So What if They’re Fake Songs!
2 min readMay 11, 2023
5 Songs Made for Movies or TV That Need to Become Funeral Regulars Immediately
The campaign to insert these musical selections into the funeral song canon is long overdue. Let’s make it happen, people! Someone start the petition.
“5,000 Candles in the Wind” from Parks and Recreation
This is a fantastic choice as long as you’re ok that it’s all about a dead fictional Shetland pony. He truly was 5,000 candles in the wind.
“Rainbow Connection” from The Muppet Movie
The origin story I’ve heard is that Jim Henson contacted songwriter, Paul Williams, and asked him to write a song to make a frog in a swamp seem introspective. Well, he did the thing, didn’t he?
