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Stansgran Mon 02-Nov-15 18:37:09

I'm going through a rough patch at the moment and the bu****s on the radio have just played Ground control to Major Tom and Luther Van Dross Dance with my father And I'm a wreck. Why do they do this? They're only pop songs from another life time. Any one else have this problem?

janeainsworth Mon 02-Nov-15 22:02:21

When we lived in Hongkong I had an LP 'A Festival of English Music' - the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by Neville Marriner.
Vaughan Williams' 'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis' would induce waves of homesickness and I couldn't listen to it without crying.
It still makes me feel emotional.

merlotgran Mon 02-Nov-15 21:39:38

Almost unbearably so.

Luckygirl Mon 02-Nov-15 21:30:37

But so very beautiful merlot.

merlotgran Mon 02-Nov-15 21:27:24

Mahler's Kindertotenlieder sad

Luckygirl Mon 02-Nov-15 21:18:06

1. Richard Strauss: "Morgen" from Vier Letzte Lieder;

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J50__QuNwV8

2. Rodgers and Hammerstein: "Come Home" from Allegro:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO9szsrqLe0

3. Richard Strauss: "Im Abendrot" from Vier Letzte Lieder:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlCNhD5D32E

4. Mahler: "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p77JoONFX8U

Now you've got me started!

Elrel Mon 02-Nov-15 20:58:18

Ella 'They Can't Take That Away From Me', I know why, and who.
'Mr Tambourine Man', no idea why. Les Mis, Welsh Male Voice Choirs, Pipes and Drums, far too many Bryn Terfel recordings! 'Puff the Magic Dragon', 'Penny Lane', 'Love Me Tender', lots of The Eagles.

'Shenandoah', 'Danny Boy', 'Forever Autumn', 'Fields of Gold', 'Sailing', 'Where Do You Go To, My Lovely?', 'I've Never Been to Me', 'The Tide is High'.
Whoa , I shan't even start on my adored Leonard Cohen ... 'Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye', 'Sisters of Mercy', 'Alexandra Leaving'. Stop indulging, woman!!

Maybe I just like crying!

Anniebach Mon 02-Nov-15 20:53:45

'she' the last record my husband bought me before his death. 'The Way We Were' Streisand , 'Myfanwy' Bryn Tefril

AlieOxon Mon 02-Nov-15 20:49:18

Having lost my daughter six months ago, I went out for the first time to a meeting - U3A with a speaker on the history of popular songs. I was fine until he came onto the wartime songs and played 'We'll meet again'.........

Lynker Mon 02-Nov-15 20:43:59

Time to say Goodbye, Three Times a Lady, Dance with my Father Again, The Living Years, Bring Him Home and many more!

Katek Mon 02-Nov-15 20:30:00

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYt2HlBuyI

For you Hilda

Katek Mon 02-Nov-15 20:27:23

Oh I love the Pearl Fishers duet Hilda! Particularly if it's the Robert Merrill and Jussi Bjorling recording

Katek Mon 02-Nov-15 20:25:05

Every Time We Say Goodbye sung by Ella Fitzgerald-my mother chose it for my father's funeral. Says so much about them. Also Stars from Les Mis and a pipe band playing The Black Bear

hildajenniJ Mon 02-Nov-15 20:20:57

Yes, I'm a blubber too. For me it's "Forever Autumn" and, strangely enough, the duet from The Pearl Fishers!

merlotgran Mon 02-Nov-15 20:19:05

Not a song but 'Sunset' played by the Royal Marines always brings tears to my eyes.

Ana Mon 02-Nov-15 20:15:55

'No Regrets' by the Walker Brothers (among many which bring a tear to my eye - sometimes a lot of them...)

Galen Mon 02-Nov-15 20:12:37

Always there. The Howard's Way theme. It was my beloved late husband's and my favourite.
We played it at the start of every sea passage on our boat, and the organist played it as I followed his coffin out of the church.

Lona Mon 02-Nov-15 19:28:29

The Carter Family by Carly Simon. Thanks Lellyb you reminded me.

loopylou Mon 02-Nov-15 19:27:32

Oh goodness, please don't start me blubbering....
Ground Control to Major Tom, Somewhere Over The Rainbow (by Eva Cassidy it was played at a friend's funeral which wrecked it for me), Abide with Me, The Air that I Breathe, The Long and Winding Road.....far too many to mention.

Welsh male voice choirs do it too....

hmm

Lellyb Mon 02-Nov-15 19:23:14

Two little sisters by Carly Simon

rosesarered Mon 02-Nov-15 19:22:44

I appreciate music ( all kinds) and listen to it all the time, but don't have any 'special' songs that would make me feel tearful.

downtoearth Mon 02-Nov-15 19:12:17

fields of gold....

KatyK Mon 02-Nov-15 19:04:42

I don't usually cry at songs but when I hear The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics I get a lump in my throat.

vampirequeen Mon 02-Nov-15 19:02:24

I can't listen to Bright Eyes, Dedicated to the One I Love or For the Good Times without crying.

Grannyboots1 Mon 02-Nov-15 18:56:31

Love is a many splendid thing, I cry my eyes out every time I watch this film with the same title.

ninathenana Mon 02-Nov-15 18:53:01

"You raise me up" always gets me going too.
Lots of songs make me tearful

A Welsh male voice choir could sing the alphabet and I'd well up.