Sweet 16 party music list including candle lighting ceremony

Posted by Jim on September 3, 2007

Dinner 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

• Kenny Chesney - Don’t Blink
• Bucky Covington - A Different World
• Trace Adkins - Songs About Me - When you play this, introduce this as "Anna, this song is for you"
• Richard Marx - Angel’s Lullaby
• Bob Carlisle - Butterfly Kisses
• Eric Clapton - My Father’s Eyes - if you know what the song is about from the artist its not good at all, but I use the phrase remember your father’s eyes and its fine to play
• Dido - Thank You
• Martina McBride - This One’s For The Girls
• Toby Keith - Love Me if You Can
• Eddie Brickell - Good Times

Stuff to fill in the time or mix things up

• Dinner Music
• Frank Sinatra
• Sade
• Instrumental - Spanish guitar stuff

Candle lighting ceremony - we need you to do an introduction during this part

1 – Anna – mother of birthday girl – James Taylor – How Sweet it Is

2 – Jim – father of birthday girl – Dr. Hook – Cover of the Rolling Stone

3 and 4 – Eilis and Granuaile – sisters of the birthday girl – Sister Sledge – We Are Family

5 and 6 – Anna and Robert Holak – grandparents of the birthday girl – Any popular Polka

7 and 8 – Russell and Dorothy Andersen – Grandparents of the birthday girl – Kenny Rogers – Through the Years

9 – Ann Bilbrough – Grandmother of the birthday girl – Andrea Bocelli – Por Ti Volare

10 – Paul Bilbrough – Godfather of the birthday girl – Theme from the Godfather

11 – Sister Pauline Bilbrough – Great Aunt of the Birthday girl – Theme from the Flying Nun

12 – Mirabella Mitchell – Friend of the birthday Girl – the Soccer Anthem (ole, ole, ole, ole – whatever the name of that song is)

13 and 14 – Megan Holak and Brett Layton – Aunt and Uncle to the Birthday Girl – Jimmy Buffett – Five O’Clock Somewhere

15 – John Bilbrough – Grandfather of the birthday Girl (deceased) – candle lit in his honor by Daniel Orbanus, Uncle of the Birthday Girl – Cozy Morley – On the Way to Cape May

16 – Bean Bilbrough – Aunt of the Birthday Girl (Deceased) – candle lit in her honor by Lee Bilbrough, Great Aunt of the Birthday Girl – Pink – Who Knew

Party 7:30 PM - 12:00 midnight

Brighid’s introduction to the group

We need you to make an announcement and have Brighid introduced to Kiss Me I’m Irish – Gaelic Storm from the Bring Yer Wellies CD

Dance with PopPop Holak
The Judds - Grandpa (Tell Me ‘Bout The Good Old Days)

Dance with PopPop Andersen
Garth Brooks – It’s Your Song

Dance with her father
Brighid and Anna don’t know the song I picked, so if asked, don’t say anything, it is a surprise Sade - By Your Side

Music during the party - this is an idea list - play exact pieces when you can, add similar stuff as needed

No hip-hop or rap, even if requested
Only play country songs listed exactly when you do - don’t add any country & western

Heartland - I Loved Her First - don’t play this - it’s a wedding song
Luther Van Dross-Dance With My Father Again - don’t play this - it’s about a father who died

Last song of the evening
When the night ends, call last song for the guests, play whatever you think is appropriate and then stop for a minute to let people move out.
Then the absolute last song to play before you shut down is Josh Turner Your Man
I will dance this with Anna, so want to make sure it is the end as people are leaving.

These exact songs need to be played during the night

• Gwen Stefanie - Sweet Escape
• Brad Paisley-Online
• Smooth Operator - Sade
• Good Charlotte - Keep Your Hands Off My Girl
• pink - you and your hand
• Berlin - You Take My Breath Away - it is our wedding song, and can be played during any slow song period if you have one, that’s up to you, your the DJ
• Party dance songs, like the Macarene, Electric Slide

From here down is Brighid’s list of music for the party, play exact pieces when you can or stuff like it - let me know if you need more ideas to be added to this list, but it looks pretty long

Motion City Soundtrack

Darude (Sandstorm)

David Guetta (The World is Mine)

Milky (Just the Way You Are)

Green Day (Good Riddance)

New Found Glory

Say Anything

Gwen Stefani

Justin Timberlake

Flatfoot 56

The Pogues

American Hi-Fi

Alkaline Trio

All-American Rejects (Swing,Swing/Dirty Little Secret)

Peter Luts (What a Feeling)

Fall Out Boy (We’re Going Down/Dance,Dance)

Bowling for Soup (Almost/1985/High School Never Ends)

Shane MacGowan

U2 (Elevation/Vertigo)

Snow Patrol (Chasing Cars)

Sum 41 (Motivation/In Too Deep/Underclass Hero)

Louie DeVito NYC Underground Party mixes

Shite’n'Onions: Volume One

Neck (McAlpine’s Fusileers/Every Day’s St. Patrick’s Day/Everybody’s Welcome to the Hooley/Star of the County Down)

The Mahones (Queen and Tequila/Drunken Lazy Bastard)

The Tossers (Good Mornin’ Da’/Siobhan)

Flogging Molly (Salty Dog/Devil’s Dance Floor/Drunken Lullabies/Seven Deadly Sins)

Eiffel 65 (Move Your Body/Blue)

Avril Lavigne (Girlfriend)

DERB (DERB)

Paul Oakenfold (Ready, Steady, Go)

The Killers (Somebody Told Me/Mr. Brightside/When You Were Young)

Jimmy Eat World (In the Middle)

Blink 182 (All the Small Things/Man Overboard/Feeling This)

Rage Against the Machine (Sleep Now in the Fire

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