3 of the Best Classic New Year’s Songs to Help You Celebrate in 2024

For every party, there is a song. For a party as big as New Year’s Eve, you’ll need a song that measures up. Below, find three classic songs you can use to celebrate this New Year’s, below.

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3 of the Best New Year’s Songs to Help You Celebrate in 2024

1. “Let’s Start the New Year Right” (Bing Crosby)

Nothing warms the heart quite like Bing Crosby’s lulling voice. In the film Holiday Inn, Crosby sings this charming number. We can’t think of a better way to celebrate than Kissing the old year out and Kissing the new year in. This one is for all the romantics out there.

Let’s start the new year right
Twelve o’clock tonight
When they dim the light
Let’s begin
Kissing the old year out
Kissing the new year in

… Let’s watch the old year die
With a fond goodbye
And our hopes as high
As a kite
How can our love go wrong if
We start the new year right?

2. “Champagne & Wine” (Etta James)

Though this song isn’t explicitly about New Year’s, it has been a familiar face at many NYE celebrations. If there is one thing that is sure-fire about New Year’s Eve, it’s the copious amounts of alcohol that is consumed by its celebrants.

Champagne and wine, um, that’s what you’re gonna
That’s what you’re gonna get
Champagne and wine, oh, what it’s gonna be
Just as long as you can see ’bout me

I’m gonna be knocking, knocking at your door, yeah
I want the same love that I had before
I’m a woman now, full grown, full grown woman, y’all
You got me eating from the tip of your hand

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3. “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve” (Ella Fitzgerald)

Last up on our list of New Year’s tracks, we have “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve” by the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald. Her powerful vocals will certainly get the party started–albeit with a classy feel.

Maybe it’s much too early in the game
Ah, but I thought I’d ask you just the same
What are you doing New Year’s, New Year’s eve?

Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight
When it’s exactly twelve o’clock that night
Welcoming in the New Year, New Year’s Eve?

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