In a Catholic Church, in the bicentennial year filled with patriotic music, we were married. Our ceremony music was light classical piano (not our first choice, which was the Beatles) but just fine. We hired a local trio for our reception, a group that played plenty of polkas and other standards, including the obligatory rock gems such as "Proud Mary." They got the crowd up for disco dancing with the latest pop hit, K.C. & the Sunshine Band's "That's The Way I Like It." With 200 friends and relatives of all ages attending, Deep Purple and the Moody Blues probably wouldn't have been an appropriate soundtrack.
Getting married and sharing a new life forever with another person creates new music inside. If you have a "significant other," as the term goes, some of your strongest music inevitably merges with their songs. It's the sense that, together, you can create your own path, sharing the ups and downs along the way. The soundtrack follows the path. We appreciated certain love songs together: "You Showed Me" by the Turtles, "Hello, It's Me" by Nazz, "Have You Seen The Stars Tonight?" by Jefferson Starship and into the future with Beyonce's rendition of "At Last," Jack Johnson's "Banana Pancakes" and more. We also concurred that Bryan Adam's Spanish sounding song "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?" was one of the sexiest songs ever recorded. It comes from an obscure Johnny Depp film (pre "Pirates of the Caribbean") call "Don Juan DeMarco" (Faye Dunaway and and an aging Marlon Brando alsoe starred.)
"Our House" wa a love song from Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young in 1970. Graham Nash wrote it and described a little house in Laurel Canyon that he shared with Joni Mitchell. It was a poetic celebration of their life together: "I'll light the fire while you place the flowers in the vase that you bought today..." The song was a perfect symbol of sharing lives.
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