Funeral Songs

[monkey]

Chonies, they used 'On Eagle's Wings' at the funeral of my old pediatrician. It was beautiful. And what a great Withers connection!

OT: I was on campus during Rita & Katrina. Now I have a job helping edit footage relating to the storms for the National Archives. I love my boss - but that's for a different thread. The point? The other day, I was transcribing a tape of some volunteers cleaning up the MLK Charter School building in the Lower 9th, and a local jazz band was there playing selections from Fats Domino. When they got to I'm Walkin', I started to cry.

My uncle's family has a monument at the Lafayette #1 cemetery. When they were dating, he introduced my aunt to his dead relatives before taking her to meet the living ones.

[chonies]

Hmm... even more off topic. I think maybe we should have NOLA meetup. We can go shopping for LUSH and have beignets and eat Shalimar! There are a few other GO Zone people on the board, maybe we should look into it?

Topic: I have nothing

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To this day, my mother cannot bear "Eagle's Wings", because they played it at her father's funeral.

[Sunnyhorse]

Aw, "Lovely Day" is one of my favorites -- that'd be really nice.

A little off topic, I found these guys, who seem to like the song as much as we do, Chonies. I found myself grinning back at the screen -- it's kind of sweet.

[Laira]

Andrea Bocelli's Time to Say Goodbye.

[hal9000]

You know when people have a kind happy, upbeat song to end the funeral as everyone files out? Something like "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life"? Makes me even more upset.

[Deleted]

I would definitely want "Ave Maria" (Schubert's), as it is my all time favorite. And perhaps Sarah McLachlan's versions of "The Rainbow Connection" and "Prayer of Saint Francis".

[MissPandora]

No love for Dust in the Wind? That's what I always say I want.