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I dj some of this stuff. You can find my cha cha list in iTunes under iMix (Funky Cha Cha) but off the top of my head:

Cha Cha:

Best of Me - Chrisette Michele

Supermassive Black Hole - Muse (yes, it works)

Let's get Loud - Jennifer Lopez

Rumba:

Anywhere - Beth Orton

Sundirtwater - The Waifs (its mid tempo so you can do a slow cha cha to this)

Fields of Gold - Sting

Tango:

Santa Maria - Gotan Project (you can cha cha to this one too)

Quickstep:

Cha Cha - Chelo (the most misnamed song ever - anyway you can start with a foxtrot and switch to qs, great tune)

Jive:

Crabbuckit - K-OS (sounds like a single step but you can jive it)

Candyman - Christina Aquilera (an overplayed jive, but a good song)

Wake me up before you go go (old, but fun)

Samba:

Un Corazon (One Heart) - Chelo

Hope this helps.

DJ TBA

(aka Kristine Maitland)

http://thedarklady.vox.com/

They're more swing and big band I think. Try some of Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra. If it's jazz you are looking for maybe Louis Armstrong. Gershwin might also be good. For ballet you can use some of the music from the Nutcracker Suite. It will definitely work if you're having the event around Christmas time. Nothing beats the classics. You could go from where your intuition seems to be going and look up some other Bill Medley songs.

The following web site gives some good suggestions for various dance styles

http://www.danzones.net/music.htm

Hope this helps.

related to Kristin's response, Chelo's Cha-Cha can be danced as a samba. It makes a damn good one, and it's our favorite in Cotillion at UCSB : )