Most inappropriate hospital play list

Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die by Jethro Tull

Another bites the dust?

Always look on the bright side of life. (Monty Python)

When I'm Dead and Gone McGuinness Flint

My Way, the first line us "and now the end is near and I face the final curtain"
I believe that was actually played at Sinatra's funeral.

Many years ago my friend had a full New Orleans version of ‘When The Saints Go Marching In’ played just as the curtain closed at the crem. His wishes.

Please don't make me cry - UB40
Heaven can wait -Meatloaf
I don't wanna lose you - Tina Turner
Running in the family - Level 42 -in the genetics clinic
Hole hearted - Extreme - cardiac dept.
It's a heartache - Bonnie Tyler - also cardiac.
I could go on all day ?.....

Led Zeppelin In My Time of Dying

Many years ago in the 1960s when I was about 8 my mum was in hospital with a broken leg (in them days you were kept in for weeks) and we was only allowed visiting on Saturday afternoons if you was under 14. So my siblings and I put in a radio request forher t which was.. a song called Bits and pieces, by the Dave Clarke 5. My mum though it was hilarious and really cheered her up.

Stay with me
Needles and pins
Three steps to heaven

Most if not all the music played by hospital radio has been requested by patients. Or at least it was when I was doing it.

Urology ward - 'Yellow River'

Staying Alive Bee Gees

Rocking pneumonia and the boogie woogie Blues - New Orleans Musicians Clinic

I had a colleague who was an extreme Elvis fan. He let it be known that he wanted ‘Burning Love’ played as his coffin disappeared behind the curtains

Physiotherapy department - 'Bend me shape me'

When I used to work in A&E many years ago, we often had to phone the poisons unit at a London teaching hospital for advice. The hold music was the theme from MASH - 'Suicide is Painless!

"The first cut is the deepest" - can't remember what the song is called but my husband had this played for me when I was recovering from an operation

'I will survive'

First cut is the deepest

My DH wants Another one bites the dust as he is wheeled out at his funeral!!!

Hey Miss Adventure you are really good at this!

Help me make it through the night

A colleague of my husband had a black sense of humour and was a great fan of Johnny Cash. At his cremation, at his request, as the coffin went through the doors, they played ‘Ring of Fire’.
‘I fell into a burning ring of fire,
I went down, down, down and the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns,
The ring of fire, the ring of fire.’
Cue shocked laughter all round! But it was entirely appropriate for him.

Candle in the Wind.

Have laughed so much , its cheered me up no end .