Which song made you weep?

Carl Wilson's dog actually. Hence the Beach Boys flavour.

A song that gets me welling up is "Lucy" from The Hollies "Another Night"...tale of a family man who is told by the doctor that his wife is dying.

 

The Little Blue Man by Betty Johnston, one of the saddest songs of all time, makes me laugh and cry at the same time.

Seriously, I couldn't enjoy listening to any Carpenters' songs for many years following Karen's death. She was just too dang young...

 

"True Love Ways" Buddy Holly

 

Cat's In The Cradle by Harry Chapin

The Warmth of the Sun by Beach Boys

 

That one gets me too.

But here's the one that has never failed to get me choked up, no matter how many times I've played it:

Grant Hart "You Don't Have To Tell Me Now"

 

ELO, One Summer Dream. That melody just rips out my heart!

 

Forgot about that one - good pick. The song's lyrics are sad enough, but the way Tilbrook sings the lines "I'd beg for some forgiveness/but begging's not my business" speaks volumes about macho vulnerability, not a real common topic in rock songs.

 

Here's a vote for "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times." Talk about getting to the heart of the matter: "Sometimes I feel very sad." The plainspokenness of it is almost hard to listen to.

Steely Dan's "Any World (I'm Welcome to)" can also get to me. There aren't many more exquisite songs about utter despair.

 

"Little John of God" - Los Lobos

"I Can't Help Falling in Love With You" - Elvis Prelsey"

"Nightshift" - The Commodores

 

"You Were There" ~ Kenny "Babyface" Edmunds

"Crazy Love" ~ Poco *shrug*

 

"Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" by Elton John. But there's a story behind it. I was at the Elton concert in 1974 at Madison Square Garden that John Lennon made an appearance at. After singing I Saw Her Standing There, Lennon left the stage. Elton immediately went into Don't Let The Sun... and the entire arena was lit up with cigarette lighters. It was one of the most emotional moments I've ever witnessed at a concert. It was a powerful performance, and coming after the delirium of John's appearance, with the arena all lit up like that, I just about lost it. I still tear up when I hear this song.

Jeff

 

McCartney's "Waterfalls"
Paul Simon's "Late Great Johnny Ace"

 

"My Life" Iris Dement...

Gets me almost everytime.

 

I just remembered another one..."Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)" by Don McLean. Like the earlier songs I mentioned, if I sing it I'll pretty much definitely get choked up, but listening is often enough. The part that always gets me is:

"For they could not love you,
But still your love was true.
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night,
You took your life, as lovers often do.
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you."

Gets me everytime for some reason...

 

June Tabor - "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda"
Gram Parsons - "$1,000 Wedding"

 

A few that put me on the edge of a manly tear or two are:
Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin
Real Love - The Beatles
Lake Marie - John Prine (great story)
Lonely You - Badfinger (Pete's smooth Welsh voice is a killer)

 

Back in high school, it was Prince's "Beautiful Ones" from Purple Rain.
More recently, and for completely different reasons, Everything But the Girl's "The Night I Heard Caruso Sing" from Idlewild.

 

My father passed away shortly after that song came out, and I too cannot hear it today without thinking of him and crying(a little).


Evan

 

Mama by Connie Francis
Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) by Doris Day

 

Let It Be

 

Andy Williams doing "Moon River," and Mel Torme doing "The Christmas Song."

 

Beck's "Sea Change" - the entire album.

 

I've mentioned this before but there was a Canadian group in the 60's/70's called McKendree Spring who did a song about a couple breaking up. The couple seems resigned to the fact that breaking up is the best thing, but the singer after listing reasons that it is best says

"But what will we do with the child
Who has your hair, my face, and your eyes
Reminding me that we fell in love for a little while..."

It's called "What Will We Do With The Child?" and it gets me 40 years later.

 

Operator , Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
Bad Weather - Poco
Sweet Melissa, Les Brers, Ain't Wastin' Time No More - Allman Brothers
Goin' Down Slow - Duane Allman
The Messiah Will Comw - Roy Buchanan
Why Does Love Got to be So Sad, Layla- Derek and the Dominoes
Til I Die - Beach Boys
Country Girl Suite - CSN & Y
Box of Rian - Grateful Dead
Today, Comin' Back to Me - Jefferson Airplane
Celeste - Donovan
Invisable War - Julia Fordham
Golden Ribbons - Loggins and Messina
Hope I'm Around When You Need Me, Baby Lets Swing - Todd Rundgren
So Long Ago - Nanci Griffith
No Time to Live - Traffic
I've Had Enough, The Song is Over, Love Reign O'er Me - The Who

 

In the Wee Small Hours, Only the Lonely, No One Cares (the whole albums) - Frank Sinatra