What’s your first “break it out at a party” song

[2manband]

Something fun and upbeat that you can still play on an acoustic guitar. I led with Crocodile Rock tonight and it was just about perfect for the job at hand

 

[Chad]

I never break it out at a party. I don’t even tell people I play.

 

[jbj]

I can do a decent version of Petty's Learning To Fly whilst absolutely shit faced. That's probably one of my main go tos.

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball…

 

[Chicken Man]

I don't have a steady. Right now it would probably be "You've Lost That Loving Feeling", since it falls nicely in my vocal range and people can sing along to it.

 

[DdBob]

I usually play this one

 

[2manband]

Crazy little thing called love is also a great one.

 

[tiger roach]

Sally Where’d You Get the Liquor From

 

[Gary Blanchard]

Good Lovin'.

 

[GusChiggins]

 

[nuke_diver]

I never break it out at a party. I don’t even tell people I play.

This, it would likely end the party if I did

 

[Flamencology]

 

[Tralfaz]

I gave my love a cherry that had no stone...

 

[yabba]

I never break it out at a party. I don’t even tell people I play.

I'm struggling to remember if I've ever been at a party where someone broke it out

 

[DdBob]

That's a real banger! I remember when you had that pool party a few years back and strummed that...good times! It was right after I played this one....do you remember?

 

[Flamencology]

That's a real banger! I remember when you had that pool party a few years back and strummed that...good times! It was right after I played this one....do you remember?

Remember? I introduced you to Arthur Russell, Db.

 

[tiger roach]

I'm struggling to remember if I've ever been at a party where someone broke it out

I was treating it as a hypothetical.

 

[Motorik]

No 'Country Roads', "Wonderwall', or 'Sweet Caroline'?

 

[Flamencology]

No 'Country Roads', "Wonderwall', or 'Sweet Caroline'?

‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’, maybe.

 

[MonkeyZero]

I'm with Chad. But my wife likes to embarrass me from time to time. Thank God we don't go to parties anymore.
The worst was when we were in a bar in Savannah for St. Patrick's Day. There was a guy playing acoustic for the crowd. We had been there for about an hour and I was lit. All of a sudden I hear over the PA, "I heard Jeremy (that's me) wants to come up and do a song for us! Come on Jeremy!"
Apparently one of my friends had secretly asked if I could play something. I was mortified. Had I not been hammered I would have run out of the bar. So I played Wish You Were Here and didn't screw it up thankfully.
I had played in front of my high school plenty of times before that but it had been a few years since. I do not like playing for strangers.