WHFS Top 99 Party Songs of the Millenium

On December 31, 1999, the WHFS 99.1 team wrapped up the old year with a listener-vetted collection of songs known as the WHFS Top 99 Party Songs of the Millennium. Well, sort of. As Rob Timm pointed out, there weren't any party songs written in the 13th, 14th, or 15th centuries, so it is really more like the Top 99 Party songs of the 20th Century. And after losing an argument with his "old man" at the dinner table, and feeling compelled to add a song that pre-dated WHFS by about half a century, Bob Waugh allowed that "some times you just have to add a few."
And what a broadcast it was. The program began at 2PM and lasted until after midnight. Bob Waugh presented the first five hours, and Rob Timm came on at 7PM -- the REAL Y2K moment, given that all that computer stuff runs on Greenwich Mean Time anyway. Between them, they played one song twice, several songs that had never before been heard on WHFS, and we learned a few things that evening. Rob Timm likes his Kiss loud, and Bob Waugh posed a verbal conundrum on the difference between the meanings of "Party Man"(a man belonging to a political party) and "Party Girl" (a physically attractive young woman hired to entertain male guests at parties).
And at ten o'clock, WHFS wrapped up the Millennium Party Song Collection and switched over to the MTV Millennium Mayhem Broadcast from Times Square, NY, what they called Y2K Ground Zero, for live music by Blink 182, No Doubt and others, and to HEAR THE BALL DROP at midnight. And with breathless amazement, the announcers on the scene observed "the lights are still on ..."
Not surprisingly, the list itself was rather loaded with songs of the last half of the '90s. After all this is the music we all had in our brains that year and that week. But it does make me wonder: how different would that list look today, fifteen years on, if a certain pair of millennium veteran DJs were to do it again this New Year's Eve?

The Program, as it aired in December 31, 1999

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