Ok Guys,

Normally I find that meal time etc at weddings are no longer than 3-4 hours (even the indian gigs I do) and they tend to take there time eating

On SAT 8th Dec 07, I got a wedding and they have asked for "soft/lovey dovey/romantic" type songs (their words not mine) LOL (From 12:00 Midday until approximately 8pm background music), although the B&G have said people will not always be in the hall

Do I repeat what I have!!!!! Will someone spot it, as you know you will have a copule who insist they sit and listen to the music all day

I am now starting to struggle to find more I'm now going back to the 40's with Frank Sinatra (It had to be you & The way you look tonight)

Can you guys give me some song titles that you use, I know I may have most of them, but now I have a blank mind (which is not hard to acheive) he he. Every time I find or think of something I listen to the words and guess what, it turns out to be about breaking up etc....

I have read some of the other threads "What Not to Play", but that only makes things worse for me

Come on guys, ideas please, this is racking my brain & I need some help/pointers

Out of interest, what did you quote for the 8 hours background music?

I'll try to put together a list from next week and post here. In the mean time...

Quick answer 1, search Amazon, find 'X' albums of love or crooner songs that have a playing time beyond 1 hour, stick these on and make up the difference in the remaining hours that you have love song material for - closer towards the main event! Eg 6 hours of bac to back CDs and 2 hours of you swapping tracks (performing).
Quick answer 2, got any karaoke backing tracks / instrumental versions of songs to 'throw in' during the background period to make up selections?
Quick answer 3, right, you've quoted for the 8 hours to account for the prep time you're going to put in to make this all work however you don't have enough music material to cover 'X' amount of hours of requested material......consider contacting someone available for around 5-6 hours who CAN cover this.
Make up the remaining time yourself. This will allow the hired help to work in the evening elsewhere locally.
Quick answer 4, You read all sorts of music lists but are finding it hard to put together enough material suitable for 2 hours let alone 8. You could consider forwarding the list you have compiled so far for the client to peruse and agree to. In other words, you forward a music planner. You can guarantee the music played is great because the client approved particular tracks.


Not the biggest list in the world...but a start!
Obviously, have left out hymns - It is usual for up to three hymns to be sung during the 'traditional' wedding service but more could be sung on the day!

Traditional Wedding Ceremony Music - Sourced
"Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin" (Richard Wagner) (also known as "Here Comes the Bride")
"Canon in D" (Johann Pachelbel)
"Guitar Concerto in D Major", Largo, (Antonio Vivaldi)
"Air" (from Water Music Suite), (George Frederic Handel)
The Prince of Denmark's March" (Trumpet Voluntary in D major) (Jeremiah Clarke)
Procession of Joy" (Hal Hopson)
Rigaudon" (Andre Campra)
Wedding March" (from The Marriage of Figaro), (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Prelude from "Te Deum" (Marc-Antoine Charpentier)
Trumpet Tune and Air" (Henry Purcell)
Trumpet Voluntary" (John Stanley)

Other Classical Wedding Ceremony Music
"Coronation March for Czar Alexander III" (Peter I. Tchaikovsky)
"Overture" (from Royal Fireworks Music), (George Frederic Handel)
"Promenade" (from Pictures at an Exhibition), (Modest Mussorgsky)
"Sinfonia" (from Cantata No. 156), (Johann Sebastian. Bach)
"Cantata No.29" (Johann Sebastian Bach)
"Prelude and Fugue in C" (Johann Sebastian Bach)
"Toccata" (from L'Orfeo), (Claudio Monteverdi)
"Romance from String Quartet" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
"Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major" ("Elvira Madigan") (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
"Trumpet Tune in A-Major" (David N. Johnson)
"A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op. 61 Wedding March" (Felix Mendelssohn)
"Winter," Largo or "Spring" Allegro (from The Four Seasons), (Antonio Vivaldi)

