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Monday, January 31, 2011

Popular Wedding Reception Songs & Wedding Song Suggestions


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 As your wedding date approaches, you’ll need to select a list of wedding reception songs for your DJ to play.  You'll need general reception songs, first Dance, songs for parent dances, Wedding party dances,the cake cutting any special dances.

It may sound easy, but many couples either don’t have time to do this or struggle to think of enough songs to add to the list.  So they end up listening to songs that the DJ chose at their wedding reception instead of their personal top wedding reception songs. Another Badd Creation Mobile DJ Service keeps a list of preferred wedding reception songs to use in a pinch but would rather play the songs you want to hear.

If you’re looking for popular wedding reception songs or are looking for tips to point you in the right direction look no further.  We’ve compiled  list of music including some of the most requested wedding reception songs and new contemporary favorites to help you compile your own list of wedding reception songs.  We’ll also give you tips for getting your DJ to play the wedding reception songs that you’ve chosen.


 Most wedding receptions last about four hours or so.  To fill four hours with music, you’ll need around fifty reception songs.  If you have a DJ, just pick your top fifty wedding reception songs for a “must play” list and let the DJ fill in the space if there’s any more music needed at the end of the night.  If you’re doing your own music, aim for sixty songs so you can be sure that you won’t run out of music.  While there aren’t any real “rules” concerning your wedding reception song choices, but you should try to have a mix of fast and slow songs in different genres.  Keep in mind that you want your guests to dance, so choose songs that they can move to.


Popular Wedding Reception Songs

Below is our list of the most requested wedding reception songs.  It contains fast and slow songs from many different eras and genres.

Popular Ceremony Wedding Songs & Ceremony Wedding Song Suggestions

  • A Living Prayer - Alison Krauss   
  • A New Day Has Come - Celine Dion
  • A Personal Touch - David Pomeranz        
  • All of my life - Diana Ross        
  • All That I Am - Rob Thomas        
  • Amazed - Lonestar       
  • Angels - Robbie Williams        
  • At Last -  Etta James        
  • At the Beginning - Donna Lewis        
  • Ave Maria - Luciano Pavarotti        
  • Back At One - Brian McKnight        
  • Beautiful As U - All-4-One        
  • Beautiful Girl - Kenny Lattimore        
  • Beautiful Soul - Jesse McCartney        
  • Because You Love Me -  Jo Dee Messina       
  • Better in Time -  Leona Lewis     
  • Born For You - David Pomeranz        
  • Bridal Chorus (Here Comes The Bride) - Richard Wagner        
  • Collide - Howie Day        
  • Completely - Jennifer Day        
  • Con Te Partiro - Andrea Bocelli        
  • Con Te Partiro - Time To Say Goodbye - Andrea Bocelli - Michael Castaldo          
  • Crazy Love - Brain Mcknight        
  • Dance With Me - Orleans        
  • Danny's Song - Anne Murray        
  • Destiny -  Jim Brickman          
  • Everlove - Eric Benet       
  • Everybody's Free - Quindon Tarver        
  • Everything - Lifehouse        
  • Finally I - Daryl Coley        
  • Fireflies - Faith Hill        
  • Flesh Of My Flesh  -  Leon Patillo        
  • Forever - Dave Hollister        
  • Good Morning Beautiful - Steve Holy        
  • Grow old with me - Mary Chapin Carpenter        
  • Hallelujah Chorus - Mormon Tabernacle Choir        
  • Halo - Beyonce        
  • Heart To Heart - Chris Brown        
  • Here I Stand - Usher          
  • I Am for You - Lisa Tucker          
  • I Can Love You - Boyz II Men        
  • I Can Only Imagine - MercyMe        
  • I could not ask for more - Edwin Mccain          
  • I Do (Cherish You) - Mark Wills        
  • I Give All My Love to You - Rhonda Vincent        
  • I Promise (Wedding Song) - CeCe Winans        
  • I will Love You - Fisher        
  • I'm Gonna Make You My Wife -  The Whispers        
  • I've Been Waiting for You -  ABBA        
  • I've Dreamed Of You -  Barbra Streisand


Formal Dance Songs:


FIRST DANCE

  • Always and Forever - Heatwave
  • Always - Atlantic Star
  • Amazed - Lonestar
  • Angel Eyes - Jeff Healey
  • At Last - Etta James
  • Beautiful In My Eyes - Joshua Kadison
  • Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion
  • Breathe - Faith Hill
  • Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley
  • Could I Have This Dance - Anne Murray
  • Dance of Love - Dan Hill
  • Crazy - Patsy Cline
  • Endless Love - Diana Ross / Lionel Ritchie
  • Everything I Do - Bryan Adams
  • Faithfully - Journey
  • Forever and Ever, Amen - Randy Travis
  • From Here To Eternity - Michael Peterson
  • From This Moment - Shania Twain - Bryan White
  • Give Me Forever I Do - James Ingram / John Tesh
  • Grow Old With Me - Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Have I Told You Lately - Rod Stewart
  • Have I Told You Lately - Van Morrison
  • Here And Now - Luther Vandross
  • I Could Not Ask For More - Sara Evans
  • I Cross My Heart - George Strait
  • I Swear - John Michael Montgomery
  • I Finally Found Someone - Barbra Streisand / Bryan Adams
  • I Love The Way You Love Me - John Michael Montgomery
  • In This Life - Colin Raye
  • In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
  • It's Your Love - Tim McGraw / Faith Hill
  • Just You And I - Eddie Rabbitt / Crystal Gayle
  • Keeper Of The Stars - Tracy Byrd
  • Me And You - Kenny Chesney
  • My Valentine - Martine McBride
  • Power Of Love - Celine Dion
  • Thank You - Led Zeppelin
  • To Make You Feel My Love - Garth Brooks
  • To Make You Feel My Love - Trisha Yearwood
  • Tonight I Celebrate My Love - Peabo Bryson / Roberta Flack
  • True Companion - Marc Cohn
  • Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers
  • We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters
  • When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge
  • When I Said I Do - Clint Black
  • Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
  • You're Still The One - Shania Twain


MOTHER - SON DANCE

  • A Song For My Son - Vickie Mereck
  • A Song For Mama - Boys II Men
  • The Perfect Fan - Backstreet Boys
  • Sunrise, Sunset - Topol
  • Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
  • I'll Be - Reba McIntyre
  • I Hope You Dance - Leann Womack


MOTHER - DAUGHTER DANCE

  • The Hopechest Song - Stephanie Bentley
  • Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion
  • Through The Years - Kenny Rogers
  • Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
  • 26 cents - The Wilkinsons
  • I'll Be - Reba McIntyre
  • I Hope You Dance - Leann Womack


FATHER - DAUGHTER DANCE

  • Daddy's Little Girl - Mills Brothers
  • Thank Heaven For Little Girls - Maurice Chevalier
  • Through The Years - Kenny Rogers
  • What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
  • When You Say Nothing At All - Allison Kraus
  • Butterfly Kisses - Bob Carlisle
  • Unforgettable - Natalie Cole
  • Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
  • You Are So Beautiful - Joe Cocker
  • I'll Be - Reba McIntyre
  • Lullabye - Billy Joel
  • I Hope You Dance - Leann Womack


CUTTING OF THE WEDDING CAKE

  • Love & Marriage - Frank Sinatra
  • How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You - James Taylor
  • Sugar Sugar - The Archies
  • Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
  • Sugar Pie Honey Bunch (I Can't Help Myself) - Four Tops

Popular Background / Dinner Wedding Songs & Background / Dinner Wedding Song Suggestions

