Corny / sentimental old song, but it gets you every time

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Alien Reg, Oct 20, 2021.

  1. Alien Reg

    Alien Reg Forum Resident Thread Starter

    Okay, it may not be corny to you, but to many people it is.

    Three that still have me reaching for the tissue box (to wipe away tears, I hasten to add):
    "Puff the Magic Dragon" - Peter, Paul & Mary
    "Mr. Bojangles" - I have the Nina Simone version
    "In the Ghetto" - Elvis Presley
     
  2. Old Sport

    Old Sport Forum Resident

    “I’ll be home for Christmas”
    “When the battle’s o’er” (Scottish bagpipe tune)
    Not corny but certainly sentimental.
     
  3. c-eling

    c-eling They're made of light,We never would have guessed

    My #1 under this category-
    Climax Blues Band-I Love You, 1980
     
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  4. Gasman1003

    Gasman1003 Forum Diplomat.

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    "Old Tige" - Jim Reeves.
     
  5. Neonbeam

    Neonbeam All Art Was Once Contemporary

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    "Don't You Want Me" by the Human League
     
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  6. c-eling

    c-eling They're made of light,We never would have guessed

    Not corny enough Neon, try harder :D
     
  7. hugh . g.

    hugh . g. Forum Resident

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    Lonnie Johnson , Pleasing You.
     
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  8. John54

    John54 Senior Member

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    Not corny, totally sentimental (although not on a personal level) -

    B. J. Thomas, Mama
     
  9. Brainstorm

    Brainstorm Forum Resident

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    Islands In The Stream.
     
  10. Calling All Stations

    Calling All Stations Forum Resident

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  11. Maurice Bursztynski

    Maurice Bursztynski Drummer, Singer, Podcaster.

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  12. Steve Martin

    Steve Martin Wild & Crazy Guy

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  13. Tommy SB

    Tommy SB Forum Resident

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  14. sharedon

    sharedon Forum Zonophone

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    Long and Winding Road
     
  15. BradOlson

    BradOlson Country/Christian Music Maven

    anything Walter Brennan, Red Sovine
     
  16. Cryptical17

    Cryptical17 Forum Resident

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    New York
    “On Any Other Day”- The Police

    Stewart Copeland says at the beginning “you want something corny, you got it!”
    So that’s why I add that song to this list!

    Arguably Stewart’s greatest contribution to the Police’s formidable song canon.
     
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  17. streetlegal

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  18. Judge Judy

    Judge Judy Forum Resident

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    These have produced actual tears for me on more than one occasion.

    "Beeswing" - Richard Thompson
    "Life Has Its Little Ups and Downs" - Charlie Rich
    "Who Wants To Live Forever" - Queen
    "One Man, One Woman" - ABBA
    "Mother" - Pink Floyd
    "Here Comes the Sun" - The Beatles
    "All About Our Love" - Sade
    "And You And I" - Yes
    "Coattails" - Low
    "Expecting To Fly" - Buffalo Springfield
    "Slowly Burning" - Neil Young
    "Comfortably Numb" -Pink Floyd
     
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  19. Autotune Sucks

    Autotune Sucks Forum Resident

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    Mine would be "Take Up A Course In Happiness" by Stevie Wonder. It's firmly stuck between the old '60's Motown sound and where he was headed and the arrangement is pure schmaltz. However, his budding genius comes through in the huge hook that shows up in the chorus.
     
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  20. Fischman

    Fischman RockMonster, ClassicalMaster, and JazzMeister

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    Carpenters - Top of the World, For All We Know

    Jim Croce - Time In a Bottle

    John Denver - Rocky Mountain High, Calypso

    Dan Fogelberg - Longer, Run For the Roses, Leader of the Band

    Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine

    Dan Seals and Marie Osmond - Meet Me In Montana

    Petula Clark - My Love, Downtown, Who Am I
     
  21. Brian Kelly

    Brian Kelly 1964-73 rock's best decade

    Precious And Few (Climax)
    So Much In Love (The Tymes)
    98.6 (Keith)
    Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes (Edison Lighthouse)
    Will You Be Staying After Sunday (The Peppermint Rainbow)
     
  22. Brian Kelly

    Brian Kelly 1964-73 rock's best decade

    Love these songs, but Time In A Bottle is genuinely deep, poignant, and brilliant-not at all corny
     
  23. Fischman

    Fischman RockMonster, ClassicalMaster, and JazzMeister

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    New Mexico
    Very sentimental though.
     
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  24. low_line

    low_line lukewarm water

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    Vincent by Don McLean - absolutely shameless, paint-stripper-strong mawk, but it's repeatedly able to get me. It's the gloomy twist of the last two lines in no small part, I think—far more songs should suddenly rob the listener of hope at the end!
     
  25. SPF2001

    SPF2001 a must to avoid

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    "Goodnight My Love", the Ray Peterson version.
     
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