Posted on 09/24/2024 4:53:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Several years ago we were at a wedding where the DJ played “If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.” We didn’t walk out; we cracked up laughing. Flash forward three years, and they filed for divorce.
Until--Claudia Muzio (1918)
Through the Years--Nat Shilkret & the Victor Orchestra, vocal by Nelson Eddy (1936)
I would likely use these for my own wedding if I can ever find the right girl to marry. I used "Through the Years" when I made a video about my parents.
For a video about my brother's wedding, I seriously considered using The Wedding of the Painted Doll by James Burrows (1929), from my favorite movie musical, "Hollywood Revue of 1929," but my mother convinced me to use instead, No Other Love by Jo Stafford (1950)--and she was right. My brother, his bride, and her family loved that choice. She died of cancer a decade ago after 20 years of a happy marriage, and I still think of her every time I hear that song.
Love that song!
Actually, allowing Neil Diamond at a wedding is a real crime.
Could be worse:
“Uncle Ernie” by the Who
“The Trial” by Pink Floyd (e.g., “Baaaaaaaaaabe!”)
And for songs that are absolutely all-time top 500 smashes:
“Paint It Black” by the Rolling Stones. (Somehow, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” seems even crueler.)
“Black Dog” by Led Zeppelin
“Stupid Girl” by Garbage
“You Give Love a Bad Name” by Bon Jovi
“It’s a Sin” by the Pet Shop Boys
“Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler (Your soul is dead?)
“Stan” by Eminem (Fanboy abducts girl in murder-suicide)
“Roxanne” by the Police (Calling the bride a whore?)
and why not go for broke? “Highway to Hell” by AC/DC
“I Used To Love Her (But I Had To Kill Her)” - Guns N Roses
50 years experience as a radio and wedding DJ speaking. For success at either, you play the hits. Your Spotify playlist may be great for your boat, backyard bar-b-que or club party, but will it keep the dance floor packed all night with your guests? You’ve asked family and friends to give up their Saturday to sit through a ceremony , most likely the same format as the one last attended, cocktails, dinner and sit through overly long BM & MOH speeches , cake cutting and formal dances to get to the actual party. This hopefully is the most fun they have all night for their investment, time and money, in your event. At this point the party is your thank you to them. Let them have fun hearing “That Funky Music or Uptown Funk” for the billionth time.
If I have a closed playlist, I make sure the guests know the Groom or Bride chose the music. Usually I end up with the couple telling me to do what I know to do. You don’t restrict the tools of your car mechanic or physician. The music is the DJ’s tools. Let them operate.
Another One Bites the Dust by Queen
Neil Diamond? He should burn in hell.
There, changed it for you
True story, about to get a Colonoscopy and pre-meds, curtains drawn closed, and I overheard my woman doctor telling a nurse that she hated Neil Diamond music. After the procedure, on wake up checkup by my doctor, she ssks “How are you feeling?” I reply, “” i’m pretty good except for this ‘Sweet Caroline, dun dun daah ‘ song stuck in my head “🤭🤣😜. She did laugh after all.
He had such a good voice. But really, he was a jazz pianist.
Do you have a song up your sleeve if you want to empty the floor. Or conversely, on to liven things up, after you had to play a terrible request?
The other two songs were I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You) and I Wish It Would Rain. He took his life 10 days after the later came out, and the other two were released the next year.
I always wonder what his wife thought.
Just Rick Roll the entire Playlist.
Oh, of course.
I remember when I first saw them on MTV and was like, “QUEEN??!”
But then again that nice young man Elton John dresses outrageously, and he’s married! (/70s naivete)
Bisexual actually
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