Songs are listed by genre and alphabetically by title. Except for the wedding and funeral material, and much of the Irish material, move your mouse pointer to find out whose version Jamie does. Material for which Jamie has prepared a MIDI backing track is indicated with an asterisk.
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Around the World Blueberry Hill Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Caravan Don´t Get Around Much Any More Fine and Dandy Embraceable You Georgia on My Mind A Good Man is Hard to Find I Only Have Eyes For You Laura Let´s Get Away From it All |
Mood Indigo Moonlight Serenade ´Round Midnight Satin Doll Side By Side Take the ´A´ Train Tangerine Sentimental Journey When I Fall in Love When I Take My Sugar to Tea When You Wish Upon a Star You Made Me Love You |
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Abraham, Martin and John* All By Myself All I Have to Do is Dream All You Need is Love* Alone* Angela* Angie Blowin´ in the Wind Both Sides Now Boys Do Fall in Love Build Me Up Buttercup Can´t Buy Me Love Carried Away Chiquitita Color My World Come On Over Cracklin´ Rose Dance With Me Dancing in the Moonlight Daniel Dedication Downtown A Dream Like Mine* Drift Away Edge of the Universe* Eleanor Rigby Everybody´s Talking At Me (Everything I Do) I Do It For You Fields of Gold* First of May From Me to You The Girl From Ipanema* God is Love* Goodbye Yellow Brick Road A Hard Day´s Night* Heal the World* Heartbreaker* Here Comes the Sun Hey Jude Holiday Hot Water* How Can You Mend a Broken Heart I Go For You I Have a Dream I Just Fall in Love Again I Saw Her Standing There I Started a Joke I Wanna Be Free I Will Remember You I Write the Songs I´ll Be True To You I´ve Gotta Get a Message to You If You Could Read My Mind Imagine It´s The Same Old Song* Just the Way You Are Let it Be Let Me Be There (Live Or Die) Hold Me LIke a Child |
Living Eyes Lonely Days The Long and Winding Road Long Train Running* Love Games* Love Me, Love Me, Love Love So Right Lyin´ Eyes Mack the Knife Massachusetts The Meeting Mensch (English version)* Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)* My Heart Will Go On Mystery Never My Love New York Mining Disaster 1941 Nights in White Satin Nowhere Man One* One Tin Soldier (Our Love) Don´t Throw It All Away The Promise (The Dolphin Song) Reach Out I´ll Be There* The Reason Why Rest Your Love On Me Rocket Man The Rose* Run to Me Running in the Family* Seasons in the Sun Shape of My Heart* Shine Shine Sing* Something Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word Spicks and Specks Standing in the Light* Stay Alone* Sweet and Innocent This Masquerade To Love Somebody Tonight You Belong to Me Too Much Heaven Wanna Be Starting Something* What a Wonderful World What´s Going On* When I´m Sixty-Four Why Are You Leaving Wind of Change* Wind Beneath My Wings Wine and Women Woman Words Yellow Submarine Yesterday You Got It You Needed Me You´ve Made Me So Very Happy |
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Am Fenster stehn*
Am Tag, als Conny Kramer starb
Angie
Die Antwort weiß ganz allein der Wind
Aus dir wirst du*
Ben seni sevdiğimi*
Da werd´ ich sein*
Deine Sonne*
Du schaffst es!
Engel brauchen keine Väter
Engel wie du*
Fast wie Sommer*
Filter*
Gardelin*
Geboren im Winter*
Gib mir Sonne*
Gib niemauls auf
Goldfisch*
Insel*
Lieben für immer
Mein Herz gehört dir/我佴心属于你*
Meine Kleine*
Mensch*
Mitten im Eis
Morgens Fremde, Mittags Freunde
Nie zu Hause*
Quels beaux jours!*
Rettungsboot*
Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind
Schlaf ruhig ein*
Shakespeare*
Sicher bist du
Sie weißt, was sie will
So wie jetzt*
Der Sog*
Stimmen im Wind
Ein Stück vom Himmel*
Verzeih´ mir zu sagen ist so schwer
Wenn die Sonne schräg steht*
Wenn du den Himmel nicht aufmachst*
Wie ein Hai*
Wildes Wasser
Wir sind mehr*
Zeit für Engel*
Ένα σπασμένο φτερό*
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A Foggy Day All of Me As Time Goes By Autumn Leaves Children´s Song The Days of Wine and Roses 500 Miles High Freddie the Freeloader |
The Girl from Ipanema* My Funny Valentine Night and Day On Green Dolphin Street Sea Journey Son of Mr. Green Genes So What |
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Come Back to Erin The Daughter of Peggy O´Neil Fancy Nancy Clancy Father O´Flynn Garry Owen I´ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen It´s a Great Day for the Irish Ireland Must Be Heaven (For My Mother Came From There) The Lass With the Delicate Air Londonderry Air So What Molly Malone |
Molly O! Peg O´ My Heart Peggy O´Neil Scanlan´s Rose Song Sweetheart Darlin´ That´s How I Spell I-R-E-L-A-N-D Wearin´ of the Green What an Irishman Means By Machree When I Dream of Old Erin (I´m Dreaming of You) When It´s Moonlight in Mayo You Don´t Have to Be Irish (To Be Welcome In an Irishman´s Home) |
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Selection of music
One of the things Jamie often encounters when he gets calls for weddings is that the people whose wedding he is to play have no idea what they want in terms of music. In case you're stumped yourself, these are the tunes he most often plays. Each one is linked to a MIDI file that you can play through your sound card.
Jamie's standard program is Purcell's "Trumpet Tune" for the entrance, Schubert's "Ave Maria" for the signing of the register, and Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" for the exit. If you want him to play material other than that listed above, feel free to let him know. He does get calls where his clients want Wagner's "Bridal Chorus" (sometimes erroneously referred to as "Here Comes the Bride") for the entrance and/or Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" for the exit, but in his experience, people are starting to move away from this material in favor of alternatives such as those listed above. He even gets occasional calls to play modern pop material, such as Shania Twain's "From This Moment On". If you intend to have Jamie learn something special along these lines, assume he does not know it already unless you know for sure he does, and accordingly, give him time to prepare it. See the guidelines section of this page for more details.
Signing the Contract
As Jamie is a member of the American Federation of Musicians, and weddings are different from regular masses in that the church has no involvement with how he is paid, the AFM requires that he prepare and have you fill out a standard contract, which he will bring to the wedding rehearsal; you should therefore let him know when that is going to take place too. When the contract is filled out, he will make a copy of it for your records. He will keep a copy for his records and file the original with the union office.
Entrance
Between the readings
Signing of the register
Exit
Other ideas
Jamie's standard program for funerals is as follows (all hymns from Catholic Book of Worship III):
Alternative hymns include the following:
If you want to select your own material, you may, but please be aware that the Catholic Church frowns on the use of secular material. As the "Guidelines for Music in the Mass" in Catholic Book of Worship II states: "Secular music has no place in Christian worship. Romantic songs from secular sources—movies, stage shows, hit parades—are to be avoided. Music and words used in Catholic liturgies should lead the community to a greater love for God and his people."
As with the wedding material, if you intend to have Jamie learn something special, including special hymns, assume he does not know it already unless you know for sure he does, and accordingly, give him time to prepare it. See the guidelines section of this page for more details, particularly a Babylon 5 anecdote therein that illustrates the kind of logistical scenario to avoid. Also, if you are planning on preparing programs for the attendees, and you have not yet specified to Jamie which hymns you are planning on using, be sure to let him know your choices by no later than the evening before the funeral so that he can run off the appropriate material for his binder.