And here it is, the grand finale of my won bet to come up with 50 wedding songs in 15 days before I get hitched in the Little White Wedding Chapel on my 50th birthday on October 8. I have to say, I had so much fun with this bet. It was all worth the work digging up wedding themed songs. I feel like people allover the world and from all times and backgrounds sang their wedding song to us.
Song number 50 had to be Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's wedding march. Below video does not only play the wedding march but also shows pictures from the area around Lake Constance in Germany from where I come from:
50) Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Hochzeitsmarsch/Wedding March
A recent hit having the hitch theme kind of hidden in it, another country song, and yes, another German oldie is what you get today. And, as Clay and I have our relationship and upcoming wedding well documented on flickr, I chose Gianna Nanini's Fotoromanza as song number 49. I only have one more song to go to win my bet. Number 50 will be a special one, so much I can tell. Don't miss it!
46) Kate Perry - Waking up in Vegas
47)Clint Black and Lisa Hartman Black - When I said I do
48) Peter Alexander - Verliebt, Verlobt, Verheirated (in love, engaged, married) from the movie "Feuerzangenbowle"
49)Gianna Nanini - Fotoromanza
Let's look into my international collection of wedding themed songs. I tried to find songs from every continent. Of course I had post a Goan wedding song for my friend Mario, a Finnish one for Ansa and a Maori Haka for my friend Christine. What can I say? For the first time I think I can pull off 50 wedding songs in 15 days because as of today, I only have five songs left to find with 45 down. I am gonna wihihin a dinner at the Vegas Eifeltower after getting hitched Elvis-style.
33) Goan Konkani Wedding song
34)Finnish Sacrificial Wedding Chant
35)Lady Africa, Margaret Singana - Mama Thembu's Wedding
36) Traditional Chinese Wedding Song
37) Italian Wedding Dance, Cena Luna Cela Luna ...
38) Greek Wedding Violin
39) Rabbi Allan - Hebrew Wedding Song, Hava Nagila
40) Maori Wedding Haka
41) Indian Chitta Kukar
42) Tanzania/Africa - Sukuma Tribal Wedding Song
43) Korean wedding song
44) Maria Farantouri - Xekina Mia Psaropoula (My Big Fat Greek Wedding Song)
45) Bijan Mortazavi - Sabzehzaar/Persian Wedding Knife Dance
The wedding song section I start today can be labelled as cultural diversity collection. I researched "I do" songs from allover the world and came upon some great findings. Here are the domestic ones I found which will then leave me with 32 songs down and 18 more to go:
30) Cajun wedding song
31) Lakota wedding song
32) Traditional Navajo wedding
Yes, I do and ich will! This entry is all about saying yes and not no. My repertoire today stretches from the German talk show host Hella von Sinnen with Rosenstolz to country boy Chad Brock and Gignola Cinquetti, si, jawoll, ich will and I do.29 songs down and 21 to go until the Little White Wedding Chapel is open for our drive-through.
1) Hella von Sinnen/Rosenstolz - Ich will
"You ain't got no country songs," were the remarks of the groom aka Highlander born in Texas, raised in Oregon with Scotish ancestry when he checked out the status of my wedding song blogathon. My favorite cowboy has got a point. Here are five country songs about wedding and marriage, some of them with great lyrics. I am impressed. I only knew one and love all of them
The last song, number six, is an oldie sung in my native language German by the Danish singer Gitte who wants a Cowboy as husband despite her mother wanting her to marry a railway employee for a secure government pension and her father wants her to choose a prince for a luxurious life but Gitte only wants a cowboy just like I do. Although not a country song, it fits our Texan-Bavarian wedding connection just fine, kind of, so I added it.
Ladies and Gentleman, it's past half-way-through time with 26 songs down and 24 more to blog until we get hitched in the Little White Wedding Chapel. Stay tuned and palease, send me the wedding themed songs you know. I am getting desperate and need to win this bet.
21) Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands To Yourself
22) Dolly Parton/George Jones - Rocking Years
23) John Foucault - One For Sorrow
24) Phil Vassar - Just Another Day In Paradise
25) Ron Warner sings the George Strait song - Check Yes Or No
26) Gitte - Ich will nen Cowboy als Mann
How about some punk, rap, and, in honor of the Oktoberfest currently in full swing in Munich, some polka wedding music? Your wish is my command. As of today, 20 songs posted with 30 more to go until Elvis will drive us through the same tunnel in Las Vegas on my 50th birthday where Michael Jordan went before us like so many others:
18) Nina Hagen - Punk Wedding
19)Jagged Edge - Let's Get Married
20)Lechner Buam - Lustige Hochzeit (Happy Wedding)
This is the Monday morning edition of 50 wedding songs in 15 days. Today I would like to introduce you to my Top 4 in the what I call the Schellack shelve . These are romantic, don't dare to say cheesy, vintage songs of which I partially still own the record. I love this type of music, not just because the one and only, the best man at our wedding who drives us to the chapel will be listed performing the last of the four songs. Elvis sings She Has My Ring while you see pictures from his own wedding. Elvis also sang the second last one, The Hawaiian Wedding Song, however I chose the version sung by Dan Ho for this collection. The first song is one of my favorites used as soundtrack not only in the movie Flyboys but also in Friends when Chandler and Monica are becoming a couple: Today I Met The Boy I am Gonna Marry by Darlene Love. The song that follows is a beautiful doo whop from The Five Satins, To The Aisle and I have to add the Dreamlovers to this post with When We Get Married. 17 songs down and 33 still to come until I get hitched on my 50th birthday.
13) Darlene Love - Today I Met The Boy I am Gonna Marry
14) The Five Satins - To The Aisle
15) The Dreamlovers - When We Get Married
16) Dan Ho - The Hawaiian Wedding Song
17) Elvis Presley - She Wears My Ring
What the heck. It is so much fun to explore all music genres to find wedding themed songs. I decided to give you four more as a Sunday special. How about one from an opera, one from a musical, one from a movie, and one from a TV show? 12 down and 38 more to come:
9) Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro
10) Irving Berlin - An Old Fashioned Wedding/Annie Get Your Gun
11) Senora Corleone, Don Strachi - Comme Facette Mammeta/Godfather Wedding Song
12) Frank Sinatra - Love and Marriage/Al Bundy theme song
Here is the Sunday edition of 4 more wedding songs to add to my collection. I am eager to win the bet to get 50 songs together themed around wedding before we leave for Las Vegas. This time I found a popular German children song, Die Vogelhochzeit, which tells us about all the different birds and their function participating in an avian wedding party. It is sung by the American Kelly Family. My second song is performed by a couple who portrayed to me what true love should look like no matter what others have to say, June Carter and Johnny Cash. The Grass Shall Grow tells the story of their love. Number three is not the original version of the song Stand By Your Man but is so much funnier: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Blues Brothers. Don't argue with me that this is not really a wedding themed song. Clay already tried that and I won. Standing in front of the minister means standing by your man, period. You gotta be a little bit flexible here. And when I wrote the word Blues, the last song for today practically presented itself, 5th Dimension's 1969 Wedding Bell Blues. 8 songs up and 42 more to go.
5) Kelly Family - Die Vogelhochzeit
6) June Carter/Johnny Cash - The Grass Shall Grow
7) The Blues Brothers - Stand By Your Man
8) 5th Dimension - Wedding Bells Blues
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