Deciding on the right Prom Themes and Prom Theme Songs can be some of the biggest challenges for most Prom Committees. Start with a Prom Committee Checklist to help you find the right fit for your school and budget. Using a customized Prom Planning Guide to keep your Prom Planning Ideas in focus is important because they compliment each other and the bulk of your decorating is based on your Prom Theme and Prom Theme Song.

A little brainstorming about the right Prom Theme Name with your Prom Planning Committee can be fun if everyone is open-minded and willing to pitch in! There are numerous Prom Theme Kits to choose from that can easily fit your Prom Theme Party. However, put on your Prom Planner Hat and create a “pro & con” Prom Planning Checklist to help guide you towards the best solution to meet your needs. Prom Places can vary greatly, so narrowing down your Prom Themes and Ideas to fit your Prom Location can help you stay on task and on budget.

Keep “Green Prom” in mind…and that almost all decorations end up in the trash dumpster. Allocating more of your decorating budget to quality Prom Memorabilia Souvenirs and DJ Entertainment with impressive sound and light shows can stretch your Prom Budget dollars further while saving the environment. This can also save you clean up time. Most Prom goer’s will bring their souvenirs home and your Prom DJ Enterertainment will load out their gear. Keep It Simple…Have Fun!

5 Essential Prom Tips that lead to GREAT PROM COMMENTS!

Tip 1. Great Prom Location
Tip 2. Great Prom DJ’s, Entertainment & Light Show
Tip 3. Great Prom Ideas
Tip 4. Great Prom Memorabilia
Tip 5. Great Prom Decorations

Creating the musical atmosphere to fit your Prom Theme Decorations needs to start early. Having a a few song requests that match your Prom Theme on a Prom Playlist to provide in advance to your Prom Disc Jockey can ensure that your Prom Committee Ideas and Prom Plans are carried out to your liking. Selecting a clean DJ or Video Jockey that can cover the many types of music genres, styles, age groups and school favorites that you many need is essential to your Prom’s success. Focus on your DJ’s experience rather than their age. Generally speaking, younger DJ’s will fall into peer pressure and play only for the select group of people they identify with, whereas, DJ’s with considerably more experience have a wider range of music knowledge and understanding when it comes to helping you create the Prom Dance Experience that you and your Prom Committee have planned.

250+ Popular Prom Theme Names to consider:

We encourage you to add your Prom Theme suggestions below to offer your
Prom Planning Help to other Prom Committees.

