Dave
Well-Known Member
OK, here's a long-overdue topic for all "Crybabies" out there:
What songs A&M or otherwise, make you feel "misty"?
Here is my list of "tear-jerkers":
1. Roger Nichols & The Small Circle Of Friends: Kinda Wasted Without You -- No wonder I wanted to "get rid of this record" after I bought it, yet this song (also) made the LP a "keeper"!
Runner-Up:
Roger Nichols & The Small Circle Of Friends: I'll Be Back -- Both the "album version" on SP 4139 and the "single version" I have on The Complete... CD, POCM 1065, along with the "album version".
2. Frankie Valli: There's Always A Goodbye -- Forshadowed my break-up with my ex-. My mom scolded me for playing my guitar too LOUD with it...just the instrumentation makes me weep...!
Randy Richards is actually the writer of it and it's the first track on his self-titled album, A&M SP 4678, but it is not quite as sad. Anne Murray covered it, too, but her version, I never heard.
Runner-Up:
Other tracks on Side 2 of that Frankie Valli album Lady, Put The Light Out, such as Lady, Put The Light Out, Boats Against The Current, Rainstorm and I'm Gonna Love You, which lead up to that last track, ...Goodbye, forshadowing the obvious "sadness". Good thing he followed it up with the more positive "Grease" from Frankie Valli Is The Word, featuring the hit song from the movie, GREASE, but made the rest of that album just as "melancholy", as well.
3. The Andre Konstalentz Singers: Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head -- Have it on my 3-Record-Set: Theme from Love Story and 30 other hits! featuring Various Artists on Columbia's Musical Treasures series. With Konstalentz's "Double-Orchestra" of strings & horns and the female singers who backed Jerry Vale, Walter Wanderley and even appeared on Jimi Hendrix's posthumous Crash Landing and Midnight Lightning albums (er, I think... ). And that ORGAN SOLO...!! The last song on Side 2 of Record 3...Makes me want to play the whole set over again!
Runner-Up: Hey, There Lonely Girl by The Andre Konstalentz Singers appears on there, too. Tried some of the original albums, including the "home" of those two, but they just...ZZZzzz...put me to sleep...!
Dave
...hoping youse can come up with more...
What songs A&M or otherwise, make you feel "misty"?
Here is my list of "tear-jerkers":
1. Roger Nichols & The Small Circle Of Friends: Kinda Wasted Without You -- No wonder I wanted to "get rid of this record" after I bought it, yet this song (also) made the LP a "keeper"!
Runner-Up:
Roger Nichols & The Small Circle Of Friends: I'll Be Back -- Both the "album version" on SP 4139 and the "single version" I have on The Complete... CD, POCM 1065, along with the "album version".
2. Frankie Valli: There's Always A Goodbye -- Forshadowed my break-up with my ex-. My mom scolded me for playing my guitar too LOUD with it...just the instrumentation makes me weep...!
Randy Richards is actually the writer of it and it's the first track on his self-titled album, A&M SP 4678, but it is not quite as sad. Anne Murray covered it, too, but her version, I never heard.
Runner-Up:
Other tracks on Side 2 of that Frankie Valli album Lady, Put The Light Out, such as Lady, Put The Light Out, Boats Against The Current, Rainstorm and I'm Gonna Love You, which lead up to that last track, ...Goodbye, forshadowing the obvious "sadness". Good thing he followed it up with the more positive "Grease" from Frankie Valli Is The Word, featuring the hit song from the movie, GREASE, but made the rest of that album just as "melancholy", as well.
3. The Andre Konstalentz Singers: Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head -- Have it on my 3-Record-Set: Theme from Love Story and 30 other hits! featuring Various Artists on Columbia's Musical Treasures series. With Konstalentz's "Double-Orchestra" of strings & horns and the female singers who backed Jerry Vale, Walter Wanderley and even appeared on Jimi Hendrix's posthumous Crash Landing and Midnight Lightning albums (er, I think... ). And that ORGAN SOLO...!! The last song on Side 2 of Record 3...Makes me want to play the whole set over again!
Runner-Up: Hey, There Lonely Girl by The Andre Konstalentz Singers appears on there, too. Tried some of the original albums, including the "home" of those two, but they just...ZZZzzz...put me to sleep...!
Dave
...hoping youse can come up with more...