And the "Saddest Song of the Year" is ?

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Dale Bessant Member From: Gatineau, Quebec, Canada	posted 22 October 2003 03:41 PM profile If any of the many music award shows, past or present, would or could, give an award for the "Saddest Song of the Year" what song do you think would or should have won? Come on gang lets get real sad, any song, any genre...Lets have some fun (sadness) here..
Terry Edwards Member From: Layton, UT	posted 22 October 2003 03:55 PM profile Hurt -- Johnny Cash
Larry Miller Member From: Gladeville,TN.USA	posted 22 October 2003 04:35 PM profile "Jeanie's Afraid of the Dark" Porter and Dolly
John P.Phillips Member From: Brunswick, Ga. U.S.A.	posted 22 October 2003 04:49 PM profile "Steal Away" and "Old Shep" by Red Foley ------------------ JUST 'CAUSE I STEEL, DON'T MAKE ME A THIEF
Dale Bessant Member From: Gatineau, Quebec, Canada	posted 22 October 2003 04:57 PM profile I'll have to go with"Alone Again Naturally" Gilbert O'Sullivan......not country, but real depressin'....
Graham Member From: Whitby, Ontario, Canada	posted 22 October 2003 05:38 PM profile So many of them: Red Sovine - Bringing Mary Home - Roses for Momma Jimmie Dean - The Last Goodbye Porter Wagoner - House of Shame - Roses Out of Season - The Little Boy's Prayer Carl Smith - Airmail To Heaven Little Jimmy Dickens - Raggedy Ann Could go on and on with this one. ------------------ Rebel™ ICQ 614585
Jim Cohen Member From: Philadelphia, PA	posted 22 October 2003 06:31 PM profile How 'bout George Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today"?
robert hays Member From: sikeston mo. usa	posted 22 October 2003 06:42 PM profile How about "Farewell Party" (Johnny Bush) (Gene Watson)
Jack Francis Member From: Mesa, Arizona, USA	posted 22 October 2003 06:49 PM profile Just about amything coming out of Nashville these days, could be considered "SAD"!
David Doggett Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	posted 22 October 2003 08:06 PM profile George Jones - The Grand Tour Blue Sky Boys - A Picture from Life's Other Side Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper - Willy Roy the Cripple Boy Webb Pierce - There Stands the Glass Stanley Brothers - White Dove Son House - Sundown Robert Johnson - Love in Vain Elmore James - The Sky is Cryin' Ilya Tchiakovsky - 6th Symphony, "La Pathetique" Wolfgang Mozart - Masonic Funeral Music Then there's the last act of pretty much any of the great tragic operas - blood and tears flow like the Mississippi River goin' by Memphis. Giacoma Puccini - I Pagliacci, La Boheme, Madame Butterfly Giuseppe Verdi - La Traviata [This message was edited by David Doggett on 22 October 2003 at 09:23 PM.]
Andy Greatrix Member From: Edmonton Alberta	posted 22 October 2003 08:26 PM profile "The World's Worse Loser" sung by George Jones.
Bob Blair Member From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada	posted 22 October 2003 09:14 PM profile Hey Jimbeaux, at least in "He Stopped Loving Her Today" the poor guy was smiling! That line always made me laugh, thereby detracting from the sadness factor. I was going to say "Farewell Party" as Robert did. This guy is signing about a woman he loves, and the best he can hope for is that at his funeral she can pretend she loved him, even though in truth she is glad and having fun! If that's not sad there ain't an old dog in Georgia! I always figured "The way I am" was a pretty sad song, albeit a wistful sort of sadness. I'm told that once when in my cups I was playing the piano and singing at a party at my then boss's house in vancouver, and someone asked me why I never played any happy songs. To which I apparently replied loudly and drunkenly(and I have no memory of this at all) "There AIN'T no happy songs...". How come sad songs make so many of us happy? [This message was edited by Bob Blair on 23 October 2003 at 08:36 AM.]
Jim Cohen Member From: Philadelphia, PA	posted 22 October 2003 09:20 PM profile How 'bout "Tears in Heaven"?
Roger Rettig Member From: NAPLES, FL	posted 22 October 2003 09:39 PM profile Now don't laugh because I'm nominating a Tim McGraw song..... I think his 'One Of These Days' is a real contender - it's few years old now, but I still enjoy it's thoughtful lyric. Matt Rollins and Paul Franklin are pretty good on it, too! RR
Roger Rettig Member From: NAPLES, FL	posted 22 October 2003 09:41 PM profile Here's another - 'The Frozen Man' by James Taylor from his 'New Moonshine' CD. What a GREAT song! RR
Jody Sanders Member From: Magnolia,Texas	posted 22 October 2003 10:01 PM profile Vern Gosdin : "Chiseld In Stone". George Strait; "Meanwhile".
David Cobb Member From: Chanute, Kansas, USA	posted 22 October 2003 10:18 PM profile Go Rest High on That Mountain...Vince Gill 'Til a Tear Becomes a Rose... Lorrie Morgan w/Keith Whitley Little Rosa...Red Sovine
ESnow Member From: Berryville AR USA	posted 22 October 2003 11:03 PM profile "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet" Joe Nichols "Chiseled In Stone" Vern Gosdin
Tony Farr Member From: Madison, Tennessee, USA	posted 23 October 2003 07:01 AM profile Stonewall Jackson--"I'll Go Get The Tool Box And You Can Fix Our Broken Home" Little Jimmie Dickens--"House Is Not A Home"
Tom Moorman Member From: Decatur, GA USA	posted 23 October 2003 07:43 AM profile Seeds and Stems Blues by Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen.
