Suzanne's Soundtrack Sunday: Party Time!

It's time once again for Soundrack Sunday, and boy, this week, I had a lot of ideas for it. Ed found a lovely momento from the past that will be the feature of a future SSS post. There's a new artist that I bought from iTunes, thanks to the song being featured on the DMX at work-so I'll be doing that soon.

Today, though, it just occurred to me that I should feature something that relates to the Blog Party. A party is not a party without the tunes, right?

When I was a kid, I was a radio junkie and loved music(duh). As a teen, thought, I was very lucky. One of my friends had a low wattage radio station that he ran out of his home. I was very excited to be given a show slot and then later, taught how to run the boards and DJ my own show.

It started me down a path. I wanted to be a DJ. I went to college with the goal of getting a degree in Communications. I got on the staff of the college radio station, where I met Donna and Bawb the first day. Eventually, I moved up from doing a couple of newscasts to doing my own show. In three years, I got to do many great things at that station, including the coveted Saturday two hour air shift where I could play whatever I wanted. Nothing beats having people you don't know calling in their requests each week.

Bawb got a job DJing in a bar midway between my house and his. They needed a Saturday night DJ, and I got the job. I got a hundred bucks a week for 6 hours work, doing what I loved! Later, I was offered a DJing job at the bar we hung out at. Alas, it was just before I moved, but hey, seeing people grooving on the dance floor and stay there song after song? The power is intoxicating.

I moved to Maryland and got a paying job at a radio station. The money wasn't as good as club DJing, so I left the field. However, I still like making my mixes as if I were in a club or on the air.

When I managed the meal prep kitchen, I had several mixes on the iPod that I piped into the kitchen and the customers loved it. There was a regular private party that came in every month and they requested my mixes as soon as they came in the door. I was informed that after I left, they were a little bummed that they wouldn't get a personal Suzanne mix anymore (but they were consoled somewhat by having the XM 70's channel to groove to)

So, today, in honor of the blog party, I'm sharing a couple of my playlists.

This is the store mix, 2.7 hours of music (our kitchen sessions were two hours long)
Time and Tide - Basia
Tempted - Squeeze
Only You - Yaz
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
Take Me As I Am - October Project
Two Hundred - Tommy Williams
Head Over Heels - Tears For Fears
Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson
Video Killed the Radio Star - Buggles
I Got You - Split Enz
Wake Up (Next to You) - Graham Parker
What I Like About You - Romantics
It's The End of The World (As We Know It) - R.E.M.
Make A Curcuit With Me - Polecats
The Futures So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
I Wanna Be a Lifeguard - Blotto
Fun in the Sun - Steve Harwell (lead singer for Smashmouth)
Whip It - Devo
What Do All the People Know - Monroes
Little Goodbyes -SheDAISY
That Don't Impress Me Much - Shania Twain
Let Goodbye Hurt - Suzy Boggus
The Dance - Garth Brooks
Life in A Northern Town - Dream Academy
Take Me With You - Rippingtons
Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakiwiwo'ole (eToys commercial)
Longer - Dan Fogelberg
Flesh and Blood - Wilson Phillips
Orinoco Flow - Enya
Falling Farther In - October Project
What A Wonderful World - Joey Ramone
I Feel Lucky - Mary-Chapin Carpenter
Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson
Leader of the Band - Dan Fogelberg
Impressions de France - The Official Album/Where Magic Lives (WDW)

Private Party Songs is one list I did for the ladies who loved to groove while in the kitchen. There's some overlap, but there's nothing wrong with that!

The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
Good Lovin' - The Rascals
What I Like About You - Romantics
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
The Logical Song - Supertramp
California Girls - David Lee Roth
If I Didn't Love You - Squeeze
We Are Family - Sister Sledge
In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
I Feel Lucky - Mary-Chapin Carpenter
I Don't Even Know Your Name - Alan Jackson
Kokomo - Beach Boys
It's The End of the World (As We Know It) - R.E.M.
Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson
Take Everything - Graham Parker
Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
Who Can It Be Now? - Men at Work
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
Take It To the Limit - Eagles
Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac
Walk of Life - Dire Straits
Someday - Marshall Crenshaw
Rock This Town - Stray Cats
Birthday - Beatles
Love Shack - B52's
The Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show
Situation - Yaz
Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode
Take On Me - a-Ha
Sowing the Seeds of Love - Tears for Fears
You Make Lovin Fun - Fleetwood Mac
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
When I'm Sixty Four - Beatles
Last Train to Clarksville - Monkees
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
I Wanna Be a Lifeguard - Blotto
Two Princes - Spin Doctors
One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
Baby One More Time - Bowling For Soup
Honey, I'm Home - Shania Twain
Little Goodbyes - SheDaisy
What Do All The People Know - Monroes
You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - Anne Hathaway
Movin' Out - Billy Joel
Baby, What a Big Surprise - Chicago
Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel


I realize that neither one of these is my ultimate party mix, because I took requests and incorporated them, as well as tailoring this to the personalities of those who would be there. If I have time before the blog party is over, I'll add my ultimate party mix to this list.

Now it's a party!