Your nomination for the Sappiest Song Ever.

[Biggirl]

Seasons in the Sun has worn out it's crown. If I hear it come on the oldies station I no longer run screaming and tearing my hair out to change the station. I may even sing a little of it.

Now we need a new king of smaltz. It can't just have insipid music, it also has to have insipid words. My two nominations:

Don't Cry Daddy by Elvis Presley.
Patches by Clarence Carter.

Go ahead, try to beat those.

[minlokwat]

With the holiday season (almost) upon us, I submit Christmas Shoes as a paradigm of schmaltzy drek.

[twickster]

Yooooooooouuuuuuuuu Light up my Liiiiiiiiiiiiiifffffe

[ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies]

Air Supply, Lost in Love.

[Yllaria]

Honey "See the three, how big it's grown. .. "

or

Never Been to Me

I could probably look up who sang them (or even if I got the titles right), but it has been mercifully erased from my memory and I don't want to endanger that small bit of solace.

[John DiFool]

"Total Eclipse of the Brain Heart"

I would truly feel sorry for any poor sap who dated such a woman, and wouldn't blame him a bit for dumping her.

[Duke]

That "Dear Mr. Jesus" song from a while back has to be a contender.

I'm not going to provide a YouTube link to the video, it's awful. AWFUL.

[Ellen Cherry]

From the Seasons in the Sun Era, how about Run, Joey Run:

Suddenly, a shot rang out, and I saw Julie falling
I ran to her, I held her close, when I looked down, my hands were red,
and here's the last words Julie said...

Daddy please don't, it wasn't his fault, he means so much to me
Daddy please don't, we're gonna get married...just you wait and see.


Pukie!

[chacoguy]

"Puppy Love" by Donny Osmond.

End of Story. Kids these days....<mutter> :rolleyes:

[Qadgop the Mercotan]

Maybe it's not number 1, but it's a contender, just likey "Honey", or "Watching Scotty grow". It's called Sometimes When We Touch, by Dan Hill

You ask me if I love you
And I choke on my reply
I'd rather hurt you honestly
Than mislead you with a lie
And who am I to judge you
On what you say or do?
I'm only just beginning to see the real you

Chorus:
And sometimes when we touch
The honesty's too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Til we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

It gets a lot worse : http://www.romantic-lyrics.com/ls64.shtml
And the music? <<shudder>>

I kinda liked "Patches"

[Khadaji]

Daddy Don't you walk so fast (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8KQ6TLsQDA)

[BubbaDog]

Some song about a little kid who talked to truckers on the CB - I can't think of the name of it

[control-z]

Some song about a little kid who talked to truckers on the CB - I can't think of the name of it

Is it "Teddy (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/r/red-sovine/teddy/)" by Red Sovine?

[WhyNot]

What was that horrid one..."Butterfly Kisses" or something? I have a little girl myself and that song makes me gag.

[SaharaTea]

"Butterfly Kisses." BLECH

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Is it "Teddy (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/r/red-sovine/teddy/)" by Red Sovine?

There was actually a sequel to that song, by another singer, about the little boy's death. "Teddy Bear's Last Ride". That would be my nominee for this "honour".

[Superfluous Parentheses]

Patches is a good choice.

Please don't go topless, mother (http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/04/please-dont-go-tople.html) (link to mp3 in the article)

and more seriously: Memory (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-L6rEm0rnY).

[Hazle Weatherfield]

With the holiday season (almost) upon us, I submit Christmas Shoes as a paradigm of schmaltzy drek.

Holy Shit...beaten by the second post. WINNER!

[Annie-Xmas]

George Jones's He Stopped Loving Her Today (http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/jones-george/he-stopped-loving-her-today-18102.html)

[Quasimodem]

Billy, Don't Be A Hero - Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods

Q

[D. Fenestrator]

I'll second "Honey."

There is also some Dan Fogelberg stuff that, to me, is pretty darn sappy. No, I have bleached the titles out of my brain, so I can't list them...

[42fish]

Honey "See the three, how big it's grown. .. "

or

Never Been to Me

I could probably look up who sang them (or even if I got the titles right), but it has been mercifully erased from my memory and I don't want to endanger that small bit of solace.

