The Sound of Weddings

The Sound of Weddings (1st ed: February 2010)
Theme: Self-explanatory
Number of discs: 4

Disc One

1. Nat King Cole - "Unforgettable"
2. Perry Como - "Prisoner of Love"
3. Lonestar - "Amazed"
4. Badfinger - "No Matter What You Are"
5. The Temptations - "My Girl"
6. All-4-One - "I Swear"
7. K-Ci & JoJo - "All My Life"
8. Manfred Mann - "Doo Wah Diddy Diddy"
9. The Monkees - "I'm a Believer"
10. Eric Clapton - "Wonderful Tonight"
11. Gallery - "(It's So) Nice to Be with You"
12. Lou Christie - "Lightnin' Strikes"
13. Sam Cooke - "You Send Me"
14. Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville - "Don't Know Much"
15. Randy Travis - "Forever and Ever, Amen"
16. Carpenters - "We've Only Just Begun"
17. Johnny Mathis - "Chances Are"
18. Billie Holiday - "Embraceable You"

Disc Two

1. Cyndi Lauper - "Time After Time"
2. Train - "Hey, Soul Sister"
3. Chicago - "You're the Inspiration"
4. The Platters - "Only You"
5. Rod Stewart - "Have I Told You Lately"
6. Neil Diamond - "Sweet Caroline"
7. Faith Hill - "This Kiss"
8. Keith Urban - "Only You Can Love Me This Way"
9. Billy Joel - "Just the Way You Are"
10. Paul McCartney - "Maybe I'm Amazed"
11. Al Green - "Let's Stay Together"
12. Barry White - "Can't Get Enough of Your Love Babe"
13. Sonny & Cher - "I Got You Babe"
14. James Taylor - "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)"
15. Keyshia Cole - "You Complete Me"
16. The Romantics - "What I Like About You"
17. Beyoncé - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
18. Elton John & Kiki Dee - "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"

Disc Three

1. Hall & Oates - "Kiss on My List"
2. KC & The Sunshine Band - "That's the Way I Like It"
3. The Hollies - "Bus Stop"
4. DJ Sammy - "Heaven"
5. The Drifters - "Save the Last Dance for Me"
6. Frank Sinatra - "Strangers in the Night"
7. Chet Baker - "My Funny Valentine"
8. Kelly Clarkson - "A Moment Like This"
9. Alicia Keys - "No One"
10. The Four Seasons - "December, 1963 (Oh What a Night!)"
11. The Beatles - "In My Life"
12. Dusty Springfield - "The Look of Love"
13. Elvis Presley - "It's Now or Never"
14. Colbie Caillat - "Fallin' for You"
15. The Turtles - "Happy Together"
16. Katrina & The Waves - "Walking on Sunshine"
17. Neil Sedaka - "Calendar Girl"
18. Mary Wells - "My Guy"

Disc Four

1. Dido - "Thank You"
2. Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - "Up Where We Belong"
3. Willie Nelson - "Stardust"
4. Bobby Vinton - "I Love How You Love Me"
5. Prince - "Kiss"
6. The Marcels - "Blue Moon"
7. Tony Bennett - "The Way You Look Tonight"
8. The Mills Brothers - "Be My Life's Companion"
9. Celine Dion - "The Power of Love"
10. David Pack - "Biggest Part of Me"
11. Uncle Kracker - "Smile"
12. Etta James - "At Last"
13. The Dixie Cups - "Chapel of Love"
14. Lifehouse - "You and Me"
15. Madonna - "Cherish"
16. The Flamingos - "I Only Have Eyes for You"
17. Roberta Flack - "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
18. Stevie Wonder - "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"

Provisos

• As mentioned, I will not be able to mail you the CDs until they have been made on a professional program.
• I have to wait until I'm discovered to get my work on iTunes.
• Until the CDs are on iTunes, I have no means to process credit card transactions, so you must pay cash for orders.

How it all began

Requiem (1st ed: January 2010)
Theme: Uplifting funeral
Number of discs: 4

As Daniel Handler (alias Lemony Snicket) wrote in his first book, The Bad Beginning, people who have never lost someone close to them don't really know how it feels.  On September 27, 2008, I thought I finally knew how it felt to lose someone important when I woke up and was told that Paul Newman passed away.

