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It's a bit like having a will. When the reaper picks your number out, how do you know that your nearest and dearest ain't gonna end up playin Whitney's 'I will always love you' , or, even worse, Benny Hill's 'Ernie - the fastest milkman in the west. Or summat.......

Anyway, for the record, just so's you all know (copy to my solicitors if i had one))..............

Freddie Scott - Mr Heartache

Timi Yuro - It'll never be over for me

Charles Mann - it's All over

Keep smiling :wicked:

Steve

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Burning Sensation - Robby Lawson...assuming i am cremated :wicked:

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15105 refosoul I'd like this one at my funeral... It's important to make a list I think. I know Lindsay knows that I want Out On The Floor but the vicar allows at least 3 tunes doesn't he? Not that I want a vicar - I'm not a believer... so I'd need a soul-vicar :wicked:

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People get ready by the Impressions then Mahalia Jackson singing Take my hand Precious Lord as the curtain closes.

As everyone congregates outside, Ernie Johnson I cant stand the pain and Minnie Jones Shadow of a Memory get played.

:wicked:

Dave

Pyramid.

Has anyone else encountered this, I'm not sure if it's the case everywhere.

Sadly my father in law passed at Christmas, we had his funeral at the beginning of this year.

The question of music to be played came up, and I was shocked to discover that they had stopped people bringing their favourite CD or tape etc

Apparently, If it isn't on our vast database they said then unfortunately we can't play it.

We do try and have only failed a couple of times to find someones favourite piece of music.

Shocked :wicked: Surely this is wrong.

I've heard of people who have taken their favourite piece of vinyl with them in the coffin. I also heard on the radio a while ago that you can now have your ashes pressed up as a 45. The question is would you like to spend the rest of eternity as a bootleg...? :wicked:

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I've heard of people who have taken their favourite piece of vinyl with them in the coffin. I also heard on the radio a while ago that you can now have your ashes pressed up as a 45. The question is would you like to spend the rest of eternity as a bootleg...? :wicked:

That's quality! I knew you could be made into a firework etc, but pressed up as a record? Outstanding! :ohmy: Tell me more!

Steve

CAPTAIN SENSIBLE`S "GLAD IT`S ALL OVER".

ALL DA BEST.

K.J.ETHERIDGE.

The Marvellos - Something's Burning or Jimmy Mack - My World Is On Fire if they burn me & The Jam - Going Underground if I'm buried. :wicked:

Get Off Of My Cloud - Rolling Stones

That's quality! I knew you could be made into a firework etc, but pressed up as a record? Outstanding! :wicked: Tell me more!

Steve

https://www.andvinyly.com/

eddie parker - im gone

In respect of records for a funeral service , I would have to select one of the best pieces of music that I have heard / played at one , to be the one that took the coffin of dear Dave Godin into the crematorium ....... the theme from " Gone With The

Wind " .

It made me smile upon hearing it , as it was typical David ; knowing it will have been selected by him , to create such an effect , and being very much tongue in cheek .......

In respect of three tunes to dispatch this mortal frame off to , It has long been a subject of discussion at Chez Burton .... and I still have not decided on the other two to accompany Esther Phillips' " Just Say

Goodbye " ; but one of them is likely to be Big Maybelle's " Oh Lord , What Are You Doing To Me " .

My family respect that I want a New Orleans Jazz Band after the service - to go to the wake of course - and I am hopeful that they will incorperate " You Didn't Say A Word " and " Thumb A Ride " into their repotoire .

Malc Burton

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Louby wants to add hers......

Hamilton Movement - She's gone

Otis Clay - The Only Way Is Up

Gwen McCrae - Keep the Fire's burning.

Nice 1! :wicked:

Steve

It's a bit like having a will. When the reaper picks your number out, how do you know that your nearest and dearest ain't gonna end up playin Whitney's 'I will always love you' , or, even worse, Benny Hill's 'Ernie - the fastest milkman in the west. Or summat.......

Anyway, for the record, just so's you all know (copy to my solicitors if i had one))..............

Freddie Scott - Mr Heartache

Timi Yuro - It'll never be over for me

Charles Mann - it's All over

Keep smiling :wicked:

Steve

I intend being cremated so it will have to be Open The Door To Your Hearth...I mean heart!! :ohmy:

KTF.

Drew.

the man who invented the ockie cokie died last week had a problem putting him in his coffin when laying out the body they put his right leg in his left leg sprung out, one hell of a job to screw the coffin down :)

Coming home baby- Mel torme....Delxx

cookie scott i dont care

kenny lynch moving away

eddie parker im gone

what else could be better but knowing all my mates it would probaly be the wombles or bay city rollers and a good laugh a my expence f

WOULD HAVE TO BE A COUPLE OF DEEP SOUL SCORCHERS TO FIT THE OCCASION.PROBABLY JERRY BUTLER-GO AWAY FIND YOURSELF [AWESOME DEEP SOUL] PAULETTE REEVES-GOOD THING IS ABOUT TO COME TO END.

