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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    I listen to a lot of Bobby Darin growing up as he was one of my dad's favorite, "Splish Splash" & Mack the Knife" but don't remember "Artificial Flowers" so I'll have to look it up.
    Thanks
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    Accept - Balls to the Wall
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  • Moose68Bash
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    Sky Ferreira's "Bang Bang," track 8 on 2Cello's "In2ition" album
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  • Moose68Bash
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    "Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier," Mark O'Connor, James Taylor; from the album "Heartland: An Appalachian Anthology"
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  • leftwinger57
    leftwinger57 Posts: 2,917
    Brian Ferry's version of John Lennon's 'Jealous Guy'. Also Linda Ronstadt doing Love Has No Pride.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited September 2015
    Bonnie Raitt - "I can't make you love me"

    Deep, soulful, and expertly sang. What a voice. A message I think alot of people can identify with sometime in their life. Bruce Hornsby's piano is beautiful.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    voltz wrote: »
    I listen to a lot of Bobby Darin growing up as he was one of my dad's favorite, "Splish Splash" & Mack the Knife" but don't remember "Artificial Flowers" so I'll have to look it up.
    Thanks

    It's on the same Greatest Hits or Smash Hits lp as "Beyond the Sea," "Mack" and "Splish Splash".

    Robert Walden Cassotto made the mistake of saying he was going to be "as big as Sinatra!" I don't think Ole Blue Eyes liked that, and he looked and acted unfavorably at Darin's career.

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  • MrBuhl
    MrBuhl Posts: 2,419
    I have always found Harry Chapin - Cat's in the Cradle to be one of the saddest songs - totally agree with that - and I love a good sad song!

    Here's a couple more of my favs:

    Yes - Turn of the Century
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3bysb4T5mg

    Springsteen - Racing in the Street
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOWIAXsfZus

    U2 - One
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYyWVlh8NLM


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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited September 2015
    The Greatest Man I Never Knew - Reba McEntire
    The Night The Lights Went Out In GA - Vicki Lawrence or Reba McEntire
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    I can't believe you're a country freak.
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  • whgarrett1394
    whgarrett1394 Posts: 217
    The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Caroll - Bobby Dylan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqqQcjK2phU
    New Slang - The Shins
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYwCmcB0XMw
    Another Lonely Day - Ben Harper
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr5mCBFejIE
    Neighborhood #1 - Arcade Fire
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU_2R1rjbD8
    Highway Patrolman - Bruce Springsteen
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EVCO7ZKVDs
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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    George Grand wrote: »
    voltz wrote: »
    I listen to a lot of Bobby Darin growing up as he was one of my dad's favorite, "Splish Splash" & Mack the Knife" but don't remember "Artificial Flowers" so I'll have to look it up.
    Thanks

    It's on the same Greatest Hits or Smash Hits lp as "Beyond the Sea," "Mack" and "Splish Splash".

    Robert Walden Cassotto made the mistake of saying he was going to be "as big as Sinatra!" I don't think Ole Blue Eyes liked that, and he looked and acted unfavorably at Darin's career.

    Found the greatest hits with it on it - Thanks

    And also just discovered the song " If I were a carpenter" also & I think he was the 1st to release it :) not a really said song but a great song.

    Sinead OConnor * Nothing Compares 2 U *

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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    George Grand wrote: »
    I can't believe you're a country freak.

    I'm not dear.

    The few "Country" artists that I like usually had crossover hits that straddled the line.

    TNTLWOIGA, took me by surprise with the lyrics...talk about deep, and I love the bass line.

    TGMINK, is simply a beautiful song, and I can't help but think about my dad who has been gone for 33 years.

    But most country music drives me straight up the wall!

    Oh I feel so bad, my wife left me a year ago and my dog died 2 years ago, and I'm sittin here all alone and I feel so bad....Oh get the hell over it or at the very least STFU!

    This is my normal reaction to most country music. LOL.
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    You just gave me one of my newest favorite quotes B)
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    You're welcome! LOL. :D
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  • deronb1
    deronb1 Posts: 5,021
    Casey's Last Ride....K.K
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,446
    Does "Grandma Got Runned Over by a Reindeer" fit into this category? :D
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,901
    well, it's sad all right ;- )
    Should we open up her gifts, or send them back?
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  • Polkie2009
    Polkie2009 Posts: 3,834
    voltz wrote: »
    George Grand wrote: »
    voltz wrote: »
    I listen to a lot of Bobby Darin growing up as he was one of my dad's favorite, "Splish Splash" & Mack the Knife" but don't remember "Artificial Flowers" so I'll have to look it up.
    Thanks

    It's on the same Greatest Hits or Smash Hits lp as "Beyond the Sea," "Mack" and "Splish Splash".

    Robert Walden Cassotto made the mistake of saying he was going to be "as big as Sinatra!" I don't think Ole Blue Eyes liked that, and he looked and acted unfavorably at Darin's career.

    Found the greatest hits with it on it - Thanks

    And also just discovered the song " If I were a carpenter" also & I think he was the 1st to release it :) not a really said song but a great song.

    Sinead OConnor * Nothing Compares 2 U *
    Bobby did many genres of music, even working with the great Johnny Mercer and Billy May and his orchestra. As was mentioned before "Artificial Flowers" was one of those hits. Kevin Spacey did a biopic on Bobby Darin called "Beyond The Sea" . Spacey had wanted to do this film 10 years earlier but had other films lined up. I thought Spacey did an exceptionally well job, given what he had and having to portray Bobby from age 20 to 37, even though Spacey was 45 at the time in 2004. Definitely worth checking it out.
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Janis Ian: At Seventeen
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    I'm not too embarrassed to say this video has brought a tear to my eye - when I was in the right mood. Saddest song ever. /thread What do I win?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    That one is rough and so is this one... The one I started the thread with:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kSrV_CubiQ

    Great voice
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    Nightfall wrote: »
    I'm not too embarrassed to say this video has brought a tear to my eye - when I was in the right mood. Saddest song ever. /thread What do I win?

    You NAILED it sir.

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  • Msabot1
    Msabot1 Posts: 2,098
    Heard this one yesterday..had been a while too..needs to go on the list..Elton Johns 'Empty Garden'......
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  • PSOVLSK
    PSOVLSK Posts: 5,208
    edited September 2015
    A thread about sad songs has to have "Sad Songs"

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=dRkbhTmB-ao
    Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.-John Wooden
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 10,716
    I was riding along in a Ford Focus and Hocus Pocus came on the radio.
    For some reason this made me sad. :/
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  • HHStuart
    HHStuart Posts: 263
    Lost in the Moment - Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians
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  • Timothy Smith
    Timothy Smith Posts: 764
    "Love will tear us apart" by Joy Division - Sad, haunting, and beautiful.
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  • Polkie2009
    Polkie2009 Posts: 3,834
    Andy Williams had a fairly big hit with the song "Where Do I Begin?" from the movie "Love Story" back in 1970.
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