Anastacia and Brendan will be dancing the Quickstep to 'My Kind of Town' by Frank Sinatra
Claudia and AJ will be dancing the Samba to 'Young Hearts Run Free' by Candi Staton
Daisy and Aljaz will be dancing the Charleston to 'Happy Feet' by Manhattan Rhythm Kings
Danny and Oti will be dancing the Rumba to the Sam Smith version of 'How Will I Know'
Ed and Katya will be dancing the American Smooth to '(Is This The Way To) Amarillo' by Tony Christie
Greg and Natalie will be dancing the Cha Cha to 'We Found Love' by Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris
Judge Rinder and Oksana will be dancing the Jive to 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy' by The Andrews Sisters
Laura and Giovanni will be dancing the Jive to 'Reet Petite' by Jackie Wilson
Lesley and Anton will be dancing the Tango to the Gotan Project version of 'Whatever Lola Wants'
Louise and Kevin will be dancing the Rumba to the Michael Buble version of 'Always on My Mind'
Ore and Joanne will be dancing the Waltz to the Claudia Streza version of 'I Will Always Love You'

Can't wait to see Ore dancing to the Waltz.

Can't find the official list on the website. How can I get it?

Am grumpy. Had Reet Petite on my bingo card for Claudia to dance too. Wasted on Laura, wasted

strictly as bad at picking rumbas as they are tangos - no rumba in either of those tracks awful


please note producers any old slow piece of music does NOT = Rumba

bendymixer, can I ask what makes a good piece of rumba music? On Strictly it seems slow mushy love song usually suffices.

I'm well chuffed Laura's got it

Didn't someone dance a tango to We Found Love a few years ago?

How is it wasted on Laura??. I can't remember who danced a jive for 'Reet Petite'?.
I must google.

Found it. DVO and James in 2012, scored 35. Will be interesting,

I love Ore's and Louise's songs too. Funny they always get good songs.

Couple of duffers (I too have given up on their rumba choices) but an improvement on last week at least.

Only from the point of view that Claudia is actually Reet Petite and Laura isn't . I expected more of the literal record picking elves

Gorka may be dancing with Anastacia if Brendan isn't better. Yay! I love Gorka. His voice is literally perfection. Hope he's dancing

Two Latins in a row for Greg... hopefully we can come together to save him from the DO.

That means I could never dance to 'Pretty woman'.

What's gone wrong?

There's a lot of "danceable" tunes in there.

I wish someone would dance a jive to 'Uptown girl' Westlife version.
Love that song.

I can't see Greg ever being in the DO. May be in the semifinal.

Even when Ed gets a serious slow-ish dance, he gets a 'comedy' number... no doubt his routine will involve lots of marching on the spot. Sigh.

True!

I love Aj and Claudia song. ..still remember strictly 2013 blackpool opening dance to that song. They better do it justice.

I kind of want to add at the end of that list
Naga.... will be dancing...on the table down her local pub, gin in one hand, fag in the other

Some interesting choices this week, my thoughts in bold.

So they're not even using the 'spare' pros when they need a spare pro.

I have posted vids of traditional rumba music and one of a modern song mixed for rumba you will hear the difference from what we see some weeks on the show

traditional
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9FB...Cow8R&index=15

modern music remixed for rumba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWuBgY-3JuI

Anastacia, Claudia, Daisy, Greg, Judge Rinder, Laura, Lesley and Ore all have great songs!

The two rumbas are awful choices though and ridiculous choice for Ed's American Smooth. He should at least be given the chance to do a really classy AS!