Wedding Songs

Wedding Songs Of The 1950s By Male Groups

The music of the 50s was the one to make possible the emergence of a new wave and style of what it has known to become the so disputed and intriguing Rock’nRoll next to the popular country and western music displayed in a diversity of forms. One of the pioneers of the rock music creation was Carl Perkins, whose style was referred to as “rockabilly” to describe a combination of R&B and country music with influences from rock. With him other musicians helped to give new shapes to the music industry, singers like Little Richard, Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash creating songs that became the representative classics of those times.




Some of these singers have also gathered to record songs in an improvised form of a males group in order to release adaptations of famous songs with voices that put the print of immortality in the musical field of the past and present periods. One of these groups has existed in a short period of time and gathered the famous Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash to record an impromptu jam session under the name of “Million Dollar Quartet”. Other famous male groups were “The Platters”, “Fats Domino”, “The Temptations” known to include in their repertoires sounds to contain gospel, R&B, country influences, all of their creations being the forefathers of the music we listen to on the radio nowadays.

Wedding celebrations are the places that develop the most the presence of music, whether it comes to the ceremonies or reception or both as parts of the wedding unfolding. Selecting the music for the wedding depends a lot of both the young couple’s taste and the guests presence in the atmosphere of the wedding. The list of invitees is always filled with different age ranges, going from the youngest till the oldest person to attend to this special event. In this respect, the selection has to be done with the awareness of the fact that music is a field that can contain a diversity of styles, therefore it displays rhythms and lyrics that appeal to a variety of tastes.

Considering that the older invitees of your guests list appear both on the ceremony and reception attendance you should take into account songs that were listened to by the time they were young and eager to go out and have fun. Wedding songs of the 1950s by male groups can be an option in the song choices of your wedding, the following songs can be successfully included on your wedding songs list in case you want to deliver an enriched and diversified entertaining program: “Softly and tenderly”, “You’re The Only Star In My Blue Heaven”, “That’s my desire”, “Down by the riverside”, “When the saints are marching in” performed by Million Dollar Quartet,”Can anyone explain?”, “I can’t believe you are in love with me” – by The Ames Brothers, “Blueberry Hill”, “Ain’t that a shame” – by Fats Domino, “Only you (and only you)” , “You’ve got the magic touch”, “The glory of love”, “One in a million” – performed by The Platters, “Get ready”, “You’re my everything” – by Temptations.

The wedding songs of the 1950s by male groups have the gift to introduce in the atmosphere of your wedding the perfume of the old and classic music with a nostalgic sense of a past belonging to your parents and grandparents, the persons that have built the characters you have become today with the celebration of your wedding, the day that will bond you for the rest of your life.   

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