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Don't Play Me Cheap, sung by Tina Turner when she was still with Ike.
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Chris O'Dowd
Irish actor and comedian
Monster Mash, by Bobby Pickett.
Harriet Walter
English actress
I went to a funeral where they played Cheek To Cheek: Fred Astaire singing “Heaven. I’m in heaven… ” Everyone smiled. I’d like that.
Tchaikovsky's 1812, sung by Barry Manilow.
Rickie Lee Jones
Singer and songwriter
That’s always changing, depending on how I think I’m going to die. At the moment, I’d like my own song Away from the Sky at my funeral.
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