  • Ain't That A Kick In The Head - Dean Martin          
  • All i want is you - BarryLouis Polisar        
  • All The Way - Frank Sinatra        
  • Always - Frank Sinatra        
  • As Long As You Love Me -  BackStreet Boys        
  • Baby I Need Your Loving  - The Four Tops        
  • Be My Life's Companion - Rosemary Clooney        
  • Beautiful - Christina Aguilera        
  • Beautiful Soul - Jesse McCartney        
  • Because You Love Me - Jo Dee Messina        
  • Better in Time - Leona Lewis        
  • Between You And I  -  Jessica Simpson        
  • Carolina In My Mind -  James Taylor        
  • Chapel Of Love - Dixie Cups        
  • Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol        
  • Come Fly With Me -  Michael Buble        
  • Con Te Partiro "Time To Say Goodbye" - Andrea Bocelli - Michael Castaldo          
  • Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band        
  • Crush - Dave Mathews Band        
  • Dance With Me - Orleans        
  • Danny's Song - Anne Murray        
  • Destiny -Jim Brickman 
  • Do I - Luke Bryan        
  • Everybody's Free - Quindon Tarver        
  • Finally I - Daryl Coley        
  • Fly Me To The Moon - Frank Sinatra        
  • Forever - Jaheim        
  • Glory Of Love - Peter Cetera        
  • Happy Together - Turtles        
  • Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me - Mel Carter        
  • How Beautiful - Twila Paris        
  • How Sweet It Is - Michael Buble        
  • How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) - Marvin Gaye        
  • I Am for You - Lisa Tucker          
  • I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) - The Four Tops        
  • I could not ask for more -  Edwin Mccain          
  • I Do (Cherish You) - Mark Wills        
  • I Love You - Frank Sinatra        
  • I Wish - Stevie Wonder        
  • I'll Back You Up - Dave Matthews Band        
  • I'm Yours - John Mraz        
  • If I Could - Regina Belle        
  • If This World Were Mine - Luther Vandross        
  • It Had To Be You - Harry Connick Jr.        
  • It Must Be Love - Madness        
  • Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel        
  • Just You and Me - Chicago        
  • Keep On Loving You - Reo Speedwagon        
  • Kind and Generous - Natalie Merchant


Bouquet toss songs are songs played as the bride tosses her floral bouquet to all of the single women at the wedding reception.

  • All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow    
  • American Woman - Lenny Kravitz 
  • Another One Bites The Dust - Queen     
  • Bad Girls - Donna Summer     
  • Can't Hold Us Down - Christina Aguilera     
  • Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend -  Marilyn Monroe     
  • Don't Cha -  Pussycat Dolls    
  • Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police     
  • Foxey Lady "Foxy Lady" -  Jimi Hendrix     
  • Girls Just Want to Have Fun  - Cyndi Lauper     
  • Girls, Girls, Girls - Motley Crue     
  • Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar     
  • Hot Girls In Love -  Loverboy     
  • Hot Legs - Rod Stewart     
  • I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor     
  • Independent Women - Destiny's Child     
  • It's Raining Men - Weather Girls     
  • Just A Girl - No Doubt     
  • Ladies Night - Kool & The Gang    
  • Legs - ZZ Top     
  • Love Is A Battlefield - Pat Benetar     
  • Luck Be A Lady - Frank Sinatra     
  • Man! I Feel Like A Woman - Shania Twain     
  • Material Girl - Madonna     
  • My Girl - The Temptations     
  • Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison     
  • Rocky Theme - Bill Conti/Cincinnati Pops Orchestra     
  • Sex And The City Theme - London Music Works    
  • She's A Beauty -  The Tubes     
  • Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyonce     
  • Single White Female - Chely Wright     
  • That Girl - Maxi Priest     
  • These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra     
  • This One's For The Girls - Martina McBride     
  • Uptown Girl - Billy Joel     
  • Wannabe - Spice Girls     
  • What A Girl Wants - Christina Aguilera     
  • Where My Girls At - 702     
  • Wishin' and Hopin' - Ani DiFranco



Garter removal songs are songs played as the groom removes the garter from the bride's leg. Usually the bride is sitting on a chair in the middle of the dance floor as the groom removes the garter.   

  • Ain't Too Proud To Beg - The Temptations    
  • Bad Girls -  Donna Summer     
  • Bad To The Bone - George Thorogood     
  • Fever - Peggy Lee     
  • Freak Me - Silk     
  • Hot In Here - Nelly     
  • Hot Legs - Rod Stewart     
  • How Bad Do You Want It - Tim McGraw     
  • Hungry Eyes - Eric Carmen     
  • I Wanna Sex You Up - Color Me Badd     
  • I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred     
  • Jeopardy Theme - The Gamers     
  • Just A Gigolo - David Lee Roth     
  • Keep Your Hands To Yourself  - Georgia Satellites     
  • Lady Marmalade - Christina Aguilera & Friends     
  • Legs - ZZ Top     
  • Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye     
  • Macho Man - Village People     
  • Naughty Naughty -  John Parr     
  • Pink Panther Theme - Henry Mancini     
  • Rocky Theme - Bill Conti/Cincinnati Pops Orchestra     
  • Rub You The Right Way - Johnny Gill     
  • Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye     
  • Shameless - Garth Brooks     
  • The Stripper - David Rose     
  • Theme From Jaws - John Williams     
  • Try Again - Aaliyah     
  • U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer     
  • You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate


Garter toss songs are songs played as the groom tosses the bride's garter to all of the single men at the wedding reception.



  • Another One Bites The Dust - Queen    
  • Back In Black - AC/DC     
  • Bad Boys - Inner Circle     
  • Bad To The Bone - George Thorogood     
  • Bootylicious - Destiny's Child     
  • Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf     
  • Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy     
  • Boys Of Summer - Don Henley     
  • Dukes Of Hazzard Theme (Good Ol' Boys) - Waylon Jennings     
  • Enter Sandman - Metallica     
  • Here Comes The Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze     
  • Just A Gigolo -David Lee Roth     
  • Macho Man - Village People     
  • Men In Black - Will Smith    
  • Mission Impossible Theme - Danny Elfman     
  • Pretty Fly For A White Guy - Offspring     
  • Rock and Roll Part II - Gary Glitter     
  • Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top     
  • The Wild Boys - Duran Duran     
  • We Are The Champions - Queen     
  • Whatta Man - Salt-N-Pepa     
  • Whip It  -  Devo     
  • Who Let The Dogs Out - Baha Men     
  • Wild Thing - Tone Loc     
  • You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC    


Garter placement songs are songs played as the woman (who was the winner of the bouquet toss) puts the bride's garter on the arm of the winner of the garter toss.


  • Bad To The Bone - George Thorogood   
  • Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe - Barry White     
  • Fever - Peggy Lee     
  • Gimme All Your Lovin' - ZZ Top     
  • Hot In Here - Nelly     
  • Hot Mama - Trace Adkins     
  • Hungry Eyes - Eric Carmen     
  • Keep Your Hands To Yourself  - Georgia Satellites     
  • Kiss - Prince     
  • Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye     
  • Luck Be A Lady - Frank Sinatra     
  • Macho Man - Village People     
  • Shameless - Garth Brooks     
  • Some Guys Have All The Luck - Rod Stewart     
  • U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer     
  • Wild Thing - Troggs     
  • Wild Thing - Tone-Loc     
  • You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC    


Top Pop Reception Songs:

  • Piece of me - Britney Spear
  • Tattoo - Jordin Sparks
  • Umbrella - Rihanna
  • Just Fine - Mary J Blige
  • Beautiful Liar - Beyonce & Shakira
  • 4Minutes - Madonna Feat Justin Timberlake & Timbaland
  • Give it 2 me - Madonna
  • Rock your body - Justin Timberlake
  • Put your records on - Corinne Bailey Rae
  • Ain't no other man - Christina Aguilera
  • You're beautiful - James Blunt
  • Do it well - Jennifer Lopez
  • Outta my head - Ashlee Simpson
  • Like this - Kelly Rowland
  • Crazy in love - Beyonce
  • Get right - Jennifer Lopez
  • Everything - Micheal Bouble
  • Get the party started - Pink
  • Canned Heat - Jamiroquai
  • Take me out - Franz Ferdinand
  • Let’s get loud – Jennifer Lopez


 Country Wedding Reception Songs:

  • Our Song - Taylor Swift
  • When the stars go blue - Tim McGraw
  • You'll always be my baby - Sara Evans (good for a father/daughter dance)
  • This Kiss - Faith Hill
  • Love you out loud - Rascal Flatts


Other Wedding Reception Song Selections:

