Ah! You're looking for a "father of the bride song"! Lol!
I was a party deejay for years (Nineties into the 2000's), and thats what we call it in the business.
Mainly did weddings. And in weddings more often then not you have a special dance for the bride with her dad, and another special dance for the groom and his mom. So the deejay has to play a slow pop song that is either specifically parental in theme, or uses a love song that can be taken as about parental love. The clients usually pick the song ahead of time, but usually need the deejay to offer suggestions.
Father- daughter songs include "Daddy' Girl" by Al Martino, though I prefer the version by the Mills Brothers (its a tiny bit less nauseating).
The Eighties country hit by Holly Dunn:"Daddy's Hands".
And the Nineties hit "Butterfly Kisses".
A girl named Kippi Brannon had a hit song in the 2000's on that theme as well (forget the title).
Sixties' folk singer Malveena Reynolds doing her song "Turn Around" (Rosemary Clooney did an easier-to-find cover version that is also good). The song is also known as the "Kodak Song" because it was used (sung by male baritone) in a Sixties Kodak commercial.
In the Fifties Nat King Cole had a hit with the song "Unforgettable", then in the 90's his daughter Natalie Cole recorded a posthumous duet with her dad that was seemlessly mixed into the original record that also became a hit. That 90's remake of "Unforgettable" in which father and daughter sing together was also a great popular father of the bride song at weddings.
Then there are many of what I call "gender neutral" songs that are appropriate for either father-daughter, or mother-son, dances.
These include: "the Wind Beneath My Wings" by Bette Midler,and Celine Dion's "[I'm everything I am] Because you Loved Me"
There arent as many specific mother of the groom songs as there are father-of-the-bride songs. "Song for Mama" by Boyz-II-Men is about it.
30 May 2016, 10:42 pm