Those would be "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro & "I've Never Been to Me" by Charlene. (For anyone desperately needing to rush out and buy the records.)

[Yllaria]

I knew I shouldn't have re-checked this thread.

[beowulff]

Muskrat Love?

[D. Fenestrator]

You know, I had just about forgotten about "Muskrat Love," and now it's stuck in my head.


Thanks. :rolleyes:

;)

[rolandgunslinger]

Love grows where my Rosemary goes - Edison Lighthouse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr6H1a7YUac

Sappy as a maple tree.

[choie]

Good choices so far, but some are distinctly lacking that certain maudlin something. Thus I present All By Myself (http://www.jango.com/stations/66596928/tunein?proxy_id=21292734&song_id=31716), by Eric Carmen.

[WhyNot]

Good choices so far, but some are distinctly lacking that certain maudlin something. Thus I present All By Myself (http://www.jango.com/stations/66596928/tunein?proxy_id=21292734&song_id=31716), by Eric Carmen.
Maudlin, sure. But who hasn't secretly turned up the volume and wailed along when driving alone?

[Stauderhorse]

How about "I'll Walk" by Bucky Covington?

A guy and a girl have a fight on prom night. She gets out of the car and starts walking down the road, then gets hit by a car, rendering her unable to walk ever again. The guy and girl get married (guilty much?) and she insists on walking down the aisle with her father. Bad, bad, bad.

See for yourself. (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/buckycovington/illwalk.html)

[Khadaji]

Rocky I've Never Been In Love Before.

I can't find a YouTube link though

[kunilou]

We've Only Just Begun by the Carpenters

Having My Baby by Paul Anka

Watching Scotty Grow by Bobby Goldsboro (Goldsboro has to be the all-time King of Sap)

I have to stop now. I'm getting sick.

[Biggirl]

How could I have forgotten Shannon? Why, on purpose of course. It went down with the Wreck of the Emund Fitzgerald.

[ShermanAter]

From 1967...Little Becky's Christmas wish

http://www.bigozine2.com/features06/littlebecky.html

I was 8 years old

[ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies]

How could I forget?

The dearly departed Dan Fogelberg's eternal Run for the Roses (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDwm3QIwfg)

[rolandgunslinger]

We've Only Just Begun by the Carpenters

Having My Baby by Paul Anka

Watching Scotty Grow by Bobby Goldsboro (Goldsboro has to be the all-time King of Sap)

I have to stop now. I'm getting sick.

Quoted for truth.

[phil417]

Barry Manilow's "Mandy". Not only is Barry enjoying his self-pity way too much, but the first time I heard it, the dj followed the song with the comment, "Mandy sounds like a dog." So now I'm thinking of abandoned dogs. Sappy & a definite downer for an animal-lover.

Yllaria, I fourth (fifth?) Honey.

"Butterfly Kisses" is another matter. My older daughter's dad (now deceased) sang this song at her wedding, so now it's a part of our family history.

Love, Phil

[Quasimodem]

How could I forget?

The dearly departed Dan Fogelberg's eternal Run for the Roses (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDwm3QIwfg)

I have to respectfully disagree, CTTDSWHC.

Sorry, I know I'll be in the minority, but I have a "thing" for animals.

Same for the song "Shannon" by Henry Gross.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxz2wQX3EvA

They can't speak for themselves, so we have to speak for them.

:Shrugs:

Quasi

[dawson]

Close to You by the Carpenters.
The scary thing is that the youtube video is not available due to a third party copyright claim. Someone actually wants to be credited with writing that drivel. What lengths people will go to for fame!

[dawson]

Barry Manilow's "Mandy". Not only is Barry enjoying his self-pity way too much, but the first time I heard it, the dj followed the song with the comment, "Mandy sounds like a dog." So now I'm thinking of abandoned dogs. Sappy & a definite downer for an animal-lover.

Yllaria, I fourth (fifth?) Honey.

"Butterfly Kisses" is another matter. My older daughter's dad (now deceased) sang this song at her wedding, so now it's a part of our family history.

Love, Phil

Wouldn't that make you her Dad, which would make you deceased, wouldn't it :confused:

[eleanorigby]

What was that horrid one..."Butterfly Kisses" or something? I have a little girl myself and that song makes me gag.

