HELP! Need song for wedding.

Dayna Wills · Post by **Dayna Wills** » 28 Aug 2000 6:34 pm

I was told the song is called FRIENDS by Anne Murray. Does anyone know where I can find it? Is it on an album, and which one? I don't know for sure that FRIENDS is the actual title. Anyone got a clue?

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Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 28 Aug 2000 8:34 pm

Dayna, I don't know that tune, Friends, but if you get really stuck a very popular tune for weddings is Lyle Lovett's "She's No Lady, She's My Wife".


She hates my momma
She hates my daddy too
She likes to tell me
How much she hates the things I do
She likes to lie beside me almost every night
Man, she's no lady, she's my wife"!

(Of course the lucky couple has to have a good sense of humor for this tune!

)[This message was edited by Jim Cohen on 28 August 2000 at 09:35 PM.]

bill ramsey · Post by **bill ramsey** » 29 Aug 2000 1:04 am

hank snow's, with this ring i thee wed is a good one. we do it all the time and they love it. bill

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Jude James Shiels · Post by **Jude James Shiels** » 29 Aug 2000 1:55 am

Bob Dylan wrote a song called 'The Wedding Song'. I'm not sure it has the same appeal as a Power of Love or a Wind Beneath My Wings though

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 29 Aug 2000 4:04 am

Actually, Paul Stookey (of Peter, Paul & Mary) wrote a VERY popular song for weddings called "The Wedding Song".

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 29 Aug 2000 11:40 am

I guess it was back in sixty-three
When eatin' my cookin' got the better of me
....

Lem Smith · Post by **Lem Smith** » 29 Aug 2000 12:19 pm

I don't know, Earnest...you reckon that particular song may be a little too sappy and sentimental, even for a wedding???

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 29 Aug 2000 1:58 pm

Back in the spring I played a Wedding Cerimony on my SS HAWAIIAN steel guitar; and I play the "Hawaiian Wedding Song" and it was a huge hit and very intimate. It's a very beautiful song and fitting for any occasion and you can find it on CD and or if you can get someone to play it live; it's a "Winner" everytime.
Ricky

Bill Terry · Post by **Bill Terry** » 29 Aug 2000 3:18 pm

I always wanted to do "(You're) Having My Baby"..... Paul Anka

Alan Shank · Post by **Alan Shank** » 29 Aug 2000 3:43 pm

I played and sang "The Right Combination", a Porter and Dolly song to my wife at our wedding. She loved it, and so did everyone else. Another excellent love song by Porter and Dolly is "The Fog Has Lifted (between You and Me)".
Cheers, and have a great wedding and marriage,
Alan Shank

Ron · Post by **Ron** » 1 Sep 2000 9:56 am

How about The farmers dauter By merle Haggard?
Ron

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Blane Sanders · Post by **Blane Sanders** » 1 Sep 2000 9:21 pm

I'd go with "Help Me Make It Through The Night"

Kenny Dail · Post by **Kenny Dail** » 1 Sep 2000 9:59 pm

How about, "I Like My Women A Little On The
Trashy Side." Of course I'm only kidding.

Here is a killer, "You Are So Beautiful" by Joe Cocker. Big "E" has a nice version of this on one of his albums (can't remember which one) played on C6. Follow up with the Hawaiian Wedding Song, and you will get all the weddings in your area.

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kd...and the beat goes on...

rmason · Post by **rmason** » 3 Sep 2000 5:29 am

Consider "Hawaiian War Chant" (Ames Bros.,
as I recall) early fifties.

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Rod Mason

Fred Jack · Post by **Fred Jack** » 7 Sep 2000 10:50 am

Dayna,
My daughter and I recently sang for my nieces wedding..."From This Moment On" which was recorded by Shania and Brian White..NOT country but a very nice song

L campbell · Post by **L campbell** » 8 Sep 2000 5:32 pm

Joe, you owe me a keyboard. I just spewed Jack and Coke all over this one.

Dayna, my personal favorite wedding song is Confederate Railroad's "The Day Daddy Let the Big One at the Horn Lake Mississippi Missionary Baptist Church". Not a dry in the house.

Les

Ron · Post by **Ron** » 10 Sep 2000 10:18 am

Dayna
Havent heard that one It good tho! .Just the day the squirrel got loose in the First Self rihteus Church > ILl have to look for that one!

RON

Dayna Wills · Post by **Dayna Wills** » 11 Sep 2000 1:09 pm

Thanks, Guys. You are sooo helpful.

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Pat Burns · Post by **Pat Burns** » 16 Sep 2000 4:30 pm

Dayna, I know this doesn't address your question, but since Jim Cohen brought up Lyle Lovett, it made me think of the tune he does as a duet with the writer of the song Townes Van Zandt, "If I Needed You". Beautiful song with lots of nice steel on it. EmmyLou Harris also does a nice version of it in a duet with Don Williams. I think it would be appropriate for a wedding.

???There was a song by Elton John called "Friends". You could check an MP3 sample on one of the search engines under his titles to see if that's the one you want.

...Or there's the Dionne Warwick tune "That's What Friends Are For".

...which for some strange reason made me think of the Rod Stewart line "with a face like that you've got nothin' to laugh about" from "Stay With Me"...come to think of it, that might not be a bad wedding tune for the real world today..."just don't be here in the morning when I wake up".[This message was edited by Pat Burns on 16 September 2000 at 06:52 PM.]

Mac Lloyd · Post by **Mac Lloyd** » 16 Sep 2000 10:39 pm

Dayna, I believe most appropriate would be "It's all over but the cryin'"

Peter Dollard · Post by **Peter Dollard** » 18 Sep 2000 12:28 pm

Some years ago I played with a band with limited technically abilities(very limited if you included mine). Anyways the only slow instrumentals we played were "Sleepwalk" and "Last Date". At some poor guy's wedding the head of the band had me play "Last Date" for the bride and groom's first dance together; talk about depressing and inappropriate I tried to hide under my steel but it didn't work. Pete.