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Although this wasn't a big dancing crowd, the opening notes of James Brown's "Hot Pants, Pt. 1" sent Patty Bashe and son Justin onto the dance floor to shake their (a) tail feathers, (b) moneymakers, (c) groove thangs, (d) all of the above. At right

is the party's playlist—all songs from your senior year—pumped out of the World's Biggest Transistor Radio (below).

Hour 1

1. “Rocks Off,” Rolling Stones

2. “Outta Space,” Billy Preston

3. “LA Woman,” Doors

4. “Let’s Stay Together,” Al Green

5. “One Way Out,” Allman Brothers

6. “I’ll Take You There,” Staple Singers

7. “Baby Blue,” Badfinger

8. “Do You Know What I Mean,” Lee Michaels

9. “I Saw the Light,” Todd Rundgren

10. “Oh Girl,” Chi-Lites

11. “Aqualung,” Jethro Tull

12. “Sweet Seasons,” Carole King

13. “Bang a Gong (Get It On),” T. Rex

14. “Jungle Fever,” The Chakakas

Hour 2

1. “Everybody’s Everything,” Santana

2. “Mother and Child Reunion,” Paul Simon

3. “Hot Rod Lincoln,” Commander Cody

4. “Smoke on the Water,” Deep Purple

5. “Watcha See Is Watcha Get,” Dramatics

6. “Smile Away,” Paul McCartney

7. “Brand New Key,” Melanie

8. “Take It Easy,” Eagles

9. “Family Affair,” Sly and the Family Stone

10. “Baba O’Riley,” Who

11. “Playing in the Band,” Bob Weir

12. “I Just Want to Celebrate,” Rare Earth

13. “Tiny Dancer,” Elton John

14. “You Are Everything,” Stylistics

15. “Paranoid,” Black Sabbath

16. “Wild Night,” Van Morrison

17. “Doctor My Eyes,” Jackson Browne

Hour 3

1. “Go All the Way,” Raspberries

2. “Hot Pants, Pt. 1,” James Brown

3. “Run Run Run,” Jo Jo Gunne

4. “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” Bee Gees

5. “Be My Lover,” Alice Cooper

6. “Anticipation,” Carly Simon

7. “Theme from Shaft,” Isaac Hayes

8. “Everything I own,” Bread

9. “Suffragette City,” David Bowie

10. “I Gotcha,” Joe Tex

11. “Long Promised Road,” Beach Boys

12. “Roundabout,” Yes

13. “Imagine,” John Lennon

14. “Every Picture Tells a Story,” Rod Stewart

15. “Peace Train,” Cat Stevens

16. “Four Day Creep,” Humble Pie

Hour 4

1. “What’s Going On,” Marvin Gaye

2. “A Horse with No Name,” America

3. “Clean Up Woman,” Betty Wright

4. “Rock and Roll Stew,” Traffic

5. “American Pie,” Don McLean

6. “Too Late to Turn Back Now,” Cornelius Brothers and Rose

7. “Life Is a Carnival,” Band

8. “Rock & Roll,” Detroit

9. “Sugar Jackson,” Jackson 5

10. “Rock Steady,” Aretha Franklin

11. “Footstompin’ Music,” Grand Funk Railroad

12. “One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show,” Honey Cone

13. “Rock & Roll,” Led Zeppelin

14. “Desiderata,” Les Crane

Like a trio of TV-game-show models, Dianne Oliva, Cindy

Rosa Pelzar, and head server Victoria pose next to the

aforementioned World's Largest Transistor Radio (at left.)

By the way, kudos to Victoria and her young staff—a really

great bunch of kids.

Here is Alexis Weisman with Celia Felsher (above) and

(below left) with Sandy Cohen.

Prior to the party, Sandy (right) and Celia Felsher (left, with Amy

Lubow Downs in the middle) drove to their old houses in East

Birchwood and then stopped off at George Jackson Elementary

School. "We walked around the playground and sat and talked on the

same stoop where we used to sit together in sixth grade," says Sandy.

Then the ghost of Principal Bowles marched up to them and sternly

ordered them to move.