Archive for July 2010

1. Heaven/Where True Love Goes by Yusuf (4:50) — This is a truly great ode to love by the artist for­merly known as Cat Stevens. 2. All I Want Is You by Barry Lousi Polisar (2:40) — A great story song from the Juno sound­track. 3. When You’re Next To Me by Mitch and Mickey …

Walk Like An Egypt­ian — The Ban­gles  3:24 All I Want Is  You — Barry Lousi Polisar  2:40 Poi­son — Bell Biv DeVoe  4:22 White Wed­ding — Billy Idol  4:09 Get Outta My Dreams Get into My Car — Billy Ocean  4:47 I Gotta Feel­ing — The Black Eyed Peas  4:49 Never My Love — …

End of din­ner, bring out the ice cream sun­dae buf­fet, get your danc­ing shoes on hour. This playlist still has a few clas­sic stan­dards but it’s try­ing to get you danc­ing, or at least think­ing about danc­ing. Most of these didn’t make the cut to danc­ing songs because the tempo ran bor­der­line slow dance, and …

Ah, the barely notices Cocktail/ Din­ner Tran­si­tion Hour playlist. My aspi­ra­tions for this list is that it would give a vin­tage party vibe, a lit­tle more amped up than the last playlist but not with­out the feel­ing of time travel: Make You Feel My Love — Adele  3:32 — First dis­cov­ered by watch­ing So You …

We chose to play a deli­cious set of clas­sic stan­dards and cov­ers dur­ing the cock­tail hour to accen­tu­ate the ambiance of the vin­tage feel of the salon at the Roy­croft Inn. Here’s the playlist and liner notes for the mix of stan­dards that I gave some of the guests at our wed­ding as a wed­ding favor. …

Here’s the music we used dur­ing the cer­e­mony. Def­i­nitely some non-traditional choices, but each song was such a per­fect fit for the func­tion it was placed in dur­ing the cer­e­mony that it really didn’t seem to be notice­ably “dif­fer­ent”; it was more like each aspect of the cer­e­mony became notice­ably more inter­est­ing. At least that’s …

Wel­come the Part 1 of 10 of my Wed­ding Music blog­ging series. Today, I present you with the playlist I cre­ated to be used as pre­lude music dur­ing the hour before the cer­e­mony. Rather than bor­ing live strings doing vague cov­ers of songs we love, we chose to have the DJ come and play the …