I need 1960s dinner party music

"Do you know the way to San Jose?"

The Singing Nun

Anything and everything by Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66

Ditto Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass

Françoise Hardy!

Johnny rivers. Summer rain and baby I need your living. Zombies time of the season.

Esquivel

Moody Blues!

Peace of Mind, Blue Cheer

Are you serving fondue?

Or maybe this is more to your taste, op, you sleek cat, you!

If you want to keep people bopping while you show them your art and pour cocktails!

Speaking of cats:

Donovan! Goo goo, baby...

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. And get out the oversized drink shakers, Mrs Robinson

Dinner party? How about Claudine Longet? Or some ye-ye girls like France Gall, Arlette Zola, Marie Philippe?

More herb

Bonnie and Clyde.

R5 and 11 are pop music, not dinner party/lounge music.

old man willow

This the godfather of mid-60s lounge records. Brasil 66 is also an excellent choice.

[quote] Brasil 66 is also an excellent choice.

They're awful.

Sixto Rodriguez "I'll Slip Away"

Shirley Bassey would like to sing to your guests this evening.

'The Girl From Ipanema'. I learned to play it on our Magnus chord organ.

Parfait avec la cuisine française!

What's new Pussycat?

Torrent or borrow from the library some Ultra-Lounge compilation CDs. They're great for 1960s dinner parties.

A little Motown. Think The Big Chill.

R24. Bravo!!!!!

Martin Denny, Les Baxter...

R24, I was just going to post the same suggestion. Here’s an alternate version

"White Bird" from 1969!

Downtown. In Italian. It's amazing.

!Eydie!

Dusty. At her finest. My god.

Sit back ... relax ... have a cocktail ...

For your listening pleasure, Miss Julie London’s rendition of Fly Me to The Moon

Andy Williams

Peggy Lee

The Association

A one-a anna two-a!

The Association?! You know their bass player OD'd on smack.

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Theme from A Summer Place

Mr. John Coltrane

The In Crowd

Francis Lai. Un Homme et Une Femme

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Take Five

Dusty Springfield - pick midtempo songs like I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face or Don't Let Me Lose This Dream

Jackie and Roy

Marcos Valle

Peggy Lee from late 60s would have a fun, kicky vibe

Up up and Away by the 5th Dimension

Cast Your Fate To The Wind

Here's some nice instrumental background music. It's Klaus Wunderlich (organist) playing medleys of 60s songs.

R51. Excellent !!!!

Paul Mauriat. “Love is Blue”

Milt Buckner - The Beast

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Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave

Spunky and Our Gang. “I’d Like to Get to Know You”

R17 Belinda Carlisle does a cool version of that tune.

Look Around

The Johnny Mann Singers. “People”

It's 50s, not 60s, but this was a hit record.

Mantovani

Ray Conniff

Percy Faith

+1 for Andy Williams

If we're doing the lounge thing:

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue; Sketches of Spain; Miles Ahead

Bill Evans Sunday at the Village Vanguard

When it's time to let them know it's over and it's time to go home:

Peggy Lee and Henry Mancini are 60s royalty. And the song is gorgeous.

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Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Elvis, Beach Boys

Fun Fun Fun

For the broads

Happy Together - The Turtles

Or you can stream KABL, DL's de facto radio station, preferably through a tube amp/stereo . . .

" . . . I Love the Flower Girl . . . I knew I had to say, 'Hello,' . . . Hello . . . Hello . . . "

Omnipresent

Peggy Lee. Brazilian music. Do include Peggy Lee's own latin albums.

This is why I love DL.

Buy this before you have another '60s dinner party. Just keep it on "repeat, all."

When I moved to New York in the early 1970s, Dietrich in Rio, with conductor/accompanist Burt Bachrach was still popular.

One of my fave songs of all time, the late great Antonio Carlos Jobim & Elis Regina - Águas De Março (Waters Of March).

Elis died quite young of a drug overdose. I think she was only 16 or 17 when she recorded this with Jobim!

Tom and Elis performing the song.

I had the honor of seeing Tom Jobim perform at one of Sting's Rainforest Benefit, it was a few years before he passed away. What a great show of mostly Brazilian music. Hearing this live was amazing, an actual religious experience!

Classic jazz piece

For the boyfriends in your dinner group..

That's from the 70s, R82.

Also from the 70s ... the whole album is good.

r83 meet r49

r87 meet r88

No Chris Montez yet?

One of his best >

DL fave Jackie Trent.

Windy

[quote]I need 1960s dinner party music

WIl there be gays there? If so, play THIS.

The Meters - Cissy Strut

In 1968, The Musical Heritage Society, a minor classical label, released a French recording of the forgotten Canon of Pachebel. It was background music for every dinner party and, stoned on pot, we all asked "What is that?"

Never knew there were words - must have been added later.

Windmills.

I had an album with Pachelbel's Canon and Albinoni's Adagio, r95, both conducted by Karajan. That was "dinner music."

Thanks, r98.

This is the version released by The Musical Heritage Society in 1968. It is no longer considered "authentic" or "correct" but it is the version that put the then forgotten music on the map and you heard it everywhere. Good pot helped.

Sergio Mendes...

Lujon - Henry Mancini

Soul Coaxing - Raymond Lefevre

Judy Ongg!

Peggy Lee, Fever. Any Shirley Bassey.

