Here's a good early 80s playlist of songs with female vocals
Encore - Cheryl Lynn
All Night Long - Mary Jane Girls
Somebody Else's Guy - Jocelyn Brown
Heartbeat - Taana Gardner
Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club
Ain't Nobody - Chaka Khan
Jump To It - Aretha Franklin
Are You Single - Aurra
Love Come Down - Evelyn Champagne King
Juicy Fruit - Mtume
Muscles - Diana Ross
Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen
Feels So Real - Patrice Rushen
If Only You Knew - Patti Labelle
Save The Overtime - Gladys Knight & The Pips
The Jones Girls - Who Can I Run To (1979)
I Want To Thank You - Alicia Myers
^^^^ You can keep a Grown & Sexy crowd on the dance floor all night if you play those songs.
The secret to Djing is to play for the ladies. If the ladies are having a good time the guys will stay, but if you're playing Canibus, Gang Starr and Big L for the fellas the girls will leave because that's not what girls want to hear at a party. And as soon as the girls leave, the guys will leave because there's no girls there.
It took me a while to figure that out.
You can play 1 or two songs for fellas but 90% of what you play has to be for the ladies or they will literally walk out.
Guys won't walk out of a club if you play for the ladies....because the ladies are having a good time on the dance floor.