Playing songs in a certain order

We're having a 70's party and want to play a game where we play clips of 70's TV shows and people have to guess the song. Is there an easy way to create a playlist that plays in a certain order other than alphabetically? I don't want to do random as we are going to play a few seconds at first, then go back and play the songs for a longer time and want the songs in the same order as the first time.
Thanks!

Whatever order you place the songs in the playlist in iTunes will be reflected with the playlist on the iPhone after syncing. Select and drag/place the songs in whatever order you want the songs to be in the playlist in iTunes followed by a sync.

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