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DJ songs: Songs referring to DJs


March 9: World DJ Day

Original upload of the list: Thursday 22 January 2004 (on lalos.gr)


LyricsDJ, play a song for the lovers and tonight, alright

Lyrics: Y el DJ que lo conoce Toca el himno de las doce
(And the DJ who knows it Plays the twelve o'clock hymn)

Blow - KE$HA (EP Cannibal, 2010)
Lyrics: It's time to kill the lights And shut the DJ down

Lyrics: Mmm, whoo, yeah, DJ!... check out this DJ

Lyrics: Skin that flick, she's such a little DJ

Lyrics: Hey, DJ, let the music play

Lyrics: the wacky morning DJ says Democracy is a joke

Lyrics: Tonight's the night at danceteria The joining of the tribe The speakers blasting clear and loud The way you dance is our criteria The DJ takes you high Let tears of joy baptise the crowd

DJ - DAVID BOWIE (LP Lodger, 1979)
Lyrics: I am a DJ, I am what I play

DJ - JAMELIA (LP Thank You, 2003)
LyricsDJ, gimme a beat I can rock to

Lyrics: (DJ culture) Dance with me (DJ culture) Let's pretend Living in a satellite fantasy Waiting for the night to end (DJ culture)



Lyrics: DJ got the party started there's no end in sight / DJ s got us goin around, round

Lyrics: Let's escape into the music, DJ, let it play

Lyrics: I cut so much, you thought I was a DJ

Lyrics: hear the DJ say love s a game of easy come and easy go

Everybody - MADONNA (single, 1982 / LP Madonna, 1983)
Lyrics: let the DJ shake you

Lyircs: The disc-jockey's geil (G-g-g-g-geil)




Lyrics: If God is a DJ, life is a dancefloor

Lyrics: Hey DJ, just play that song Keep me dancing (Dancing) all night... Thanks, girls, now thank DJs, MCs, cable TV And radio station personalities... You say you wanna be a DJ What must you do to be a DJ? Well, girl, you gotta make them
Comment: Mariah Carey s song Honey (1997) features sample of this song.

Original version by Martha Reeves & The Vandellas (1968)

Lyrics: Hey DJ keep playing that song, all night


LyricsDJ in a bade when it comes to scratch Matching my style, matching my style

Lyrics: And no, there in't no love, no Montagues or Capulets Just banging tunes and DJ sets and Dirty dancefloors and dreams of naughtiness

Lyrics: why the DJ on the radio station, is always more than twice the age of me

Comment: White rapper Vanilla Ice (born Robert Van Winkle) featured a sample from the single
Under pressure-QUEEN featuring DAVID BOWIE (UK No1, 21-11-1981)
Lyrics: check out the hook while my DJ revolves it

Lyrics: get me my DJ, I got somethin he's gotta play

Lyrics: And there goes the last DJ Who plays what he wants to play And says what he wants to say


Lyrics: just tell the DJ to play your favorite tune



Lyrics: Everybody wants to be a DJ Everybody wants to be an MC

Lyrics: I hear the DJ talking, can't understand-just what does he say

Lyrics: Hi, I'm your video DJ! I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go My job is to help destroy what's left of your imagination By feeding you endless doses Of sugar-coated mindless garbage

Lyrics: It's murder on the dancefloor But you better not kill the groove DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down... But you better not steal the moves DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down

Music - MADONNA (LP Music, 2000)
Lyrics: Hey Mr. DJ put a record on, I wanna dance with my baby

Lyrics: back in town, in '95, filling in for a drunken DJ, I tried to keep the floor alive

My Band - D12 feat. EMINEM (single, 2004 / LP D12 World, 2004)
Lyrics: Hey I thought we had an interview with DJ Clue

Lyrics: He's DJ-ing at some do on the edge of town on the night that Minnie Timperley died

Lyrics: I'm Lester the Nightfly, Hello Baton Rouge



Lyrics: no more dating DJs, MCs, producers, hiphop critics, radio hosts, etc

Lyrics: even if the DJ sucks It's time to turn this mutha out!

