Best Songs for Weddings

This is a song Ruth Etting sang in the 1920s, I think. I thought it sounded sort of like a Yiddish song, it has such a Jewish chord progression, but no.
OK it’s got corny lyrics — but a great tune.

I got my piano tuned this morning but the guy rolled his eyes at me, he knows how long it’s been since the last time. ..

To celebrate, here’s a song I saw for the first time when I went out to visit my daughter and her fiance in Berkeley – he loves old-fashioned musicals and has a huge fake book of songs from long ago and the three of us sang them together and it was a hokey good time just like in the old days.

I know most people don’t like romantic sentimental songs any more, and this one is kind of sexist, but it’s got such a great tune and a happy bounce to it, I had to share it with you!

I went to visit my daughter in December and came back with a bunch of new songs to record but – there hasn’t been time to teach them to Bob, and my piano is so out of tune I can’t record them alone! The piano tuner’s coming next Friday, hope to have some new things for you then…

The Pratie Heads live, from a recent show, counseling towards the end: “So let us make the best of life not rendering it a curse – but take it as you would a wife, for better or for worse.”

This is an Irish love song. It’s on this blog already somewhere as a 30-year old recording. This is from last week, when it was requested. It’s live so the sound quality is iffy…

I just taught this song to Bob and we did it at our show November 27, 2009. It was still pretty rough but you get the idea.

This is from a November 2009 wedding reception. The camera was not in a very good place and the sound quality is awful, but you can get the idea. This is Jim Baird, acoustic bass; Robert Griffin, piano, and me on vocals. See North Carolina Wedding Musicians for more info.

Sung in my living room by Bob Vasile, my partner in the Pratie Heads wedding music operation!

In this one, a nobleman decides to marry a farmer’s daughter; his brother objects that it will shame the family. The nobleman says “I married a wife to work and win, but you married one to spend.” Heh. Bob Vasile of the “a href=”http://pratieheads.com”>Pratie Heads is playing guitar and singing lead.

Here’s a beautiful Scottish song for lovers who have been parted and are now getting back together. My favorite line:

All the world shall be of one religion, all living things shall cease to die
If ever I prove false to my jewel or any way my love deny