4 must have hours of baby boomer music?

If there age groups between 40 & 50 threr music would be late 60s to mid 70s. You start to listen to music at approx
15 yrs. Play a nice mix or rock & roll ulless you friends are duisco ducks where he village people would be more preferable. ( don't laugh, one of my exs was bonkers over them ) Nothing to heavy and the good stuff, Dire Straits, CSNY, Beatles, Jethro Tull and if you think of me a little T-Bone Walker.

If you want everyone up and dancing:
1] 1st santana album
2] supersessions [ bloomfield,kooper,stills ]
3] ccr

I'd look for those Rhino compilations and set the player on shuffle.

We boomers, as the post-war baby bulge, actually got going with music as early as the late 50's early 60's.

For this 52 YO boomer (and BTW, I started really grooving to the music via radio at about age 12), the classic MUST HAVES would include:

Beatles
Beach Boys
Rolling Stones
Four Seasons
Who
Motown
Stax Volt (Sam & Dave et al)
Aretha Franklin
Sam Cook
Buffalo Springfield
Byrds
Cream
Jefferson Airplane
Procul Harem
Creedence
Van Morrison
Kinks
Sam the Sham & The Parohs
The Turtles
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels

and some reggae - Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley etc.

You must include early Steely Dan.

You should also throw in some...

Joni Mitchell
Stevie Wonder
Led Zep
Crosby Still & Nash
Pointer Sisters


...and how about some proggers...

Yes
ELP
Jethro Tull
Kansas
Genesis

...although I generally prefer glam & funk for parties...

David Bowie
Peter Gabriel
Roxy Music
Mott The Hoople
T Rex
Lou Reed
Elton John (no Benny & The Jets!! NO!!!)
Parliament/Funkadelic
LaBell

I'm not keen on metal but ya gotta rock 'n roll...

Deep Purple
Blue Oyster Cult
Bad Company

...or you could really mess with their minds with bitchin' new wave stuff...

New York Dolls
Blondie
Elvis Costello
Talking Heads
The Clash
Ramones

(Better avoid the Sex Pistols.)

I suppose you should also throw in some disco...

Donna Summer
Village People (Can you have a party without 'em?)
Bee Gees

Above all, avoid crashing boors and non-entities like Bread and America (I gag whenever I hear Horse with no name - gagging at parties is not good.)

Definitely get the compilations.

God! I'm so old I remember when radio was great!

Maybe you'd better add in some Boston, Early Aerosmith, Queen and Pink Floyd too. I never was a Deadhead but you should have "Truckin'".

And don't forget Layla. Can't have a boomer party without Layla.

Geez Rackon, nothing like stealing the whole catalog! Remind me to have you DJ my next party.

Ok, I'll add a couple. My wife out of the blue last weekend came home with Billy Idol's greatest hits. My first thought was, what the hell...this stuff sucks. However, we had some friends over, she puts it on, cranks it up, and we had a blast. Fortunately, we are the first home owners on a new street.

At some of the bars where my pool team plays, there are these CD's of road music where the cover is some hot chick laying across a harley...we call that "big titty music" and they would probably have some good compilations for your party.

I might also throw on some:

Wilson Picket
Showdown - Robert Cray, Albert Collins & Johnny Copeland
Booker T and the MG's
Santana
Los Loney Boys
Stevie Ray
Stones-Sticky Fingers
Widespread Panic
Jack Johnson
Soundtrack from Dusk to Dawn
War
Zombies Greatest
Soundgarden
.....this could go on forever - have a great party!