(Everything I Do) I Do It For You Bryan Adams
A Moment Like This Kelly Clarkson or Leona Lewis
A Whole New World Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle
All I Ask Of You Michael Crawford or Cliff Richard
All For Love Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, Sting
All Of My Life Diana Ross
Always Bon Jovi
Always Atlantic Starr
Always and Forever Heatwave
Always On My Mind Willie Nelson or Elvis Presley
Amazed Lonestar
Annie's Song John Denver
Be Mine David Gray
Because You Loved Me Celine Dion
By Your Side Sade
Can You Feel The Love Tonight Elton John
Can't Help Falling In Love Elvis Presley or UB40
Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You Andy Williams / Boys Town Gang
Close To You The Carpenters
Crazy For You Madonna
Crazy Patsy Cline
Don't Know Much Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville
Drive The Cars
Endless Love Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Eternal Flame The Bangles
Falling McAlmont & Butler
Fields Of Gold Sting
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Roberta Flack, Celine Dion or David McAlmont
Fly Me To The Moon Frank Sinatra
Flying Without Wings Westlife
From this Moment On Shania Twain
Get Here Oleta Adams
Glory Of Love Peter Cetera
Groovy Kind Of Love Phil Collins
Have I Told You Lately Van Morrison or Rod Stewart
Heaven Bryan Adams or DJ Sammy
Hello Lionel Richie
Hello Again Neil Diamond
Here With Me Dido
Hero Mariah Carey
Hero Enrique Iglasias
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Gloria Estefan
I Believe I Can Fly R Kelly
I Believe In A Thing Called Love The Darkness
I Can't Stop Loving You Phil Colins or Leo Sayer
I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing Aerosmith
I Finally Found Someone Barbara Streisand & Bryan Adams
I Just Can't Stop Loving You Michael Jackson
I Knew I Loved You (Before I Met You) Savage Garden
I Swear All 4 One
I Want To Know What Love Is Foreigner
If You're Not The One Daniel Bedingfield
In Your Eyes George Benson
I've Had The Time Of My Life Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes
Just The Way You Are Billy Joel
Lady In Red Chris DeBurgh
Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet or The Troggs
Love Is In The Air John Paul Young
Love Me Tender Elvis Presley
Loving You Minnie Ripperton
My Girl Temptations
My Heart Will Go On Celine Dion
On The Wings Of Love Jeffrey Osborne
Only You The Platters
Thank You Dido
The One Elton John
The Power Of Love Jennifer Rush or Celine Dion
This Night Billy Joel
When I Need You Leo Sayer
Wind Beneath My Wings Bette Midler
Wonderful World Sam Cooke
(You Are) My Destiny Lionel Richie
You Send Me Sam Cooke
Your Song Elton John
You're Beautiful James Blunt
You're Still The One Shania Twain
You're The Inspiration Chicago

Here are some more suggestion tracks

I Get A Kick Out Of You Frank Sinatra
I Was Born To Love You Freddie Mercury
I Will Always Love You Whitney Houston or Dolly Parton
If Tomorrow Never Comes Ronan Keating or Garth Brooks
I'll Stand By You Pretenders
In My Life The Beatles
Isn’t She Lovely Stevie Wonder
It Had To Be You Harry Connick Jnr
I've Got You Under My Skin Frank Sinatra
Just The Two Of Us Bill Withers
Kiss From A Rose Seal
Let It Be Me The Everly Brothers
Lets Stay Together Al Green or Tina Turner
Love And Marriage Frank Sinatra
Moondance Van Morrison
Never Gonna Leave Your Side Daniel Bedingfield
Never Tear Us Apart INXS
No Matter What Boyzone
Nobody Does It Better Carly Simon
Nothings Gonna Change My Love For You Glenn Medeiros
Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now Starship
Over the Rainbow Israel 'Iz' Kamakwiwo'ole
Perfect Moment Martine McCutcheon
Save The Best For Last Vanessa Williams
Saving All My Love For You Whitney Houston
She's like The Wind Patrick Swayze
She's The One Robbie Williams
Solid Ashford and Simpson
Somewhere Over The Rainbow Eva Cassidy
Suddenly Billy Ocean
Sweet Love Anita Baker
Take My Breath Away Berlin
That's Amore Dean Martin
The Air That I Breathe The Hollies
The Power Of Love Frankie Goes To Hollywood
The Way You Look Tonight Frank Sinatra or Harry Conick Jr.
The Wonder Of You Elvis Presley
Then he Kissed Me Crystals
Three Times A Lady The Commodores
Together We Are Beautiful Fern Kinny
Tonight I Celebrate My Love Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack
Truly Lionel Richie
Truly Madly Deeply Savage Garden
Unbreakable Westlife
Unchained Melody The Righteous Brothers Or Robson & Jerome
Unforgettable at King Cole
Up Where We Belong Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
We Have All The Time In the World Louis Armstrong
Wedding Day The Bee Gees
We've Got Tonight Bob Seger
We've Only Just Begun The Carpenters
What A Wonderful World Louis Armstrong
When A Man Loves A Woman Percy Sledge or Michael Bolton
When I Fall In Love Nat King Cole
When You Say Nothing At All Ronan Keating
When You Tell Me That You Love Me Diana Ross or Westlife
Woman John Lennon
Wonderful Tonight Eric Clapton
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life Stevie Wonder
You Do Something To Me Paul Weller
Your Love Is King Sade or Will Young

