Your Desert Island Songs

Since you did not specify a particular genre, this just in from left field:

Mine would be David Phelps and Guy Pernod rendition of It Is Well With My Soul with the Gaither Vocal Band on harmony.

For those who do not understand why this is my favorite Hymn, let me tell you about Horatio Spafford, who wrote the lyrics:
In 1871, Horatio Spafford was a prosperous lawyer and devout Presbyterian church elder and his wife, Anna, were living comfortably with their four young daughters in Chicago. In that year the great fire broke out and devastated the entire city and Spaffords real estate holdings along with it. Two years later the family decided to vacation with friends in Europe. At the last moment Horatio was detained by business, and Anna and the girls went on ahead, sailing on the ocean liner S.S. Ville de Havre. On November 21, 1873, the liner was rammed amid ship by a British vessel and sank within minutes. Anna was picked up unconscious on a floating spar, but the four children had drowned. When she arrived in Great Britain, she sent a telegram to her husband, “survived alone, what shall I do?”

Spafford caught the first ship to Europe and, when the Captain told him they were at approximately the point in the Atlantic where the Ville de Havre sank, he went up on deck and wrote the words to this song.

I hear you. It's no argument; just an appreciation of music of all kinds. I'll have to look up the hymn suggested by davidsf.

If I was going with a piece of classical music that my mother played numerous times on our old turntable I might go with Rachmoninoff: (this would be the good kind of "Russian" collusion...)

I'm a 50s guy (late 50s- early 60s). I also liked the 80's music. But if I had to listen to only one song until I was rescued from that deserted Island, it would be from much, much earlier.

In the 60s, there was a TV show called "Danger Man." A British show I believe, which later came to the States re-titled "Secret Agent."  While Secret Agent, starring Patrick McGoohan,  had the Johnny Rivers song as it's theme, it would also play the Danger Man theme during the opening credits. That theme was mainly harpsichord music, and I fell in love with it.

So, I went to Tower Records, or some such store and I found an album of J. S. Bach "Four Concertos for Harpsichords and Orchestra." It contains "Concerto in A Minor for four Harpsichords." I particularly like the last 4 minutes of the III Allegro which starts at about the 7:10 mark. From the 7:50 mark to the 8:15 mark is a section that if you could put it on a loop and play it over and over, and I put my ear buds in, anyone seeing me would think I was autistic.

So here is my choice for my desert island song:

I've changed my mind. I'd go with Ashokan Farewell, from the Ken Burns Civil War Special.