Best Slosh record

Forget the Madison or the Palais Jive, no Scottish wedding or night out is complete without a Slosh and here are five records that any Slosher worth their salt should be racing to the dance floor for. Just don't call it line dancing!

DANIEL BOONE – BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY

His only US hit and one of two UK hits, this only hit paydirt for Birmingham-born Daniel Boone in 1976 when a Japanese news programme featured the song. The resulting tie-in led to sales of almost two million, which, up to 2006, made it the biggest selling single by an international (non-Japanese) artist on the Japanese music charts. It enjoyed a 15-week stay at the No 1 spot.

DAWN – KNOCK THREE TIMES

Dawn's second-biggest hit started life as an Italian song, which was rewritten with English lyrics. This homage to tenement love was No 1 on both sides of the Atlantic.

ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK – TEN GUITARS

Indian-born Arnold George Dorsey changed his name to something less ridiculous and crooned his way into the nation's hearts in the mid-to-late 60s. Written by his manager Gordon Mills (who also looked after Tom Jones), Ten Guitars was the B-side of Engelbert's debut hit Release Me and became an unofficial anthem for Maoris.

TONY CHRISTIE – (IS THIS THE WAY TO) AMARILLO

Before his recent renaissance and the playing of it to death, (Is This the Way To) Amarillo was one of the finest Slosh records going, if not THE Slosh record. But no matter because you can Slosh to any number of Tony Christie's 1970s soup-in-a-basket tunes; try I Did What I Did For Maria, Las Vegas, Reno or the soaring Avenues and Alleyways, the theme to The Persuaders, for a wee change.

THE ARCHIES – SUGAR SUGAR

No phrase exemplifies Sugar Sugar better than "Bubblegum Pop" – it does exactly what it says on the sweetie wrapper. Written by Andy Kim and Jeff Barry, the fictional garage band The Archies had the biggest one-hit wonder in British pop history in 1969.

• Paul Johnston is co-founder of the Scottish music website www.jocknroll.co.uk