  • Cha Cha Slide - Casper
  • Someone like you - Van Morrison
  • You were meant for me - Jewel
  • Just the way you are - Billy Joel
  • (You're the first, the last,) My everything - Barry White
  • Let's stay together - Al Green
  • God only knows - The Beach Boys
  • Love will keep us together - the Captain and Tenille
  • Ice cream - Sarah Mclaughlin
  • Only have eyes for you - the Flamingos
  • Love is here to stay - Frank Sinatra
  • Volare - Gipsy Kings
  • This guy's in love with you - Herb Alpert
  • My love – Wings
  • Get down tonight – KC and the Sunshine Band
  • Le freak – Chic
  • When I see you smile – Bad English
  • Lady in red – Chris de Burgh
  • We are family – Sister Sledge
  • Every little thing she does is magic – The Police
  • Crazy love – Van Morrison
  • LOVE – Nat King Cole
  • Come fly with me – Frank Sinatra
  • Ain’t that a kick in the head – Dean Martin
  • In my life – The Beatles
  • Girls just wanna have fun – Cyndi Lauper
  • All night long – Lionel Richie
  • Twist and shout – The Beatles
  • Slower Reception Songs:
  • The way I am - Ingrid Michaelson
  • By your side - Sade
  • True Companion - Marc Cohn
  • For you - Duncan Sheik
  • She's my kind of rain - Tim McGraw
  • I could not ask for more - Sara Evans
  • Bless the broken road - Rascal Flatts
  • The luckiest - Ben Folds
  • Better together – Jack Johnson
  • Your body is a wonderland – John Mayer


Popular Party / Reception Wedding Songs & Party / Reception Wedding Song Suggestions
  • A Woman's Love -  Alan Jackson          
  • Accidentally In Love - Counting Crows        
  • All The Small Things - Blink 182          
  • All The Things She Said - T.A.T.U.          
  • And She Said  - Lucas Prata        
  • Angel - Aerosmith        
  • Angel Baby - Dean Martin        
  • Angels - Robbie Williams        
  • Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet        
  • Around The World - Daft Punk        
  • Around The World (La La La La La) - A.T.C.          
  • Baby I Need Your Loving - The Four Tops        
  • Bailamos - Enrique Iglesias        
  • Barbie Girl - Aqua          
  • Be my Yoko Ono - Barenaked Ladies          
  • Be True To Your School - The Beach Boys        
  • Beautiful - Christina Aguilera        
  • Beautiful Day - U2        
  • Beautiful Girl - Kenny Lattimore        
  • Beautiful Life - Ace Of Base        
  • Beautiful Soul -  Jesse McCartney        
  • Behind These Hazel Eyes - Kelly Clarkson        
  • Believe - Cher        
  • Bellissimo - Ilya        
  • Best I Ever Had - Drake        
  • Between You And I - Jessica Simpson        
  • Billie Jean -  Michael Jackson          
  • Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve        
  • Blue Jeans - Keith Urban        
  • Blue Suede Shoes - Elvis Presley        
  • Boogie Shoes - KC and The Sunshine Band        
  • Boogie Woogie Dancin' Shoes - Claudia Barry        
  • Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas        
  • Break Away - Kelly Clarkson        
  • Bust A Move -Young MC        
  • Buttons - Pussycat Dolls        
  • Bye Bye Bye - 'N SYNC          
  • Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You - Lauryn Hill        
  • Candy - Cameo        
  • Caribbean Queen - Billy Ocean        
  • Carless Whisper - Seether          
  • Celebration - Kool & The Gang        
  • Cha Cha Slide - DJ Casper        
  • Chapel Of Love - Dixie Cups        
  • Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol        
  • Clocks - Coldplay        
  • Clumsy - Fergie        
  • Complicated - Nivea        
  • Congratulations - Cliff Richard       
  • Cotton Eye Joe - Rednex
  • Count On Me - Whitety Houston         
  • Crazy - "Gnarlsy"  Gnarls Barkley        
  • Crazy in Love - Beyonce        
  • Crazy On You - Heart        
  • Cupid Shuffle - Cupid          
  • Dance To The Music -  Sly And The Family Stone        
  • Dance With Me -  Orleans        
  •  Dance, Dance -  Fall Out Boy        
  • Dancing Queen Fernando Mamma Mia Waterloo - ABBA          
  • Dangerously In Love -  Beyonce        
  • Days Go By - Dirty Vegas        
  • Days Go By -  Keith Urban        
  • Destiny - Jim Brickman          
  • Disco Nights -  GQ        
  • DJ Play a Love Song - Jamie Foxx        
  • Do Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart        
  • Don't Phunk With My Heart - Black Eyed Peas        
  • Don't Stop Believing - Journey        
  • Dream Girl - Cynthia Feat. Johnny 0        
  • Electric Boogie (Electric Slide) -  Marcia Griffiths        
  • Electric Slide - Marcia Griffiths          
  • Ever Ever After -  Carrie Underwood        
  • Everybody Everybody -   Black Box        
  • Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung        
  • Everybody Loves Somebody - Dean Martin        
  • Everybody's Got Somebody - Traveling Wilburys          
  • Everything - Mary J. Blige        
  • Everytime I Think of You - Angelina        
  • Everytime We Touch - Cascada        
  • Family Affair - Mary J. Blige        
  • Favorite Girl - Marques Houston        
  • Flying Without Wings - Ruben Studdard        
  • Footloose - Kenny Loggins        
  • Forever - Mariah Carey        
  • Friday I'm In Love -  The Cure        
  • Friends - Michael W. Smith        
  • Friends Forever - Vitamin C          
  • Friends In Low Places - Garth Brooks        
  • Get Down Tonight - K.C. & The Sunshine Band        
  • Get Ready For This - 2 Unlimited        
  • Get Up - Ciara        
  • Gimme All Your Lovin' - ZZ Top        
  • Girls Just Want To Have Fun -  Cyndi Lauper "Cindi Lauper"     
  • Glory Of Love - Peter Cetera        
  • God Put a Smile Upon Your Face - Coldplay        
  • Gonna Be A Lovely Day - Kirk Franklin        
  • Gonna Make You Sweat - C&C Music Factory
  • Goodies - Ciara          
  • Great Balls Of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis        
  • Groove Is In The Heart - Deee-Lite        
  • Hanging By A Moment -  Lifehouse        
  • Happy People - R. Kelly        
  • Happy Together - Turtles        
  • He Can't Love You - Jagged Edge        
  • Heaven - DJ Sammy & Yanou        
  • Heaven Must Have Sent You - Bonnie Pointer        
  • Here in your Arms -  Hello Goodbye        
  • Heroes And Friends - Randy Travis        
  • Hey Baby - DJ Otzi        
  • Hey Ladies - Beastie Boys        
  • Hey Ya -   Outkast        
  • Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me - Mel Carter        
  • Holiday - Madonna        
  • Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani        
  • Hung Up - Madonna        
  • I Am for You - Lisa Tucker          
  • I could not ask for more - Edwin Mccain          
  • I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do -  ABBA        
  • I Don't Want To Miss A Thing - Aerosmith        
  • I feel Good -  James Brown        
  • I Finally Know - Boyz II Men        
  • I Got You Babe - Sonny And Cher        
  • I Hope You Dance -  Leann Womack        
  • I Like To Move It - Reel 2 Real          
  • I Love Rock And Roll - Joan Jett        
  • I Only Have Eyes For You - Art Garfunkel        
  • I Walk Beside You - Dream Theater        
  • I Wanna Be Loved  -  Eric Benet        
  • I Wish - Stevie Wonder        
  • I'll Be There For You - The Rembrandts        
  • I'll Be There For You - Bon Jovi        
  • I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred        
  • I'm Yours - John Mraz        
  • I've got my mind set on you - George Harrison          
  • I've Had the Time of My Life - Patrick Swayze          
  • Imagine - John Lennon        
  • In Harm's Way - Bebe Winans        
  • Into The Groove - Madonna        
  • It Feels So Good  - Sonique          
  • It Must Be Love -  Madness        
  • It Takes Two - Rob Base        
  • It's Still Rock and Roll To Me - Billy Joel        
  • It's The Same Old Song - The Four Tops        
  • Jenny From The Block - Jennifer Lopez          
  • Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog -  Creadance Clearwater Revival        
  • Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry        
  • Jump In The Line -  Harry Belafonte
  • Just Dance - Lady GaGa          
  • Just Got Started Lovin' You -  James Otto          
  • Kansas City -  Wilbert Harrison          
  • Keep It Together - Madonna        
  • Kingston Town - Ub40        
  • Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer        
  • Kiss on my List -  Hall and Oates        
  • Kokomo - The Beach Boys        
  • Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down          
  • Ladies Night - Atomic Kitten        
  • Lady - Lenny Kravitz        
  • Lady (Hear Me Tonight) -  Modjo          
  • Last Dance - Donna Summer        
  • Let Me Clear My Throat - DJ Kool          
  • Let Me Love You - Mario        
  • Let's Get Rocked - Def Leppard        
  • Let's Groove Tonight - Earth, Wind and Fire        
  • Lets Get Loud - Jennifer Lopez        
  • Life Is A Highway - Tom Cochrane        
  • Like A Prayer - Madonna        
  • Limbo Rock - Chubby Checker        
  • Little Shimmy In A Conga Line - Disco Biscuits        
  • Little Things Mean A Lot - Kitty Kallen        
  • Look At Us - Vince Gill        
  • Lost Without You - Robin Thicke        
  • Louie, Louie - The Kingsmen        
  • Love and Happiness - Al Green        
  • Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes -  Edison Lighthouse          
  • Love Shack -  B-52        
  • Lovely Day -  Bill Withers        
  • Macarena - Los Del Rio        
  • Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf        
  • Make Me Better - Fabolous        
  • Marry Me - Dolly Parton        
  • Matrimony - Gilbert O Sullivan          
  • Me & You -  Alexia        
  • Miami - Will Smith        
  • Mind Reader - Silverchair          
  • Missing - Everything But The Girl        
  • Money, Money, Money - ABBA        
  • Move This -  Technotronic        
  • Mr. Vain - Culture Beat          
  • Nice and Slow -  Usher        
  • Night Fever -  Bee Gees        
  • Oh - Ciara        
  • Old Time Rock & Roll  - Bob Seger          
  • On this Day -  David Pomeranz          
  • One In A Million - Bosson        
  • One love / People Get Ready -  Bob Marley        
  • One More Time - Daft Punk
  • One, Two Step - Ciara          
  • Only Hope -  Mandy Moore        
  • Only Time -  Enya        
  • Perfect Day - Hoku        
  • Piano Man - Billy Joel        
  • Piece Of My heart - Melissa Etheridge        
  • Play That Funky Music (White Boy) - Wild Cherry        
  • Poppin` - Chris Brown        
  • Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News          
  • Promise Of Love - Martin Nievera        
  • Promise Ring - Tiffany Evans        
  • Push It - Salt-N-Pepa        
  • Push The Button - Sugababes        
  • Ray of Light - Madonna        
  • Ready For Love - India Arie        
  • Remember the Time - Michael Jackson        
  • Respect - Aretha Franklikn        
  • Rhythm Of The Night - Corona        
  • Run Away - The Real McCoy        
  • Safety Dance - Men Without Hats        
  • Sandstorm - Darude        
  • Save The Last Dance For Me - Emmylou Harris        
  • September - Earth, Wind and Fire        
  • Sexual (Li Da Di) - Amber          
  • Sexy Back - Justin Timberlake        
  • Sexy Love - Ne-Yo        
  • Shake, Shake Senora - Harry Belefonte          
  • Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top        
  • She's Always A Woman To Me - Billy Joel        
  • Shook Me All Night Long -  AC/DC        
  • Shout  - The Isley Brothers        
  • Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder        
  • Single Ladies - Beyonce        
  • Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder        
  • Snow -  Red Hot Chili Peppers        
  • Some Kind of Wonderful - Huey Lewis and the News        
  • Someone To Love You - Ruff Endz        
  • Soul Man - Sam & Dave        
  • Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette        
  • Starry Eyed Surprise - Paul Oakenfold        
  • Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees        
  • Step In The Name Of Love Remix -  R. Kelly        
  • Such a Night - Elvis Presley          
  • Sugar Magnolia - Grateful Dead          
  • Sugar Sugar - Archies        
  • Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams        
  • Super Freak - Rick James        
  • Sway - Dean Martin        
  • Sway  - Pussycat Dolls          
  • Sweet Little Sixteen -Chuck Berry
  • Take My Breath Away -  Jessica Simpson          
  • Tender Love - Force M.D.        
  • That's What Friends Are For - Dionne Warwick        
  • Thats All - Nat King Cole        
  • Thats Why I Love You -  Boyz II Men        
  • The Best - Tina Turner        
  • The Color Of My Love  - Celine Dion        
  • The Day I Fall In Love - James Ingram and Dolly Parton        
  • The Dirty Boogie - Brian Setzer        
  • The Heat Is On - Glenn Frey        
  • The One He Kept For Me - Maurette Brown Clark          
  • The Sweetest Thing - Lauryn Hill        
  • The Twist  - Chubby Checker        
  • The Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson          
  • The World -  Brad Presley        
  • There Goes My Baby -  Charlie Wilson        
  • There You Are -  Martina McBride 
  • These Are My People - Rodney Atkins        
  • These Are The Days - 10,000 Maniacs        
  • These Words -  Natasha Bedingfield        
  • This Guy's In Love With You - Herb Alpert        
  • This Kind Of Love -  Sister Hazel        
  • Thriller - Michael Jackson          
  • Thunderstruck - AC/DC        
  • Time To Say Goodbye -   Andrea Bocelli        
  • True To Your Heart - 98 degrees        
  • Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison          
  • Twist And Shout - The Isley Brothers        
  • Two People Fell In Love -  Brad Paisley        
  • Two Step - Dave Matthews Band        
  • Under The Boardwalk - The Drifters        
  • Up and Down - Venga Boys        
  • Up On The Roof - The Drifters        
  • Us Against The World -Christina Milian        
  • Waiting For Tonight - Jennifer Lopez        
  • Wake Me Up Before You Go Go - Wham        
  • Walk This Way - Aerosmith and Run-D.M.C        
  • Wannabe - Spice Girls        
  • Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi        
  • We Are Family - Sister Sledge        
  • We Belong Together  Mariah Carey        
  • We Like to Party - Venga Boys        
  • We Must Be In Love - Pure Soul        
  • Wedding Bell Blues - 5th dimension        
  • What I Like About You - The Romantics        
  • What Is Love   Haddaway        
  • When Ever You Call -   Brian McKnight feat. Mariah Carey        
  • When You Say Nothing At All - Alison Krauss        
  • Where The Road Leads -  Trisha Yearwood
  • Whip It -   Devo          
  • White Wedding -  Billy Idol        
  • Wild Wild West -   Escape Club        
  • Wind It Up - Gwen Stefani        
  • With Or Without You - U2        
  • With You -  Chris Brown        
  • Wonderwall  - Oasis        
  • Wooly Bully -  Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs        
  • Yeah!  - Usher        
  • Yellow Ledbetter -  Pearl Jam        
  • YMCA - Village People        
  • You Are - Lionel Richie        
  • You Rock My World -  Michael Jackson        
  • You Should be Dancing - Bee Gees          
  • You're my first, my last, my everything - Barry White          
  • You've Got A Friend In Me - Randy Newman        
  • Young Modern Station - Silverchair          
  • Your Guardian angel  -  Red Jumpsuit Apparatus


