Great American Love Songs
 

I'm trying to throw together a CD of decent American love songs that would be suitable to play at a wedding reception. I go to Vietnam on Monday and I want to be able to have some of my music represented with theirs.

Here's a few off the top of my head...

Endless Love - Lionel Ritchie & Diana Ross
Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers
You are the Inspiration - Chicago
Lady in Red - Chris DeBurgh
You Look Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
Can't Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon


I could use some help if you guys don't mind

Thanks.

gettin jiggy wit it?

just kidding

how about "thank you" from zeppelin...it promises eternal love blah blah blah


just do me a favor and don;t let them play "celebrate"


blood of eden - peter gabriel

I nominate "Ana Ng" by They Might Be Giants.

Make a hole with a gun perpendicular
To the name of this town in a desk-top globe
Exit wound in a foreign nation
Showing the home of the one this was written for

It's a love song to a Vietnamese woman.

Knights in White Satin. I know it's not "American" but neither is Eric Clapton.:)

Actually I meant English speaking rather than "American". I'm looking for soft, light, love songs (appropriate for weddings) that will make her weepy. Chris Deburgh isn't American either.

:)

hey, could we get another photo of the bride? i can't find the one i saw earlier.

congrats, radar. i hope it all goes smoothly for you.

oh, and what will the ceremony be like? do they throw rice?
that's not a shot, btw, just curious...asian ceremonies always seem to be so much more serious than our silly american traditions.

I don't think they throw rice.

Here's a pic...

boy! she's thin! I can;t even see her!

It wouldn't let me post because the same pics are posted in another thread.

HERE is a link to the thread.

She's professionally made-up and photographed. You can tell from the four-way catchlight in her eye.

http://www.cellar.org/attachment.php?postid=41790

she's beautiful. you must be estatic.

funny thread too. you said"cum bubble" rofl

Here's a few more I just thought of...

You are so Beautiful - Joe Cocker
The first time ever I saw your face - Roberta Flack
Reunited - Peaches & Herb
Just the way you are - Billly Joel

I think Billy Joel should be left off the list. It's too "standard" for receptions. Also, its sax solo is cheesy beyond belief.

Also, the meaning of the song is stupid when you really think about it. It seems like a nice sentiment and everything, but what it really does is to insist that the woman NOT change.

I sent her to get the Vietnamese version of "glamour shots".

Very much so. She's even more excited than I am. She told me she wants to have babies IMMEDIATELY. I don't think I want to leave my wife alone and pregnant in Vietnam while I come home ot America. She says not to worry because she'll be with her family. I don't like thier medical system though. Not only that but nobody drinks milk over there. Most people don't have a fridge. So babies are very small. I don't like that too much. But I'll tell her we can practice a lot.

It was a long and heated thread with me being ganged up upon and by that point I didn't care anymore. :)

Hmmm

I'll consider the Billy Joel thing, but I think the song is really saying "Don't change for me, I love you the way you are".

That's one thing I've noticed that's wrong with relationships.

Women usually look at a man like a lump of clay for them to mold the way they like rather than loving us the way we are. Men love women the way they are when we first get together. Women change too much and men don't change enough.

what?! your flying all the way to the other side of the world to marry her, and she's not even coming home with you? she's not in prison over there is she?

and milk is bad for you. unless it's your mother's milk. and if you're still drinking that, then cow's milk is the least of your problems. :)

I would love nothing more than to bring her home with me, but the US government won't allow it. I will have to file new paperwork which will take 8 months to a year. This after trying to bring her to America for 3 years as my fiance.

'If' by David Gates (Bread)

Also 'Baby i'm a want you' by the same or just about any Air Supply song

Just an opinion, but I think it wiuld be better if the kid was born here and not have to travel at that young an age. Absolutely no logical reason for that opinion, just a gut feeling.:)

Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle
Billy Joel - You're My Home This is my all time favorite love song, hands down...if you're not familiar with it, become so. Example of lyric:

"When you look into my eyes, and see the weary gypsy in my soul
It always comes as a surprise, when I feel my withered roots begin to grow.
I've never had a place that I could call my very own.
But whenever we're together, you're my home."

Congrats, Radar. I may think that a lot of your political views are fucked up, but as one human being to another, I'm thrilled that you are finding happiness and love with a beautiful person. Seriously.

A good reception song is Stevie Wonder - I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever). I am not a Stevie Wonder fan but this song is good.
This is also a good song Donna Lewis - Falling ,in fact HP and I played it at our reception.

Those are all I can think of right off the top of my head.

maybe i'm naive, but if she came here for the wedding, wouldn't she be a citizen, then? Or is this a myth? Or is it not your intent for her to be a citizen? sorry to keep trying to hijack your thread, but i'm curious.

Someone I know from an online list (he's a cop, but obviously not a really good one) developed a relationship with a Filipino woman he described to one and all as the love of his life, etc, etc, ... he went through all the necessary legal channels to get his internet-order bride into the US for the ceremony, and none of them worked out. Couldn't get the appropriate visas or clearances or whatever.

So he went for the next best thing ... got her into Canada, which has fewer restrictions on such things, and he went up there and married her.

