Actually a cou[le of comps I made for a friends wedding, with quite a few older guests, so they include Etta James, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughn, Louie and Ella, Dinah Washington, Sammy Kaye (Harbor Lights), early Tony Bennett, etc.....
Sometimes I'll listen to this genre of old crooners and swooners for weeks, it is that lusciously enjoyable and timeless. It's pretty damn hard to beat some of the wonderful classics.
Then I recently made my brother a comp of 70's 80s hard rock stuff - April Wine, Judas Priest, Dio, Triumph, Scorpions, Sequel, Vandenberg, Zebra, Rainbow, etc......this stuff can still kick the ass of almost anything rock-oriented these days - just my opinion of course.