"Do Not Play" Wedding Reception Songs

Just as you’ll want to have a list of “must play” wedding reception songs, you should also have a list of “do not play” reception songs.  Make sure you discuss your wedding reception songs with your DJ a few times before the big day.  If you hate the “Macarena” make sure your DJ knows it.  It is also a good idea to have your “must” list of songs and your “do not play” list in writing.  Going over the lists with your DJ and bringing extra copies to the wedding reception will help your DJ perform his duties to your satisfaction.



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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Rhythm and blues (R&B) History

Rhythm and blues famously known as R&B is the term used for a wide range of musical styles black Americans created in the 1940s. Some of the styles under the R&B umbrella include gospel, soul, funk and even pop. is a style of music that came out of the jazz, blues and gospel music  that was being played by African Americans in the 1930s and 1940s. Over the years, , black R&B bands took white songs by New York's Tin Pan Alley writers and revved them up. This more upbeat, exciting type of music caught on in a big way, and for the first time, African Americans had their own style of commercial music.

Rhythm and blues (R&B) was often called jump blues, or blues and rhythm. As the swing era came to an end in the late 1930s, many big bands broke up into smaller units and formed "jump blues" bands which played loud music with a strong dance beat, quickly becoming popular in the dance halls at the time. A typical band had a rhythm section provided by drums and a bass guitar, and sometimes a piano. There would also be a couple of horn instruments. A featured soloist was often a saxophone player from a jazz background.

