Marriage

(talking at a wedding)
It's night time in the Big City
a man buys a pack of gum, steals a nail clipper
2 pairs of sneakers are strung over a phone line
It's the month of June and that means church bells are ringing all over this great land of ours. Strap yourself in and get me to the church on time!

The Singers and Songs

  • Fred Rich and His Orchestra
    Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine)
  • Prince La La
    Getting Married Soon
  • Darlene Love
    (Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry
  • Ry Cooder
    Married Man's a Fool
  • Laura Lee
    Wedlock Is a Padlock
  • Dave Edmunds
    I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock and Roll)
    "Funky, Fusty, Noisome, Putrid, Rank and Reeking Reeky Sound. Stenchful and Stinking. Bad and Foul. Nauseating and Decomposed. Fuggy and Rotten." (Bob means that all in a good way.)
  • Etta James
    Stop the Wedding
  • Ann Cole
    Don't Stop the Wedding
  • Roy Brown
    Fannie Brown Got Married
    "A tornado of a singer."
  • Rosemary Clooney
    Get Me To The Church On Time
  • Johnny Tyler and His Riders of the Rio Grande
    I'm a Married Man
  • Jimmy Cavallo
    Leave Married Women Alone
    "Consequential, meaningful, weighty, basic, essential and fundamental"
  • Big Joe Turner
    Married Woman
  • Frank Sinatra
    Love and Marriage
  • Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright
    The Man Who Wrote 'Home Sweet Home' Never Was A Married Man
  • Lloyd Price
    Where Were You (On Our Wedding Day)

The Other People and Players

  • Fats Domino
  • Mack Woolbright
  • Charlie Parker
  • James Van Heusden
  • King Solomon
  • Stan Laurel
  • Big Joe Turner
  • Mae West
  • George Clooney
  • Conrad Hilton
  • Phillipe Alba
  • Zsa Zsa Gabor
    "A mechanism of evolution. She's been married so many times she's got rice marks on her face."
  • Chuck Berry
  • Meditation Singers
  • Rodney Dangerfield
    "My wife and I were happy for 20 years, then we met."
  • Minnie Perle
    "Getting Married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water; after you get in it's not so hot."
  • Phil Spector and His Wall of Sound
  • Delores Ferguson
  • Benny Goodman
  • Bunny Barrigan
  • Doresy Brothers
  • Nick Lowe
  • Irving Berlin
  • Johnny Cash
  • Elvis Presley
    "Cleaned up that naughty 'One Night' and hit big with it" “the swivel hipped rockabilly cat”

The Other Songs and Albums

The Guests

The Books and Poems

  • Marriage
  • Shakespeare Sonnet 116
    Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
    Within his bending sickle's compass come:
    Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
    But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
    If this be error and upon me proved,
    I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

The Movies and TV Shows

The Plays and Musicals

  • Our Town

The Places

  • Korea
  • Randolph County, NC

Record Labels

  • O.K. Records
  • Baton Records
  • Roulette Records
  • Hot Wax Records
  • Chess Records
  • Regal Records
  • Vocalion Records
  • King Records
  • Atlantic Record
  • Columbia Records