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im sorry to post this here i just dont know where else to go to post this. does anyone know any good pop/R&B funeral songs that can be played on the piano? thanks in advance...
Yundi Li (http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/play.htms?LINK=rtsp://ra.universal-music-group.com/dgg/yundiLi-liszt-W-COVER.rm)
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How about "Goodbye My Friend" by Linda Ronstadt in her album "cry Like the Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind"? (I might have gotten the song and album titles slightly wrong.)
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When life hands you lemons, throw them back and add some of your own. Stupid life.
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James Blunt's Goodbye my lover was said to be the most requested song at British funerals.
it's a beautiful piece. (need a pretty good singer)
accompanist/organist.. a non-MTNA teacher to a few
love and peace, Õun (apple in Estonian)
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Yundi, just curious, you're apparently asking in very general terms. Just curious, what's the gender and age of the person who passed, hobbies, etc? Time to practice.... 
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Moonlight Sonata - first movement
Gymnopedie (all three would work) - Satie
Clair de lune - Debussy (I've done this one)
(I know the above are classical but you can't EVER have too many songs prepared)
Yesterday - Beatles
Dad's Room - David Benoit
Wind Beneath My Wings
Tears In Heaven
Ave Maria (Bach's Prelude in C Major, Book 1 WTC)
Candle in the Wind
My Heart Will Go On
Dance With My Father - Luther Vandross
The Dance - Garth Brooks
I Will Remember You - Sarah McLaughlin
I Can Only Imagine - Mercy Me (there's a great arr available by Bill Wolaver)
You'll Never Walk Alone
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Berthold Auerbach
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Here are some I can think of from popular genre and choral performance arrangements (these SATB arrangements at the bottom can be adapted for solos or small vocal groups easily btw)
Up To Where You Are... sung by Josh Groban
This song was played at my Grandfather's Funeral
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On Memorial Day....
I take out this pieces to play....
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
from Phantom of the Opera
Andrew L. Webber
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Dance With My Father
Luther Vandeross
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Tears In Heaven
Eric Clapton
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Angel
Sarah Mcglaughlin
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Fields of Gold
Sting (Also sung by Eva Cassidy)
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Go Rest High Upon That Mountain
Vince Gill
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The Change
Garth Brooks
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Written On The Stars
Douglas E. Wagner
Choral SATB
Memorial Day Piece/Flag Day Or Military Funeral
excerpt
"For their names are written on the Stars
No longer in the shadows;
Their presence never far,
Their dream is not diminished,
Their light is not yet gone.
Look up and remember.... Look up and press on.--------------
Homeward Bound
Jay Althouse SATB
Not the Simon & Garfunkle tune...)
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Coming Home SATB
Jay Althouse
Key of C (I even arranged it for guitar and voice)
Quote:
I have traveled sea and mountain;
Distant pathways I did roam;
Now it's time my friend for journey's end
I am coming home
Now my wanderin' now has ended
so goodbye, farewell, shalom
Now at last I've found to you I'm bound
I am coming home
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Danny Boy (oft heard one)
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What I Did For Love
Broadway Play: Chorus Line
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My Way
Frank Sinatra
(For Frank or Elvis Fans)
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What I Did For Love
Broadway Play: Chorus Line
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My Way
Frank Sinatra
(For Frank or Elvis Fans)
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I have my own weapon of mass destruction in the form of a "teenage" German Shepherd. Anything she spies and can get ahold of is fair game.
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