Wedding dance question

[Big Circus]

I'm getting married in November, and I'm trying to pick a song for the mother-son dance. I'm trying to avoid anything overly cheesy/sappy - basically, if it appears in a list on the internet, I don't want it, and I think my mom would agree. Any suggestions?

 

[John]

Comfortably numb.

 

[ADifferentOkie]

You do know that virtually everything related to weddings is overly sappy and cheesy, right?
Nobody would begrudge you picking something in that vein.

 

[Big Circus]

You do know that virtually everything related to weddings is overly sappy and cheesy, right?
Nobody would begrudge you picking something in that vein.

Oh, if I didn't know that before, I definitely know it now...still, the music snob in me just keeps coming out.

 

[ADifferentOkie]

I don't have any good suggestions for you. Wish I could help. We got married in a church that didn't allow dancing.

 

[zeke12]

Mama Tried -- Merle Haggard.

That would be unconventional.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I'm getting married in November, and I'm trying to pick a song for the mother-son dance. I'm trying to avoid anything overly cheesy/sappy - basically, if it appears in a list on the internet, I don't want it, and I think my mom would agree. Any suggestions?

Elope to Vegas.

 

[BRoth]

Go nuts:

http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-songs-about-mothers

 

[Buck]

Wouldn't any suggestion posted here be part of an Internet list, and thus prohibited under your criteria?

 

[slappy4428]

Squeeze box.

 

[Breakyoself]

baby got back?

 

[kingcreole]

I wouldn't use "The End" by The Doors.

My mother/son wedding dance song was "Through the Years" by Kenny Rogers.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Squeeze box.

Yikes. The radio station in my hometown would play that song all the damned time and the old guy who was the DJ would always say (imagine a B-List Walter Cronkite), "And now here's The Who with The Squeezebox." Always made me laugh.

My wife and I, getting married at age 47, deliberately chose a reception facility that was too small for dancing of any kind.

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

I wouldn't use "The End" by The Doors.

My mother/son wedding dance song was "Through the Years" by Kenny Rogers.

So was mine.

Weird how it came about, too.

My mom is a HUGE Kenny Rogers fan. But I kind of forgot that through the years (bad pun intended). So we're at our DJ/wedding co-ordinator's house three days before the wedding going over some final details and he asks "Do you have a song yet?" I said no, he said "How about Through the Years?"

Sold.

My mom cried like a baby.

 

[EStreetJoe]

Probably wouldn't work unless a Springsteen fan provided you with a solo acoustic or solo piano version:
http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/TheWish.html

 

[Flash]

Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys

 

[doubledown68]

Jesus and Mama Always Loved Me; as performed by Confederate Railroad.

If her name happens to be Julia, then go with the Beatles' Julia off of the white album.

 

[Mayfly]

"Hey Mama" by Kanye West

 

[cougargirl]

Mr. Cougar's mother-son dance song was "Through The Years," as well. However, it was a completely unplanned selection. After the father-daughter dance (Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely"), next thing we know it's the mother-son dance. Well, we just had to roll with it.

 

[Mayfly]

There goes "Bump and Grind" by R. Kelly