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These are the songs Eileen and I chose to be played at our wedding reception.  It didn't work out exactly to plan, but close enough.

Cocktail Hour
Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach, "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"
Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim, "The Girl from Ipanema"
The Beatles, "I Will"
Van Morrison, "Into the Mystic"
Sade, "Your Love Is King"
Bill Withers,  "Just the Two of Us"
John Wesley Harding, "Like a Prayer"
Sinead O'Connor, "Dancing Lessons"
Luka Bloom, "I Need Love"
Graham Parker, "I'm Just Your Man"
Lloyd Cole, "Like Lovers Do"
The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows"
Billy Joel, "She's Got a Way"
The Cowboy Junkies, "Blue Moon Revisited"
Shawn Colvin, "You're Going to Make Me Lonesome"

Wedding Party Introductions
Billy Bragg, "The Warmest Room"
(At the Bragg concert last September, he stopped the band in the middle of this song and asked if Eileen Keating was in the house and then told her that I had a question for her.  That's when I proposed.)

First Dance
R.E.M., "At My Most Beautiful"

Couples Dance
Stephen Bishop, "It Might Be You"

Dinner Music
miscellaneous Chet Baker, Nat King Cole, Thelonious Monk, others supplied by the inimitable and irrepressible Michael J. Cimicata

Upbeat Songs
Ben Folds Five, "Steven's Last Night in Town"
Joe Jackson, "How Long Must I Wait For You?"
Talking Heads, "Nothing But Flowers"
English Beat, "Tears of a Clown"
Stevie Wonder, "For Once in My Life"
The Clash, "Train in Vain"
The Jackson 5, "The Love You Save"
Fats Domino, "Whole Lotta Loving"
James Taylor, "How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You"
Beck, "Mixed Bizness"
The Clash, "Rock the Casbah"
Dexy's Midnight Runners, "C'mon Eileen"
The Pogues, "The Sunny Side of the Street"
The Great Big Sea, "Mari-Mac"
Madness, "Our House"
Elvis Costello, "Everyday I Write the Book"
The Police, "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"
The Smiths, "Ask"
General Public, "Tenderness"
Level 42, "Something About You"
Lightning Seeds, "Pure"
The Beatles, "I'm Happy Just to Dance With You"
Howard Jones, "New Song"
U2, "Two Hearts Beat As One"
Bob Marley, "Is This Love"
Bob Dylan, "If Not For You"
James Taylor, "Your Smiling Face"
Elvis Costello, "From Head to Toe"
Big Country, "In a Big Country"
Matthew Sweet, "I've Been Waiting"
The Jayhawks, "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
Steve Forbert, "Romeo's Tune"
Joe Jackson, "Happy Loving Couples"
Badfinger, "No Matter What"

Ballads
Bragg/Wilco, "California Stars"
Paul McCartney, "Maybe I'm Amazed"
Sarah McLachlan, "Ice Cream"
Billy Bragg, "A Lover Sings"
Luka Bloom, "Can't Help Falling in Love"
Prince, "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"
The Beatles, "And I Love Her"
Sam Cooke, "What a Wonderful World"
John Hiatt, "Have a Little Faith in Me"
Prince, "Betcha By Golly Wow"
The Beatles, "'Til There Was You"
Sam Cooke, "You Send Me"
Crowded House, "Weather with You"
Paul Simon, "Something So Right"
James Taylor, "You Can Close Your Eyes"
Billy Bragg, "Ontario, Quebec and Me"

End of the Night
Paul Simon, "Late in the Evening"
Van Morrison, "Moondance"
Indigo Girls, "The Power of Two"
Billy Bragg, "The Fourteenth of February"
Tom Waits, "Please Call Me Baby"
The Beatles, "In My Life"
Neil Young, "Harvest Moon"

If you're interested in any of these artists or songs, just ask: bobfenster@juno.com.