“No Regrets” by Tom Rush
“A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procul Harum
I’ll mention a “Secret Policeman’s Ball” video in the early 1980s had Midge Ure of Ultravox doing the former and original vocalist Gary Brooker doing the latter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbcuteYm-EA Vaughn Williams – The Lark Ascending - classical
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2OMk3PNn_M Fleetwood Mac – Bleed to Love Her - rock
This achingly beautiful song is especially poignant to me today; about an hour ago I found out a dear friend of mine was killed yesterday in an accident. You will be sorely missed, James.
Joe Henderson’s tenor sax solo on “Idle Moments”
For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her - Simon & Garfunkel
“Love by Grace” by Lara Fabian
“Hurt” by Christina Aguilera
“Live to Tell” by Madonna
“Sweet Surrender” by Sara McLachlan
I’m sure I’ll have some others to post later. Also, I’ll add my vote for “My Immortal” and “Mummer’s Dance”.
There are two pieces in in Chopin’s Op.9. I’m going to guess you mean the more famous Op. 9, No. 2 Nocturne in E-flat Major.
A couple more from Chopin:
Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1
Etude in E Major, Op. 10 No. 3
Lots of mine have already been covered, so I’ll just add a few I didn’t see:
Catch the Wind. I actually like that cover by Joan Baez and her (late) sister better than Donovan’s. And if you hear that in the PBS American Masters show, it’s even more achingly beautiful.
Sting’s Ghost Story.
Another Madonna: “Oh Father”
Another Lyle Lovett: “Old Friend”
Terminal Frost: Pink Floyd
3 by Mina,
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“Buco” by her in Japanese
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which reminded me of Kyu Sakamoto
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No links (well, not many):
“Oh Life (There Must Be More),” Alan Parsons
“Old and Wise,” Alan Parsons Project
“Skellig,” Loreena McKennitt
“Harbour of Tears,” Camel
“Believe,” Elton John
“Immortal,” Eric Woolfson (from “Poe”)
“There But For the Grace of God Go I,” Eric Woolfson (from “Freudiana”)
“Jar of Hearts,” Christina Perri
“Winter,” Tori Amos
“Hurt,” Johnny Cash (cover of the NIN song)
I came to add Ashokan Farewell by Jay Unger and used by Ken Burns in his Civil War documentary
Oh, yeah.
I’ll throw in (and I can’t believe I’m the first, for any of these):
“Romeo and Juliet”, Dire Straits
“The Dangling Conversation”, Joan Baez version
“In Your Eyes”, Peter Gabriel
“At Seventeen”, Janis Ian
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, Gordon Lightfoot
“Son of a Preacher Man”, Dusty Springfield version
“Ode to Billie Joe”, Bobby Gentry
and finally,
“The Ode to Joy”, Ludwig van Beethoven
(Okay, maybe that last is not particularly haunting, but it is one of the most joyous, beautiful pieces of music ever composed).
That is… uh…it’s what I’d call… it has sort of a… yeah.
Kind of like the film Moulin Rouge when I first saw it, I can’t decide if I really like it or really don’t, but either way, thanks. 
(With Moulin Rouge I ultimately decided I really liked it.)
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Meadowlands (performed here by the Red Army Chorus, used in many many movies & TV shows about Soviet Russia).
A separate thread idea perhaps, but-
Never Been to Meby Charlene is a song that I love love love the melody to and hate hate hate the lyrics to (and I particularly loathe the spoken part), but I like the melody enough I’ll include it.
Reading the title of this thread, I immediately thought of nothing but:
“A Change is Gonna Come”,Sam Cooke
That voice. It literally fills my heart.
Sampiro: That’s called Tuvan Throat Singing. They are able to produce two pitches simultaneously. It is something to behold, or maybe that should be to behear.
Has anyone mentioned Hey Jude yet? I’ve seen a few Simon and Garfunkel, but did anyone mention Bridge Over Troubled Water?
I can’t believe I left that one off. It’s literally my favorite song of all time.
Old age is certainly taking its toll…