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Topic: The 50 Saddest Songs Of All Time |
b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Josh Sommovilla
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Missouri, USA
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Mitch Drumm
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Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 12 May 2015 10:46 am |
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I've heard exactly 7 of them, but then I don't get out much.
None of them written prior to "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"? Hmmmmmm......guess they didn't have teen angst prior to that.
Or maybe "Josh Jackson" was born yesterday. |
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 12 May 2015 12:07 pm
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I don't see Down To Seeds & Stems Again. My internet must be broken.
Last edited by Earnest Bovine on 12 May 2015 12:08 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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John Limbach
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Billings, Montana, USA
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Posted 12 May 2015 12:07 pm
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| Or maybe the entire album "When Tragedy Struck" by Hank Snow |
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 12 May 2015 12:15 pm
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| Earnest Bovine wrote: |
| I don't see Down To Seeds & Stems Again. My internet must be broken. |
Mama Hated Diesels missed the cut too. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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John Peay
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Cumming, Georgia USA
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Posted 12 May 2015 12:29 pm
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| Not a Red Sovine song on the list?? |
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Jim Cohen
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Philadelphia, PA
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Curt Trisko
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St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 12 May 2015 2:38 pm
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| I like that it includes multiple genres of music: Neutral Milk Hotel to Vern Gosdin is pretty broad. |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Quentin Hickey
From:
Nova Scotia, Canada
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Posted 12 May 2015 5:18 pm
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| I hope they put Vince Gill in there as well as Glenn Campbell wespecially Witchita Lineman. |
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Ken Pippus
From:
Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 12 May 2015 6:10 pm
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| No "Bringing Mary Home?" |
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Tim Herbert
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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John Peay
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Cumming, Georgia USA
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Posted 12 May 2015 7:04 pm
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| Ken Pippus wrote: |
| No "Bringing Mary Home?" |
Oh man, for sure! |
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Clyde Mattocks
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Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 12 May 2015 7:26 pm
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If they think George Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today" is sad, they must not have heard his "Mama Take Me Home".
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Steve Pawlak
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 12 May 2015 7:41 pm
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| Or maybe the entire album "When Tragedy Struck" by Hank Snow |
My dad had this record and I would listen to it when I was a kid
Nobody's Child is pretty sad |
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Bob Watson
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Champaign, Illinois, U.S.
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Posted 12 May 2015 9:12 pm
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| Here are a few more wrist slitters that didn't get mentioned. Green Green Grass Of Home, Long Black Limousine, Sing Me Back Home, Misery and Gin, Smokey Mountain Memories, Flowers for Mama. The list could go on and on. |
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 12 May 2015 9:47 pm
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I guess Red Foley's "Old Shep" and Walter Brennen's "Old Rivers" were before their time!  |
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Darrell Birtcher
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Posted 12 May 2015 10:02 pm
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"Boulder to Birmingham" always does it for me.
Honorable mention has to go to The Louvin Brothers for "How's the World Treating You" or any of it's remakes, especially the version by Alison Krauss.
These also go especially well with steel. |
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Charlie McDonald
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out of the blue
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Posted 13 May 2015 2:57 am
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Only six of these tunes were familiar to me (how did DIVORCE make it on to the sad list? unless we're talking about sad songwriting: 'little J-O-E...')
Where is 'You Don't Know What Love Is?' And 'Meaning of the Blues?'
Where is Barber's 'Adagio? or Moonlight Sonata?
I'd vote for Hank or Cash. That lonesome whipporwill....
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Graham
From:
Marmora, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 13 May 2015 3:07 am
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Cal Smith's "I Didn't Even Cry".
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Roger Kelly
From:
Bristol,Tennessee
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Mark Carlisle
From:
Springville CA
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Posted 13 May 2015 6:57 am
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I'm dubious of any such list that omits Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life", as sung here by the finest ever to sing it, the inimitable Johnny Hartman!
https://youtu.be/7d6_LUDa_Zw |
I backed a wannabe Sinatra vocalist on solo jazz guitar ala the Joe/Ella duets (although I'm no JP) One night he came in with a setlist: "Lush Life" "You Don't Know What Love Is" and "I'm a Fool To Want You" back to back. I told him he may as well provide a 38 at each table. Thanks, Jim, Johnny Hartman's/Coltrane version is chilling. |
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