Lyrics: Every time the DJ is playing my song, I can feel you here by my side all night long

Lyrics: Hear the sound of the DJ playing our jam Glass down Grab a man Move to the floor, it's time to get down

Lyrics: Hang the blessed DJ...hang the DJ

Lyrics: I could wait all night and day To go to a party, sit down and wait Give my request to the DJ 'Cause my song, he's gotta play (Just play my song) And when I hear that beat, I get my body up out my seat I grab a guy and move my feet He's playing my song

Lyrics: We got the message I heard it on the airwaves The politicians are now DJs The broadcast was spreading Station to station Like an infection across the nation

Lyrics: Come, Mr. DJ, song pon de replay Come, Mr. DJ, won't you turn the music up?

Lyrics: The DJ knows my voice now He even knows my choice now He never says my name He just says "From the one Who loves you baby"

Lyrics: It's that same sing-song, DJ sucks! It makes me sad

Lyrics: DJ spinnin' I said, "My My" Flash is fast, Flash is cool

Lyrics: Once upon a time a DJ's task Was just to play records, what more could you ask? But then came remixes, scratching and cuts Which was too much for many, drove some DJs nuts But the DJ named Glove has reigned supreme As the turntable wizard of the hip-hop scene So listen to him, check him out, but remember this When The Glove's on the wheels of steel he's Reckless



Ride It - GERI HALLIWELL (single, 2004 / LP Passion, 2005)
Lyrics: You're a DJ, I'm a song Take me out and turn me on

Rock City - SAXON (LP Crusader, 1984)
LyricsDJ, VJ Radio, Video Crank it up mama, the time is right

Lyrics: I don't wanna rock DJ But you're making me feel so nice When's it gonna stop DJ 'Cause you're keeping me up all night

Lyrics: A DJ in Cleveland brought some bands to town / Alan Freed grabbed the mike and called it rock'n roll
"All proceeds from the sale of this record to benefit the Greater Cleveland Growth Association Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation."

Lyrics: Well I'mma write a little letter I'm gonna mail it to my local DJ Yeah, it's a jumpin' little record I want my jockey to play "Roll over Beethoven" I gotta hear it again today

Rollover DJ - JET (LP Get Born, 2003)
Lyrics: So dance little DJ, come on What’s your name? Hey, roll over, DJ You’re spinning away All my time Hey, who cares what you play Say whatever you say, 'cause I don’t mind Hey, roll over, DJ If you don’t mind

Lyrics: The DJ spins a record ‘till he hits the morning light And everything's gonna be OK Cause it's a Saturday

Lyrics: Hey Mr. DJ, why don’t you slow this party down The ladies in here are fly And there’s one who’s caught my eye

Lyrics: the DJ said on the radio, life should be stereo-each day

Lyrics: DJ is the man we love the most

Lyrics: Didn't know what time it was, the lights were low I leaned back on my radio Some cat was layin' down some rock 'n' roll "Lotta soul," he said Then the loud sound did seem to fade Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase That weren't no DJ, that was hazy cosmic jive

Lyrics: Hey DJ....dance all night to this DJ
Based on Fred Neil's  song "Everybody's Talkin" (1966), turned in to a hit by Nilsson (1968).

Lyrics: Little boys messin' round with the girls playing double-dutch While the DJ's spinnin' a tune as the old folks dance at your family reunion

Lyrics: I will stop when Mr. DJ stops the beat, yeah

Lyrics: Mr. DJ, would you please play that old song, help me bring my baby back home



LyricsDJ, turn it up It's about damn time to live it up

Lyrics: Well, Mandy's in the backroom, handing out Valium, Sheriff's on the airwaves, talking to the DJs Forty-seven heartbeats beating like a drum Got to live it up, live it up, Ronnie's got a new gun

Word Up - CAMEO (LP Word Up, 1986)
Lyrics: all you sucker DJs, who think you re fly




VJ

Lyrics: Now she's working At the station As a VJ On Rotation