007 (James Bond)
50′s Drive Inn
A Dream for Us
A Kiss is Just a Kiss
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Night at the Oscars
A Night At The Roxbury
A Night in the Clouds
A Night In Venice
A Night of Mystery
A Night on the Beach
A Night on Treasure Island
A Night to Remember
A Night with the Stars
A Red Carpet Affair
A Stroll down Broadway
A Taste of California
A Taste of International Flavors
A Touch of Class
A Walk in the Clouds
A Wish Come True
Above The City Lights
All That Jazz
An Affair to Remember
An Evening in ( Insert Place )
An Evening of Stars
An Evening of Stars Hollywood
Arabian Nights
Arabian Paradise
At the Hop
At the Hop Drive-In
Before Night Falls Garden
Between Your Heart and Mine
Big Band
Black Tie Prom Theme
Born to Be Wild
Box Office Bliss
Bright Lights Big City
Broadway Backstage
By the Light of the Moon
C’est Si Bon
Can’t Fight the Moonlight
Captured in a Dream
Caribbean Nights
Carnival
Carnival Prom Theme
Carried Away
Casablanca
Casino
Casino de (Insert School Name)
Castle in the Clouds
Caught in the Moment
Cherished Moments
City of Lights
Come What May
Crazy Days & Nights
Cupid’s Ball
Custom Spirit Columns
Dancing by the Starlight
Daring to Dream
Deep Blue Destiny
Depths of Love
Destiny Awaits
Dream Come True
Egyptian Allure
Egyptian Prom Theme
Enchanted Amazon
Enchanted Garden
Enchantment under the Sea
Escape
Eternal Elegance
Everything You Want
Fantastic Voyage
Fire and Ice (Worlds Collide)
Fly Me to the Moon
Forever Tonight
Forever Young
From this Moment
Garden of Enchantment
Garden Of Lights
Garden Photo Setting
Glamour and Glitz or the 20′s
Glimmer of Hollywood
Going to Town
Gold Lights of Paris
Got to Believe in Magic
Greek Paradise
Happily Ever After
Heaven in Your Eyes
Heaven on Earth
Heavenly Star Photo Setting
Here’s to the Night
Hit the Jackpot
Hoedown Barn
Hollywood Extravaganza
Hollywood Glamour
Hollywood Grand March
Hollywood Night of the Oscars
Hollywood Nights
Hollywood Premiere
Hollywood Prom
Hollywood Stars
Hooray For Hollywood
Hopelessly Devoted (1950′s)
Horary for Hollywood
Hour of Enchantment
I Believe
I Believe Castle
I could not ask For More
I Promise you the Stars
If only for one Night
I’ll Always Remember You
In The Still of the Night
In Your Arms
Irish Prom Themes
Island Eternal Tropical
It Might Be You
It’s a Jungle Out There
Jungle Allure
Kiss From A Rose
La Noche Romantica
Larger than Life
Let the Good Times Roll
Magic under the Stars
Magical Memories
Make it Last Forever
Mardi gras
Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras Decorating Pack
Masquerade Ball
Masquerade Prom Theme
Mediterranean
Memories of Tonight
Memories to Last a Lifetime
Metallic Silver Decorating Pack
Metro Magic
Midnight Cruise
Midnight In Paris
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Midsummer’s Night Garden
Moonlight In Paradise
Moonlight On Mainstreet
Moonlight on the Nile
Moonlight Rendezvous
Moonlit Moment
Moving On
Music of the Night
Mystical Journey
Mystical Twilight
Nautical
New York New York
Night in New Orleans
Night in the Old West
Night In The Spotlight Hollywood
Night In Times Square
Night In Venice
Night to Remember
Night with the Stars
Nightlife (Insert 20xx Year)
OK Corral
On the Town City
Once Upon a Dream
Once Upon A Time
One More Night
One Sweet Night
One upon a Time
One World
Our Treasured Night
Paint the Town Red
Paradise Awaits
Paris Prom Theme
Parisian Grand March
Parisian Rendezvous
Parisian Romance/Escape
Passport to Romance
Picture Perfect
Pictures From Paris
Polynesian Sunset
Princess Prom
Putting on the Glitz
Pure Imagination
Red Carpet Affair
Remember Me Always
Rendezvous On Bourbon Street
Retro Romance
Rock Around the Clock (1950′s)
Romance and Roses
Romance in the Park
Romantic Grand March
Roulette Wheel Arch
Saturday Night Fever
Save the Last Dance for Me
Saving Forever for You
Send Me to the Moon
Shanghai Moon
Shooting Star Photo Setting
Shores of Venice
Show Me the Meaning
Silver Lights of Paris
Simply Forever
Simply the Best
Snowflake Fantasy
Something to Believe In
Something to Remember
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Sophisticated Venue Decor
Souvenirs of Paris
Space Odyssey
Springtime in Paris
Stand By Me
Star Struck
Starlight Fairytale
Starlit Fairytale
Starry Grand March
Stars On Broadway
Still of the Night
Still the One
Sunset Serenade
Swept Up in You Components
Forbidden City
The Perfect Prom
The Way You Love Me
These are the Times
These Are the Times (1960′s)
This Magic Moment
Time after Time
Time of My Life
Tonight is the Night
Tonight Tonight
Tonight’s Dream…Tomorrow’s Memory
Toujours
Treasure Bay
Tropical Paradise
Twilight In Central Park
Twist the Night Away 1950′s
Under the Sea
Under The Stars
Underwater Paradise
Unforgettable
Viva Las Vegas
Voices That Care
Waiting for Tonight
Waltz under the Blue Moon
Water Prom Themes
Western
What Dreams May Come
When Stars Collide
When Stars Fall
When You Believe
White Night
Wild West
Wishing on a Shooting Star
With Upon a Star
Wonderful Tonight
World of Enchantment
Written in the Stars
You’ll be in my Heart
The Zoo

We encourage you to add your Prom Theme suggestions below to offer your
Prom Planning Help to other Prom Committees.

Choosing your Prom Theme Song can be a challenge with all the songs to choose from. Finding the right song to set the mood for your special night should reflect your high school experiences and entire student body.

Think about your Prom Theme Song carefully. You can choose a song with special meaning or something on the current Top 40 list. Do you want something romantic or goofy? Do you want to make a statement about the world or do you want to escape from reality? No matter what song you choose, involve your entire Prom Committee and school student body to assist you in your decision.

If your school is into song lyrics there are several websites that can assist you in finding song suggestions with special song lyrics that could match your prom theme.

Need help with your Prom Theme Song?
Here are a few lyrics websites to get you started:

Song Lyrics
E-Lyrics
A-Z Lyrics
Lyrics Mode
Lyrics Freak
The Song Lyrics
Song Meanings
 
 

Step 1: POLL each class on whether they would like a FAST or SLOW song.
Step 2: POLL each class for their top two music genre’s or styles.
Step 3: POLL each class for their top two favorites songs.
Step 4: Present the POLL results for final voting.