Early R&B bands were those of Count Basie, Louis Jordan and Lionel Hampton. Basie had a hit in 1937 with "One O'clock Jump", while Jordan had a string of hits from the late 1930s through the 1940s. By the mid 1940s, "R.M. Blues" by Roy Milton and "The Honeydripper" by Joe Liggin each sold one million copies. Jordan's "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" was a landmark multi-million seller that topped the R&B charts for 18 weeks in 1946. Other hits included "Good Rockin' Tonight" by Roy Brown in 1947, "The Hucklebuck" by various artists, and "The Shufflebuck" by Jimmy Liggins in 1950.

Count Basie Orchestra - One O' Clock Jump



Greek American Johnny Otis had a string of R&B hits in the early 1950s. In 1951 he had ten songs that reached the top ten, including three number ones: "Cupid's Boogie", "Double Crossing Blues" and "Mistrustin' Blues". Otis produced the first recording of Leiber and Stoller's "Hound Dog", later made even more famous by Elvis Presley. It was in 1951 that disk jockey Alan Freed started calling the R&B music he played on his radio program, "The Moondog Rock Roll House Party", rock and roll. In 1954, "Sh-Boom" by the Chords was the first R&B song to reach the pop charts top 10. Fats Domino replicated this feat in 1955 with "Ain't That a Shame". Freed had moved to New York by that time and was helping to make R&B numbers such as Chuck Berry's "Maybellene" popular among white teenagers.

Hand Jive - The Johnny Otis Show

R&B's predecessors are often credited as jazz and the blues, particularly the music scenes of urban industrial centers, such as Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit and New York. It is from these genres that R&B musicians formed comparatively simpler ensembles, which usually consisted of a pianist, one or two guitar players, a bassist, a drummer and a saxophonist.

1940s to 1950s
 From 1948 onward, black music was marketed as "rhythm and blues," a term attributed to music journalist/producer Jerry Wexler. In the 1950s, as the hits began to rack up, R&B provided a template for another genre: rock 'n' roll. Motown Records was founded in 1959, the first major record label with an African American owner, Berry Gordy. It went on to become hugely successful, commanding a large share of the market for soul music

1960s
The R&B market was dominated by Berry Gordy's Motown Records in the 1960s,  The "Motown Sound" was soul music with a pop music influence. Some famous artists under this label included Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross & the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Jackson 5, the Four Tops and many more. In 11 years from 1961 to 1971, Motown had 110 songs reaching the top 10. Many R&B artists with other labels had huge success too, such as Sam Cooke, Chubby Checker, Otis Redding, and Aretha Franklin. R&B also was referred to as soul music. Sam Cooke was as one of the founders of that style, which combined elements of gospel music.

Sam Cooke - You Send Me




1970s to 1980s
Later, "R&B" was applied as a blanket term for more than just soul music. It also included funk, the danceable, more rhythmic product of soul and jazz; and disco, a genre of dance music. R&B resurfaced as contemporary R&B, describing the R&B style that rose to the fore after the end of the disco music era in the 1980s. It combines soul, funk and dance and, from 1986, hip hop. The style features a slick electronic sound with drum machine rhythm. Vocal arrangements are smooth and lush, and often use melisma, where a single syllable is sung as two notes. Early artists of contemporary R&B in the first half of the 1980s included Michael Jackson and Prince. In the late 1980s, Janet Jackson and Whitney Houston had hits. Tina Turner made a comeback with a string of contemporary RB hits in the 1980s and 1990s.
Say Say Say by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson



1990s to present
R&B is now referred to as "contemporary RB." This term is used to define a genre of black-dominated pop that traces its roots as far back as the demise of disco in the late '70s and early '80s. Boyz II Men led a number of boy bands that popularized classic soul harmonies. Some R&B was gaining a distinct hip hop sound by this time. It was Mariah Carey, along with TLC and Boyz II Men, who brought R&B back to the mainstream in the mid 1990s. These three artists all released albums that sold over 10 million copies. Further offshoots of R&B occurred in the late 1990s and the 2000s by artists such as Jennifer Lopez, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera.

Boyz II Men - It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday



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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The History of Doo-Wop ( Rock 'n Roll )

When the 1950s are mentioned, the first type of music to come to most people's minds is Doo-Wop (rock 'n roll). Developed from a blend of Southern blues and gospel music with an added strong back beat, this type of music was popular with teenagers who were trying to break out of the mainstream, conservative, American middle class mold.  Popular artists such as Bill Haley,  Elvis Presley, and  Jerry Lee Lewis  were promoted on radio by just as popular disc-jockeys (DJ's) like Alan Freed and the Big Bopper.  The deaths of Lubbock singer Buddy Holly , Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper is still lamented by fans.  The influence of these early rockers has been felt in popular music worldwide.

Buddy Holly on the Arthur Murray Dance Party 12/29/57



Music in the fifties was more than just rock 'n roll.  Crooners like Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and Dinah Shore were all popular.  Many of these singers were the idols of the rockers who developed the new sounds.

Doo-wop is a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues  music, which developed in African-American communities in the 1940s It originated from gospel-singing groups in churches during this time, and went on to achieved mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. An African-American vocal style known as doo-wop emerged from the streets of northeastern and industrial Midwest cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark and Pittsburgh.These urban communities contained the settings that enabled these often-young groups, to express their music without instruments. The use of their voices in a cappella form could be rehearsed in any location, on a street corner, in a hallway, or wherever the groups could gather together. These groups also had their professional beginnings in local community center talent shows, churches, school talent shows, and their neighborhood street corners. With its smooth, consonant vocal harmonies, doo-wop was one of the most mainstream, pop-oriented R&B styles of the 1950s and 1960s.

Bill Haley - Rock Around The Clock (1956)



In Chicago, the El Dorados, the Flamingos, and in nearby, Gary, Indiana, Pookie Hudson and the Spaniels of “Goodnite Sweetheart Goodnite” fame began their respective careers.

In New York City groups such as the Cadillacs, the Crows in 1953 with “Gee”, and the Heartbeats and later several other legendary groups such as; the Ravens, the Five Satins, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, the Jesters, Dion and the Belmonts, Jive Five began recording the songs that changed the course of music history.

The earliest of Doo-Wop roots can be found in a Baltimore, Maryland group formed in 1946 by Sonny Til and named the Vibranaires. This group later changed their name to the Orioles and topped the charts with “It’s To Soon To Know”. Many music historians consider “It’s To Soon To Know” by the Orioles to be the first Doo-Wop song to be recorded.

Los Angeles lays claim to the Penguins of “Earth Angel” fame, the Platters in 1953, the Coasters, and several other great groups.

Groups such as Lee Andrews & the Hearts formed in 1953 in Southwest Philadelphia of “Long Lonely Nights” fame also put Philadelphia on the Doo-Wop map.


By 1958, the Doo-Wop style of music ruled the rock n’ roll airwaves. the Silhouettes, Dion & the Belmonts, the Chantels with “Maybe”, the Del Vikings with “Come Go With Me”, the Platters, the Coasters and most of the greatest groups to ever record were capturing the hearts of America with their forever-legendary songs.

Elvis Presley "Jail House Rock" video 1957


Doo-wop music features a specific type of background vocals, provided by members of a musical group who are not the lead singers. A type of music characterized by onomatopoeia (that is, sounding like its name), doo-wop can easily be spotted by listeners who will hear the words "doo-wop" literally sung by backup singers. Often the bass singer in a group is tasked with this, though sometimes it fills the entire backup vocals of a song.



The origin of the actual term "doo-wop" and an explanation of who or what group named this genre of music is unknown. A rumor exists that a California radio disc-jockey named Gus Gossert coined the term in the early 1970s, but Gossert himself refutes this claim, noting that the term was around long before his tenure as a DJ.


American Graffiti (1973) Theatrical Trailer "Directed by George Lucas"

Doo-wop music has gone on to inspire movements in the Italian-American community, giving rise to Italian-American doo-wop groups such as The Capris, who sang "A Teenager in Love," and also Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Doo-wop's influence can also be seen in many rock and soul groups from the 1960s, including The Miracles and female groups such as The Supremes  and the Chantels. Its influence has also spanned generations, inspiring revivals such as Billy Joel's 1983 hit, "The Longest Time."



