Re: Wedding Marches. (was: Re: Bad Companye)
At 19:36 27.04.99 -0500, you wrote: At the first of my first cousin's many weddings, this one held at the beautiful Paramus, New Jersey Steak Pit, the ceremony finished, the groom seemed to rush down the aisle, leaving her standing there. The fast thinking accordion player let loose with "What Now My Love, Now That You've Left Me". Actually, that would take 2 and a half years. That's beautiful, Barry. I think I detect a whiff of Guralnick in the prose? Sounds like Dixie realizing she's lost Elvis forever, even as he phones her from the Louisiana Hayride to tell her he loves her g. All this makes me think of weirdass wedding-music experiences. I've played a couple of weddings in the last year and I'm always kind of amazed that they don't mind that all we do is basically cheatin', drinkin' and car songs, etc And these were "nice" weddings, big budget jobs, etc. Just goes to show that very few people are really listening to the lyrics. I did "You Nearly Loose Your Mind" (ET), "Act Naturally" (Buck) and "Where Can She Be" (Ted The Talltops) in my own wedding, backed by The Derailers. It also took me half a year less than it took Barry's uncle before I could sing "What Now My Love, Now That You've Left Me". Tom E.
RE: Wedding Marches. (was: Re: Bad Companye)
-Original Message- From: BARNARD [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 8:36 PM To: passenger side Subject: Re: Wedding Marches. (was: Re: Bad Companye) [Matt Benz] hmmm. Wish I coulda been more tacky, but we had One Riot One Ranger play "I Walk The Line" at our wedding. Now, I remember 3 Times A Lady by Lionel Richie being played at a wedding, which was certainly an odd choice, since it's about breaking up.
Re: Wedding Marches. (was: Re: Bad Companye)
A few years ago a young lady in some suburb of Atlanta called me and wanted to book the Convicts for her wedding reception. She didn't want to pay us, and had a list of "required songs", most of which were by Lorrie Morgan, and the rest HNC garbage. I told her we did not have a girl singer, and she wanted us to hire one. Then I explained to her in the nicest terms I could use our feelings toward Ms. Morgan and HNC in general, and never heard from her again. I guess we didn't meet their standards. BTW, we have played several weddings with great success, even with a vast repertoire of drinking, cheating, and breakup songs. Rule #1 - Do lots of Elvis covers. Guaranteed crowd pleasers. Slim
Re: Wedding Marches. (was: Re: Bad Companye)
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, we have played several weddings with great success, even with a vast repertoire of drinking, cheating, and breakup songs. Rule #1 - Do lots of Elvis covers. Guaranteed crowd pleasers. Ha! Sage advice indeed. I was a DJ on commercial radio and in nightclubs throughout the mid-80's in central Indiana (Lafayette to Indianapolis). I also picked up side gigs as a wedding/party DJ. Easy money, but kinda agonizing. If the going got tough or the dance floor was empty, I'd hear the voice in my headelvis, Elvis, ELVIS. Voila', packed floor, mucho energy. I'll always love the "Big E" if not for just svaing my hired professional ass on numberous occasions. NP: Sloan - Navy Blues JC
Wedding Marches. (was: Re: Bad Companye)
At the first of my first cousin's many weddings, this one held at the beautiful Paramus, New Jersey Steak Pit, the ceremony finished, the groom seemed to rush down the aisle, leaving her standing there. The fast thinking accordion player let loose with "What Now My Love, Now That You've Left Me". Actually, that would take 2 and a half years. Barry A great "Feel Like Makin' Love" moment: I went to a white trash wedding once where this was played as the bride walked down the aisle. No kidding. -Slim .. that's pretty impressive. I hesitate to imagine what other songs were played during the processional and concluding moments g. --junior
Re: Wedding Marches. (was: Re: Bad Companye)
At the first of my first cousin's many weddings, this one held at the beautiful Paramus, New Jersey Steak Pit, the ceremony finished, the groom seemed to rush down the aisle, leaving her standing there. The fast thinking accordion player let loose with "What Now My Love, Now That You've Left Me". Actually, that would take 2 and a half years. That's beautiful, Barry. I think I detect a whiff of Guralnick in the prose? Sounds like Dixie realizing she's lost Elvis forever, even as he phones her from the Louisiana Hayride to tell her he loves her g. All this makes me think of weirdass wedding-music experiences. I've played a couple of weddings in the last year and I'm always kind of amazed that they don't mind that all we do is basically cheatin', drinkin' and car songs, etc And these were "nice" weddings, big budget jobs, etc. Just goes to show that very few people are really listening to the lyrics. The bride at one of these weddings asked us to do Johnny Burnette's "I Just Found Out" for the first dance, the "just the bride and groom alone on the floor" dance. Man o Man, I'd like to know the story behind that one!! --jr.
