# 20s Jazz Wedding March? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20s-jazz-wedding-march/539334 "2010-05-13T18:54:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![theshortgiraffe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@theshortgiraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theshortgiraffe)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20s-jazz-wedding-march/539334/1 "2010-05-13T18:54:46Z")
I am getting married next Saturday and we are having a 1920s Jazz wedding (actually my fiancé recently posted about a short film to show before the ceremony). I have yet to settle on something to “walk down the aisle” to. I would like something slow, yet upbeat and obviously from the late 20s early 30s in the hot jazz style. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20s-jazz-wedding-march/539334/2 "2010-05-13T19:41:38Z")
You say “march.” Does it have to be march tempo? ---
**Author:** ![theshortgiraffe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@theshortgiraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theshortgiraffe)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20s-jazz-wedding-march/539334/3 "2010-05-13T20:01:32Z")
Oh no, not at all. I mean, it should be easy to walk to, not too fast, not too slow… but it doesn’t have to be a march beat. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20s-jazz-wedding-march/539334/4 "2010-05-13T20:14:44Z")
Track 32 on [this album](http://www.amazon.com/Hunks-Original-Little-Rascals-Music/dp/tracks/B000005YQ4/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1) is probably exactly what you’re looking for (it’s fizzy and charming), except at less than a minute, probably too too short. I did find [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIOtb_ND5rg) on YouTube, though. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20s-jazz-wedding-march/539334/5 "2010-05-13T20:20:49Z")
A couple of gems from Bix Beiderbecke [I’ll Be a Friend “With Pleasure”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tt05pYJZgI) [Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrr1Q0M_-YM) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20s-jazz-wedding-march/539334/6 "2010-05-13T22:06:23Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > I did find [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIOtb_ND5rg) on YouTube, though. That’s for your recessional! For the entrance, I don’t know how slow is “slow.” But you can walk as slow as you want to a faster tempo. The first song that crossed my mind, I swear, was _Struttin with Some Barbecue_. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxGruxZVavM](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxGruxZVavM) (And let me tell you, that isn’t referring to cooked meat.) That would make an awesome recessional, I think. Depending on how hot and slinky you want to go, there’s _The Mooche_ by Duke Ellington. Definitely could be a march. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDVZdZMCc0w](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDVZdZMCc0w) ETA: _Georgia Cake Walk_ by Art Hodes & His Chicagoans? ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20s-jazz-wedding-march/539334/7 "2010-05-14T04:00:08Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > Track 32 on [this album](http://www.amazon.com/Hunks-Original-Little-Rascals-Music/dp/tracks/B000005YQ4/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1) is probably exactly what you’re looking for (it’s fizzy and charming), except at less than a minute, probably too too short. Damn, you beat me to it…exactly what I was going to suggest! ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20s-jazz-wedding-march/539334/8 "2010-05-14T06:07:49Z")
Interesting assignment. I assume you don’t want a medium-paced piece - you don’t want to race down the aisle. Here are some ideas from the Red Hot Jazz Archive. The sound quality here isn’t very good, but it’s a good place to listen to a lot of music from that era. If you decide you like something you can buy it someplace else (the quality of a CD reissue will be a lot better). Each page lists a bunch of different recordings, so I can’t post links to each one - I’ll give links to the pages and name the recordings I think are appropriate. BTW, I assume it’s OK to list things from the very early thirties (I’ll give the year of each recording). [Duke Ellington’s Cotton Club Orchestra:](http://redhotjazz.com/dukecco.html) Cotton Club Stomp (1929) Doin’ the Voom Voom (1929) Hot Feet (1929) [The Jungle Band (an Ellington pseudonym):](http://redhotjazz.com/jungle.html) Rent Party Blues (1929) [Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra](http://redhotjazz.com/bmkc.html) She’s No Trouble (1928) Moten Swing (1932) New Moten Stomp (1930) [Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra](http://redhotjazz.com/fho.html) Business in F (1931) [Joe Venuti’s Blue Four](http://redhotjazz.com/jvbf.html) A Mug of Ale [Luis Russell and His Orchestra](http://redhotjazz.com/lro.html) Feelin’ the Spirit (1929) I’ll post more as I think of them.