170+ Prom Theme Song List suggestions from
Dude Walker’s Prom DJ’s to help get you started:

We encourage you to add your Prom Theme Song suggestions below
to help other Prom Committees.

1000 Miles ~ Mark Schultz
A Thousand Miles ~ Vanessa Carlton
A Time For Us from Romeo and Juliet sung ~ David Feygin
A Whole New World ~ Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle
All I Wanna Do ~ Sugarland
All for You ~ Sister Hazel
Always & Forever ~ Luther Vandross
Always & Forever ~ Shania Twain
Amazed ~ Lonestar
Amazing ~ Janelle
Angel ~ Aerosmith
Angel Eyes ~ Jeff Healey Band
At Last ~ Etta James
Babe ~ Styx
Banana Pancakes ~ Jack Johnson
Before It’s Too Late ~ Goo Goo Dolls
Better Together ~ Jack Johnson
Boulevard of Broken Dreams ~ Greenday
Bubbly Toes ~ Jack Johnson
Calabria ~ Enur
Candle In The Wind ~ Elton John
Chasing Cars ~ Snow Patrol
Dance if You Want To ~ Men With Hats
Daylight ~ Kelly Rowland
Don’t Forget To Remember Me ~ Carrie Underwood
Don’t Let Go ~ Bryan Adams & Sarah McLaughlin
Don’t Stop The Music ~ Rihanna
Dreamer ~ Ozzy Osbourne
Drive ~ Incubus
Earth Angel ~ Penguins
Escape ~ The Pina Colada Song
Ever the Same ~ Rob Thomas
Every Breath You Take ~ Sting
Everything ~ Michael Buble
Everything’s Right ~ Matt Wertz
Fall Into Me ~ Emerson Drive
Far Away ~ Nickelback
Fever ~ Michael Buble
Forever Young ~ Rod Stewart
Free and Easy ~ Dierks Bentley
Freebird ~ Lynyrd Skynyrd
From This Moment ~ Shainia Twain
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) ~ Green Day
Good Vibrations ~ The Beach Boys
Got To Be There ~ Jackson 5
Grease ~ Frankie Valli
Grease MegaMix ~ John Travolta & Olivia Newton John
Guys Like Me ~ Eric Church
Head Over Heels ~ Tears for Fears
Heaven (Candle Light Mix) ~ DJ Sammy
Here without You ~ 3 Doors Down
Here’s to The Night ~ Eve 6
Hero ~ Mariah Carey
Hey Their Delilah ~ Plain White T’s
Hold Me Now ~ Thompson Twins
Hopelessly Devoted ~ Greese Soundtrack
How Do I Live Without You ~ Leann Rimes
How Do You Talk To An Angel ~ Jaime Walters
How to Save a Life ~ The Fray
Hurt ~ Christina Aguilera
Hypnotize ~ Notorious BIG
I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing ~ Aerosmith
I Love You ~ Martina McBride
I Melt With You ~ Modern English
I Need You ~ Leann Rimes
I Turn to You ~ Christina Aguilera
I Will Remember You ~ Sarah McLaughlin
If you want me ~ One Less Reason
I’ll be ~ Edwin McCain
I’ll Be ~ Sara Evans
I’ll Stand By You ~ Pretenders
Imagine ~ John Lennon
In The Air Tonight ~ Phil Collins
Irreplaceable ~ Beyonce
It Ends Tonight ~ All American Rejects
It’s a Wonderful World ~ Louis Armstrong
It’s Your Love ~ Tim Mcgraw
Just Like Heaven & Pictures Of You ~ The Cure
Just the Way You Are ~ Bill Joel
Keep holding On ~ Arvil Lavinge
Kiss Kiss ~ Chris Brown
Landslide ~ Fleetwood Mac
Last Kiss ~ Pearl Jam
Let’s stay together ~ Al Green
Light My Fire ~ Doors
Lips of An Angel ~ Hinder
Listen To Your Heart ~ DHT
Lost in the Moment ~ Big & Rich
Lost Without U ~ Robin Thicke
Love In This Club ~ Usher
Love of a Lifetime ~ Lifehouse
Love Shack ~ B52′s
Love Song ~ Sara Bareilles
Makes Me Wonder ~ Maroon 5
Maybe I’m Amazed ~ Jem
Moments Like These ~ Kelly Clarkson
More than words ~ Extreme
My Love ~ Justin Timberlake & T.I.
My Wish ~ Rascal Flatts
Never Let You Go ~ Third Eye Blind
New York New York ~ Frank Sinatra
Nothing compares 2 you ~ Sinead O Connor
Oh How the Years Go ~ Amy Grant
Oh What A Night ~ Billy Joel
One Night Only ~ Dream Girls Soundtrack
Only For One Night ~ Luther Vandross
Only Time ~ Enya
Our Song ~ Taylor Swift
Party Like A Rockstar ~ Shop Boyz
Power of Love ~ Huey Lewis and the News
Purple Rain ~ Prince
Push It To The Limit ~ Corbin Bleu
Remember Me This Way ~ Jordan Hill
Sarah McLachlan ~ I Will Remember You
Save the Last Dance ~ Michael Buble
Save Tonight ~ Eagle Eye Cherry
Say it Right ~ Nelly Furtado
Sea Of Love ~ Honeydrippers
See You On The Other Side ~ Ozzy Osbourne
Set Adrift On Memory Bliss ~ PM Dawn
Shower Me With Your Love ~ Surface
Smells like Teen Spirit ~ Nirvana
So She Dances ~ Josh Groban
Somewhere Over the Rainbow ~ Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Somewhere Over the Rainbow ~ Katherine McPhee
Sorry ~ Buckcherry
Stay with Me ~ Josh Gracin
Still the One ~ Shania Twain
April Showers ~ Sugarland
Sway ~ Michael Buble
Sweet Dreams ~ Eurythmics
Sweet Emotion ~ Aerosmith
Sweetest Girl ~ Wyclef Jean
Take It To The Music ~ Eagles
Tear Drops on my Guitar ~ Taylor Swift
Temptations ~ My Girl
The Rose ~ Bette Midler
The Way ~ Clay Aiken
The Way I Are ~ Timbaland & Keri Hilson
The Way You Look Tonight ~ Frank Sinatra
These are the Moments ~ Edwin McCain
This Ain’t a Scene It’s an Arms Race ~ Fall Out Boy
This Kiss ~ Faith Hill
Tiny Dancer ~ Elton John
Toes In The Sand ~ Zac Brown Band
True ~ Ryan Cabrera
True Colors ~ Phil Collins
Truly Madly Deeply ~ Savage Garden
Unchained Melody ~ Righteous Brothers
Undeniable ~ Mat Kearney
Until the End of Time ~ Justin Timberlake
Utopia Parkway ~ Fountains of Wayne
Walk it Out ~ Unk
Walk This Way ~ Aerosmith
Watching You ~ Rodney Atkins
We Fly High ~ Jim Jones
What Is Love ~ Haddaway
What a Wonderful World ~ Louis Armstrong
What You Give ~ Tesla
When You Believe ~ Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey
When You Look Me in the Eyes ~ Jonas Brothers
Wind Beneath My Wings ~ Bette Midler
With Arms Wide Open ~ Creed
With You ~ Chris Brown
Wonderful Tonight ~ Eric Clapton
Wonderwall ~ Oasis
You and Me ~ Lifehouse
You Shook Me All Night Long ~ ACDC
You Were Meant For Me ~ Jewel
Your Call ~ Secondhand Serenade
Your Guardian Angel ~ Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Your Love ~ The Outfield
Your Wildest Dreams ~ Moody Blues