You beat me to it. Absolutely the worst. Never mind the creepy incestuous undertones. Just blech.

"Mandy" is another contender, but the OP asked for more current stuff. I thought Mandy WAS about a dog!

[Biggirl]

"Mandy" is another contender, but the OP asked for more current stuff. I thought Mandy WAS about a dog!

It doesn't have to be current. And cutting out the '70s would disallow some real, um, jewels.

[freckafree]

Forty-one posts and no John Denver?!??

"Sunshine on My Shoulders"?

"Annie's Song"?

"Grandma's Feather Bed"? (OK, this may be more hokey than sappy.)

[Jragon]

"Total Eclipse of the Brain Heart"

I would truly feel sorry for any poor sap who dated such a woman, and wouldn't blame him a bit for dumping her.

It takes on a COMPLETELY different angle in your mind after you see the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=840B27zYfOk). I think the studio and Tyler had a TOTALLY different picture of the lyrics, especially "turn around bright eyes." Everyone with a functioning mind interpreted that as lubby-dubby... the studio... well, I think the meeting went something like:
"What has eyes that are bright?"
"Ghosts of (or possibly possessed) choir children in ill fitting white robes, obviously! DUH!"
(And make sure you watch all of it, it just gets terrifying at sections)

My nominations:
Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's
Here Without You - 3 Doors Down

I actually like both of these songs but they're still incredibly sappy.

[appleciders]

Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's

I actually like both of these songs but they're still incredibly sappy.

Watch the music video- this is not just a love song, it's a song about how he's gonna lose this girl. Gave me a whole different take on it.


"Never Let You Go" by Tal Bachman is pretty sappy. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band do some seriously sappy songs sometimes- "Nickel in the Well", "Fire in the Sky", "If This Ain't Love", "Down The Road".

[thirdwarning]

It's called Sometimes When We Touch, by Dan Hill



It gets a lot worse : http://www.romantic-lyrics.com/ls64.shtml
And the music? <<shudder>>


But it's so much fun to sing along when you're alone, especially in the car. It just dries out for over-emoting.

[Jragon]

Watch the music video- this is not just a love song, it's a song about how he's gonna lose this girl. Gave me a whole different take on it.

I know that, I think we just have different definitions of sappy.

[kaylasdad99]

I don't see Feelings, as presented by the redoubtable Morris Albert, up there...

[caligulathegod]

Li'l Markie: Diary of an Unborn Child. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfxFbWo_DH4) [/thread]

It takes three whole minutes to get to the singing part, but when you do it is the most demented sappy song ever.

[installLSC]

Two country nominees:
Modern--"Moments" by Emerson Drive. Guy finds homeless man about to jump off a bridge. He tries to talk the man down. While talking, the jumpee reveals how he helped so many others as a younger man. All wedded to the stickly synth strings and pointless key change all bad modern country ballads have.
Older--"No Charge" by Melba Montgomery. Kid gives mom a bill for all the chores he does. Mom points out all the things (the pain of giving birth, paying for college, etc.) she does for him for no charge. At the end of the song, he writes "no charge" on his bill. Even worse string arrangement. Oddly enough written by Harlan Howard, who wrote classics like "I Fall to Pieces".

[kitemaker_chuck]

We had joy, we had fun
We had seasonis in the sun.....

I think it was "sung" by Terry Jacks

[Quasimodem]

We had joy, we had fun
We had seasonis in the sun.....

I think it was "sung" by Terry Jacks

Rod McKuen figures into that some way, but I'll be damned if i can remember how.....

Q

[Cyberhwk]

We had joy, we had fun
We had seasonis in the sun.....

I think it was "sung" by Terry JacksI believe this also inspired an Ode to the SDMB back in the day. :)

[Sophistry and Illusion]

George Jones's He Stopped Loving Her Today (http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/jones-george/he-stopped-loving-her-today-18102.html)

Hey, now, don't be dissin' Ol' Possum.

