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If you’re a little morbid, like me, or a lot morbid, like Jeff Conaway, maybe you’ve considered what song you’d like played at your funeral. Just a couple of weeks ago, for some reason, I began thinking about this. I’ve yet to reach a decision, but I may do so through this thread. How about you? Have you considered what song you would like played at your funeral?
I was at Citizens Bank Park last year, when legendary and beloved broadcaster Harry Kalas was memorialized. As his casket was led through a line of Phillies players and into the hearse, Simon and Garfunkle’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” was played. Kalas’ sons set it up, saying that it was his favorites on their old car 8-track player and the song their dad requested to have played when he died. I’m not a big Simon and Garfunkle fan or that song, but it was touching.
How do you want to touch your loved ones and admirers when you’re put to rest? Choose now so that the task of selecting your song is not left to Shawn Love!
We may have discussed this on RTHv1.0 but since high school I have told as many people as possible that I want Presence of the Lord by Blind Faith and Jesus by the Velvet Underground. I really need to include it in the will that I need to eventually write.
Thanks for stepping forward on this difficult question, cdm! I think I remember you saying something about the Blind Faith song before. If your request doesn’t make it into your will, it is on the record here, which makes it practically legal in rock terms.
I’ve always said that “The Sea Refuses No River” by Pete Townshend would be a good fit for me, but “It’s Your Funeral” by Alex Chilton might sum it all up even better!
TB
“Key To The Highway” from the Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek & the Dominoes!
Can we take a moment to appreciate the first post ever, I believe, by Townsperson ljhord? Way to break the ice on a topic like this! Your request has been noted, and we will do our best to see that your wish is upheld – and that no Shawn Love has “Every Breath You Take” played instead!
Everything Must Change by Nina Simone.
Failing that, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Monty Python.
I want ’em to go out whistling.
my father gets drunk and tells me to play Time Is On My Side at his funeral. He’s serious, but i also the thinks that is funny and ironic. I think it’s a dumb choice, but I’ll do it.
For myself? I’ll go with Also Sprach Zarathustra. i’m kidding.
Look For The Silver Lining by Chet Baker.
sad and happy ya know?
I don’ think it’s morbid at all. I knows plenty o’ people that already have their song picked out. We played CSNY’s “Our House” at my Mother’s funeral, and every one in attendance sang along. It was quite a moment.
My pick would be “Tomorrow Never Knows.”
I’d just grab my mp3 player or pick up whatever record I was listening to last and didn’t put away yet.
Or play Exile on Main St. in its entirety. That would be good.
At the end of a weekend of thinking about this I’m leaning toward “Rockin’ Chair,” by The Band.
I’ve always thought that Brian Eno’s “On Some Faraway Beach” would sound nice at my funeral.
Garcia’s beautiful “To Lay Me Down.”
Sonny jogged my memory … Brokedown Palace for me.
Morbid person that I am, I have given this some thought in the past. My selection would be Lee Hazlewood’s “We All Make the Flowers Grow”. Simply the thought of people hearing it makes me giggle.
Wise men and fools, two’ll get you five
You’ll never get out of this world alive
Don’t run and hide it’s no use I know
Sooner or later we’ll all make the little flowers grow
Of course the bizarre spoken into about a mortician makes it even odder.
“Help!” by The Beatles.
My favourite comment about death was by Don Adams (Maxwell Smart) just before his passing: “When I die, I don’t want a big funeral with lots of flowers and a large service. I just want a small group of close friends to gather at my bedside…..and bring me back to life!”
My favourite headstone inscription is Irish comic great Spike Milligan’s:
Terrence Alan “Spike” Milligan
1918-2002
“I told you I was ill.”