saddest song you ever heard?

[Ray6955]

Wow, i didn't know Carole did the original version. I always thought it was Rita Coolidge which is a wonderful version as well. Classic sounding.

Carole did two albums of her songs. While she doesn't have the greatest voice, it's interesting to hear her sing her own "words" ... the emotions certainly ring more true.

There's also a version of it that was recorded by a male country-western singer that I really liked. However, I can't remember who it was and I couldn't find that version on YouTube or other online sources.

Glad you enjoyed it!

 

[Ray6955]

Thanks. I liked this version -- the orchestration is quite moving. This was very beautiful.

Peter Allen was a songwriter, singer, nightclub entertainer. He was "discovered" by one of Judy Garland's husbands (I believe Mark Herron). He worked with many U.S. pop singers and songwriters of the 70's and early 80's, including Carole Bayer Sager. He was married to Liza Minnelli. He died of AIDS in 1992.

By the way, nice to meet you.

 

[sadisticon]

Oh goddess yes, and Tracy Chapman's "The Promise" which immediately brought me to shameful, scalding tears when I heard it in concert at the Beacon. And on that note, her "I'm Ready" - that Negro Spiritual/blues musician paean to resolve is a tearjerker, too!

I would say for me it has to be Memories from Andrew Lloyd Weber.


"Midnight, not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight the withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan

Memory, all alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again

Every street lamp seems to beat
A fatalistic warning
Someone mutters and a street lamp gutters
And soon it will be morning

Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in
When the dawn comes tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin

Burnt out ends of smoky days
The stale cold smell of morning
The street lamp dies, another night is over
Another day is dawning

Touch me, it's so easy to leave me
All alone with the memory
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me, you'll understand what happiness is
Look, a new day has begun"

Especially this part...

"Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in
When the dawn comes tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin

Burnt out ends of smoky days
The stale cold smell of morning
The street lamp dies, another night is over
Another day is dawning"

The reason is that my mother died on A Sunday morning just as the sun was rising.

 

[sadisticon]

OH HECK YES!!! That song totally hits home for me!

I think "Because of You" hits home for everybody!

 

[sadisticon]

Love "Bright Eyes". "Watership Down" - the film - came out when I was in 7th grade!!!!!! Jeez I'm old; every song is a sad song!

 

[sadisticon]

Bonnie Raitt's "You" is more subdued and gives me a more melancholy feeling; though it purports to be a happier song.

 

[sadisticon]

dank U wel

 

[palemale]

"Con onor muore," the death of Madama Butterfly, as sung by Maria Callas especially.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEQXQhtX4hs[/ame]

In the death scene, Madama Butterfly has agreed to give up her child so his father can bring him back to America. He comes in the room as she prepares to kill herself. She blindfolds him and sings an aria saying farewell to him. Then she kills herself.

Here is an English translation of the lyrics:

Butterfly [softly reading the words inscribed on it]
Death with honour is
better than life with dishonour.
[points the knife sideways at her throat]

[The door on the left opens, showing Suzuki's arm pushing in the child towards his mother: he runs in with outstretched hands. Butterfly lets the dagger fall, darts toward the baby, and hugs and kisses him almost to suffocation]

Butterfly
You? you? you? you? you? you? you?
Belovèd Idol!
my love, my love
Fairest flower of beauty.
[taking the child's head in her hands, she draws it to her]
May you never must know that
for you, my love, for you I'm dying,
Poor Butterfly
That you may go away
Beyond the ocean,
Never to feel the torment when you are older,
That your mother abandoned you!
[exaltedly]
My son, sent to me from Heaven,
Straight from the throne of glory,
Take one last and careful look
At your poor mother's face!
That it's memory may linger,
One last look!
Farewell, beloved! Farewell, my dearest heart!
Go, play, play.

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW0b4B_F3OE[/ame]

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4VTz7gSHds[/ame]

 

[sabot3ur]

 

[Ninja108]

I Hope You Dance ranks up there for me

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykU8iSKkJR0[/ame]

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zU3U7E1Odc[/ame]

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXdNEh97478[/ame]

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUlaj3b5Whc[/ame]

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vktyEV1yrCk[/ame]

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ4KuTbpNGA[/ame]

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ZUAorP0b4[/ame]

 

[hungprep]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImKY6TZEyrI&fmt=18"]Fade into You Mazzy Star[/ame]


'I want to hold the hand inside you/I want to take a breath that's true/I look to you, and I see nothing/I look to you to see the truth/You live your life, you go in shadows/You'll come apart, and you'll go black/Some kind of night into your darkness/Colors your eyes with what's not there/Fade into you/Strange you never knew/Fade into you/I think its strange you never knew…'
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