BAZ A.

Timi Yuro - It'll never be over for me

Charles Mann - it's All over

Great tunes, but I sense a certain bit of indecision here.

In no particular order my 3 :

Time Marches On - Laine Hill

Nothing but blue skies -Jackie Wilson

This Beautiful Day - Levi Jackson. Just killer lyrics.

Eddie Floyd - Knock on wood ........ :)

Len Watson - Dancing with your memory

Peter James - Feelings

and the first hymn I ever learned in infants school....Glad that I live am I.

Ted wants ...always look on the bright side of life

JJ Barnes - Please Let me in

Jimmy Radcliffe - Long After Tonight is all over

Jackie Wilson - I've lost you

All a bit obvious, but i got a long time yet!!! :)

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Im having JD BRYANT..I wont be coming back

and Bob And Fred.......... I'll be on my way

and you can take that to the bank..

already booked the crem for 45 years on saturday

the devil made me do it!! :)

I just wanna be buried in a box with an ipod with everlasting batteries in it and on continuous play of as many tracks as possible.

So that if i ever get dug up in 300 years or so the music will still be playing.

regards

Kev.

It's a bit like having a will. When the reaper picks your number out, how do you know that your nearest and dearest ain't gonna end up playin Whitney's 'I will always love you' , or, even worse, Benny Hill's 'Ernie - the fastest milkman in the west. Or summat.......

Anyway, for the record, just so's you all know (copy to my solicitors if i had one))..............

Freddie Scott - Mr Heartache

Timi Yuro - It'll never be over for me

Charles Mann - it's All over

Keep smiling :)

Steve

Had a conversation about whis a while back and after a few suggestions (many of which already mentioned on this thread) a friend (of the young female variety) came up with Remember me- Diana Ross, left me speechless and after all these years it now takes on a different slant whenever i hear it! inspired choice me thinks!

Pete

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Great tunes, but I sense a certain bit of indecision here.

I was just keeping my options open and all bases covered. Actually, instead, I think I might go for Roosevelt Mattehews 'you Got me Diggin You'

Steve

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the wife says she will play

barbara mcnair everything is good about you

wazz.

I'm on my way to a better place, Chairmen of the Board, Invictus (INV 527), 1972.

heartandsoul

Doncaster

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I've got a mate who wants Harry Star - Another Time Another Place as he goes into church, and on his way out he want's Step Into My World playing. Both tracks give me goosebumps! I'd be crying at hearing the intro to both these tracks.

I'm going out to Rodd Keith - Like The Lord Said.

I've heard of people who have taken their favourite piece of vinyl with them in the coffin. I also heard on the radio a while ago that you can now have your ashes pressed up as a 45. The question is would you like to spend the rest of eternity as a bootleg...? :rolleyes:

Or a CLOCK rolleyes.gif

15105 refosoul I'd like this one at my funeral... It's important to make a list I think. I know Lindsay knows that I want Out On The Floor but the vicar allows at least 3 tunes doesn't he? Not that I want a vicar - I'm not a believer... so I'd need a soul-vicar biggrin.gif

in that case you'll have to pick Chris Cooper whos runs a soul club ( Pilsley) and is a PastorNodding.gif

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in that case you'll have to pick Chris Cooper whos runs a soul club ( Pilsley) and is a PastorNodding.gif

Actually, my choices are evolving since I started this thread......

Thinking on, I'm going for Idris Muhammed - 'I'm A Believer'. Just in case. Should score well on the last minute brownie-pointometer .................... innocent.gif

Amen

Steve

Shocked to read that the powers that be would not allow the family not to have their favourite music. When my father was cremated we had three pieces of classical music that my sister said he particularly liked.

For my wife I had three I knew she wanted (McArthur Park, Pearl Fishers Duet, Bridge Over Troubled Water), and This Old Heart Of Mine (her first present to me) and for the coffin going behind the curtain Jimmy Radcliffe's Long After Tonight Is All Over, one she loved and had danced to at Whitby only a short time earlier.

For myself I want These Memories (Almeta Lattimore) and It's An Uphill Climb To The Bottom (Walter Jackson) definitely. Can't make up my mind about the others, something dancey I think.

On a serious note it would probably be a good idea to have something in your will about your choice of music, would help grieving relatives.

The Rose - Bett Middler and

Queen Of Fools .........of course

QoFxx

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Had a conversation about this a while back and after a few suggestions (many of which already mentioned on this thread) a friend (of the young female variety) came up with Remember me- Diana Ross, left me speechless and after all these years it now takes on a different slant whenever i hear it! inspired choice me thinks!

Pete

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