Love Song from Mutiny on the Bounty

101 Strings

Always a classic

The Brass Ring

R81 She was 36 years old when she died of an interaction of cocaine, temazepam and alcohol. It was ruled an accident.

And she was 27 years old when she records Waters of March

Any Mamas & Papas LP

Backing it up just a bit - theme from Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" by Ferrante and Teicher. Just makes it into the 60s . . .

*recorded

What are you trying to accomplish with this "dinner music" OP? Is it some type of atmosphere or just background. I would imagine if it is just background you wouldn't want singing.

Most of us have suggested music without words, r114.

OP, R19 had it, mic drop right there.

No pop music while serving.

But something French during Manhattans before dinner, maybe.

Might be a tossup R115.

Oops, meant r20

Never heard of r19's entry. Looks psychedelic, not appetizing at all.

R116

Dione Warwick Live In Paris

Sorry to have left pot her other "n"! Hidden Gems could be a rather nice addition too.

If only we knew what the hell you were talking about R120.

What are you serving, op? What's the ambiance?

More advertising music.

R121... Dionne Warwick Hidden Gems.... keypad issues, should have read left out other "n".

Picture show, second balcony , was the place we meet, second seat, go dutch treat, you were sweet

I recall, Central Park in Fall, how you tore you dress, what a mess, I confess, that's not all.

Danke Schoen

More 50s, I guess, but Jackie Gleason records are always good with cocktails.

Played often in the 60s, though actual vintage is 1958...

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I always liked this one by Sergio Mendes!

Nancy Sinatra. “Call Me”

Moon River .....wider than a mile....

I worked in a German restaurant where the dinner music was waltzes. I liked it. Never knew how many waltzes there are

Theme from Love Story

The soundtrack to Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet!"

Love Is Blue

My sister and I made up lyrics for it

Luh -Uv is Blue-ooh-ooh

Luh uh uh uv is Blue ooh ooh ohh

Luh uv is blue ooh ooh

Luv is blue blur blue blue blue blue

Classical music a go-go

Short and sweet, and SO 60s!

All that's missing is the Isadora Duncan moment.

Don’t forget this continental classic! My mother played this album so many times during 1967 that she wore It out.

The tunes are still indelibly engraved in my mind and SCREAM 1960s.

R139 here again. The main track from the eponymous album.

Bonjour, R139/R140, from R76....

Hey R76 - Sorry for the repeat; let’s just say great minds think alike! Seriously, I’m surprised I didn’t become bilingual in “cocktail French” at the age of 5 from having to listen to that album about 50 million times . . .

R99 , Buck would have never played the wrong version!

A little past your time period but play it as you serve a sassy dessert!

Walk right in, sit right down. Daddy let your mind roll on

Maybe an Appalachian dinner party, R145...

For the intermezzo course, Ebb Tide

For the after dinner mints, Savoy Truffle

Another vote for the Ultra Lounge series. They're all on Spotify and there are playlists that include all of them. Just hit shuffle.

Also, this YouTube channel has a bunch of Italian jazz-pop tunes from the sixties.

Chris Montez bossa nova pop from the 60s also on A&M - The More I see You & Time after Time

Baroque Beatles highbrow yet trashy

Chris Montez really is a terrible singer R150. There is absolutely no feeling when he sings.

Yes, r90!! Jackie Trent! This is shaping up to be a rather maudlin dinner party. Here's more:

Nancy Holloway "Hurts So Bad"

"Strange Brew," Cream. Another vote for Dionne Warwick / Burt Bacharach and "Girl from Ipanema."

Mr. Lucky - Henry Mancini

From 1959, but great space age pop/lounge music.

Charles Aznavour

Michel Legrand

Days of Wine and Roses - Henry Mancini

Is the dinner party a wake?

Be a little subversive. This came out in 2016 but captures 60s easy listening perfectly.

For straggling invitees...

[quote]That's from the 70s,

Who gives a shit, that Jobim song is iconic, great for ANY era.

Some of your queens are so damn anal, annoying and bitchy!

The Swingle Singers.

Never my love the association. As tears go by Marianne Faithful. Classical Gas. You keep me Hanging on Vanilla Fudge. My World is Empty Without You the Supremes. Dear Mr Fantasy. Paint it Black, French pop version (can't remember the artist ).

STFU, r161. Anyone who wants to have a 1960s dinner party is who cares. You can't play music that hasn't been made yet, whereas you can play '60s music at a '70s party.

Not anal. Not bitchy. Just right. (I'll grant you annoying.)

Has the OP already had his dinner party?

Spooky vibe with Dusty

Lee Hazlewood

"Les Parapluies de Cherboug" soundtrack!

If your dinner party includes 1960’s chemicals, this classic

To Sir With Love would be a great song to wind down the party.

Spotify ..

r168, I tried to watch Les Parapluies de Cherbourg. It's a musical. Or songspiel.

I had forgotten about the Sandpipers R92. Most of their music I don't like, but Come Saturday Morning and Let Go are two that I do. For some reason I associated Let Go with Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66. Let Go at link.

Love is blue

How about some Joao / Astrid Gilberto?

And Serge Gainsbourg

[quote]How about some Joao / Astrid Gilberto?

I also mentioned Jobim, then was blasted because his most famous song was out in the 1970s. I guess being 'futuristic' wouldn't work at some lame 1960s themed party.