Whitney Houston
"Star Spangled Banner" 
  
 Lee Greenwood
"God Bless the USA" 
  
 Mariah Carey
"Hero" 
  
 U2
"Walk On" 
  
 John Lennon
"Imagine" 

  P.O.D.
"Alive" 
  
 Dave Matthews Band
"Cry Freedom" 
  
 Celine Dion
"God Bless America" 
  
 All Star Tribute
"What's Goin' On?" 
  
 Jewel
"Hands" 


Music That Soothes the Soul 
  
From Gregorian chants of the Medieval 
era to the twentieth-century works of Arvo Pärt,
music has served as a refuge from the tension 
of daily life.

Take a few moments to get away from
it all with these soothing classical pieces. 

Here are the songs:

1. Bach: Adagio from Oboe Concerto in D minor  
 
2. Bach: Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3  
 
3. Barber: Adagio for Strings  
 
4. Fauré: Pavane  
 
5. Gregorian Chant  
 
6. Mozart: Solemn Vespers, Laudate Dominum  
 
7. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21,
2nd movement, "Elvira Madigan"  
 
8. Pärt: Te Deum  
 
9. Rachmaninoff: Vespers  
 
10. Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, second movement  



Music can heal and inspire

Here are the songs

 Bob Marley
"Redemption Song" 
  
 Lauryn Hill
"Everything Is Everything" 
  
 Simon & Garfunkel
"Bridge Over Troubled Waters" 
  
 Bill Withers
"Lean On Me" 
  
 John Lennon
"Imagine" 
  
 George Michael
"Freedom" 

  Carole King
"You've Got A Friend" 
  
 Dionne Warwick
"Say A Little Prayer" 
  
 Louis Armstrong
"What A Wonderful World" 
  
 Leonard Cohen
"Hallelujah" 
  
 Elvis Costello
"Peace, Love & Understanding" 
  
 Jewel
"Hands" 
 
  
 


Songs of Solace 
Here is the list of songs recommended by
Entertainment Weekly:
by Chris Willman  

''All My Tears,'' Emmylou Harris
Covering a Julie Miller tune, Harris --
who's no stranger to laments about 
passing on, and those left behind -- 
offers consolation to survivors with a 
promise that, in heaven, there won't be
a wet eye in the house.

Bach's ''Cantata BWV 199: Mein Herze 
schwimmt im Blut,'' With Dawn Upshaw
A world-class soprano, Upshaw takes us
through that journey from despair'
to redemption in 24 incredibly 
solace-filled minutes.

''Full Force Gale,'' Van Morrison
This jaunty, horn-propelled gospel likens
the Lord to a delightful sudden gust --
the kind needed to begin to live again.

''Give a Man a Home,'' The Blind Boys of Alabama
Even gospel singers looking toward the 
next world need a place to hang their hats
in this one. They find it in this prayer
for rest and peace.

''How I Got Over,'' Aretha Franklin
In this clap-happy track from 
''Amazing Grace,'' one of the defining gospel 
albums, Lady Soul enthuses to a live
audience about her own bridge over
troubled waters.

''If I Should Fall Behind,'' Bruce Springsteen
Bruce meant it figuratively, we figure,
but his ballad picks up almost unbearable
poignance in the wake of so many tales of 
ordinary heroes who went back to assist the 
fallen. There could be no more beautiful 
promise for firefighters, lovers, 
and other survivors.

''If It Be Your Will,'' Leonard Cohen
Jeff Buckley's cover of Cohen's ''Hallelujah'' 
has become an unofficial anthem for the
tragedy's aftermath on VH1 and public
radio, but this is a more hopeful prayer
from the cynical psalmist: ''Let your mercy
spill on all these burning hearts in hell,
if it be your will to make us well.''

''I Won't Back Down,'' Tom Petty
Or, as Dan Rather said in an even less 
fearsome time: courage.

''It's a Wonderful Life,'' The Williams Brothers
The Williams duo use their verses to catalog 
a litany of earthly evils, then, in the chorus, 
abruptly reverse course and conclude:
''When I look in your eyes/It's a wonderful life.''
When we listen to their euphoric harmonies, 
we just about believe it.
 
''Little Bird,'' Annie Lennox
Walking city streets ''dark with rage and fear,'' 
Lennox envies a passing bird for its ability to 
fly away...then realizes it might not have taken
flight without a nice, firm push out of the nest.
Having been rudely shoved out of our
comfort zone, we can relate.

''Love and Mercy,'' Brian Wilson
Wilson puts away childish things and despairs 
over the world's overwhelming violence and 
lonesomeness on behalf of everyone
who just wasn't made for these times.

''Love Is the Answer,'' Todd Rundgren
It was some 20 years ago, in this heavenly slice
of Philly-soul-gone-gospel, that Rundgren 
offered the answer. It might not have been
until the atrocities of this year that we 
really understood the question.

''My Love Will Follow You,'' Buddy Miller
Is this the tender promise of a late
lover to always watch over his beloved? 
God, haunting fickle humanity like a ghost? 
Or just a simple vow of faithfulness between
separated sweethearts? Any way you look 
at it, it's the kind of commitment we
all long to be pledged, now more than ever.

''Rhapsody in Blue,'' New York Philharmonic
Put this Gershwin masterpiece on as
a promise of the time when we'll be
able to stroll through a Manhattan 
as idealized as the one witnessed in
Woody Allen's famous montage.

''This World Is Not My Home,'' The Monroe Brothers
Bill and Charlie Monroe offer perhaps the
definitive take on this country-gospel standard
in their 1936 recording, finding plenty of
reason to celebrate in the idea that the
world we know is just a way station.

''These Are Days,'' 10,000 Maniacs
Natalie Merchant's celebration of carpe diem
is as outrageously joyful a pop song as any
ever written. Is it premature, in these dark times,
to listen to a song that says these are the 
good old days? Maybe, but her ode to joy
strikes just the right triumphal tone.

''Treasure of the Broken Land,'' Mark Heard
The late singer-songwriter's dream of those 
who've gone on before him. Rarely has the
tenuous wall between life and death
inspired such a rousing rocker.

''Walk On,'' U2
''Beautiful Day'' is an especially powerful
look through rose-colored glasses, but for pure,
bittersweet inspiration, 
''Walk On'' is just the balm for weary soles.

''Wonder of Birds,'' The Innocence
Mission Singer Karen Peris, who was
ethereal before ethereal was in, makes the 
best case for flying away this side of, well,
''I'll Fly Away.'' If only we could.



Here is our OWN Boomers International List :

1)  "Only Time" - Enya 	
    "Angel" - Sarah MacLachlan   

2) "Hands" - Jewel
     "I Hope You Dance" - LeeAnn Rimes	

3) "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" 
- Simon & Garfunkel  

4) "Lean On Me" 
 -  Bill Withers 

5) "Imagine" 
- John Lennon 

6) "Titanic Theme Song"
- Celine Dion

7) "Let's The Sunshine - Aquarius"
- The Fifth Dimension

8) "What's Goin' On?" 
- Marvin Gaye

9) "You Got Friends"
- The Carpenters
- Carole King

10) "What A Wonderful World" 
- Louis Armstrong