Bob Blair Member From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada	posted 23 October 2003 09:01 AM profile "Tears in Heaven". Good one Jim. "Fire and Rain" is pretty sad too. Somehow most (not all though - "think about some of the better Hank Sr. songs) of the "sad" country songs don't seem as sad as those ones - I think on the country side we revel in the sadness of the song, making it kind of a joyous event. Which is arguably pretty twisted! Don't get me wrong, I like a good hurtin' song as much as the next guy. But there is something formulaic about the sadness in a lot of the country tearjerkers - sadness as a reason to hang out in a low bar, listen to the jukebox, drink and chase honky-tonk angels. And as an excuse to rhyme drinking with thinking one more time. "Four Strong Winds" is pretty sad - though the Bobby Bare version never sounded very sad to me.,
Stephen Gambrell Member From: Ware Shoals, South Carolina, USA	posted 23 October 2003 12:38 PM profile Charlie Moore, "Listen to my Hammer Ring."
Larry Robbins Member From: Fort Edward, New York, USA	posted 23 October 2003 01:12 PM profile "My son calls another man Daddy",Hank Sr.
Jim Cohen Member From: Philadelphia, PA	posted 23 October 2003 01:54 PM profile "Got a Letter from my Kid Today" (they let me read a line or two...)
Jason Powers Member From: Muncie, IN	posted 23 October 2003 02:06 PM profile "Veil of White Lace" by Mel Tillis from his album on MGM Records "One More Time"
Earnest Bovine Member From: Los Angeles CA USA	posted 23 October 2003 04:56 PM profile that part at the end of Tristan und Isolde when they die
Dale Bessant Member From: Gatineau, Quebec, Canada	posted 23 October 2003 05:50 PM profile Good ,we're gettin' somewhere now..
Doyle Weigold Member From: CColumbia City, IN, USA	posted 23 October 2003 06:02 PM profile "The Garden" Vern Gosdin
Brendan Mitchell Member From: Melbourne Australia	posted 23 October 2003 07:43 PM profile The Commanders Mamma Hated Diesels. Just heard it again yesterday.Long black veil ain't bad either or what about Merle & George singing....Mum is Joe still drivin them old nails in Colorado---and from the same album the one about Mobile Bay Excuse me I just have to go and blow my nose,must have got some grit in my eye Brendan
Brett Day Member From: Greer, SC, USA	posted 23 October 2003 10:50 PM profile There was a sad song Darryl Worley had recorded last year called "I Miss My Friend" and it went to number one on the country charts. Paul Franklin played steel on the record and Eddie Gossien played it live. When Darryl plays the song live, at the end of the song, the piano plays the intro part and then the steel really cries. Brett Day, Emmons S-10, Morrell lapsteel
Bill Llewellyn Member From: San Jose, CA	posted 24 October 2003 07:33 AM profile "You Don't Even Know Who I Am" by Patty Loveless. ------------------ Bill, steelin' since '99 \| Steel page \| My music \| Steelers' birthdays \| Over 50?
David L. Donald Member From: Koh Samui Island, Thailand	posted 24 October 2003 08:14 AM profile Sing me back home with a song I used to hear. The warden walk the prisoner down the hallway to his end...
Leigh Howell Member From: Holly Ridge, NC, USA	posted 24 October 2003 08:35 AM profile "Beyond the Sunset" Hank Williams
Leigh Howell Member From: Holly Ridge, NC, USA	posted 24 October 2003 08:37 AM profile "Beyond the Sunset" Always gives me goosebumps when I hear it. Leigh
Leigh Howell Member From: Holly Ridge, NC, USA	posted 24 October 2003 08:41 AM profile "Whoops"!!!!!!!!!!!
David Doggett Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	posted 24 October 2003 09:26 AM profile They're still doing 'em. Vince Gil - Nobody Answers When I call Your Name ? - that song about the guy who sent a beach post card home from his business trip and the plane crashed on his way home. I just heard one called "Who Will Hold Her Hand When She Crosses the Streets of Heaven" - one of those generic pop/country divas - didn't catch who it was. As the father of three little girls, I almost had to pull my car over and get that lump in my throat down to a size where I could breath again.
Eddie Lange Member From: Joelton, Tennessee	posted 24 October 2003 02:33 PM profile Yes Brendan, Mobile Bay and The Brothers from the "Yesterday's Wine" album get my vote. My favorite record of all time.
erik Member From:	posted 24 October 2003 04:27 PM profile Well, I think the topic was for "this year" but I can't think of one so i'll go with Rose Colored Glasses by John Conlee. My tune at soundclick.com is kinda sad... and I'm not just refering to the playing.
Donna Dodd Moderator From: Kennesaw, Georgia, USA	posted 24 October 2003 07:40 PM profile Favorite Sad song to Listen to: Grand Tour - Aaron Neville's version. With Aaron singing it, you feel he's been sooooooo wronged. Hardest sad song to listen to emotionally: Tears in Heaven Hardest sad song to watch: HURT - Johnny Cash. (Chose to only see it once). Now I'm getting depressed. Who started this thread, anyway??
Dale Bessant Member From: Gatineau, Quebec, Canada	posted 24 October 2003 07:50 PM profile I did Donna sorry...

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