Posted on 09/21/2024 7:19:07 AM PDT by DoodleBob
More couples than ever are choosing the 21st of September for their wedding date because of the popular Earth Wind & Fire song, “September.”
When lead vocalist Maurice White first sang the iconic lyrics, “Do you remember the 21st night of September? Love was changin’ the minds of pretenders while chasin’ the clouds away,” he likely had no idea that these words would inspire so many to say “I do.”
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The Knot reported nearly 30,000 registered couples saying they planned to marry on that date, with the platform noting that it was primarily because it took place on a Saturday as opposed to 2023 which took place on a Thursday. Meanwhile, Zola found a 33 percent increase in couples setting their wedding date on the 21st of September from the same date in 2019, which was also a Saturday.
Couples are not only drawn to the date’s pop-cultural edge but also the weather, depending on where you live can tend to hit the perfect sweet spot of not too cold and not too hot.
“I think that September is the best month in the area because of the mild weather, sunny days and hint of fall,” Massachusetts native Shauna Sullivan told the NYT. “I always wanted to get married in September, and the 21st is a weekend.”
However, she added that also she “couldn’t help but remember” Earth, Wind & Fire's endlessly catchy 1978 hit, written by White, Al McKay, and Allee Willis. Before her death, Willis recalled how she told White to change the lyrics “Do you remember/The 21st ‘day’ of September,” asking him to switch the words from “day” to “night.”
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“Cuz that was the day that my daddy died.”
My folks were married on September 21, 1957. Sixty-seven years today, and still going strong.
September 3rd.
Amazing that young people even know the lyric. That’s an old as hell song.
Wow, incredible and so cool! How very few make it that far! A big, hearty “Congratulations” to Mom & Dad!
Because it’s a timeless song. Per wiki:
“September” has a funk groove based on a four-measure pattern that is consistent between verses and choruses, built on a circle of fifths.
Using a chord progression written by Earth, Wind & Fire guitarist Al McKay, vocalist Maurice White and songwriter Allee Willis wrote the song over one month. Willis was initially bothered by the gibberish “ba-dee-ya” lyric White used through the song, and begged him to rewrite it: “I just said, ‘What the f— does ‘ba-dee-ya’ mean?’ And he essentially said, ‘Who the f— cares?’ I learned my greatest lesson ever in songwriting from him, which was never let the lyric get in the way of the groove.” The song was included on the band’s first compilation—The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1—solely to boost sales with original content.
Although several theories about the significance of the date have been suggested, the songwriter Maurice White claimed he simply chose the 21st due to how it sounded when sung. His wife, Marilyn White, however, claimed that September 21 was the due date of their son, Kahbran, according to lyricist Allee Willis.
I was always an Earth Wind and Fire fan, but I hate that song. The most disappointing moment of my concert going life was when they did it as the surprise encore. I walked out.
Back in the day, we’d go to Bill Graham’s Winterland in San Francisco .
Some groups would do a second encore .
To signal the end of the show , in addition to the house lights , they would hit the huge mirror ball they had with a couple of spot lights and play the song Greensleeves over the PA system.
That was how they ended all shows. I kind of miss that touch.
Heading to a wedding in a few hours. I was told that song will be played at some point.
The Taylor Swift cover is better (ahahahaha!)
The culture is even more spineless than it seems.
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