there's one Prodigy song that is guaranteed to lift the roof off any party - particularly from that era of the band's history - then surely it's 'Everybody in the Place', rather than 'Outer Space'.
Lucy Dawson
by email

'Boys'? If you're gonna have Britters, then surely it's gotta be 'I'm a Slave 4 U' hasn't it?
Sam Hardy
by email