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A Donny Hathaway song called Be Real Black For Me.
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Nothing – I don’t like music. I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.
Tchaikovsky's 1812, sung by Barry Manilow.
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One Nation Under a Groove, by Funkadelic.
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George Harrison's My Sweet Lord.
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