Cocktail Party Music Mix
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Julie and I hosted a little get together recently, and for background music, I tuned the iPod up to play my hand selected cocktail party mix that I made back in the spring. Now I know everyone has their own individual tastes, but I did get multiple unsolicited compliments on this mix at our last soiree, so I thought I’d post the track listing here.
The short back-story on the mix is that my searches for “cocktail party music” never quite yielded what I was looking for. I knew I wanted a good mix of classic cool music (aka, either genuinely classic as in old or just classic in sound), that would be good background sound, but not go unnoticed completely. This mix seems to have hit that spot that I was going for.
So if you are looking for some good cocktail party music, here is my recommended play list, not in any particular order…merely descending alphabetically by track name.
| Track | Artist |
| 100 Days, 100 Nights | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| All I Do Is Dream of You | Dean Martin |
| Answer Me | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| At Long Last Love | Frank Sinatra |
| Back to Black | Amy Winehouse |
| Be Easy | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| Beyond the Sea | Bobby Darin |
| Come to Me | Koop featuring Yukimi Nagano |
| Fever | Peggy Lee |
| From This Moment On | Frank Sinatra |
| Good Golly Miss Molly | Little Richard |
| Humble Me | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good | Frank Sinatra |
| I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’ | Frank Sinatra |
| I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plans | Frank Sinatra |
| I Wish I Were In Love Again | Frank Sinatra |
| I Won’t Dance | Frank Sinatra |
| If I Had You | Frank Sinatra |
| I’ve Been Thinking | Handsome Boy Modeling School |
| Jump, Jive An’ Wail | Louis Prima |
| Keep On Looking | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| Koop Island Blues | Koop |
| Let Them Knock | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| Liar, Liar | Castaways |
| Lonesome Road | Frank Sinatra |
| Mack the Knife | Bobby Darin |
| Nice Work If You Can Get It | Frank Sinatra |
| Night and Day | Frank Sinatra |
| No One Ever Tells You | Frank Sinatra |
| Nobody’s Baby | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| Oh! Look At Me Now | Frank Sinatra |
| Some Unholy War | Amy Winehouse |
| Something’s Changed | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| Son Of A Preacher Man | Dusty Springfield |
| Spooky | Dusty Springfield |
| Stars Fell On Alabama | Frank Sinatra |
| Steppin Out With My Baby (1) | Tony Bennett |
| Tell Me | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| The Boss | James Brown |
| The Lady Is a Tramp | Frank Sinatra |
| The Truth | Handsome Boy Modeling School |
| Volare (Nel Blu, Di Pinto Di Blu) | Dean Martin |
| Voulez Vous | Touch And Go |
| What’d I Say, Pt. 1 | Ray Charles |
| You Know I’m No Good | Amy Winehouse |
| You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To | Frank Sinatra |
I have another popular mix of non-shitty Christmas music that I will post soon as well for those that may be interested.
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Plugged in all of these songs to pandora. Makes for a nice station. Great selection! Thanks.
Here’s the link to the station:
http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh57272547103812290
Enjoy!
Awesome, good thinking. Nice!
Please post the “non-shitty Christmas music playlist! That’s what I’m looking for as I stumble onto your web site. Actually, it’s not difficult to compile a non-shitty Christmas music playlist, but my difficulty at this point is filling in the Christmas music with non-Christmas music suitable for a Christmas party. Not everyone wants to hear 3 hours of even non-shitty Christmas music. I want an eclectic mix that will appeal to various personalities, segues well with the non-shitty Christmas music, and neither says “LET’S PARTY, DUDE!” nor “I love Frank Sinatra.”