Digging the Tracks - Part 4

Welcome back to Diggin' the Tracks. This segment is more sappy and romantic than the past few. You have been warned.

Track 15 - Michael Bublé's Save the Last Dance for Me. Douglas and I are all about some Bublé! Narrowing down which Bublé tune to include on the STD took some work. "Wedding Date" is a movie we both enjoy and has a ton of Bublé tunes. As we're both fans of the show Las Vegas, we really enjoy the episode w/Bublé (tie the lobster part in w/the Friends reference of lobsters - and we have ourselves a mantra!)

(I'm currently trying to track down a clip from Las Vegas, but not surprisingly "Las Vegas" "Michael Buble", "Lobster", and "Catch of the Day" yield more than just clips from the tv show.)

And the clincher for us being all about some Bublé, is a story from when we were apart a few years ago. Douglas was starting his job at CBS Radio in DC and grad school at Johns Hopkins. I was still in my job at CBS Radio in Charlotte and hunting for gigs in DC. We couldn't afford for me to move until we were sure we'd both have incomes that would sustain us as DC was significantly more expensive than NC. So when I left Douglas in Maryland and flew back to NC, I didn't know when I'd see him again. Since we were both CBS Radio employees, we had the luxury of communicating through the company email. At one point, I got a an email with nothing but lyrics. The lyrics read something like this:

Another summer day
Has come and gone away
In Paris and Rome
But I wanna go home
Mmmmmmmm

May be surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh, I miss you, you know

And I’ve been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you
Each one a line or two
“I’m fine baby, how are you?”
Well I would send them but I know that it’s just not enough
My words were cold and flat
And you deserve more than that

Another aeroplane
Another sunny place
I’m lucky, I know
But I wanna go home
Mmmm, I’ve got to go home

Let me go home
I’m just too far from where you are
I wanna come home

And I feel just like I’m living someone else’s life
It’s like I just stepped outside
When everything was going right
And I know just why you could not
Come along with me
'Cause this was not your dream
But you always believed in me

Another winter day has come
And gone away
In even Paris and Rome
And I wanna go home
Let me go home

And I’m surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
Oh, let me go home
Oh, I miss you, you know

Let me go home
I’ve had my run
Baby, I’m done
I gotta go home
Let me go home
It will all be all right
I’ll be home tonight
I’m coming back home

Home by Michael Bublé

Sitting at my desk, I just start crying (I'm tearing up right now), and if you know me, you know I don't cry much. Ever since then "Home" has always had a special place in our hearts, as has Bublé.

Track 16 -  Love You by Maxwell. Maxwell is one of those artists that you're not really aware that you know of until you sit through one of his albums. So why were we going through Maxwell albums? He was coming to do a concert in DC and we were able to score tickets! Very quickly, one night in DC turned into three since every night sold out in no time! Since Douglas and I were going to go see this artist and I was not familiar, we started our pre-concert ritual of Douglas sharing some of his favorite tunes with me. One by one came the realization of "I know this song!" Fast forward to going to the concert. In DC, you can't just park or come out of the subway near your event location - especially in the middle of DC. So we had to walk several blocks from the metro to D.A.R. Constitutional Hall and it didn't take long to realize that we were going to be with a lively crowd. Heck, once we were in the concert, we got to watch a couple make a baby right there in the audience. Let me just tell you, if you ever have the chance to see Maxwell in concert - do it. He's and his band (yes, band) put on a heck of a show! We go sappy for Maxwell and his love songs. That night we got to hear "Pretty Wings" before it had hit the airwaves. 

Track 17 - Side by Side from one of our all time favorite movies, "Hudson Hawk". If you haven't seen it, know that it's campy as hell. Knowing that, you'll either love it or hate it (majority are the former). 

 There's really no need to explain past this - just go watch the movie. If you do, you'll be rewarded. This is your first clue of things to come. There will be at least one "Hudson Hawk" inspired element to the reception. Will you be able to pick it out?

Track 18 - Leave a Tender Moment Alone by Billy Joel. ***HUGE Billy Joel Fan - Right Here*** There are two things that I grew up with and, therefore, run through my blood: the NY Mets and Billy Joel. While Douglas knew some of the hits, he has been exposed to, possibly, more Billy Joel than he ever thought he would. It went without question that at least one Billy Joel tune would be on the STD and/or play a significant role in the wedding day soundtrack. So how did "Leave a Tender Moment" get chosen out of all of the romantic tunes? Simple - while we follow some of Billy's advice, like "Tell Her About It" and "To Make You Feel My Love", we have never been able to leave a tender moment alone. At least for me, it started out from just not knowing how to react early in the relationship and falling back on laughter or picking on Douglas. I wasn't the only one. ;-) We were very aware that we had never been able to just have a nice moment, and once having that realization, we've never been able to resist the urge to leave the tender moment hanging. It's just one of those little quirks that makes our relationship unique. We give ourselves enough time to go "awwwww" and then turn the "awwww" into sarcasm or crack a joke or pick on the other. To be honest, it makes the tender moments that much more "us" and enjoyable. 

Alright, gang, that does it for our 2nd to last "Digging the Tracks" segment. That's right - there is one left! We are officially at the four month mark, folks!