[Eliahna]

I'd like to thank my parent's record collection for inspiration

The Last Farewell - Roger Whittaker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbvE-Ezwg0)

I'm Not Lisa - Jessi Colter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbvE-Ezwg0)

Rocky - Austin Roberts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVB7caV7GoM&feature=related)

Adrian - Jewel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSVIH5icBFs), the most self-indulgent track I've ever come across on any album.

[lobotomyboy63]

So many turds...so little time. I agree with most of the above and won't shame myself by disagreeing with a few.

"Cat's in the Cradle" has never done it for me, nor has "Taxi."

Let's not omit "Blind Man in the Bleachers."

That stupid "Playground in my mind," i.e. "My name is Michael, I got a nickel...."

"Born Free," with it's memorable "Stay free...," guaranteed to elicit feminine hygiene product associations.

"Afternoon Delight," now that's not really a turd---it's more like projectile diarrhea, a fountain o'shit.

<slumps back in chair, exhausted>

ETA @Cazzle: Rocky and I'm not Lisa? NO, STOP!

ROGER WHITTAKER? ROGER WHITTAKER? SOMEBODY CALL 9-1-1!

<flatline>

[Carm6773]

Two country nominees:
Modern--"Moments" by Emerson Drive. Guy finds homeless man about to jump off a bridge. He tries to talk the man down. While talking, the jumpee reveals how he helped so many others as a younger man. All wedded to the stickly synth strings and pointless key change all bad modern country ballads have.
Older--"No Charge" by Melba Montgomery. Kid gives mom a bill for all the chores he does. Mom points out all the things (the pain of giving birth, paying for college, etc.) she does for him for no charge. At the end of the song, he writes "no charge" on his bill. Even worse string arrangement. Oddly enough written by Harlan Howard, who wrote classics like "I Fall to Pieces".

Don't forget these:
Love, Me by Collin Ray (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND7Q6DOdsAY)
Holes in the Floor of Heaven by Steve Wariner (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJUOFeE_Ouc&feature=related)
and
How Can I Help You to Say Goodbye by Patti Loveless (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCmlZv7dh3s)

[Annie-Xmas]

Rod McKuen figures into that some way, but I'll be damned if i can remember how.....

Q
He provided the English lyrics. This was originally a French song, done by the brillant Jacque Brel. McKuen and Jacks just ruined it.

[eleanorigby]

What about Johnny Cash's "Give My Love to Rose"? It's pretty damned treacly. Homeless guy, just out of prison or some such--hero come across him as he lays dying in the street. "give all my money to Rose. Tell my son to help his mother around the house. Tell Rose to buy some pretty clothes." etc.


yuck.


Whatever that song is by Elton John and Kiki Dee--I can't stand it. Doubt it's sappy, but I just hate it. No, I don't want to know the title because then it will become an earworm.

[gigi]

Wouldn't that make you her Dad, which would make you deceased, wouldn't it :confused:

phil's a chick, I think.

Sappy in a good way-- One Boy, One Girl by Collin Raye. Makes me tear up every time.

[Snickers]

lobotomyboy's right. "Aaaa aaaa aaaaafternoon delight" wins. Ick. Now I need brain bleach.

What's that one that was remade recently, by U2 I think? Car crash, girl dies, and now he'll miss her forever and will let us know about it endlessly? Not Earth Angel, but something like it. That was full of yuck too.

[Ellen Cherry]

"Last Kiss," Snickers, and I think it was Pearl Jam.

Oh, how I love bad songs. There are some wonderful gems in here. I think I smell an iPod favorites list forming. :D

How about Garden Party? Remember that one? I don't know that it's particularly sappy, but it certainly reeks as a song.

[Jackmannii]

Lest we forget, Clint Holmes sang the following in "Playground In My Mind":

See the little children
See how they're playing so happy
In the playground in my mind.

Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
La la la la la la la.

To spare you all further brain damage, I have omitted the part where the rotten child sings "My name is Michael, I've got a nickel". Hey kid, here's a quarter if you'll STFU.

[Khadaji]

Ladies and Gentleman I give you: I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard (http://www.amazon.com/Hate-Myself-Want-Die-Depressing/dp/140130835X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227024294&sr=1-1)

[control-z]

Heh, sappy, not depressing.


"I Hate Myself and Want to Die" was a Nirvana song. It never seemed especially depressing to me, but it was of course prescient.