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Monday, January 24, 2011

The History of Disco

Disco is an up-tempo style of dance music that originated in the early 1970s, mainly from funk and soul music, popular originally with gay and black audiences in large U.S. cities, and derives its name from the French word discothèque (meaning nightclub)

Before the word disco existed, the phrase discotheque records was used to denote music played in New York private rent or after hours parties like the Loft and Better Days. The records played there were a mixture of funk, soul and European imports [LP-cuts or 45s]. We will call this genre of music "proto disco". These "proto disco" records are the same kind of records that were played by Kool Herc on the early hip hop scene.

Kool Herc The Father of Hip Hop









Disco dancing evolved alongside musical influences by Rock, Soul, Blues  and Funk music on the genre. Individual styles were choreographed to meet the demands of the soaring sound effects, reverberating vocals and the popular quaver and semi-quaver hi-hat pattern. Soon the Hustle became a common name for a number of individual moves. This partner-dance involved elaborate hand movements and sleek twists and turns. It was not very different from the Swing of the 1950s-1960s. Much of disco dancing came from older dances. The moves were combined forms of the Mambo and the Salsa. Dancing in a line was popularized first in Florida and New York City, during the early 1970s. The dance incorporated the Salsa foot rhythm and in time introduced the hip sways of Swing.

 Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby(1975)


A disco craze was born out of the line-dance, in 1975. Actually, the name 'Hustle' was given to the first dance identified with this music genre, after the popular Soul City Symphony and Van McCoy song, 'The Hustle'. Thereafter, dance moves choreographed to promote 'Disco Baby', by David Todd, became a rave in the new discotheque venues across New York City's East Side, and subsequently the rest of the world. While the song earned McCoy the title of 'Top Instrumental Artist – 1975', the Hustle was taken to the next level. Hustle moves soon resulted in the popular, jerky, back and forth movements of the 'Continental Walk'. The dance moves became as bold as the music, incorporating suggestive jumps, forward and backward, and elaborate clicking of the heels.

Do the hustle by the late great Van McCoy


The 'Bus Stop' was another line-dance that actually took on variations with regards to location and time! All through 1976 and 1977, the dance was popularized via instructional videos and live shows. A variation of the Merengue, Bus Stop involved hip rotations that helped change direction and partner orientation. Subsequently, 'the 'Electric Slide' was born.

 Fatback Band - (Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop


Most Disco dances have strong roots in Swing, Samba, Cha Cha, Mambo, Merengue, Fox Trot and Tango. The Hustle is believed to have originated in New York in 1970. It went through many variations in the seventies, with line dances for groups of people, solo movements that came and went, and partnership dances. These partnership dances included The Basic Hustle, Latin, Spanish and Tango Hustle, and the most popular Street, Three-Count or Swing Hustle that originated in California as the street Hustle by skaters in Venice and Malibu. John Travolta and "Saturday Night Fever" made dancing the "in" thing for many people, especially men.

Saturday Night Fever (1977) Trailer


Popular disco music of the 70's included Bee Gees "Stayin' alive", "Night fever", "More than a woman", "Everybody Dance" (Chic) and Donna Summer's "Love to love you baby".

Hustle is danced to the contemporary pop dance music of the last 20 years. It is a fast, smooth dance, with the lady spinning almost constantly, while her partner draws her close and sends her away.

"Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle." ... Abraham Lincoln.


Only by killing disco could rock  affirm its threatened masculinity and restore the holy dyad of cold brew and undemanding sex partners. Disco bashing became a major preoccupation in 1977. At the moment when Saturday Night Fever and Studio 54 achieved zeitgeist status, rock rediscovered a rage it had been lacking since the '60s, but this time the enemy was a culture with "plastic" and "mindless" (read effeminate) musical tastes. Examined in light of the ensuing political backlash, it's clear that the slogan of this movement--"Disco Sucks!"--was the first cry of the angry white male. --Peter Braunstein

Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive ( 1977 )




Discotheques

Discotheques originated in occupied Paris during the Second World War. The Nazis banned jazz and closed many of the dance  clubs, breaking up jazz groups and driving fans into illicit cellars to listen to recorded music. One of these venues - on the rue Huchette - called itself La Discothèque. Then Paul Pacine opened the Whiskey a Go-Go, where dancers would hit the floor accompanied by records played by disc jockeys on a phonograph. Pacine went on to open other clubs in Europe, while in Paris Chez Régine opened in 1960, catering to the self-styled beautiful people. The upmarket thrills of Régine's enjoyed by the American jet-set in turn inspired New York's Le Club, although it didn't last long, closing soon after a new venue in New York took off in 1961: the Peppermint Lounge.



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Sunday, January 23, 2011

The origins of country music

The roots of country music originated in the folk traditions of the British Isles. In the new world these roots were mixed up with other ethnic musics and those of African slaves. The music was played on fiddles and homemade banjos.

The origins of country music can be found in recordings Southern Appalachian fiddle players made in the late 1910s. It wasn’t until the early ‘20s, however, that country music as a viable recorded genre took hold. The first commercial country record was made by Eck Robertson in 1922 on the Victor Records label. Vernon Dalhart had the first national country hit in 1924 with “Wreck of the Old ’97.” But most historians point to 1927, the year Victor Records signed Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family, as the true moment country music was born.

Jimmie Rodgers

Jimmie Rodgers, known as the "Father of Country Music," was an instant national success. He is credited with the first million-selling single, “Blue Yodel #1,” and his catalog of songs, all recorded between 1927 and 1933, established him as the first preeminent voice in country music. Rodgers died from complications of tuberculosis in 1933. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961.

Jimme Rodgers-Blue Yodel (T for Texas)


The First Family of Country Music

The Carter Family was country music’s first famous vocal group. Comprised of A.P. Carter, his wife, Sara Dougherty Carter, and A.P.’s sister-in-law, Maybelle Addington Carter, the group flourished in the late ‘20s after the release of their first collection of songs in 1927. Different variations of The Carter Family continued recording and performing for decades. Two of their earliest hits, “Keep on the Sunny Side” and “Wildwood Flower” remain country standards to this day.

The Carter Family - Wildwood Flower


The Rise of Bob Wills and Western Swing

Originating in Texas and up through the Midwest in the late 1920s, western swing reached its peak in the early ‘40s. It blended the upbeat horn-driven sounds of the big band with New Orleans jazz, blues and Dixieland. Drums were first incorporated by western swing, and the eclectic musical mix included saxophones, pianos, and a Hawaiian instrument called the steel guitar. Prominent western swing figures included Bob Wills (the "King of Western Swing"), the Light Crust Doughboys and Milton Brown (the “Father of Western Swing”).

Milton Brown And His Musical Brownies 


Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys

Dubbed the “Father of Bluegrass,” Bill Monroe is credited with first popularizing bluegrass, a form of old-time mountain hillbilly music with its origins in Great Britain and western Africa. Bluegrass got its name from Monroe’s band, the Blue Grass Boys, which eventually included future legends Lester Flatt (guitar) and Earl Scruggs (banjo). After six years, Flatt and Scruggs struck out on their own in 1949 to great success. Bill Monroe was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys - Blue Moon of Kentucky

Hollywood Goes Country

The cowboy films of the 1930s and ‘40s contributed greatly to the evolution of country music. Stars like Roy Rogers (the “King of the Cowboys”) and Gene Autry parlayed their musical careers into very successful acting careers. Much of the great music from this era was actually written specifically for the movies. As these films flourished at the box office, their soundtracks were pressed to vinyl, and the buying public ate them up. Great cowboy stars of the era also included Rogers’ wife, Dale Evans, the Sons of the Pioneers and Spade Cooley.

HOME ON THE RANGE - ROY ROGERS/GENE AUTRY (AUDIO ONLY)

The Honky-Tonk Heroes

In 1942, Ernest Tubb's recording of “Walking the Floor Over You” made him an overnight sensation, which thrust his brand of country, honky-tonk, into national prominence. Hank Williams further popularized the genre with his emergence in the late ‘40s, while Lefty Frizzell ascended to almost Elvis-like popularity in country music circles in the ‘50s. Unlike all other styles of country music, honky-tonk has never taken a backseat to any new trend. Go into any establishment today with live country music, and you’re bound to find a honky-tonk band on the bill.

