Help me make a party tape (Thats what old people called songlists)

[patcox2]

We used to have these things called casettes. We'd drive around in our model Ts and listen to tapes, and making the tape used to take three times as long as listening to it, so you would be sick to death of the songs by the time you got the tape made.

But anyway, I am trying to think up a list of the worlds greatest summer beach party rock and roll pop power-pop songs ever. And I cannot think, because once you hit 40 your brain gets full and cannot take in new information unless it jettisons the old to make some space, and the first thing to go is music; you still love music, you still know the songs you like, but you are completely incapable of remembering the names of songs or groups or individual group members anymore (except the ones you learned before the age of 17). Its eery, its really strange, every song is now "that song, you know the one, it goes da da dadada dee dee."

So, I would welcome suggestions. I will remember the songs after I see them.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. "Buttercup"!!!!

Nothing better than riding around town in the summer with my daughter with the windows rolled down yelling along at the top of our lungs. :hi:


"Why do you build me up, Buttercup baby, just to let me down...and mess me around...."

[patcox2]

2. Yes, the "Something About Mary" ending was fun too.

And I already have a lot of Jonathan Richman.

Noone else?

Please, you've got an old fart with a failing memory here who needs a little help.

[arwalden]

3. Car Wash

[Chemical Bill]

4. "Go All the Way" by the Raspberries n/t

[patcox2]

6. Thats exactly the kind of song I am looking for! More like that!

More more more, I want to hear from those who know the obscuyre gems out there.

[Chemical Bill]

10. I have a mix that follows the Raspberries...

with "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" from the first Blood, Sweat, and Tears album.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Just put on J. Geils 'Full House'

and let 'er roll. :thumbsup:

[taterguy]

7. my last party mix

Lots of these tracks are from the Vee Jay Records Story, a gold mine of party music

1) Louie Louie performed by the Kingsmen
2) Baby Let Me Bang Your Box performed by Doug Clark & the Hot Nuts.
3) Slumber the Slumb performed by the Five Royalles
4) Shombalor performed by Sheriff and The Ravels.
5) I Can't Hear You No More performed by Betty Everett
6) Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On performed by Little Richard
7) It Ain't What You Do
8) Oo Wee Baby, I Love You performed by Fred Hughes
9) Dimples performed by John Lee Hooker
10) Rockinitis performed by Billy Boy Arnold
11) Stormy Weather performed by the Spaniels
12) The Twist performed by Hank Ballard & the Midnighters
13) Here I Stand performed by Wade Flemons
14) A Rockin' Good Way performed by Priscilla Bowman
15) K.C. Loving performed by Jimmy Witherspoon
16) Boogie Chillen performed by John Lee Hooker
17) Hey Little Girl performed by Dee Clark
18) Baby, What You Want Me to Do performed by Jimmy Reed
19) Just a Little Bit performed by Rosco Gordon
20) Turn On Your Love Light performed by Bobby Bland
21) I Want You to Want Me performed by Cheap Trick
22) Party at Ground Zero performed by Fishbone
23) That’s the Way I Like It performed by KC and the Sunshine Band
24) Get Down Tonight performed by KC and the Sunshine Band
25) Boogie Man performed by KC and the Sunshine Band
26) Shake Your Bootie performed by KC and the Sunshine Band
27) We Want the Funk performed by Parliament

[patcox2]

8. There are some great ones there I would never have thought of.

Thank you. We want the funk, oh yeah.

[Kat45]

9. The Romantics "What I Like About You" and how about

"My Sharona" (The Knack)

[ok_cpu]

11. How about some Van Morrison

Maybe "Glad Tidings"?