Here are some song ideas for summer party playlists, ideal background music for barbecues, pub beer gardens and summer parties:

Here comes the sun - The Beatles
Rome wasn’t built in a day - Morcheeba
Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
There is a light tha never goes out - The Smiths
Will he be waiting for me - Sarah Harmer
You’re lovely to me - Lucky Jim
5 years time - Noah and the Whale
2 atoms in a molecule - Noah and the Whale
1234 - Fiest
Wouldn’t it be nice - Beach Boys
Wonderful World - Sam Cooke
White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
We can work it out - The Beatles
Waiting on the world to change - John Mayer
Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
Times like these - Jack Johnson
This Day - Emma’s Imagination
These are the days - Jamie Cullum
That’s the way - Led Zeppelin
Tell me why - The Beatles
Stand by me - Ben E. King
She’s a rainbow - Rolling Stones
Red red wine - UB40
Proof - I Am Kloot
Oh la la - The Faces
Nothing you can’t lose - The Steel Wheels
Mushaboom - Fiest
Mrs Robinson - Paul Simon
Me and Julio down by the school yard - Paul Simon
The littlest birds - The Be Good Tanyas
Like a rollng stone - Bob Dylan
Life’s a song - Patrick Park
Let the sunshine - Labrinth
Layla - Eric Clapton
The joker - Steve Miller Band
I’m yours (acoustic version) - Jason Mraz
I’m looking through you - The Beatles
I’m into something good - Herman’s Hermits
I should have known better - The Beatles
I heard it through the grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
The heart of life - John Mayer
Great day - Paul McCartney
Golden brown - The Stranglers
Forget you - Cee Lo Green
Everlastng love - Jamie Cullum
Don’t worry, be happy - Bobby McFerrin
Don’t think twice, it’s alright - Bob Dylan
Do you remember - Jack Johnson
Colours - Donovan
Brown eyed girl - Van Morrison
The bike song - Mark Ronson and the Business International
Pack up - Eliza Doolittle
Skinny Genes - Eliza Doolittle
Baby, you’re a rich man - The Beatles
A-punk - Vampire Weekend
Dog days are over - Florence and the Machine
Crazy little thing called love - Queen