They spent as much time as possible together, but he only had a limited amount of time off, so back to New Jersey for him, leaving her in the great white north (IIRC, she was in Toronto.) while continuing the attempt to finagle things via the state department to get his now-wife into the US.

She got tired of waiting.

No one knows where she is.

He's still legally married to her.

(remember, the Phillipines has a close relationship with the US ... their like the Puerto Rico of the Pacific, aren't they?)

Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman? - Bryan Adams from the don Juan deMarco soundtrack.

"When you look into her eyes and see your unborn children..."

A "can't miss."

Good luck, btw. My wife is originally Iranian (left at 9 ys old, and lived in Spain and Canada till we got married) and it took 8 years but she is now a citizen- something she has wanted as far back as she can remember.

Your fiance is very attractive. I hope she comes to America and votes the exact opposite of you so as to cancel out your vote. :D

I want to know what love is
Foreigner
Lou Gramm was from where I come from.Rochester,NY.

Although the Man In Black is probably not the first one you think of when love songs are mentioned he has a couple of excellent songs I'd recommend. 'Memories are made of this', and 'As Long as the grass shall grow' (be careful on that one, there are two versions with one being about indian atrocitities)

I Promise You is also an excellent song by Johnny, but it's semi-rare and hard to find a clean copy on certain file trading services. ;)

'Your the nearest thing to heaven' is also good but it has the silly backing vocals that Columbia Records liked to add to Johnny's music. :$ I wished he would have resang that song on his later CD's.

Best wishes

I tried to bring her to America for a weddding for 3 years while we watched all of her friends get approved and come over in 6 months. Our application was held up for some reason but they won't tell us why. And even if she got married here, she would not be a citizen. She would be able to apply for permanent residency, but to be a citizen takes a year or two of classes, to pass a test, and to take an oath renouncing all ties with other nations and promising to defend this nation.

Why wouldn't you go to Vietnam and do the same thing? If you really love her ...

Geez, how much time have you spent together?

I wonder if they got wind of your political postings??:confused:

If you don't mind the old stuff, here's a few good ones:

"At Last" by Etta James
"Fly me to the Moon" by Frank Sinatra
"Happy Together" by the Turtles
"Come Fly with Me" (James Darren does a good version)
"Memories are Made of This" by Dean Martin

All were on the playlist at my reception. Good shit.

I do really love her and I really hate communism. So it stands to reason that I'd bring her as far as communism as I can. I was offered a job teaching computer science at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's campus in Saigon. They were going to pay me $2,000 USD per month! To give you an idea what that's like, most people earn $30-$100 per month with engineers, doctors, etc. making $200.

I thought long and hard about it, but in the end I had to turn it down. If I took it I'd have to pay off the cops and perhaps other gov't officials, the mafia, and others to leave me alone. I'd also never be able to talk about true freedom and about the evils of communism without going to jail. They won't mess with a tourist, but if you live there it's a different story.

In person? About 2 months. Never seen her naked even. But we write letters, call each other, email almost everyday, and chat online with the webcam.

Even though 2 months is short, I already know what kind of a person she is and she treats me better than any woman I've ever known. The fact that she's exceedingly good looking is just a bonus.

That's not the case, and if it were the case I could sue them because that isn't grounds to turn down a fiance visa. I tend to think it was something they asked during her interview. Everything was going smoothly until her interview and then it all stopped. I think they asked her if we would be married right away and she said, "I don't know" or something to that effect because we hadn't set a date yet, and that cast some doubts.

But in any case, their job isn't to determine whether or not we have a relationship to their satisfaction. Their only job is to determine whether or not the woman I've chosen as my wife will be a danger when she comes to America and she won't.

HP: Good songs, thanks

My favourite love song is "lay your love on me" C'mon, C'mon lay your love on me

and also Bryan Adams "everything i do , i do it for you"

The lighthouse family "lifted" is pretty inspiring too.

Robbie Williams "Shes the One"

Powderfinger "i love your way" is a great tune.

Shakira "whenever, wherever" is funky for a lurve song

Ronan Keating "when you say nothing at all"

Bryan Adams "heaven" however lots of remixes have been done of this tune which are much better IMO.

the others i have seen suggested on here seem a bit cheesy to me, but maybe thats just my age..



:lovers:

You know, I wish you two kids all the best.

Yep, if she mentioned or hinted marriage at all to the INS that's what got her visa denied. You can come to visit, or to study, but you cant come to marry. Do you have to sponsor her? Put up a wad of security $?

For music it couldnt hurt to add
Some happy Stevie Wonder: For Once in My Life.
and to get the hesitant grandma dancing, I can picture...The Proclaimers: I'm Gonna Be

mazel tov!

A friend of my mother's married a woman from Thailand, and after several years was able to get the paperwork through the system so that she could come to the States. Last I heard (several years ago), they were still unable to get the papers through to bring her children to the States.

According to the gossip, she was surprised when they arrived at his house because he wasn't rich, didn't have a mansion, etc. She had thought that "all Americans are rich!". (I didn't know them well enough to say whether or not this was a problem, but I believe (according to gossip again) that it wasn't).