Today I wanted to introduce you to John and Ann Betar, who hold the record for the longest marriage in the US!
In 2015 I came across their story online, and decided I wanted to pay tribute to the idea of enduring love for the music video for my song "Big Love".
The video is made up of the home video footage of the Betars. They were married in 1932 and it looks like they’ve had an awful lot of good times together. Cheers to them!
The video, like the song, is a tribute to deep love and surrender. It’s not a transient love. It’s not teen romance, a crush, or an infatuation. It is a wellspring of hope and possibility that lies dormant in the human heart until it is unlocked with will, commitment, and tenderness. When I saw the spark that is still so clear between them, I knew they were a living expression of the ‘Big Love’ I was talking about. This video is all them. It is culled from over 50 years of private family footage that they generously gave me to make this music video.
Young people are so bombarded nowadays by messages about divorce and the failure of long-term relationships. I hope this video creates a counter-argument to that outlook. I hope it encourages people to love, and hope, and hold on, until the very end.
My video is at DLive