#WHCD 2018 — The Playlist (and Guest DJs)

At the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday, April 28, while there were one-liners and zingers on stage in the Washington Hilton ballroom (and, more importantly, scholarships awarded and outstanding journalism recognized), and there was also music and dancing down the hallway at the Thomson Reuters parties. Here are some highlights from the playlist and snapshots of some of the friends who popped behind the decks:

Pre-dinner cocktail party:

Tropicando — Les Baxter

Samba 1000 — Ursula 1000 (Nicola Conte “Warm Waves” version)

Wander — Idris Muhammad

Lansanna’s Priestess — Donald Byrd (DJ Spinna remix)

Mambo El B-Boy — Red Astaire

Guest DJs Mike Allen (Axios) and Christina Bellantoni (Los Angeles Times)!

Saltwater — Geowulf

OGD (Road Song) — Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery

Casanova 70 — Air

Sweetest Taboo — Sade

Don’t Disturb This Groove — The System

Guest DJs Daniel Lippman (Politico) + Natasha Bertrand (Atlantic)

Pop Life — Prince (Extended version)

Suit & Tie — Justin Timberlake feat. Jay-Z

Guest DJs Timothy Lowery & Michael Zingali!

That’s What I Like — Bruno Mars

I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) — Hall & Oates

Paid For Lovin’ — Love Jones

Guest DJs Kyle Dropp (Morning Consult) and Lynn Sweet (Chicago Sun-Times)

Take On Me — No BS! Brass band

Get Off of My Cloud — The Rolling Stones

Guest DJ James Barbour!

Polish Girl — Neon Indian

I Got The Juice — Janelle Monáe (feat. Pharrell Williams) [not Meek Mill]

Jamming— Bob Marley & The Wailers

Guest DJ Corey Dade! (It’s all about the crossfade…)

Post-dinner after-party:

Wow — Beck

Style — Taylor Swift

Guest DJs Samantha Boyd (Bloomberg) and Christina Sevilla (USTR/Suspicious Package)!

Khlorine — Sango (feat. Smino)

Drop It Like Its Hot — Snoop Dog feat. Pharrell

Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough — Michael Jackson

Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, part 1 — James Brown

Guest DJs Ambassador Susan Rice and Congressman Joaquin Castro

Genius of Love — Tom Tom Club

Fantasy — Mariah Carey (remix feat. Ol’ Dirty Bastard)

September — Earth, Wind, & Fire

Superstition — Stevie Wonder

Let’s Go Crazy — Prince

DJ duo ABC + Guest DJ Susan Rice

Shake Your Body Down (To the Ground) — The Jacksons

Walk Like an Egyptian — The Bangles

Shout — Lloyd Williams

Doo Wop (That Thing) — Lauryn Hill

Photographer Ben Droz!

Change Clothes — Jay-Z

Love on Top — Beyoncé

Best of My Love — The Emotions

24K Magic — Bruno Mars

Can’t Feel My Face — The Weeknd

Guest DJ John McCarthy (with cameo by Anne Hamilton of Thomson Reuters)!

We Can’t Stop — Miley Cyrus

To Be Continued (Stranger Things theme) — Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein

Thank you, Thomson Reuters!