<p>I just heard CCR’s “Proud Mary” on the radio and I looked up the lyrics on the internet.</p>
<p>I have always read that “Proud Mary” is the #1 requested song to wedding bands. I have no idea why.</p>
<p>Does anyone know? Reading the lyrics, it seems like a strange song to play at a wedding, so I presume its the music.</p>
<p>Wedding song? The Ike and Tina Turner version rocks…</p>
<p>I think the standard, much-requested wedding band version is much closer to the more energetic Ike and Tina Turner cover than to the somewhat laconic CCR original.</p>
<p>But I never heard that this was #1 on the wedding charts.</p>
<p>Anyway, there are tons of popular, inappropriate pop songs that get played and danced to at weddings. “Billie Jean” (paternity suits) and “Wanna Be Starting Something” (depression and unwanted pregnancy), anyone? “Proud Mary” is pretty simple fun (and, of course, we all knew what the “Mary” was that “keeps on burnin’” . . . )</p>
<p>Talk about inappropriate: I heard that on a previous visit by Queen Elizabeth, one of the songs played during dinner was The Lady is a Tramp. Apparently caused a few eyebrows to go up.</p>
<p>It may be a strange wedding song, but the strangest song sung at a wedding (my opinion, of course) was Tom Cruise singing “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” to Katie Holmes. Why on earth would someone sing THAT to their new bride (or groom)?</p>
<p>I’ve heard “Every Breath You Take” by The Police is a popular wedding “love” song. I guess the happy couple don’t know it’s about an obsessive stalker (or maybe they do).</p>
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That song always creeped me out. “A Time for Us” from “Romeo and Juliet” is one of my wedding favorite “huh?” songs.</p>
<p>My husband asked our pastor (with a straight face) if we could have “Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen as our wedding recessional; I can’t hear that song without envisioning what the reaction would have been if the pastor had said yes!</p>
<p>So, everyone, what was YOUR wedding song? Our first dance was to You are the Sunshine of My Life by Stevie Wonder. Wedding was in 1977.</p>
<p>The most memorable wedding song moment was our friend J’s recessional: the fanfare played at the closing scene in “Star Wars.” (You know, when Han, Luke, and Chewie got their medals?)</p>
<p>For my first wedding, a pianist friend of ours surprised us by hopping to the keys and whipping out a lively rendition of “Linus and Lucy” as our recessional. That was probably among the more memorable moments of that short-lived marriage. :)</p>
<p>I got SICK of playing We’ve Only Just Begun in the Army Band…</p>
<p>Washdad - I saw an interview with Sting. That song was intended to creep people out. He said he absolutely couldn’t understand how anyone would choose it as a wedding song. He was concerned about people like that.
Our wedding song was the Beatles “Here, there and Everywhere.”</p>
<p>Soozievt,
Wow, thirty years - congratulations!</p>
<p>I was married in Oslo, Norway. It’s not common to have a wedding song, or diamond engagement rings!</p>
<p>Ours was “Tonight I Celebrate My Love For You”, in 1983. My sister, OTOH, had something by ELO.</p>
<p>I think “When A Man Loves A Woman” is a weird wedding song…a little one-sided, hmmm?</p>
<p>I got married on Christmas Eve, so we had Christmas music.</p>
<p>Our 1982 wedding song was “Longer” by Dan Fogelburg</p>
<p>My wife and I got married in 1974 - anyone beat that?</p>
<p>Yeah, I was only 5 in 1974! </p>
<p>I got married in 1988, the year after I graduated from high school. I was 19.</p>
<p>Firebad- yep…1971. </p>
<p>In our day, Simon and Garfunkle’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” was a popular wedding song.</p>