Ok
How about some classical music, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, and some Opera classics, Madame Butterfly, Turandot etc. You can also play some flim scores (not Mad Max or Star Wars) Look for some Enio Morricone, ie Cinema Paradiso, or some John Barry; Out of Africa.
I play this kind of thing for background music, and it is fab, as it is not intrusive, it fills slience, and relaxes people. I know people think 'why would a DJ play that' but, it isn't there to start a party, it is there to create a romantic atmosphere for the Bride and her fool, I mean the Groom.
Also, as each of those are about an hour or so long, you only need 4 or 5 of them, and you are away!

Hope this helps
Good luck
Chris

Do an hour od swing music, swing albums are very cheap, under 5 pounds a lot of them. Nat King Cole, Armstrong Frank dean, all romantic, thens the older stuff.

Guys,

Thanks for the turbo fast replies so far.....

In addition to my 1st

This is a good one and hopefully it has got a lot of you also thinking (cheers)

Dukesy..... Good news, I am already taking the other half with me, who will be able to help out during the BG period, it will give me a break (and hopefully a chance to have a butchers hook around the place), nice little castle in 25 acres of land (just hope I don;t get lost)

Its a very long one..... midday (8 hours BG) until 1am (5 Hours main work), but luckily for me there is a group playing for 1 hour..... so really 4 hours main

Deposit is paid..... (thank god)....... Me and the Misses are getting a room for the night in the Castle, (Hope we don't hear the B&G) he he, I may say I might take the rest of the Month off..... 2.5 Grand was the total bill, and from the response of the B&G, and to my surprise, I think I was one of the cheaper quotes they got...

But as I said I am happy with that days work, and they are happy to pay

I have said to the B&G that I would put something together for their approval and also they have said they would like to add some other stuff

Chris.... Cheers.... Looking straight at me..... I have loads of Classical & also Instrumental stuff

Cheers so far guys

Dukesy look forward to your list

8 hours of BG music is only 8 CDs (or 4 double CDs ). There are loads of compilations of love songs - add in some swing, classical, slow country, slow rock, motown. At max you'll only need 160 tracks (20 per hour at 3 mins each).

The closest I could get to finding out how many songs have been released was 'over 1,000,000,000' (one billion) so finding 160 suitable ones shouldn't be a problem

I use classical piano, classical chamber music, latin jazz, dinner jazz, swing(crooners), Big Band, and some wedding classicals I have. I also have the Mastermix Ballad Box set which is LOTS of appropriate tracks.

I did 10 hours of BG once and didn't have to repeat, though I did play some salsa in there too.

There must be something on the ClassicFM label too Classical Love/Romance/Smooth

[quote name='skydj' post='190747' date='Oct 25 2007, 06:14 PM']
Guys,

Thanks for the turbo fast replies so far.....

In addition to my 1st

This is a good one and hopefully it has got a lot of you also thinking (cheers)

Dukesy..... Good news, I am already taking the other half with me, who will be able to help out during the BG period, it will give me a break (and hopefully a chance to have a butchers hook around the place), nice little castle in 25 acres of land (just hope I don;t get lost)

Its a very long one..... midday (8 hours BG) until 1am (5 Hours main work), but luckily for me there is a group playing for 1 hour..... so really 4 hours main

Deposit is paid..... (thank god)....... Me and the Misses are getting a room for the night in the Castle, (Hope we don't hear the B&G) he he, I may say I might take the rest of the Month off..... 2.5 Grand was the total bill, and from the response of the B&G, and to my surprise, I think I was one of the cheaper quotes they got...

But as I said I am happy with that days work, and they are happy to pay

I have said to the B&G that I would put something together for their approval and also they have said they would like to add some other stuff

Chris.... Cheers.... Looking straight at me..... I have loads of Classical & also Instrumental stuff

Cheers so far guys

Dukesy look forward to your list




Anyway, further to your message, not a problem mate, just 2 things, A:where do you get your 2 and a half grand gigs? B. I take it the DJ forum Christmas Party is at yours, and you are buying us all a drink!

Good luck mate
Keep us posted how it goes

Hope your reply above has come out the way you want it Chris.

Had a bit of trouble sorting out the double post. especially as my mouse appears to be on the way out and keeps double clicking for me.

Simple - get a lovesongs album and pitch it at -80%, it will last all day, but may sound a bit funny

I think you could play Acid at -80% and it would be right.

Jim

You need one of these