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
You know how this is. You talk to your idiot friends and family members and before you know what you are doing, you are gambling with them whether or not you can blog 50 wedding songs in 15 days before you leave to Las Vegas to get married on your 50-th birthday.
Of course this is so going on my I-pot, no matter if I can scramble all fifty together or not.
Btw. I did not say that I do it without help. So please, forward your wedding song links to me. I will post them and give you the credit for it of course.
Here we go, the first four songs that come to my mind, the bittersweet favorite one, the cheesiest German one, the rockiest one, the one that is in my ear since I got the ring:
1) Dr. Hook - Silvia's Mother
2) Roy Black - Ganz in Weiss mit einem Blumenstrauss
3) Billy Idol - White Wedding
4) The Ronettes - Going to the Chapel
Looking at this video makes it hard to wait until I will be able to jump into the gorgeous pool at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas as Ms. Clay Moncrief and slide down three stories in a glas tube through the shark tank with my new Ester-Williams-style polka dot red bathing suit. I just bought it together with my vintage wedding attire which of course I can't show you here - not yet.
I like strolling the strip and having dinner on top of the Eifeltower but I love staying downtown, the home of the Vegas cowboy, at the Golden Nugget with its worn old-time charm.
...not yet! Tomorrow Saturday, the Munich Mayor Uhde will tap the first beer barrel served at the Oktoberfest 2009 in Munich at noon. Let's hope he can tap it with two hits maximum. Anything else would be embarrassing and seriously endanger his re-election. Before the mayor can perform his most important job of the year, the beer barrels have to be drawn by Clydesdales through the city onto the Theresienwiese. This was always my favorite part of the "Wiesn" as the locals call the Oktoberfest. My favorite food there is not the beer or the white saussage, it is Vroni's fish grilled on a wooden stick, giant pretzels and yes, the gingerbread hearts of course...
When I watch the news I am getting tired of listening to corrupt politicians left and right always blaming the other side for the economic crisis instead of working together to finally find a solution.
Reading the biased hate that pours out of the blogger scene and the name calling makes me sad. I used to engage in that as well trying to get my point of views accross and it simply drains out all my energy. When I met my bipartisan group of local women who spoke up for both, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin when the media went overboard, we talked about the spirit of the so-called Truemmerfrauen, the rubble women who cleaned up Germany after World War II. None of them were the least interested of the others' political view or family background. They gave each other a hand and kept the buckets full of dirt going and did what had to be done to make their cities liveable for their children.
I wonder if it is possible to create a different blogosphere - a bipartisan effort to stop insults on both sides without losing ones own political view or identity. Further, is it possible to encourage our politicians to fight against corruption not so much by pointing to their opponents but cleaning the floor in their own party and is it possible to get the media back to honest attempts of objective journalism? Can we turn around the partisan attitude on federal and state level when we start with ourselves?
It sounds naive, I know, but I have a feeling that this will be our only option to get us out of the mess we are in, not just economically. Divided, we will lose, every single one of us.
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