Posted on 05/19/2018 6:22:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In one of the more beautiful moments of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's royal wedding, guests were treated to a performance of "Stand By Me" by Karen Gibson and the Kingdom Choir.
The song was performed following Bishop Michael Bruce Curry's address at St. George's Chapel in Windsor. Watch and cry and sing along and watch and cry again:
CBS This Morning ✔ @CBSThisMorning WATCH: "Stand By Me" performed by Karen Gibson and the Kingdom Choir. #StandByMe ✨#RoyalWedding #RoyalThisMorning #HarryandMeghan http://CBSNews.com/Royals
7:35 AM - May 19, 2018
While everyone has 100% danced to the song at every wedding reception they've ever been to since it was released in 1961, TIME magazine points out that Meghan and Harry's decision for the choir to sing the song at their wedding marks a symbolic turning point for the monarchy.
During the civil rights movement in America, "Stand By Me" rose to popularity during as a "rallying cry for solidarity amongst people of color"
The marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, whose mother Doria Ragland is black, is already a significant moment for the monarchy. As British writer Lola Adesioye asks to TIME:
"How did this girl—who is not only of color, but didn’t go to the same schools or universities as the royals, who wasn’t even raised in the U.K., and so has all these points of difference and otherness—get to this place? It says a lot about diversification.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmopolitan.com ...
Depends on the production
“die moritat von mackie messer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztEGaehG8i0
thats what i mean! the other poster said the comment made “us” look like idiots. I guess he means Freepers or conservatives. My point is who cares, the other side already doesn’t like conservatives.
You'll Never Walk Alone--Judy Garland (1946)
They support the Stuarts.
There is a perfectly good no mileage descendant Of Charles I in Bavaria with nothing to do! - Francis, Duke of Bavaria, House of Wittlesbach.
Except that not all conservatives are ignorant bigots. In fact, I’d venture to say that most are not.
....”I can not understand”....
Well considering it’s her second or third marriage it can be offensive to some as being an overdone event etc...so you have to give them that.
There’s always going to be something to critique at these affairs.....how about her hair falling into her face during the vows.
“I thought is was a pop song originally. Not exactly an old spiritual.”
There was another Stand By Me song a year or so earlier by Junior Parker. (I actually liked it better.) It, in fact, was a secularly re-written version of a gospel song. Maybe that’s where the confusion comes in.
I didn’t listen long as a couple minutes was plenty enough to see where it was heading. His theatrics were way over the line for his surroundings but then he ran with the fame of the moment and Harry and megan seemed fine with it.
I liked it too.
Correction to base fiddle..it was a cello.......But whatever for me the best part of the entire wedding.....the kids got what it is that makes for perfection in the art he’s chosen. Absolutely stunning presentation and playing...he was in his stride.....
who did i call an ignorant bigot?
I am profoundly happy to have discovered this cellist. Simply amazing!
I was in a deli picking up so e breakfast and they had that on. Absolutely cringe-inducing. What I saw of this ceremony felt like a 70s sitcom version of a royal event.
The girl is, like, an octoroon or something! Yet reading the stories about this wedding you would have thought the Prince was marrying someone Esther Rolle-level-black!
Well said. Agreed.
Myself as well...I look for those who are cut above the rest in Music and ability...he certainly is several cuts above! Pure enjoyment. A masterful performance!
Would it be unkind to ask if the song was Harry’s plea that she stand by him more steadfastly than she stood beside her first husband? More steadfastly than with her second long time lover (although unmarried)?
It seemed a bit ironic hearing “Stand By Me” at a wedding for someone who has never stood by any of her family before...
They're perfectly free to do it however they want. But the rest of us are free to comment on the lack of decorum and the laughable aspects of it, especially as it's being rammed down our throats via every possible medium.
There’s always going to be something to critique at these affairs..
LOL - yes, not a critique but for Dianas funeral my favorite recalled scene was when Elton John sang Goodbye English Rose, Sir Richard Attenborough was sitting just in front of and did not see the piano it was behind him, he about jumped out of his skin when Elton started to play - it was so funny
as it’s being rammed down our throats via every possible medium.
They made you watch it? Most people have more control in their life than that.
Yes, I remember that "riding instructor" and Prince Harry has more than a passing resemblence to him.
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