I hoped and prayed he would recover, as I had heard of people who got cancer and lived.  Not this time.

Although he came out of retirement to play Doc Hudson in Cars and reportedly planned to finish his career with that, there were rumors that he would still act on.  I'd heard they were making a Cars 2.

I said, "I thought I knew," because three years later my favorite cat got hit by a car.

But who it was aside, these people introduced me to what Handler really meant.  So in October 2009, I decided to be the bigger person and experiment with Ted Libby's idea for listing classical pieces in the appendix of his 1999 second edition of a book on 350 essential works: a popular-music version of his insight that funeral music should be uplifting and not sad.

The first edition was completed on January 2, 2010.

The current edition, which is in the making, has the following track listing:

Disc One

1. The Byrds - "Mr. Tambourine Man"
2. Robbie Williams - "Angels"
3. The Impressions - "People Get Ready"
4. Kris Allen - "Live Like We're Dying"
5. Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Bradman - "Time to Say Goodbye"
6. Vanessa Carlton - "A Thousand Miles"
7. Led Zeppelin - "Stairway to Heaven"
8. The Libertines - "Don't Look Back Into the Sun"
9. Elton John - "Candle in the Wind 1997"
10. P!nk - "Who Knew"
11. Van Morrison - "Madame George"
12. Rod Stewart - "Forever Young"
13. Nino Tempo & April Stevens - "Deep Purple"
14. Josh Groban - "To Where You Are"
15. Judy Garland - "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
16. Lee Ann Womack - "I Hope You Dance"
17. Joan Baez - "Blowin' in the Wind"

Disc Two

1. Conway Twitty - "In Loving Memories"
2. Beethoven - Symphony No. 7, First Movement
3. Bach - Double Violin Concerto, Largo
4. Lee Lessack - "I Know You by Heart"
5. Willie Nelson - "Sweet Memories"
6. Boyz II Men - "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday"
7. The Beatles - "Blackbird"
8. Everything But the Girl - "Missing"
9. Jimmy Eat World - "Hear You Me"
10. Puff Daddy - "I'll Be Missing You"
11. Warren Zevon - "Keep Me in Your Heart"
12. Faith Hill - "There You'll Be"
13. Jordan Hill - "Remember Me This Way"
14. Luther Vandross - "Dance with My Father"
15. Norman Greenbaum - "Spirit in the Sky"
16. Luciano Pavarotti - "Nessun Dorma!"

Disc Three

1. Mahler - Symphony No. 5, Fourth Movement
2. The Killers - Human
3. James Horner - My Heart Will Go On (Instrumental)
4. The Calling - Wherever You Will Go
5. U2 - "Walk On"
6. Kelly Clarkson - "My Life Would Suck Without You"
7. Bette Midler - "Wind Beneath My Wings"
8. The Hollies - "The Air That I Breathe"
9. Aerosmith - "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
10. KT Tunstall - "Other Side of the World"
11. The Rolling Stones - "As Tears Go By"
12. Peter, Paul & Mary - "Leaving on a Jet Plane"
13. The Offspring - "Gone Away"
14. The Monkees - "I Wanna Be Free"
15. Green Day - "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
16. Jars of Clay - "Fly"
17. Elton John - "Circle of Life"

Disc Four

1. Linda Eder - "Even Now"
2. Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men - "One Sweet Day"
3. Johnny Cash - "We'll Meet Again"
4. David Gray - "The Other Side"
5. Tim McGraw - "Live Like You Were Dying"
6. I Salonisti - "Nearer My God to Thee"
7. Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole - "Unforgettable"
8. Handel - Hallelujah Chorus
9. Whitney Houston - "I Will Always Love You"
10. Leona Lewis - "I See You"
11. Simon & Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
12. Vince Gill - "Go Rest High on That Mountain"
13. R. Kelly - "I Believe I Can Fly"
14. Bob Dylan - "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands"
15. Train - "When I Look to the Sky"
16. Randy Travis - "Three Wooden Crosses"
17. Enya - "Paint the Sky with Stars"

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P.S. Even the sets that have been finalized can now only be pre-ordered as I need CD making software.