IF you had to make a top 20 song list for weddings, what would they be?

This is a no win question big time ....in today's wedding scene EACH gig is VERY DIFFERENT....you cannot carbon copy every wedding...its a whole new ballgame out here versus years ago. Choose your gigs carefully or disaster will strike big time not only at the affair but in court afterwards

Understand, let me rephrase the question.

What would your top 20 wedding song list be, I understand there are different venues and situations, I would like to see what people have in their list

thanks

Mobile beat magazine, a magazine for DJ's, puts out a top 200 list of the most requested most played songs for the past year.
May not be relevant but Fun to see.
http://www.mobilebeat.com/top-200/

Frank I have thousands of songs & never know what Im going to play UNTIL I READ THE AUDIENCE.....you have to have a packed tool box & be ready for anything......if you just want to be a "Johnny DJ" & do the MUST HAVE usual songs electric slide, cotton eyed joe, chicken song, cha cha slide, burger dance, mississippi slide, etc, etc, .....just do a Google search for top 20 wedding songs....doing live music in today's saturated DJ wedding world is a challenge but not impossible.

good ideas

thanks guys

Frank, I'd love to help out, but it's been such a long time since I played a wedding reception - that's DJ territory around here.

Sorry no one gave you actual titles; I'd be interested in a list also.

I was also wondering, as performers we all have atleast 20 songs we almost always perform.

Country, rock, modern, classic, there are almost always goto tunes.

For example we always will play

Piccolo Fiore
Cuiri Cuiri
L'emozione
Caffe Mioendo
Besame mucho
A chi


etc:

We will?????

chas

heh, heh.

How about: Always On My Mind,
Amazed (By You)
Best of My Love
Can't Help Falling In Love
Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
Easy
Have I Told You Lately
Hello
How Deep Is Your Love
How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You
I Swear
In the Midnight Hour
Lady
Lady In Red
Light My Fire
My Girl/My Guy
Pretty Woman
Some Kind of Wonderful
Somewhere In Time
Still
Stuck On You
Three Times a Lady
Unchained Melody
Unforgettable
The Way You Do the Things You Do
The Way You Look Tonight
Wonderful Tonight
Wonderful World
You Are So Beautiful
You Are the Sunshine of My Life
You Light Up My Life
You're Beautiful
You Send Me

C'mon chas ... you MUST have played Besame Mucho SOMETIME !!!

t.

Well, Cass. Yours is the only list where I know or have heard of, all the songs. I don't know if that's good or bad . Assuming your referring to the old Sam Cooke tune, I can't believe you've got that great ol' soul stirrer, You Send Me, on your list. Bravo. A lot of other good tunes there, as well. Given the type of music that you do and your fondness for 'that B3 sound', I'm surprised you haven't got 'Green Onions' on your list .

chas

chas,
Green Onions, Good Lovin', Lonely Too Long and so many others are just too difficult to do without a live drummer (for me). I use a majority of SMFs for my songs and those midis are not the greatest. Except for Lonely Too Long, I haven't had any success using styles with these either.

Cass this is the beauty of Sequencing.....styles for the most part are TOO REPETITIVE for certain songs...when you want that perfect sound for a particular tune you can easily do it so much better using a SMF........create them yourself track by track or add custom parts to and existing foundation of a commercial one & play on top.....it can work very well done right.

D - thanks for the encouragement. It's really my fault for not delving into styles and style creation. I understand the Roland is very easy to do these things with. Maybe if i just get off my arse; gee, that's what my wife keeps saying too.

Cass its easy just grab a cold one ......lock yourself in your room and GO FOR IT......& if ya need help we're here for ya baby!!!

OMG - no offense, but if I ever played 20 slow songs in a 4 or 5 hour wedding, I'd never work again...with ANY age group. Do you REALLY do that many slow songs at EVERY job? I try to do 3 fast (mixed) to 1 or 2 slow. In 4 hours, I generally play 60 songs. 1/3 slow would never cut it in Philly or at the Shore.

I hope it works for you!

how about 20 songs - Not get married!!!- LOL
Title - After Wedding Day Reality

1- Another one bites the dust - Queen
2- Under Pressure - David Bowie and Queen
3- Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf
4- D.I.V.O.R.C.E - Tammy Wynette
5- There aint nothing going on but the rent - Gwen Guthrie
6- I will Survive - Goria Gaynor
7- I could be happy - Altered Images
8- Private Hell - The Jam
9- Barrel of a Gun - Depeche Mode (Shotgun weddings only)
10- Papas got a brand new Bag - James Brown
11- Devil with a Bust - Sound Experience
12 -Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden
13- At the height of the fighting ( He-La-Hu) - Heaven 17
14- All she wants is - Duran Duran
15- I dont know what you want but I cant give it anymore - Pet Shop Boys
16- What a difference a day makes - Esther Williams
17- I still havent found what I'm looking for - U2
18- Ball and Chain - Eurythmics
19- If looks could kill - Heart
20- Your gonna make me love somebody else - The Jones Girls

Bonus Track - Shaddap your face - Joe Dolce

You forgot:

"Release me" and "Strangers in the night"



Jerry