Re: wedding playlist!

From: Wendy K (wendy@ninjatune.net)
Date: Fri Aug 11 2000 - 22:27:09 MET DST

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    1. Earth Wind & Fire
    2. Barry White
    2a. Stevie Wonder "I Just Called to Say I love you" or "Isnt She Lovely"
    3. check with the bride & groom - i once had to do a wedding for
    these people & they wanted to hear grateful dead - ok, i thought
    they're nuts, but i'll borrow "truckin" from a friend just in case
    sure enuf, they asked for it, & silly me, even grandma got up & dance
    to it(:)

    hopefully yours will have much better taste, but you gotta prepare
    for the vesatile, esp if yr gettin paid...

    >Yeah yeah! Sinatra works on young and old and I just LOVE to slip
    >him into a mix. I look for aj numbers with some real horns on them
    >so that they connect in the brass because I do not like to screw
    >with the speed too much and change his pitch. Nina Simone is another
    >of my faves for these occasions. I like to use occasions like
    >weddings to lay stuff on people in a quietly surreptitious sort of
    >way. Something from the new St. Germain could apply here as well.
    >It's got that so when I do weddings although it's only occasionally,
    >I take a pen and paper because people always want to know what I was
    >playing. I try to make a tape for the couple as well although often
    >other people want one as well!
    >
    >have fun with it Jim!
    >
    >cheers
    >
    >
    >cheers
    >I like the Sinatra thing - was thinking about some Songs for
    >Swinging Lovers but for some reason didnt want to admit this on AJ
    >list. tsk tsk - doubting my fellow listees appreciation of all
    >colours of quality music ;)
    >Jim,
    >
    >I have done some really successful weddings, you do NOT have to
    >compromise yourself at all and you can do some banging sets once you
    >lay it all in. I speak to the couple to see if there are any songs
    >they particlularly want to hear, they usually will have one or two
    >but I start my set in an ambient fashion and then I start getting
    >into things like Van Morrison - Have I Told You Lately Tha I Love
    >YOU?, there are others that work as well, some Nina Simone - I put A
    >Spell On You which has a lovely remix that samples Nina Simone well
    >by Morf calle "Spell". I play Sinatra who can be mixed beautifully
    >into downtempo/aj sets, besides the arranmgements are so great and
    >he is a trip anyway, Once you start to look for sounds and songs
    >that have "loving" notions in them, it gets to be fun! Once the
    >initial first dances are over, I start to build with sounds that
    >have a lot of percussion and a somewhat "natural" rather than
    >programmed feel and, if I build it right, before the party is over
    >they will be dancing to almost anything you are playing. It's quite
    >a challenge a wedding is, because you have to do so much more than
    >just spin some good sets! I do not want the "older" folks leaving,
    >so I try to lure them in!
    >
    >
    >I hope you have fun, I usually do and I have been paid pretty well
    >for the weddings that I have done! Good luck
    >
    >leslie/The Power of Sound
    >
    >
    >I have to dj a mate's wedding
    >
    >Want to appeal to all but keep it 'respectable'
    >
    >I figure a lot of Latin and will try and play as many different
    >version of Upo Neghina as I can. Barry White; a bit of garage; some
    >soul classics and a little Lovers Rock is what I'm thinking.
    >
    >Any djs on the list have experience of this?
    >
    >What fills the floors/what sends mother in law straight to the
    >hors-d'oeuvre table?

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