Ernest Tubb - Walkin' the floor over you


The Nashville Sound

In direct contrast to honky-tonk music, the Nashville Sound movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s polished up country’s rougher edges by blending big band jazz and swing with great storytelling. Lush orchestrations backed up the smooth crooning of stars like Eddy Arnold, Jim Reeves and Jim Ed Brown.

Eddy Arnold - Cattle Call


The Bakersfield Sound

Developed in the mid-1950s, the Bakersfield Sound originated in the honky-tonk bars in and around Bakersfield, California. Grittier than the polished and highly produced music coming out of Nashville, Bakersfield country drew on many aspects of rock and roll and rockabilly, predominately loud amp-up guitars, usually twin Telecasters played through Fender amplifiers, and loud drums. The biggest Bakersfield stars of the day included Buck Owens (the “Baron of Bakersfield”), Merle Haggard and Webb Pierce.

Buck Owens - Hot Dog

The Outlaw Movement

Fed up with the perceived “selling-out” of most country performers in Nashville, a number of frustrated and independent-minded artists decided in the mid-‘70s they would no longer follow the rules of Music City’s establishment. N’er-do-wells like Willie Nelson, his good friend and frequent collaborator, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, David Allan Coe and a host of others “outlaws” burned their leisure suits, grew their hair out, and sang whatever and however they chose to. These Outlaws gave country music the timely kick in the pants it desperately needed.

Merle Haggard, Toby Keith, Willie Nelson - Mama Tried

Urban Cowboy

The 1979 John Travolta movie, Urban Cowboy, popularized a movement in country that focused heavily on easy-listening crossover success. Artists like Johnny Lee, Dolly Parton and Mickey Gilley scored major hits on both the country and pop charts, while the “outlaws” of the mid-‘70s saw their music wane in popularity. History has proven that much of the music from this era, referred to by some as country’s disco era, was quite disposable. However, a number of notable artists did emerge during this dark period to forge wonderful careers, including Alabama, George Strait, Reba McEntire and Steve Wariner.

Urban Cowboy- -Stand By Me

The Class of '89
Arista NashvilleThe list of superstars who debuted in 1989 reads like a future Country Music Hall of Fame induction class: Garth Brooks, Clint Black, Alan Jackson, Travis Tritt and Dwight Yoakam all scored their first country hits in 1989. They drastically altered the direction of country music by infusing a youthful vitality and rock-and-roll mentality into a genre that was quickly growing stale and predictable. The amazing Class of ’89 bridged the gap between 20th and 21st Century country music.

Garth Brooks -The Thunder Rolls



Hank Williams
Hank Williams' recording career spanned only a few short years, 1946 through 1952, but Williams has lived on in the songs he gave the world and the power of his voice. Williams took the Appalachian cry of country music and made it popular across the nation, crossing over to the pop charts with 1949's "Lovesick Blues." But he was really the first country "outlaw," the first crazy wildman, the first one to really set the already established country music industry on its ear. Despite his popularity, the Grand Ole Opry fired him due to his excesses; and Hank himself, suffering from crippling back pain (many today speculate he may have had spina bifida), drank to excess and took many different prescribed painkillers, including morphine. He burned himself out before his thirtieth birthday, dying in the back seat of a Cadillac on his way to a New Year's Eve concert in Canton, Ohio. He was officially declared dead on January 1, 1953. His last recording was, ironically, "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive."

Hank Williams Sr. didn't live to see the legacy he left, but the torch burns on. "Old Hank" has touched everyone in country music. Every singer alive today, no matter what genre they sing, owes it all to Hank. His "Cold, Cold Heart" remains one of the most recorded songs in all of music.

Hank Williams - I'll never get out of this world alive

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Saturday, January 22, 2011

The Blues

When you think of the blues, you think about misfortune, betrayal and regret. You lose your job, you get the blues. Your mate falls out of love with you, you get the blues. Your dog dies, you get the blues.
While blues lyrics often deal with personal adversity, the music itself goes far beyond self-pity. The blues is also about overcoming hard luck, saying what you feel, ridding yourself of frustration, letting your hair down, and simply having fun. The best blues is visceral, cathartic, and starkly emotional. From unbridled joy to deep sadness, no form of music communicates more genuine emotion.

The blues has deep roots in American history, particularly African-American history. The origins of blues is not unlike the origins of life. For many years it was recorded only by memory, and relayed only live, and in person. The Blues were born in the North Mississippi Delta following the Civil War. Influenced by African roots. Its inventors were slaves, ex-slaves and the descendants of slaves - African-American sharecroppers who sang as they toiled in the cotton and vegetable fields. Field hollers, ballads, church music and rhythmic dance tunes called jump-ups evolved into a music for a singer who would engage in call-and-response with his guitar. He would sing a line, and the guitar would answer.

From the crossroads of Highways 61 and 49, and the platform of the Clarksdale Railway Station, the blues headed north to Beale Street in Memphis. The blues have strongly influenced almost all popular music including jazz, country, and rock and roll and continues to help shape music worldwide.

The Blues... it's 12-bar, bent-note melody is the anthem of a race, bonding itself together with cries of shared self victimization. Bad luck and trouble are always present in the Blues, and always the result of others, pressing upon unfortunate and down trodden poor souls, yearning to be free from life's' troubles. Relentless rhythms repeat the chants of sorrow, and the pity of a lost soul many times over. This is the Blues.

The blues form was first popularized about 1911-14 by the black composer W.C. Handy (1873-1958). However, the poetic and musical form of the blues first crystallized around 1910 and gained popularity through the publication of Handy's "Memphis Blues" (1912) and "St. Louis Blues" (1914). Instrumental blues had been recorded as early as 1913. During the twenties, the blues became a national craze. Mamie Smith recorded the first vocal blues song, 'Crazy Blues' in 1920. The Blues influence on jazz brought it into the mainstream and made possible the records of blues singers like Bessie Smith and later, in the thirties, Billie Holiday.

The Blues are the essence of the African American laborer, whose spirit is wed to these songs, reflecting his inner soul to all who will listen. Rhythm and Blues, is the cornerstone of all forms of African American music.

Many of Memphis' best Blues artists left the city at the time, when Mayor "Boss" Crump shut down Beale Street to stop the prostitution, gambling, and cocaine trades, effectively eliminating the musicians, and entertainers' jobs, as these businesses closed their doors. The Blues migrated to Chicago, where it became electrified, and Detroit.

In northern cities like Chicago and Detroit, during the later forties and early fifties, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, and Elmore James among others, played what was basically Mississippi Delta blues, backed by bass, drums, piano and occasionally harmonica, and began scoring national hits with blues songs. At about the same time, T-Bone Walker in Houston and B.B. King in Memphis were pioneering a style of guitar playing that combined jazz technique with the blues tonality and repertoire.

Meanwhile, back in Memphis, B.B. King invented the concept of lead guitar, now standard in today's Rock bands. Bukka White (cousin to B.B. King), Leadbelly, and Son House, left Country Blues to create the sounds most of us think of today as traditional unamplified Blues.

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Wyonnie Harris, and Big Mama Thorton wrote and preformed the songs that would make a young Elvis Presley world renown.

In the early nineteen-sixties, the urban bluesmen were "discovered" by young white American and European musicians. Many of these blues-based bands like the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Canned Heat, and Fleetwood Mac, brought the blues to young white audiences, something the black blues artists had been unable to do in America except through the purloined white cross-over covers of black rhythm and blues songs. Since the sixties, rock has undergone several blues revivals. Some rock guitarists, such as Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and Eddie Van Halen have used the blues as a foundation for offshoot styles. While the originators like John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins and B.B. King--and their heirs Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, and later Eric Clapton and the late Roy Buchanan, among many others, continued to make fantastic music in the blues tradition. The latest generation of blues players like Robert Cray and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, among others, as well as gracing the blues tradition with their incredible technicality, have drawn a new generation listeners to the blues.

W.C. Handy the Father of the Blues wasn't an ordinary Delta bluesman. Handy studied music as a youth, playing the cornet and traveling the South with dance bands playing minstrel and tent shows. Later in life he became a songwriter, bandleader and publisher. Legend is that while waiting for an overdue train in Tutwiler, Mississippi, in 1903 that he heard an itinerant bluesman playing slide guitar and singing about "going' where the Southern cross the Dog," referring to the junction of the Southern and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroads farther south near Moorhead. Handy called it "the weirdest music I had ever heard."

