Featured Station: 24 Hour Cocktail Party!

Since 2005 The 24 Hour Cocktail Party on Live365 has provided listeners with swinging and sophisticated sounds in the setting of a non-stop cocktail party from the smashing days of the 1960s.

Host “Mr. Baxter” lays down the best in pop, American standards, jazz, lounge, orchestral pop, British Invasion and Bossa Nova from the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Cocktail Party plays artists from Dick Haymes, Ella, Sinatra and Bobby Darin to Nat King Cole, Andy Williams, Bobby Goldsboro, Joey Heatherton and Glen Campbell. Orchestral and Instrumental pop are well represented by the likes of Henry Mancini, Roger Williams, Percy Faith and The Hollyridge Strings covering selections from The Beatles catalog. Bossa is represented by Jobim and sixties groups such as Brasil '66.

In addition to the archives of 50 years ago, Cocktail Party plays selections of Chill and Electronica music from the 90s and 00’s. Groups like Morcheeba, StereoLab, and Goldfrapp complement the aforementioned artists and enhance the sounds and feel of the cocktail party setting and hopefully, provide "older" listeners with variety and "younger" listeners an introduction to American Pop and standards.

The playlist is updated regularly and includes seasonal selections near holidays such as Christmas and St. Patrick's Day.

Mr. Baxter, surfer, snowboarder, part-time musician, and full-time listener started the station in 2005 as a once-per-week live show, The Wednesday Night Cocktail Party! With the increase in available storage provided by Live365 over the years, the live show was replaced with the 24/7 format adding an occasional live Wednesday Night Cocktail Party or as a rare feature, The Live Live Live A-Show, playing the best of Punk, Bubblegum and Rockabilly.

Cocktail Party encourages it’s listeners to make suggestions and send requests for songs. As a result, Mr. Baxter has had the pleasure of interacting with listeners from all over the world. “It has been a wonderful experience”.
Baxter hopes that listeners of the show come away familiar with a time when style and sophistication was the rule of social interaction, and music was the perfect mixer.