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TODAY.com spoke with trainers and other fitness connoisseurs and asked them to share their favorite workout songs. Below is a list of 50 of their top 50 picks, plus a few freebies for fun.
"Chicken Fat" was the theme song for President John F. Kennedy's youth fitness program, and millions of 7-inch 33 RPM discs which were pressed for free by Capitol Records were heard in elementary, junior high school and high school gymnasiums across the United States throughout the 1960s and 1970s. [2]
The song was officially released on June 27, 2011, through Roc Nation and Columbia. Nas voiced his displeasure with the song, which inspired Cole to create the song "Let Nas Down" for his album Born Sinner. It interpolates the chorus from "Straight Up" by Paula Abdul, and samples the ending production of "The New Workout Plan" by Kanye West.
Songs for Beginners is the debut solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Graham Nash.Released in May 1971, it was one of four high-profile albums (all charting within the top fifteen) released by each member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping Déjà Vu album of 1970, along with After the Gold Rush (Neil Young, September 1970), Stephen Stills (Stephen ...
"Baby Workout" is an R&B song by Jackie Wilson from the 1963 album of the same name. The track is about Wilson urging a girl to dance (work out) all night with him. It was Wilson's biggest hit of his singles that charted on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. It was his fifth and penultimate #1 R&B song.
"The New Workout Plan" is a song from Kanye West's debut album, The College Dropout. Released as the album's fifth single on August 31, 2004, it peaked at number 59 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The song was written and produced by West, with additional songwriting from John Legend, Miri Ben-Ari, Sumeke Rainey, and
Workout was the first non-theatrical home video release to top sales charts. [14] Fonda herself prevented the Workout video from racking up better chart statistics, as she was competing against it through the home video release of her film On Golden Pond (1981) which was number 1 for 15 weeks in 1982.
"Health & Fitness", who gave the previous video the maximum of five stars, gives this one a respectable four stars, stating that it is "...An excellent total body workout." Like the previous video, this video has also been released since on DVD in Zone 2 UK only. It peaked #2 in the Billboard Top Special Interest Video Sales. [2]