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06-09-2009, 08:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Las Vegas, NV. | | | "Must know" tunes for a wedding band
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06-09-2009, 08:26 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | In my neck of the woods, you'd better have at least 1/2 hour of Polka. |
06-09-2009, 08:57 PM
| | | | Any songs that you can't play or would not sound right performing them, make sure you have copies on CD to play just in case they are requested such as:
The Electric Boogie
Macarena
Come On Ride The Train
Cotton-Eyed Joe
The Limbo Rock
The Bird Dance
The Twist
Wipeout
Daddy's Little Girl
Unchained Melody
There are more but these are some typical wedding tunes. |
06-09-2009, 09:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Miami | | | Surfin' Bird
At Last
The first is a definite must.
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06-09-2009, 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Mingus  Surfin' Bird | LMAO every time I hear that song I think of Family Guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUyRAJHiki4 |
06-09-2009, 10:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: bronx, nyc | | | any wedding, at least in NY NJ PA area....
THE CHICKEN DANCE!
yay!
flap those wings! |
06-09-2009, 10:39 PM
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06-09-2009, 11:24 PM
|  | Deteriorating faster than I can lower my standards | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Frederick MD USA | | Majority of weddings I've played, they ask for "I Will Always Love You".
Even though it's a song about breaking up.
Totally inappropriate for a wedding. And quite popular at weddings. 
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06-09-2009, 11:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: NYC | | | Last wedding band I played in had a repertoire of 2500+ tunes from the 20s to 90s and beyond. It depends what the standards are for your area and type of weddings you intend to play. |
06-09-2009, 11:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Seattle | | Quote:
Originally Posted by salcott Last wedding band I played in had a repertoire of 2500+ tunes from the 20s to 90s and beyond. | Longest wedding EVER!  |
06-09-2009, 11:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: SE Wisconsin | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fdeck In my neck of the woods, you'd better have at least 1/2 hour of Polka. | +1 |
06-10-2009, 12:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brookfield, CT | | | Don't forget the disco stuff-
Boogie Oogie Oogie
I will Survive
Disco Inferno
Last Dance
Some funk/soul-
Brick house
Dock of the Bay
Bustin' loose
I feel good
Let's stay together
Rock your Body
Hollywood swinging
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06-10-2009, 10:04 AM
| | | | Back in the 50's, 60's, 70's, & 80's in west central Pennsylvania, there was a wedding reception tradition that the song for the bridal dance had to be this awful song called The Bridal Dance Polka. The bride had to dance with everybody who got in line and they would give a dollar or more. After their very brief dance, they would get a slice of wedding cake, a shot of whiskey, a cigar, or whatever was given out.
I always hated the tune and playing it at weddings because it was very repetitious and went on and on depending how long the line of guests was. One time, we played it non-stop for 45 minutes or more.
Thankfully, it has been dying off and the bridal dance now usually consists of a slow song and both the bride and the groom dance with guests. The last wedding we did wanted us to play Wonderful Tonight for about 15 minutes.
I have also performed for another tradition in a small part of west central Pennsylvania called the pig trough dance. All of the unmarried brothers of the bride and groom have to dance around and on a pig trough while the band plays some type of hoedown music. I still have no idea what this tradition means. |
06-10-2009, 10:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Lazylion Majority of weddings I've played, they ask for "I Will Always Love You".
Even though it's a song about breaking up.
Totally inappropriate for a wedding. And quite popular at weddings. | That's funny. The same is true of "Every Breath You Take", which is about a creepy stalker, but it's the song a lot of couples want for their first dance. |
06-10-2009, 10:11 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Color my World. It's a necessary evil for the dollar dance. Yech!
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06-10-2009, 10:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brookfield, CT | | | Band I was in was asked to do the Still's tune 'Love the one you're with.' I don't think they knew the words.
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06-10-2009, 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by dmusic148 Band I was in was asked to do the Still's tune 'Love the one you're with.' I don't think they knew the words. | By the groom? He might have had plans. |
06-10-2009, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by mndean By the groom? He might have had plans. | Heh-heh.
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06-10-2009, 01:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Devon Uk | | | Here in the UK, if you don't know Hi Ho Silver Lining, or Summer of 69, you can't play any weddings without having to say no at least twice to some middle aged bridesmaids. However, you do lose any credibility you had with any musos who are there. |
06-10-2009, 06:35 PM
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President, HittStreet.com; Endorsing Artist, Schroeder Cabinets | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Missouri, USA | | | "Good Love is On the Way" - John Mayer is another one along the "Every Breath You Take" lines... (shakes head)
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