<p>we just danced to Through the Years by Kenny Rogers at mt son’s wedding. Very sentimental.</p>
<p>Sugar Magnolia by the Dead.</p>
<p>Can’t help falling in love by Elvis.
Danced together to it at a dinner dance in college when we were just friends and it sparked a romantic connection…Our first dance at our wedding.</p>
<p>Morning has Broken</p>
<p>Just you and I Eddie Rabbit.</p>
<p>Hands Down - Dashboard Confessional. We’re both emo kids. =P</p>
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One of my other favorites. Grew us singing it as part of my high school hymnal. I still love it. I try not to remember Cat Stevens and the way he took a song we all loved, made it popular, and then threw in the " jihad" stuff when he converted. Umm, no, I don’t think popular authors like Salmon Rushdie should be assassinated , but your version of the song is nice.</p>
<p>“Let’s Stay Together” by Al Green. We met 35 years ago this week, and the lyrics still seem right.</p>
<p>S</p>
<p>“Can’t Help Falling In Love”, “Unchained Melody” by the Righteous Bros., and also “The Lottery Song” by Nilsson. And I’ll add “All that Heaven Will Allow” (either Springsteen or Mavericks versions.)</p>
<p>The Whispers -
“Just Gets Better with Time”</p>
<p>Every time they came to town we were at their concerts. The CD/iPod/YouTube works now. We both jump up and slow dance.</p>
<p>We’ve had different songs over the years:</p>
<p>The contemporaneous-with-courtship songs were Talking Heads’ version of Take Me To The River and the Rolling Stones’ Beast of Burden. (It helps that my wife doesn’t ever listen to lyrics, or not much. Five minutes with a lyrics sheet would mean the end of her enjoyment of the Rolling Stones.) Also Joan Armatrading’s Love and Affection.</p>
<p>Later, we both fell in love with the Ella Fitzgerald - Louis Armstrong Verve recordings, and Dancing Cheek To Cheek was the first-dance song at our wedding.</p>
<p>Other songs have accrued a lot of meaning over the years: Sweet Honey in the Rock, Seven-Day Kiss; Deniece Williams, Let’s Hear It For The Boy; Lucinda Williams, Passionate Kisses; Curtis Mayfield, People Get Ready; a Jewish religious song by Debbie Friedman, L’chi Lach; Ryan Adams, Where The Stars Go Blue; Raphael Saadiq, 100-Yard Dash. And, singing to our children, Bob Dylan’s You Ain’t Going Nowhere.</p>
<p>Talking about not reading the lyrics, my freshman year roommate told me that her and hometown BF’s song was “Someone Saved my Live Tonight.” hooboy–*not *a romantic song!</p>
<p>H and I started dating right around the time that Michael Jackson became hot, hot, HOT. I distinctly remember dancing with him (H, not Michael) to “Billie Jean” on our second date, and while it’s certainly not our song, it puts me back in that frame of mind.</p>
<p>Our first summer apart from one another – “Every Breath You Take” was the big song of the summer. That fit appropriately, in that stalker-ish young love phase of life.</p>
<p>Oh, JHS - if you are still reading, I am blaming you for a massive loss of productivity on my part, as your suggestion of Modern Lovers’ “Roadrunner” for a Boston-themed occasion has triggered me to spend countless hours listening to all the Modern Lovers’ work on YouTube and comb eBay for their CD’s. They have now skyrocketed into my top 5 artists of all times, which had been a stagnant group for the last 10-15 years.</p>
<p>Ever little thing she does is magic by the Police.</p>
<p>I don’t remember my wedding songs, but my two daughters and I have already picked out the songs for the father-daughter dance at THEIR weddings:</p>
<p>D1: “My Little Girl” by Tim McGraw
D2: “You Raise Me Up” by Josh Groban</p>
<p>Every time I hear either of those songs I start to cry. A grown man crying in the middle of the interstate highway on the way to work every day. It’s pathetic, I know, but I can’t help it. Anyway, we’ve decided those will be the songs even though neither will be getting married for several years. One just completed only her first year in college!</p>
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This was huge for us, too. </p>
<p>A few of the many other songs that have meant a lot to us as a couple over the years:</p>
<p>Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane, “Keep Me Turning”
Aimee Mann, “I’ve Had It”
Jefferson Airplane, “Young Girl Sunday Blues”
Richard Shindell, “A Summer Wind, A Cotton Dress”
Talking Heads, “This Must Be the Place”
Pretenders, “Message of Love”</p>
<p>Our wedding song was “Pride (In the Name of Love)” by U2, which is funny because neither of us has ever been much of a U2 fan–we just liked that song.</p>
<p>Nightchef–I love, love love, Shindell, but that is such a sad song. It’s about someone married to one person, but in love with someone else, and always remembering her instead. Yikes.</p>
<p>OTOH, “Are you Happy Now” has to be in the running for the absolute best kiss-off song ever.</p>
<p>Come Rain Or Come Shine</p>
<p>(and I gave him a barometer on the anniversary of our engagement)</p>