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<p>My absolute favorite is Just You 'N" Me by Chicago, and I also love anything by James Taylor. A few of my top Taylor favorites are: Your Smiling Face, How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight. All of course would be a gift to my husband.</p>

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<p>Here are some:</p>

<p>“Survivor” Tunes </p>

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<p>Hey dudes and dudettes -</p>

<p>Referencing post #29 by Cricket in the “Listening Now” post, what are the five not so easy pieces you would have with you on your tropical island? – </p>

<p>My Girl - Temptations
San Francisco - Tony Bennett
Here’s to Life - Shirley Horn
Giant Steps - John Coltrane
Since I Don’t Have You - Skyliners</p>

<p>OK, so this list from a previous post will only include My Girl and San Francisco. I can hear (and sing!) these every day without them ever growing old. Tony’s signature song is mine too. It’s where I was born and always long to get back to. My Girl just makes my feel fine when everything is ###%%!!, and also celebrates the women in my life…</p>

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<p>Comes A Time or Terrapin Station by the Grateful Dead</p>

<p>"Comes a time, when a blind man takes your hand and says, “Don’t you see?”</p>

<p>“Let my inspiration flow in token rhyme suggesting rhythm that will not forsake me till my tale is told and done.” The greatest opening line for a song ever written IMO.</p>

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<p>I love this! What interesting and diverse musical tastes.</p>

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<p>Nice idea for a thread, zoosermom-- a refreshing change from politics!
And whenever I hear that Minnie Riperton song (how did she hit those high notes?) I am going to think of your post about your sister. What a nice memory.</p>

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<p>[Minnie</a> Riperton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Riperton]Minnie”>Minnie Riperton - Wikipedia)</p>

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<p>The things you learn on cc . . .</p>

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<p>On this week’s Prairie Home Companion, Suzie Bogguss sang a song about “letting go” that would resonate with many on this site. It’s too recent to show up on the show’s website, so I don’t know how to post a link.</p>

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<p>Minnie Riperton’s daughter is Maya Rudolph, of Saturday Night Live fame, by the way!</p>

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<p>^^^
really!!!</p>

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<p>My husband is a composer, and had never written a piece for me until we’d been dating for about six years. It bothered me at first, but after a while, I figured that he’d dedicate one to me when he felt he’d written something appropriate… he doesn’t usually dedicate pieces.</p>

<p>My birthday had come and gone one year while we were in the midst of a long-distance relationship, and he hadn’t given me a birthday present yet. I’d tease him about it, and he would say it wasn’t ready yet. This went on for a few weeks past my birthday, and finally, he said, “Okay, check your e-mail.”</p>

<p>I opened my e-mail to find a pdf of some sheet music. He’d written an Agnus Dei for four-part choir in memory of my grandmother, who had passed away very suddenly only three months before. It’s the only present I’ve ever received that made me burst into tears.</p>

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<p>oh, aibarr! How wonderful.</p>

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<p>And more (re Minnie Riperton and daughter Maya Rudolph):</p>

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<p>[Minnie</a> Riperton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Riperton]Minnie”>Minnie Riperton - Wikipedia)</p>

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<p>Joni Mitchell’s rendition of Amazing Grace - played at my Mother’s viewing/funeral. That song always makes me cry but when listening to this version, I felt peace and serenity.</p>

<p>Karla Bonoff’s “Goodbye My Friend”. - for my best friend when he passed away.
Oh we never know where life will take us
We know it’s just a ride on the wheel
And we never know when death will shake us
And we wonder how it will feel</p>

<p>So goodbye my friend
I know I’ll never see you again
But the time together through all the years
Will take away these tears
It’s O.K. now
Goodbye my friend </p>

<p>I’d see a lot of things that made me crazy
And I guess I held on to you
You could’ve run away and left, well maybe
But it wasn’t time and we both knew </p>

<p>So goodbye my friend
I know I’ll never see you again
But the love you gave me through all the years
Will take away my tears
I’m O.K. now
Goodbye my friend </p>

<p>A life so fragile, a love so pure
We can’t hold on but we try
We watch how quickly it disappears
And we’ll never know why </p>

<p>But I’m O.K. now
Goodbye my friend
You can go now
Goodbye my friend</p>

<p>Esther by Kenny G - just heartwrenching to me…anyway.</p>

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<p>Here’s a shout-out for “I Hope You Dance” by Lee Womack (despite the schmaltzy arrangement, the words are awesome.)</p>

<p>Also, at the moment, I’m really enjoying “For Good” from the musical “Wicked.”</p>

<p>“…I know I’m who I am today
Because I knew you.
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good…”</p>

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<p>Sheesh this thread made me cry. I can’t think of a song I would give someone. This thread just made me think of the song “here without you”. I still can’t hear it without crying. My daughter played it over and over when her boyfriend died when she was 16. I would be in a store and it would play and I would just start crying. Still do because it brings back such sad memories. Amazing how music just hits our emotions.</p>

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<p>I would give someone “Don’t Blink” by Kenny Chesney. It says it all.</p>

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<p>My gift to all students graduating from high school would be Dylans’ “Forever Young”
(sung by Joan Baez, of course) </p>

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<p>I hope You Dance</p>

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<p>My son and I danced to “I Hope You Dance” at his wedding in June.</p>

<p>It means so much to the two of us.</p>