I noted that Hugh Jackman sang at Joan Rivers' funeral
His piece was the emotional romping Judy Garland swan song
" quiet please there's a lady on Stage"
It's a wonderfully indulgent song to have at a funeral.
Now I love picking songs to be played at my funeral
I drive Chris potty with the game
Walt Disney has an ideal collection to choose from
Every one would slay 'em in the aisles
This is my latest choice
Rather apt I thought....
What is your swan song?
And why?
"born to be wild" by steppenwolf; played at full blast volume (read: L-O-U-D!) with a deep bass. hell yeah!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant!
DeleteFabulous choice!!
Deletethank you! (bows)
DeleteI have my funeral all planned, the last song is Born Slippy by Underworld because I want my family to smile and remember me jumping around like an idiot every time I hear it. Good tune to end on :)
ReplyDeleteI am a firm fan of laughing ( and crying) at funerals if at all possible
DeleteWhat a brilliant swan song - I may have changed my plans. I'd want 'Take It With Me' by Tom Waits. It will be my farewell to them rather than their farewell to me, because I always need the last word.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the goodnight song the kids sing from THE SOUND OF MUSIC would be another good choice?
DeleteHi John. Mine would be 'Parisienne Walkways - Thin Lizzy. Just listen to that lead guitar sing and cry.
ReplyDeleteYou big softie you
DeleteEdith Piaf's No regrets maybe?
ReplyDeleteSung with a Yorkshire accent no doubt
DeleteI don't know, John. Between Mozart, Beethoven, Motorhead and flushing the toilet there is so much choice I just want peace and quiet. Whistle if you must. No, actually, it's come to me: The sound of a penny which has finally dropped. That would be so lovely. Ripples and all.
ReplyDeleteJohn, you are as sweet, if not sweeter, than your choice of music when going down the plug hole. However, first things first: Get married. Then plan your funeral.
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Ursula , I have been planning my funeral since I was 20
DeleteI have mine all planned - readings, music, the lot. If I die before hubby then The Promise by Tracy Chapman is on the list.
ReplyDeleteGood choice
DeleteI'm kind of partial to Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding - it starts out somber to keep the weepers happy and then rocks out for everybody else.
ReplyDeleteDave a prefer a good weepie to start with
DeleteGets the mourners into a frenzy of grief
I will watch the video later. 'I drive Chris potty with the game'. What a laugh of a conversation, I can well imagine it. While I love Mary Poppins, it is not my choice. Aria from La Wally will have them crying in the aisles at my funeral.
ReplyDeleteWhen I hear a prospective funeral song
DeleteI always tell chris about it
For what it's worth
He never listens
No funeral, no song...just the sound of an old lady landing plop in a hole.
ReplyDeleteHow delightful
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A Jimmy Buffett tune, School Boy Heart, and or Last Mango in Paris. why, both are about going and doing and enjoying as much as you for as long as you can.
ReplyDeleteAh...I am not as deep as that
DeletePure emotion for me
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ReplyDeleteNo funeral,no grave...I'm being cremated then sprinkled on the ocean..just the sound of crashing waves and seagulls
ReplyDelete(safe in the knowledge that the seagulls can't nick my chips).
Jane x
You could be sprinkled onto your chips then fed to the seagulls?
DeleteThen I could crap on people I don't like.
DeleteLove it!
Jane x
No swan song for me, I am no swan. I will be the dust in the wind.
ReplyDeletePerhaps to Pocahontas' " colour of the wind"?
Delete"Just Another Manic Monday."
ReplyDeleteAllot better than " walk like an Egyptian "
DeleteI love this song and mentioned it on my blog today !
DeleteHow great is that.
"nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbyeeeee"
ReplyDeleteHow very apt for you! And such a gentle and lovely song.....for Me? The Parting Glass.....
ReplyDeleteLinda..I would also insist on a single hen walking up the aisle when it was played
Delete'I would walk 500 miles' etc, just to force the buggers to sing it.
ReplyDeleteAnd I bet they all would too
DeleteSimple Minds " Don't you ( forget about me ) "
ReplyDeleteLove it!
Delete'99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall'.
ReplyDeleteI've got a soft spot for 'Feed the Birds' too.
ReplyDeleteAs for a single swan-song'. Dunno - Have to give it some thought.
This is rather like my 'Desert Island Discs' posting of two or three years back (Maybe time for a re-visit?) which didn't get a big response - partly due, I think, that most didn't appreciate that they had to choose eight SINGLE songs/pieces of music rather than eight entire damn shows/albums.
But your replies for your swan song requests are most interesting so far - and will continue to be.
