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Elite 8: Best Funeral Songs

This week’s Elite 8  is Best Song to Play at Your Funeral. If you could have any song play when it’s your time to go, what would it be? We…

This week’s Elite 8  is Best Song to Play at Your Funeral. If you could have any song play when it’s your time to go, what would it be? We picked eight and put them against each other to find your  Ultimate Funeral Song.

Check them all out here and let us know what you think!

Here's your winner:

BILL MEDLEY & JENNIFER WARNES - (I'VE HAD) THE TIME OF MY LIFE (FROM "DIRTY DANCING")

And your other Elite 8 competitors:

DROPKICK ME JESUS - BOBBY BARE

THE CIRCLE OF LIFE (FROM "THE LION KING")

CLOSING TIME - SEMISONIC

SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW - ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE

ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG - BILLY JOEL

I HOPE YOU DANCE - LEEANN WOMACK

AND FINALLY....

MY WAY - FRANK SINATRA

Jim Clerkin has been the producer for the morning show on Country 102.5 for the past five years. He has been on the radio in Boston for 25 years. He is also an accomplished club DJ, a referee for several local sports leagues and terminally single. Jim writes about the Country 102.5 audience, relationships and parenting.