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A lot of thought can be put into high school dance themes and finding the best high school decorations to match your school dance theme. Whether it’s Top 40, Country, Hip Hop, Techno, Rock, Rap, Alternative or Latin music that keeps your school dancing, finding the right DJ Entertainment is just as important because it can make or break your next high school dance party.

You don’t need a great high school dance team to have great high school dancers…but you do need great school dance DJ entertainment with great school dance ideas to keep your school dance fun.

School dances are great way to build high school spirit and friendships!

Whether you’re planning a dance in school or off school campus, your Disc Jockey entertainment should stay current with edited versions of high school music tastes and trends to keep your high school party amped up…while keeping the administration happy!

Including Dude Walker’s Music On Wheels High School (HS) DJ’s as a part of your high school dance theme could land you in the school paper or yearbook in candid school dance photos when you show off your “mad skills” during a fun high school dance competition, Cupid Shuffle, Cha Cha Slide, Electric Slide, Cotton Eyed Joe, Conga Line, YMCA, Limbo or Chicken Dance.

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Local DJ Tunes Into His Audience, Connects Music to Emotion

Q&A

by Tracy Frank
tfrank@forumcomm.com

Dude Walker’s Music On Wheels has been heard everywhere from school dances to weddings to large-scale events for the past 20 years.

Walker has been a local disc jockey since 1984, which has included working for Fargo – Moorhead radio stations Q98 and Y94.