Now being a film fan I am sure you pick an appropriate ditty
DeleteF… the swan song, the wife knows there is only one song allowed and that is Pearly Shells being played over and over while everyone blows bubbles and I want one of those fountain thingies with free flowing single malt scotch.
ReplyDeleteAh ...an Irish touch
DeleteNo funeral here, no burial either - ashes to be sprinkled wherever family chooses - so ... no song either!
ReplyDeleteNot even a brief whistle?
DeleteOh, what an interesting survey! For my own funeral I would choose the song 'My Immortal' by Evanescence and as the congregations files out of the church (Oh, wait, I'm an atheist. How did we ever get into the church?) the film music from the movie 'The Holiday' should dance through the air.
ReplyDeleteOh I love my immortal
Delete...a real emotional romp
My youngest daughter says she's going to get up before the music and announce that I secretly loved rap, and I wanted them to share in my love for it....then play the most obnoxious rap she can find.
ReplyDeleteWish I could see that......
No there's an idea
DeleteNo funeral.
ReplyDeleteAre you just being left in an armchair?
DeleteNo words - just the instrumental 'Albatross' by Fleetwood Mac.
ReplyDeleteOn quadraphonic speakers?
DeleteYes! Why not?!!!
DeleteWell, I am being cremated and my ashes scattered were my daughter's were. At the Pacific Ocean by my old home in Laguna Beach.
ReplyDeleteNo funeral, what family and friends are around, the best dinner ever at my favorite restaurant. And Cake a great big cake !
One of my songs is Bless the Beasts and The Children. I had it played at Nicole's funeral.
cheers, parsnip
Awful.......but magnificent at the same tine gayle x
DeleteMy eldest son says he'll have 'Fat Bottomed Girls' played for me! I can believe that!
ReplyDeleteWell I guess they could really pretend the coffin was heavy and ask for help from the congregation to lift it
Deleteooooooooooooh, I like this one too!
Delete(cause I AM a fat bottomed girl!)
My late mother-in-law loved the Bee Gees and made us promise to play their song "How Can you Mend a Broken Heart" at her funeral, after she had a heart valve operation. This wasn't the cause of her death but we kept the promise.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first saw this post, John, I immediately thought of Hush a bye Mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, with Dick Van Dyke singing - it always makes me blubber.
Very apt indeed and I see/know you would be smilin' at everyone in tears!!
ReplyDeleteNo funeral, no swan song for me......I wish to go very quietly the same way I come into the world, I was told.
Celine Dions version of "all by myself"
ReplyDelete"Dont wanna be, Alllll by MYYYYYYSellllf...anymore."
that should give dramatic pause for the moment...
All I can think of is Brigit jones diary
DeleteDing Dong the witch is dead?
ReplyDeleteSurely not!
Deletethis one is PERFECT for my mother!
DeleteSorry to burst the bubble. No funeral, no gathering, no memorial, no singing, no talking, no crying, no tearful remembering. Dead, cremated, that's it. My true friends and my loved ones will know I am gone and they will remember me.....each in their own way. That's all. Goodbye. Over and out!
ReplyDeleteNot even a vol au vont?
DeleteBy the by.....When my 3 year old grandson passed we had "Somewhere Out There" played . He loved the movie "An American Tail" and sang that song all the time. Very special song for us...
ReplyDeleteOMG.l.....that will have them sobbing in thir seats
DeleteFor me, "Morning has Broken". I don't know why.
ReplyDeleteAh...a traditionalist
DeleteIt must be something by Puff Daddy, or I don't want anything at all.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
alright now......
ReplyDeleteMy husband has it all detailed in his will - no service, case of best champagne and two songs - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life followed by Wish Me Luck as You Wave me Goodbye. I have visions of them playing the Faure Requiem. The version of me singing with 824 others in a massed choir and trying to hear my squeaky part.
ReplyDeleteLove the Gracie fields song.... I may have to nick that one when the coffin gets lowered into the grave
Delete'I'm A Little Teapot'...with actions.... but if I was going with the Gracie Fields theme I'd have 'I Took Me Harp To A Party And Nobody Asked Me To Play'....
ReplyDeleteAt my husband's funeral I played I'll Be Seeing You in All the Old Familiar Places sung by Mandy Patinkin. After 18 years I still weep just thinking about it.
ReplyDeleteJenny
The theme song from the 1965 movie Dr. Shivago and Amazing Grace...but since they're going to shake and bake me and plop the ashes in the ground I doubt if there'll be music other than that which Don and make when we're reunited :)
ReplyDeleteI want my body to be shoved into the furnace accompanied by 'See you later alligator' by Bill Haley and the Comets :-)
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