One of our daughters is getting married next year, finally, and I was searching the internet for good wedding songs. I was flattered that she asked me to do Paul Stookey's, "Wedding Song (There Is Love), which is 45 years old and was still popular when we got married. A lot has changed since and a lot hasn't. Anyway, I found a thread in the 2004/2005 Archives on the same topic and thought a reply to the last post would bring it up, but I couldn't figure out how to do it.
Some of the comments are serious and some are just outrageous, (like Cliff's "if she wears lots of makeup and has a long tongue" regarding a Kiss suggestion), just like the good old days. It was worth checking out just for the memories. I had to find some of the songs I never heard of, but I probably did the same thing back then. Was YouTube around back then?
Posted 2015-08-12 5:23 PM (#514277 - in reply to #514268) Subject: Re: Wedding Songs
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Robert Earl Keen, " it's the little things "
Harvey Reed, " the Goodyears"
Turnpike Troubadours "Quit while I'm ahead"
Steve Sutton "She got under him before I got over her"
Beal Cayman "Both my girl friends (are seeing other guys)"
Posted 2015-08-12 6:13 PM (#514279 - in reply to #514277) Subject: Re: Wedding Songs
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cwk2 - 2015-08-12 5:23 PM
Robert Earl Keen, " it's the little things "
Harvey Reed, " the Goodyears"
Turnpike Troubadours "Quit while I'm ahead"
Steve Sutton "She got under him before I got over her"
Beal Cayman "Both my girl friends (are seeing other guys)"
I have only heard the last one, but it sure will make everyone sit up and listen!!!! LOL!!!!!
Posted 2015-08-12 6:20 PM (#514280 - in reply to #514268) Subject: Re: Wedding Songs
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If I Google Beal's list will there be any chance that I find that last one? I remember the Sutton song was in the earlier thread. Doesn't sound like one I should sing about my daughter. Heartland's "I Loved Her First" is much more appropriate.
Posted 2015-08-13 9:59 AM (#514294 - in reply to #514268) Subject: Re: Wedding Songs
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Looking at all the words for follow me it seems just a touch sexist?? I love the song but is a woman only an extension who is supposed to subsume her own life and interests in order to "follow" her beloved?? Just wondering. Am I reading too much in??
Posted 2015-08-13 10:13 AM (#514295 - in reply to #514294) Subject: Re: Wedding Songs
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I was thinking the same thing NerdyDave as I was thinking about the song last night, but in one of the versions he recorded, or maybe a recorded concert, he changed the last line to; "Take my hand, and I will Follow You."
Posted 2015-08-13 11:16 AM (#514296 - in reply to #514268) Subject: Re: Wedding Songs
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Sweet. And it's good to know that a liberated woman such as yourself was also thinking along the same lines as this sometimes misguided soul!! I do like that other closing line so much better!!
Posted 2015-08-13 12:39 PM (#514299 - in reply to #514268) Subject: Re: Wedding Songs
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Nancy, since I'm paying for the booze, I hope people don't drink enough to appreciate "Why Don't We Get Drunk". My 90 year old mother would think it's funny, but forget about it 5 minutes later. My daughter and her new inlaws might not.
Posted 2015-08-13 1:54 PM (#514300 - in reply to #514299) Subject: Re: Wedding Songs
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Mark in Boise - 2015-08-13 12:39 PM
Nancy, since I'm paying for the booze, I hope people don't drink enough to appreciate "Why Don't We Get Drunk". My 90 year old mother would think it's funny, but forget about it 5 minutes later. My daughter and her new inlaws might not.
Wedding Songs
