DJ Wedding Gig: 2009-10-24
At the end of last month, I was asked to host a wedding reception for a friend that sister JoJo works with. I accepted. So this week, I’ll be adding all the latest music I have from Promo Only to the library. When that’s done, there should be around 59000 songs in my collection.
The reception will be at the American Legion hall in Bellwood, on October 24th, 2009 from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM.
So far, the bride has made no special requests for music, although she did say that she wants my light show. No problem.
Nephew Garrett will be my roadie for this event.
October 21st, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Heard from the bride today. She wants to hear the song, I Love You by the Climax Blues Band. I have it. No problem. I’ll call her tomorrow and let her know.
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:26 am
I called the bride back this morning and let her know that I do indeed have the song I Love You by the Climax Blues Band. She says that she’ll pay me for this gig either today or tomorrow.
Today I’m testing the computer to assure that all is well with the music drive, cables, power adapters, Etc. All updates applied without problems and everything works properly.
October 23rd, 2009 at 8:50 am
The bride dropped off the check just now. So, she’s paid in full. We’ll head to the gig tomorrow afternoon, at around 3:30 PM.
06:52 PM: Nephew Garrett just called to confirm that he’ll be driving me to the gig tomorrow. He’ll get here aroudn 3:00 PM to visit with Mom a bit, and then we’ll hit the road at 3:30 PM.
October 24th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Garrett just arrived. We’ll be heading for storage to get the equipment in 25 minutes. The rain has let up too, which is good for moving electronics around.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
The gig went well but I was very ready for it to end when it did. Not sure why. Perhaps it was the smoky environment. Perhaps I ate too many cookies — too much sugar makes me cranky. But the bride said that she was pleased with my DJing; she liked all the music and the guests enjoyed themselves as well. I’ll put the playlist I used up here once transferred from the DJ laptop.
I did however, experience a failure of the music hard drive. It kept spinning down and then back up again, causing Winamp to hang while playing. Fortunately, I had a backup drive but I was a bit nervous while playing, knowing that I had no working backup drive with me. So sometime next week, I’ll replace the failed drive. I have one more Seagate 250 GB drive. Hopefully, this is the last such drive I’ll need before replacing all my 250 GB drives with 1.5 TB drives. That upgrade should take place sometime in 2011; sooner if I fill up the 250s sooner; they each have 12 GB of free space left.
October 25th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
The hard drive has been repaired. Click here for more details.
I’d say that this gig is history now, assuming that there’s no problem cashing the check I received from the bride. I’ll let you know if there is.
November 6th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Here’s the playlist used at the wedding reception in the same order as the songs were played at the gig:
The dinner hour…
Alison Krauss – I Will
Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Orchestra – Clair De Lune (Moonlight)
Bert Kaempfert – Danke Schoen
Enya – China Roses
Ferrante & Teicher – I’m In The Mood For Love
Henry Mancini – Blue Satin
Arthur Lyman Group – Yellow Bird (1961)
John Tesh – Angels In The Snow
Now taking requests…
Kid Rock – All Summer Long
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll
Saving Abel – Addicted [CW]
Johnny Mathis – The Folks Who Live On The Hill
Sean Paul – Temperature [LP]
The Carpenters – Beechwood 4-5789
Mac Davis – I’ll Paint You A Song
Paul Lekakis – Boom Boom [Rick Alick Big Boom Break Mix]
The Carpenters – Only Yesterday
Percy Faith – A Summer Place [Movie Theme]
The Carpenters – Touch Me When We’re Dancing
Donny Osmond – A Million To One
The bridal dance…
The Climax Blues Band – I Love You
Willie Nelson – Always On My Mind
The Beatles – And I Love Her
Gloria Estefan & The Miami Sound Machine – Anything For You
Seals & Crofts – Summer Breeze [Philip Steir Remix]
Wilson Phillips – Go Your Own Way
Marie Digby – Umbrella
Moe Denham – Autumn Leaves
Uncle Kracker – Follow Me
Atlantic Starr – Always [Edit]
Kenny Rogers – Lady
Luther Vandross – Always & Forever
Lonestar – Amazed
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
Lady Gaga – Poker Face
ABBA – The Dancing Queen
Lady Gaga (Feat. Colby O’Donis) – Just Dance
Casper – The Cha-Cha Slide [Club]
Los Del Rio – Macarena [Bayside Boys Mix]
Marcia Griffiths – Electric Slide
The Emeralds – The Chicken Dance [Version 1]
The Bee Gees – Stayin’ Alive
Hampton The Hampster – The Hampsterdance Song
Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers – Lover’s Mix
Chris Isaak – Yellow Bird
The Everly Brothers – All I Have To Do Is Dream
Juice Newton – Angel Of The Morning
The Quad City DJ’s – C’mon N’ Ride It (The Train) [Original Radio Edit]
The Miami Sound Machine – The Conga [Short]
Yellowcard – Only One
Chubby Checker – The Twist
Paul Lekakis – Boom Boom [Luigie Gonzalez & Finbarr Massi Generation Mix]
Nickelback – Photograph
Engelbert Humperdinck – After The Lovin’
Creed – Higher
Tom Cochrane – Life Is A Highway
Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me
Michael Jackson – P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
The 69 Boyz – Tootsie Roll
Sir Mix-A-Lot – Jump On It
Soulja Boy – Crank That (Soulja Boy) [Super Clean]
Jamie Foxx (Feat. T-Pain) – Blame It [CW]
Nickelback – Animals [CW]
Nickelback – Something In Your Mouth [CW]
Ronnie Milsap – (There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me
Lee Greenwood – God Bless The U.S.A.
Elvis Presley – Can’t Help Falling In Love
Miley Cyrus – The Climb
Kenny Chesney & Uncle Kracker – When The Sun Goes Down
Gretchen Wilson – Redneck Woman
Chumbawamba – Tubthumping