“Calling All Angels” by Jane Siberry & k.d. lang

"Calling All Angels" first surfaced in 1991 on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders' film Until the End of the World: a Jane Siberry song with fellow Canadian k.d. lang singing alongside her, issued on Reprise. Two years on, Siberry gave it a permanent home on her album When I Was a Boy.

Film and TV people have kept reaching for it whenever a scene needs to ache. Pay It Forward used it in its final scene, Deadwood and The Many Saints of Newark ran it under the end credits, and it has drifted through Roswell, Charmed, The Fosters and The Chair. On Six Feet Under, Ruth Fisher joins an improvised, harmonized version after a close friend of her sister Sarah dies, a scene many of the show's fans count among its most emotional.

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