Need help with playlist for New Year's Eve party

Hi guys! The resort I work in is planning its New Year's Eve party, and our theme is rock n' roll. I was put in charge of the playlist that includes rock n' roll songs throughout the decades and I've managed to go through all the Billboard Top 100 charts from 1956 to 2002, and I have a tentative playlist in the iPod.

THe problem is there are a LOT of songs that I have yet to include, and I'm already feeling overwhelmed! Add to this the fact that I couldn't find a lot of classic rock songs that I expected to find like those of Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin anywhere on the iPod (which is not mine, btw, so I can't just hook it up to my laptop where without erasing all the data).

Please help me. If it were your New Year's Eve party, what songs would you want included?

 

Here are some fun tunes for you from the early days (which were the most fun IMO)

Bobby Freeman- Do You Wanna Dance
The Gentry's- I Keep On Dancin'
Isley Bros- Shout (pts 1 and 2)
the Trashmen- Surfin' Bird
Gene Vincent- Be Bop a Lula
Shangri Las- Give Him a Great Big Kiss
Chuck Berry- Back in the USA
Little Richard- Tutti Fruity
Elvis- pick 'em
Kingsmen- Louie Louie
Franky Lyman and the Teenagers- Why Do Fools Fall in Love
Beach Boys- Barbara Ann
Beatles- Twist and Shout
Richie Valens- La Bamba
Buddy Holly- Peggy Sue
Gene Pitney- Hello Mary Lou
Bill Haley and the Comets- Rock Around the Clock
Gary US Bonds- 7 Day Weekend
Carl Perkins- Blue Suede Shoes
Your Pick of artist- Do You Love Me
Dave Clark 5- Any Way You Want It
Music Explosion- Little Bit of Soul
Tommy James and the Shondells- Crimson and Clover
Ventures- Walk Don't Run
Eddie Cochran- Summertime Blues
Mickey and Sylvia- Love Is Strange
Brenda Lee- The Stroll (not my fave but no RnR party is complete without it!)
Ike and Tina Turner- Proud Mary
James Brown- I'll Go Crazy

Never seen people have a bad time at a rock-n-roll party! Wish I could be there too!

 

Thanks man. I have already compiled a looooooong list, over five hours worth of nonstop music. I got Be Bop a Lula and Tutti Fruity (the Pat Boone version, not Little Richard), plus at least two Elvis songs. I've never heard of Brenda Lee's The Stroll, but I'll see if I can download it from Limewire. I can't believe I missed Rock Around the Clock and La Bamba!

 

Whooooaaaaa there!!!! You simply CANNOT use the Pat Boone version over Little Richard!!!!!!! NO WAY!!!!!!

'Been a long time since I did the Stroll'- Led Zeppelin The Stroll will get the girls together with the boys- gotta get that one!

 

All right all right! Calm down...it's still more than a week to New Year's Eve. *chuckles* I like your passion though. Reminds me of me.

Anyway, thanks for the info. I'll make the necessary changes ASAP.

 

Hahaha Yeah, I thought it was kinda funny that you had Pat Boone on there! BTW it could be that the Diamonds version of 'The Stroll' is the better than Brenda Lee, not sure.

I just know that song is where everybody lines up in two lines and then couples dance through one couple at a time. I think that is right. Anyway, there are always slow songs to slow dance to if you don't like 'the Stroll'.

I hope you have a fantastic night!

 

Anything from Daft Punk's first album, especially:
-One More time
-Aerodynamic
-Digital Love
-Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

 

Are you looking more for rock 'n roll or classic rock?

 

Both.

 

:& Well, in my defense it wasn't MY iPod. The guy who owns it just downloaded every Billboard Top 100 song from 1956 to 2002 and uploaded it there.

I tried looking for it via Limewire but I couldn't find it. Anyway, I'll try again later.

Thanks. And you too! Whatever it is you're planning for New Year, I hope you have a great time.

 

I guess you have some of them already in your list, but I'd recommend these ones for a rock 'n roll new years party!

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Frenzy
Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis - Good Golly Miss Molly
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love
Vince Taylor - Brand New Cadillac
Johnny Burnette Trio - Midnight Train
Yardbirds - For your love
Beatles - Twist and shout
Chuck Berry - You never can tell
Elvis - Hound dog
Bo Diddley & Chuck Berry - Fireball
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom
Roy Orbison - Ooby Dooby
Yardbirds - Train Kept A Rollin'
Junior Brown - Highway patrol
Saints, the - Wipe out
Johnny Cash - Get rhythm and Cocaine blues
Eddie & the Showmen - Toes to the nose
the Champs - Tequila
Charlie Feathers - One hand loose and also Tear it up
Bo Diddley - Bo’s bounce
Bo Diddley - Bo’s twist
Steppenwolf - Hodge, podge strained through a leslie
Creedence Clearwater Revival - The working man
Bo Diddley - Rollercoaster
Cream - Rollin’ and tumblin
John Kay & the Sparrow - Twisted
Bo Diddley - Down home special
Foghat - Slowride
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Gypsy eyes
Junior Wells - Hey lawdy mama
Bo Diddley - Go for broke
Mungo Jerry - Going down slow

 

Hey Musikero, was just givin' ya a hard time about Pat Boone! I just hear the words 'Pat Boone' and it cracks me up! hehe

And I hope you include some of Asmodean's tunes as well. What a fantastic list!

I know you'll have a fantastic new year and you can bet that I'll do the same! Cheers