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After years of piano lessons, but not having touched a real piano in years, it is sad to say, I cannot play a song on the instrument, except one.

This will change, of course. As soon as I have created my Internet web empire in a year or two, I’ll return to music. I’ll need to become reacquainted with the keyboard and other instruments as I become an entertainment world mogul producing shows and writing hundreds of popular songs.

For now, if I happen to find a piano and a partner, I’ll play that old standard duet, Heart and Soul. Many people do not know that the song has lyrics. The Cleftones recorded a pretty cool version in 1961.

Okay, I’ll learn some other I-vi-VI-V songs and perhaps bang out some other melodies on the piano for a while still I get seriously back into music. In the meantime, I’ll strum some chords on the old guitar.

Otto Titsling sung by Bette Midler in the movie Beaches.

This is a song that tells the (fictional) story of the invention of breast support for women and the stealing of the patent.

Need I say more?

I haven’t thought about this song as much as I have about yesterday’s wedding song. Who thinks about their funeral often, other than people who may be near death.

It’s hardly original, but I think I would like to have Frank Sinatra‘s “My Way” played at my funeral. After all, as a hermit, recluse, shy guy, or whatever you choose to call me, I haven’t followed the crowd.

I’ve always been different than most of the people around me. I was not your common Fairmounter growing up. I went into Theatre, which no one around me had any interest in. I don’t work a normal job. I could go on and on.

The thing is… I couldn’t be any other way. I follow my own path, and I’d be very unhappy trying to fit in with everyone else. Actually, I have been unhappy trying to live a life that is expected of me. It has taken a long time for me to learn this, but I am finally getting the idea.

Anyway, should I go soon, I really wouldn’t want a funeral or service or anything at this point. I don’t think I’ve had enough of a life to merit it. I’d want to be cremated anyway, since I have no family of my own to visit a grave in the future. And I believe that once you’re dead, it doesn’t matter anyway. What will I care.

Of course, I realize that these things are more for the people left behind, so should these wishes not come to pass, I guess I’ll just have to live with it. HA!

Finally! An easy one.

One of the songs I want played at my wedding is “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” by Starship. I’ve liked this song from the very first time I heard it in the movie Mannequin.

I’ve planned to have this played at my wedding ceremony for almost 20 years now. Yes, I know! A man planning his wedding! You have to remember, I am in show business, and part of that is event planning.

Another song I would like to hear that day is “Almost Paradise” – the love theme from Footloose – written by Eric Carmen. I would mention more, but I don’t want to give the whole thing away.

Now, if only I could find a bride.

I sure hope I don’t have to explain the whole songs / favorites / feelings association thing again. If you don’t know the story by now, you haven’t read my blogs. Shame on you!

I figure if I’m sad, I would listen to music to cheer me up, right? So I’m choosing “Here Comes the Sun” by The Beatles. It’s about getting over a long winter as the sun begins to shine, and “It’s all right.” The song is cheerful and just the thing to turn that frown upside down. Did I really just type that?

Now if you want to stay sad for a while, the blues are always good. Isn’t that what the blues are for – allowing you to enjoy sadness and melancholy? This is sometimes nice. Being human, we should allow ourselves the chance to enjoy the full range of emotions.

I’m not an expert in the blues, but I can give a couple of examples of songs that do this for me. “Sad Songs” by Elton John and “Song Sung Blue” by Neil Diamond are both about this “blues effect.” Ah, delicious melancholy.

Elton John also wrote “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues” but I don’t like the song as much as “Sad Songs.”

Well, that’s the 30 Days of Music post for today. I hope I didn’t bring anyone down. If so, just listen to a few sad songs.