Though he started his company in 1987 with a couple of employees and a turntable, today Walker has six employees, having recently scaled back from 16.

He has also expanded the business to include a sizeable club-like system. Though he DJs for large events, Walker said weddings are still his passion.

“When you can find that emotional moment, when you can get a dad to cry like a schoolgirl on the dance floor…honestly there’s nothing better,” Walker said. “We go through life being so desensitized that if you can find that connection, it’s worth it.”

What made you decide to go out on your own?
There is such a live aspect to what we do, just interacting with people. You can site in a box and read cue-cards, but you’re missing a live element. Your only connection to the outside world is a phone line.

What is your biggest challenge?
When you’re playing music, you sink or swim and you go through this job review every time you press play. That’s the most pressure of what we do because if you play the wrong song at the wrong time, it will clear the dance floor and everybody knows who cleared the dance floor. You’re always trying to read the crowd. That’s probably the biggest challenge. There’s a gut instinct to music but there’s also a continuing education.

How do you learn to read the crowd?
Psychology and sociology at college are probably the best classes I ever took. There are social dynamics that take place. Today you have such complicated dynamics compared to 20, 30years ago. You have two sets of parents, sometimes three. The father-daughter dance doesn’t take place because then she’s playing favorites between step-dads. That dynamic itself becomes so complex that you’re watching these personal conflicts, family wars play out before you. You’re walking a mine-field. They’re more that willing to blame you if something goes bad. We’ve had people die at a dance; we’ve had people break out knives and go into a fight; we’ve had storkes. There are so many preparations a person could take. One of the things we’re looking at now is CPR training for all of our DJs.

What makes a good DJ?
You have to have a good heart. There’s really nobody on out staff that doesn’t have a good heart. We all want to do a good job for our clientele. It comes down to finding that essence. That’s the hardest thing to put into print is the essence it takes to be a DJ. Everybody knows how to play music. Everybody can go through the motions of being a DJ, but finding that connection – it is about the connection.

How do you train your DJs?
Our training is really, really hard. The reason we scaled back for the last two years is that most people can’t make the training program. We give a test… It’s a music qualification test. We quantify what you know. Then we do music research. I know we’ve got a good DJ when they’re doing research and they actually go over to the computer and start listening to the songs that they’re not familiar with.

How has the equipment changed from when you started to where you are now?
One-hundred percent turntable to 100 percent non-turntable. We ran some cassettes , but it was largely turntables. This was a six-foot-long coffin, that’s what we called it. It was six feet long, teo feet deep and just wide enough to go through a door. You had your mixer and everything loaded in there. You’d carry milk crates full of albums. Now there are CDs. There are MP3 decks. There are computer software systems.

Dude: ‘Chicken Dance’ among crowd-pleasers

Dude Walker

How many songs do you usually play?

It’s amazing becasue we now we can carry instead of 300 of 400 songs, 30,000-40,000 songs. Of course now, with those demands, comes a whole new expectation because now a request is no longer a request, it’s a demand. Trying to help people understand that maybe their song is a good song to listen to, but it might not be a good flow for the dance floor, that sometimes is just political suicide. Video. That’s probably the new realm for people right now. It’s a good and bad thing because it immobilizes a dance floor because they’re just staring. But it’s also intriguing to see the video.

There are really 100 songs that get used on a regular basis, 200 that are on an occasional, like a yearly basis. Post-1998, there’s only [been] 4,000 different songs [played] in all the dance’s we’ve done. We really know what works because if people turn up their nose at it, if they’re not tapping their feet, they’re not getting into it. There are just a lot of songs that don’t make the grade.

Are your surprised by any songs that do make the grade?
Sir Mix-a-lot shouldn’t still be around. “Baby Got Back.” “YMCA.” Nobody ever asks for “YMCA” at a radio station, But it’s at every dance. The “Chicken Dance.” We’ve got a twist to the “Chicken Dance.” I made a heavy metal chicken dance. We ended up putting the back beat of the Nine Inch Nails behind it because there are people who turn up their nose at the chicken dance. I call it “Closer in Da Coop.”

How did you get into DJing?
I was well on my way before I even got to college. I played nine different instruments, came from a small town. I was the guy with a boom-box taken away many time from the principal. I was just into music, I installed stereos. If somebody needed their album converted to a cassette, I’d help them out. I’ve always had this desire. In 1973, when I was 7 or 8, I was well on my way. I was the guy with the music.

Readers can reach Forum Reporter Tracy Frank at (701)241-5526

Cited Source:
Frank, Tracy. “Dude Walker’s Stage Life.”
Fargo Forum 12 November 2007, Business: C1. Print.