In the delta of the Mississippi River, where Robert Johnson was born, they said that if an aspiring bluesman waited by the side of a deserted country crossroads in the dark of a moonless night, then Satan himself might come and tune his guitar, sealing a pact for the bluesman's soul and guaranteeing a lifetime of easy money, women, and fame. They said that Robert Johnson must have waited by the crossroads and gotten his guitar fine-tuned. Not much is known about Johnson other then after the death of his wife in 1930 he decided to become a bluesman. Wandering around the Delta in 1933, he met Son House and Willie Brown. When they heard him play on the guitar startled them. In an amazingly short time, Johnson had turned into a blues guitar master, hence the myth that he made a deal with the Devil.

Blind Lemon Jefferson was indeed blind, unlike other Delta musicians who merely claimed the limitation. He died penniless in Chicago in December 1929, possibly suffering a heart attack when he became disoriented during a snowstorm.

Leadbelly was a large man, and given to fits of rage. In 1917, he was convicted in Texas for killing a man and in 1930 was convicted of attempted murder in Louisiana. Both sentences were commuted, however, based solely on his musicianship. His "discovery" came, in fact, at Louisiana's Angola Prison Farm .

Willie Dixon was certainly the single most important presence on the postwar Chicago scene. What distinguished Willie Dixon from most other Delta bluesmen of his day was his ability to read, write, compose, and arrange music -- talents that were to destine him for legendary status among the bluesmakers. However, it was boxing, not music, that brought Dixon to Chicago in 1936. He was an upstart professional fighter who for a time sparred with the great Joe Louis.

Named after a 19th-century American president, young Chester Arthur Burnett earned the nickname that was to become synonymous with the power of his voice "Howlin' Wolf."

Robert Johnson: the Legend, the Devil, and the Crossroads.

The Dark of a Moonless Night...

Story of the bluesman, the Devil, and the deal at the crossroads, as retold in Stephen Davis's Hammer of the Gods.

In the delta of the Mississippi River, where Robert Johnson was born, they said that if an aspiring bluesman waited by the side of a deserted country crossroads in the dark of a moonless night, then Satan himself might come and tune his guitar, sealing a pact for the bluesman's soul and guaranteeing a lifetime of easy money, women, and fame. They said that Robert Johnson must have waited by the crossroads and gotten his guitar fine-tuned.


Highway 61 intersects with Highway 49 aka the Crossroads

"I went down to the crossroads and fell down on my knees, asked the Lord up above for mercy, save poor Bob if you please." --Cross Road Blues by Robert Johnson



"You may bury my body down by the highway side so my old evil spirit can get a Greyhound bus and ride." --Me And The Devil Blues by Robert Johnson


"If you want to learn to play anything you want to play and learn how to make songs yourself, you take your guitar and you go to where a crossroads is. A big black man will walk up there at the stroke of midnight and take your guitar, and he'll tune it..." --LeDell Johnson


Robert Johnson’s life is a blend of folklore and mystery. His life is engulfed in myth and legend; adding the myth is his haunting lyrics. And his impressive, innovative country guitar style; you can quickly see why he is known by many as the father of the Delta Bues. Robert Johnson’s guitar playing was the beginning of the his legend. Robert was heavily influenced originally by Son House and Charley Patton, but Johnson quickly found his own style with unique chord movements and note progressions. Robert traveled throughout the Deep South in the 1930’s playing anywhere the train happened to take him. Son House had known Robert when he began to learn to play. House went on the road and did not see Robert for three or four years, and when Son and Johnson finally did meet again, House was astounded by Robert’s impressive guitar playing.

Just how did Robert learn to play so well so fast?

Robert Johnson was a Mississippi blues singer and songwriter, who according to legend, sold his soul to Satan "at the crossroads" in exchange for his remarkable talent on the guitar.

Born and raised in Mississippi, Robert Johnson started playing blues guitar in the late 1920s. His wife and child died in childbirth around 1930 and he is said to have devoted himself to the guitar. Part of the crossroads story comes from a report that he dropped out of sight for a while in the early 1930s and returned a much-improved guitarist.

In 1936-37 he recorded at least 29 songs in Texas (San Antonio and Dallas), then returned to Mississippi to play and sing in clubs and bars. His mysterious death at the age of 27 added to the legend: He died in 1938, falling ill after playing a party and dying four days later.

Some people said that Robert’s deal with the devil came due and as evidence gave the fact that they had seen him on all fours, howling at the moon the night he died.

...Or that he was shot by a jealous husband ( Robert was not shy with the ladies, and often stayed in strange towns with women he found at the places he played at. ). Or stabbed by a woman.

The truth is that Robert was poisoned, either by the barkeeper at the saloon he played that night, who was angry because Robert had been talking to his wife, or by a jealous girlfriend.

Whatever the reason, Johnson died at the young age of twenty-seven, and left a legacy of Delta Blues music that has influenced guitar players like Muddy Waters, and his songs have been covered by several rock stars, including Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones.

In 1986 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His songs include "Crossroad Blues," "Me and the Devil Blues" and "Terraplane Blues."
Adding To Robert's Mystic and Folklore...

Those who saw Robert Johnson play, may have also heard the rumors. Just like anyone who possesses an extraordinary talent and skill... Jealous counterparts circulated vicious rumors about Johnson.

In fact, it was Robert's one time friend and mentor, the great Son House who stated "He sold his soul to play like that". Johnson's peculiarities added to the rumors.

Some fans thought that he had the "evil eye". Actually, he suffered from a small cataract. Also, it has been reported that Johnson would turn his back to the audience while playing. Robert would also leave suddenly from a performance, and sometimes even during breaks in his set. While today such actions are not considered odd, In those days they were. Many people took it to mean that he was a man with something to hide. Actually, Johnson was doing some things that many musicians still do today. It's not uncommon to leave right after a performance in order to avoid mob scenes and the company that maybe around after a show. Eddie Van Halen, for example, also would turn from the crowd during club shows; to hide his technique from other guitarists.

Johnson's choice of teacher did nothing to slow the Legend from spreading His instructor, Ike Zinnerman, was alleged to have learned to play the guitar at night sitting atop tombstones in old country churchyards.

In certain southern communities, it was a well-known notion that one could go to the crossroads and sell one's soul to the devil. The concept dates back to African Folklore. When diety Esu was believed to be the guardian of the crossroads, and was the laision between the gods and humans.

When Christianity was brought to African Culture, these pagan gods were labeled as being similar to the devil. Hence, the concept that one could find the devil at a crossroad.

In celtic tradition, the bodies of the unholy were buried outside of town near crossroads to preserve consecrated ground. Witchcraft and the devil are prominent topics in early blues....and Robert's music is no exception.

Me And Devil - Robert Johson







"Old 8": The True Crossroads

Highway 61 runs south, right through the middle of the delta. It intersects Highway 49 at Clarksdale, Mississippi. Clarksdale is the birth place pf many blues legends. It was the home to such people Muddy Waters, W.C. Handy, Junior Parker and John Lee Hooker, just to name a few.

Over the years, Clarksdale has become known as the home of the blues, so it was just assumed that this is where The Crossroads were. In later years, ''61/49 Clarksdale'' has been so heavily advertised as The Crossroads.

But, in Memphis a couple of different sources, claim that 61 and 49 are not The Crossroads. The legend supposedly began around the turn of the century from the originators of the blues ... at Dockery Farms. The location given by a couple of sources is ''WHERE DOCKERY ROAD CROSSES OLD HIGHWAY 8'' This would be between Cleveland and Ruleville.

The ''Old 8'' runs parallel to the current Highway 8, just south of it. The "Old 8" is still there - it's a dirt road.

The Crossroads...... could you just stand there... at the Crossroads on a dark moonless night?

Rumor Has It...

That Eric Clapton was the first to use the term, "the 27 Club." He himself has claimed to have narrowly escaped the spector of death at the age of 27 due mainly to heroin addiction. But many famous musicians have fallen prey to the imfamous club that was founded by Robert Johnson.



Some Others That The Devil Collected His Due... All at the age of 27



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