In A Godda da Vida by Iron Butterfly
 

We met and listened to the band in Reno after they were older, singing in a small club. The lead singer told the story of how the song 'In A Godda Da Vida' got named. It was originally named 'In the Garden of Eden'....but he said they were practicing to record it, and they were all so stoned that it came out sounding like 'In A Godda da Vida'. lol

In My Solitude

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eImEnIYBNY]Ella Fitzgerald - Solitude (High Quality - Remastered) - YouTube[/ame]

Saddest song
 

While I love.......He Stopped Loving her today, Tears in Heaven, For the Good Times, and Crying.......I believe the saddest song I ever heard was by John Conlee................'I don't remembr loving you'. It is about a man that went crazy after his wife left him, and she goes to the insane asylum to visit him. Talk about a tear jerker!!! I don't even particularly like country music but this one really gets to me.
(there is a short commercial before the song)
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHEiv0q_26I]John Conlee - I Don't Remember Loving You - YouTube[/ame]

Do you know the difference between a violin and a fiddle?

A violin has strings and fiddle has straings

How about Whiskey Lullaby? That one will get you...

Vince Gill's "Trying to Get Over You" is a sad one. I'll also throw in a vote for Concrete Angel... Martina McBride, I think...

"I'll be seeing you". I believe it's a WWII song.

No,no, no. Ir is "Four hundred children and I can't cop a feel" Everybody knows that!

STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Every time you guys bring up that song I can't get it out of my mind for a week!:cryin2:

... You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel.

I reiterate, the UNDISPUTEDLY saddest song EVER ---- Tears in Heaven, written and recorded by the great Eric Clapton following the tragic death of his little boy.

Teen Angel 1960 by Mark Dining

Best teen death songs, I would have to go with Last Kiss by J Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers

Knowing the story behind Horatio Spafford's It Is Well With My Soul makes it one of the saddest yet happiest songs ever written:

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul.

(Refrain) It is well (it is well),
with my soul (with my soul),
It is well, it is well with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.
(Refrain)

My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to His cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
(Refrain)

For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live:
If Jordan above me shall roll,
No pain shall be mine, for in death as in life
Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul.
(Refrain)

And Lord haste the day, when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.
(Refrain)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1JmN6dsHu0]Wintley Phipps Sings "It Is Well With My Soul" - YouTube[/ame]

BK, I love that hymn...i see it as victory

Yes. Yes, it is. Victory, ssmith. I love that hymn too. It is what it all boils down to isn't it?

Elvis singing My Way...

One of my favorites too. Thanks, BK.

Dolly's verson of the Ballad of the Green Beret on Utube...

Dolly Parton - The Ballad Of The Green Beret - YouTube Link should work if interested to hear? For us veteran's Course I like Barry Sadler's version also. Dolly does real good job IMO.

That would be SSgt Barry Sadler, not Sanders

sad song
 

[QUOTE=kittygilchrist;676698]Do you hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to cry
that means he's lost the will to live,
I'm so lonesome I could die




This tops my list.......

"The Warmth of the Sun" comes immediately to mind, penned by a melancholy Brian Wilson on the night of JFK's assassination, as I recall. Who wasn't sad on that night? I know I sure was (age 7 at the time). The chord progression on that song just slay me...they're all over the place. Minor. Major. Back to minor. Goes right to my heart.

"Back to the Island" by Leon Russell always touches me deeply, for personal reasons. Had to say goodbye to a beloved girlfriend and played that song for her as we parted ways, many years ago. The background singers almost seem to be crying, too.

"So Sad the Song (That Says Goodbye)" by Gladys Knight & The Pips. "Song for a Winter's Night" by Gordon Lightfoot. If you've never heard it, try "A Love So Beautiful" by Roy Orbison, from his final album, "Mystery Girl". It'll make the hairs on your neck stand up, when you consider it as one of his last works.

I hear such a sadness in Jo Stafford's voice, always, but it peaks for me in her amazing rendition of the WWII era's "I'll Be Seeing You". Jo and The Pied Pipers get the billing, but Jo's unique voice and the poignant lyrics just blend perfectly here.

Sorry to go on so long here! But this list would not be complete without Skeeter Davis' "The End of the World". My sense is Skeeter had kind of a tough life, married young to Ralph Emery and facing serious illness and a death WAY too young. The darned song was sad enough when it was released, but knowing her personal history makes it all the more touching now when I hear it.

Skeeter was also married to Joey Spampinato, bassist for the NRBQ.

MMMark, thanks for the post. Made me look up Skeeter Davis' bio, and now I'm on to find recordings of the other songs you mentioned on the internet.

Try Alyssa lies by Jason Michael Carroll.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkdci55adqk
 

Song (knock-off of Ryder's in the sky) about farmer that got ate by his own chickens he set to market!

can't make the link for some reason?? Utube Leroy Troy Ghost chicken in the sky!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkdci55adqk

It is said that one of the last songs John Lennon put on his home recorder was called "Dear John". There are few lyrics and it is only a demo but here they are:

Dear John
Don't be hard on yourself
Give yourself a break
Life wasn't meant to be run
The race is over, you've won

That one gets me.

These may not be the saddest songs of all time, but they draw a tear from me.
The Last Time I Saw Her by Gordon Lightfoot
It's Over by Roy Orbison
With Pen In Hand by Billy Vera
Long Long Time by Linda Ronstadt
Greenfields by The Brothers Four
The Famous Final Scene by Bob Seger
I Honestly Love You by Olivia Newton-John
For No One by The Beatles
Second Avenue by Tim Moore
Didn't We by Richard Harris
At 17 by Janis Ian
And for Christmas,
The Little Boy Santa Forgot by Nat King Cole

Reba's
greatest man I never knew
Makes me cry every time I try to sing that song
Reminds me of how we let money take over rather then people we love and
waste the precious time we have with each other

Every time I see a post on this thread, it's a sad reminder that Geewhiz is no longer with us.

Another one is The Dutchman by Steve Goodman. It can probably hit home for too many of us.

Four saddest words are, "It Might Have Been".

It Might Have Been - Neil Young - YouTube

Ther flip side of "Chestnuts Roasting On A Open Fire". :agree:

http://youtu.be/UePxqqNGsNw

I was browsing the world music section at the book store, back when book stores were still around (10 years ago). I stumbled across a CD named "Once in a Red Moon" by "Secret Garden". I bought it for my wife and she loved it. Since that time I bought her several of their CDs.


This is one of her favorite songs off of the "Once in a Red Moon" CD.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c055rhDNTU]You raise me up-Secret Garden-Sung by Brian kennedy + lyrics - YouTube[/ame]

I feel the same way.

[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=W93vGdvC5Xg[/ame]

Geewhiz's son, Sam, playing drums at his memorial with The Beatlemaniacs

Me too. So much so that I'm thinking of not clicking on one of the email reminders to this thread so that I'll stop receiving the thread.

So sad. And RLL39, I'm sad for you and your David, too. And Coach Ed and Quentin. And everybody on TOTV who lost a beloved pet this year.:(

Yikes, I hope the sun comes out soon.

I nominate "There Will Never Be Another You."

Tom

Baby's In Black .........

AKA The Astrid Song. Evidently, 2 of them had a terrific crush on her - but never let on until after Stu's death.