I got the most unexpected text from D1 tonight while we were watching the NCAA games. A commercial had just been on, playing the Jim Croce song, Time In A Bottle and she said her roommate told her that it had been her parent’s song when they got married. So she wanted to know if we had a song. H and I had a very small, immediate-family only wedding and there was no music, so we never had to think about that sort of thing. But it made me realize I sort of wish we did have a song, and made me wonder if other couples our age have ‘songs’. So what is your song? I’m guessing with the age gaps we have of parents on CC, there could be an interestingly wide gap representing different decades. Although, D2 and her fiancé have chosen a Sam Cooke song to be their first dance at their wedding next year.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-DrXXMTH-BE “In your eyes”. - George Benson
It’s that commerical with the Cookie Monster advertising Siri! Sad song about a person dying, recorded by an artist who DOD die soon after, in a funny commercial-wierd.
H and I do have a song. We had a small, informal wedding too, so no “wedding dance” but it is still “our song”. It’s “Kiss from a Rose” by Seal. Ok, so not much better picking a song from a Batman movie than “Time in a Bottle” for a Cookie Monster commercial, but it spoke to us.
When Mr R and I got married we asked both of our parents for their songs so we could play them for a parent dance. My parents don’t have one and his parents’ is an Elton John song that escapes me right now.
Mr R’s and I is “Marry Me” by Train because it happened to be playing during our first kiss. It was our first dance song, too.
Jimmy Buffett’s Let’s Get Drunk and *****. It’s the song that brought us together. It was playing on a tinny boom box with DH’s traveling companions on a cruise just before we left port. I’m parrothead and was a bit irritable at the moment and snapped at the group saying, “if that’s Buffett either turn it up so I can hear it or turn it off!” The rest is history…
“Longer” by Dan Fogelberg
Ummm – my ex might not realize it, but I always thought of
WARM LEATHERETTE, by The Normal
as our song. (In my defense, when we met, I was (1) 15 and (2) weird).
Runner up: Are We Not Men? We Are Devo. By Devo
Revisionist history version: something by Laurie Anderson. (O Superman, perhaps? In addition to being (1) 15 and (2) weird, I was (3) pretentious).
Silver and Gold by Neil Young. Not played at our wedding, though.
I’m guessing “Your song” by Elton John.
Wow, @teriwtt , that takes me back. Time in a Bottle was my/my college BF’s song.
Across the Universe.
(Too poor to have a wedding. 
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Does the one that got away count? Then “The Air That I Breathe” by The Hollies
Warm Leatherette! I remember that one.
For DH and me, it was some Bob Wills song that we’d play on the counter juke box when we went out to midnight breakfast, when first dating. It was so bonding, we felt like we were probably the only ones who played it or knew who he was. (This was in LA.)
A few years later, we couldn’t remember what song. But you’ve reminded me of a happy memory. The marriage lasted. Just that once we left that area, not what song.
“Because you come to me” was sung at our wedding by H’s friend. She had the most amazing voice, it literally gave me goosebumps during rehearsal. She auditioned for the MET.
I do love “Time in a Bottle,” but it’s quite bittersweet.
No music at our wedding, but “our” song has always been Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry.” H sings it to me when I’m sad or down and it always makes me laugh.
I should clarify that we didn’t play those songs at our wedding!
Ours was to at our wedding either.
Follow Me by Genesis
No one song, no “our” song.
What we have is a decade of songs we lived our young lives to.
Best memories: shooting pool at the local, smoke filled dive bar with Creedence playing in the background as we drank cheap beer and racked em up on other people’s quarters. We were never so broke and never so happy at the same time. Gotta love a man in T Shirt and jeans leaning against a wall with a cue stick in his hands. His twinkling eyes and knowing grin meant only for you.
And now the table is in our home, the beer is better and Creedence is still playing in the background. And he is still that boy with the knowing grin just for me.
Aw @sax, that’s sweet and adorable.
Our song was and is Billy Joel’s “Don’t Go Changing.” We danced to it for the first dance at our wedding.