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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