Ever watched Ready Steady Cook where each Chef are given a pile of obscure ingredients that they have to cook a meal out of?

At the moment I know how the Chefs must feel! Just received the following playlist and also another email asking for a few more Elvis Presley and Joe Loss tracks - and also asks if I can insert the Dam Busters theme in as well. How does Busted fit in with this lot I wonder?


7.30 -8pm Background Music
2 Songs to be played At 8pm when they arrive:
Artist Song
Kool & the Gang Celebrate
Cliff Richard Congratulations

Other types of Music and Songs to be played would be like the ones listed below
Artist Song
Glenn Miller In the Mood / Chattanooga Cho-Cho
Syd Lawrence Don’t sit under the apple tree
Elvis Presley Jailhouse Rock / Blue Suede Shoes / Teddy Bear / Don’t be Cruel / King Creole
Bill Hailley & The Comets Rock Around the Clock / Shake Rattle n Roll / See you later Alligator
Chris Montez Let Dance
Chubby Checker Lets Twist Again
The Beatles Love me do / She Loves you / Can’t buy me love / A hard days night
Boney M Brown girl in the ring / by the rivers of Babylon
ABBA Dancing Queen / Voulez-Vous / Gimme Gimme Gimme / Super Trouper
Tony Christie Is this the way to Amarillo
Cliff Richard Livin Doll / Summer Holiday / Bachelor Boy / Young ones
Beach Boys Surfin USA / Get Around
Bee Gees Staying Alive / Tragedy / Jive Talking etc..
10CC The things we do for love
Queen We are the Champions / Its a kind of magic / Don’t stop me now
Wham Wake me up
Dianna Ross Chain Reaction
Culture Club Do you really want to hurt me / Karma Chameleon
UB40 Red Red Wine
Madonna Holiday / Like a virgin / Hung up
Take That Shine
Spice Girls Tell me what you want
Blondie The tide is high
Wet Wet Wet Love is all around us
Ronan Keating Life is a Roller Coaster
Top Loader Dancing in the Moonlight
The Mavericks Dance the night away
Kylie Mynogue Better the devil you know
Britney Spears Oops I did it again / Baby one more time
Busted Crashed the wedding / Air Hostess
Sugar Babes Push the button / How I feel about you now
S Club Seven Don’t stop moving / Reach
Girls Aloud Love Machine
Los Del Rio Macarena
S Club Juniors One Step Closer
Frank Sinarta New York New York

I can't see any problems there Tony. Something for everyone (other than the most out & out R&B & Dance heads).

I wish more of my gigs were like that.

Look up JJ Allstars for a good ska version of Dambusters

Looks a good playlist to me

Looks good to me. Matter of fact I think it's one of my playlists.

Just needs a little jiggling about to give continuity.

Is it a wedding anniversary?

No, its a surprise 50th birthday party. The daughter organising it was at a disco I done for one of her friends a couple of months ago and when I spoke to her I said if she lets me have details of 10 to 12 must have tracks beforehand so I can make sure I had them on the night. I didn't expect a list for the whole evening, that little lot is over 3 hours worth so with a 8pm start and 11.30 finish, doesn't leave a lot of flexibility for requests etc. To me there are to many tracks by the same artists, not enough variety and I don't like having a preorganised list for the whole night. Might as well set up a playlist on the laptop and sit back while it plays. Might even use an Ipod

Which Joe Loss tracks?

March of the mods
The Conga
The stripper
Hokey Cokey

They have asked for:

I only have eyes for you
Cant help falling in love
singing in the rain

I was thinking of saying I haven't got them and would the stripper do. (Un)fortunately I have plenty of that sort of stuff from when I used to do parties for my parents Derby & Jones clubs.

The additional Elvis tracks are Return to Sender and A Little Less Conversation.

Tonight was the function for the above play list and I hardly played any of it. Average age was about 65 and for most of the night played ballroom music. Put on an Abba track - Super Trouper and was asked to turn it down and go back to the ballroom stuff. Plenty up shuffling around the floor. Managed to get them doing a bit of 60's rock and roll but it all looked a bit slow motion and didn't want to do too much in case one of them put a joint out.

Most popular track of the night was Lady in Red. A couple mentioned how they loved it when they came over and thanked me for the "lovely music" at the end of the night. It really wasn't a disco and my roadie sat on the floor bored brainless playing games on his phone for most of the night.

Look at this way

Another Satisfied Customer!

Well I hope you played Ballroom Blitz then!

Mmmmmmm...... thinking about it maybe not, you might have had to call for an ambulance or two!