[Khadaji]

Heh, sappy, not depressing.


"I Hate Myself and Want to Die" was a Nirvana song. It never seemed especially depressing to me, but it was of course prescient.

::shrug:: many of the songs listed here are in the book.

[Black Sunshine]

Don't forget these:
Love, Me by Collin Ray (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND7Q6DOdsAY)
Holes in the Floor of Heaven by Steve Wariner (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJUOFeE_Ouc&feature=related)
and
How Can I Help You to Say Goodbye by Patti Loveless (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCmlZv7dh3s)

Nope. Got you beat. Don't Take the Girl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP1G5i5q-hk)

Was the sappiest song I'd ever heard before "Butterfly Kisses." Then they played it at my friends funeral. Now I want to puke and cry every time I hear it.

[gigi]

Nope. Got you beat. Don't Take the Girl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP1G5i5q-hk)


Does she die at the end or not? I never figured that out.

[Avast]

Since "Butterfly kisses" and "Christmas Shoes" have already been mentioned I'll offer up:

Crystal Shawanda - You Can Let Go Daddy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=532jxGDRjGY)

It reads like a checklist of requirements for the most lachrymose song award.

[Shodan]

From 1967...Little Becky's Christmas wish

http://www.bigozine2.com/features06/littlebecky.html

I was 8 years oldFrom Sherman's cite -Not too long ago Tommy was home in a green suit with great big gold buttons. He looked like our mailman Mr. Dewey.Perhaps that's why Mommy and Daddy got into a big fight and Daddy left.

Who does Becky look like, the milkman?

[Hazle Weatherfield]

What about Johnny Cash's "Give My Love to Rose"? It's pretty damned treacly. Homeless guy, just out of prison or some such--hero come across him as he lays dying in the street. "give all my money to Rose. Tell my son to help his mother around the house. Tell Rose to buy some pretty clothes." etc.


yuck.


Whatever that song is by Elton John and Kiki Dee--I can't stand it. Doubt it's sappy, but I just hate it. No, I don't want to know the title because then it will become an earworm.

Too bad! "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart." You know how we roll around here!

[Leaffan]

Since all of the really sappy ones are taken, I nominate Foreigner: I Want To Know What Love Is.

In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
Can't stop now, Ive traveled so far
To change this lonely life

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me

[The Second Stone]

I came in based on the thread title to say "Seasons in the Sun", which is by far the sappiest song ever sung. I don't see it disqualified by being worn out so much as that as you are looking for second place. Which would be "Patches", a distant second, but still far ahead of anything which could be third place. Other songs are just cloying in comparison to these two. But you already knew these things.

[JohnT]

Don't give up on us, baby
We're still worth one more try
I know we put our last one by
Just for a rainy evening
When maybe stars are few
Don't give up on us, I know we can still come throooooooouuuuuuuuuuugh!

David Soul (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Soul), for all of you blessed enough not to have this one act as an earworm.

[koeeoaddi]

Ebony and Ivory, Silly Love Songs and My Love are all cloyingly awful.

Nope, the award should go to Yummy Yummy Yummy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozqfOzqMvlQ), by the Ohio Something-or-Other. Not only the sappiest, but possibly the worst song ever written.

[Hippy Hollow]

These are epic schmaltz-fests, but let me throw up "She Can't Help Herself" (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/l/level-42/she/) by Level 42. LSS, the subject of the song's parents are killed in a car wreck, she's sexually assaulted by a family friend, and she's unable to find love. Mark King, the band's vocalist, stated that he thought, "Bloody hell, what else can happen to this poor girl?" It's a great song musically and vocally, but the lyrics are so horrible it makes me cringe.

Surely "Macarthur Park" has been mentioned in this thread? I just scanned it real quickly and didn't see it.

[Hippy Hollow]

In all seriousness, I retract my first nomination and replace it with the thread-winner: Dear Mr. Jesus (http://www.dayofthechild.org/dc98/lyric.htm).

This shows up in Texas on country stations around Christmastime. Does it make me evil for laughing at it?

[Fuji]

Longer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN2etyrsdoU&feature=related) - Dan Fogelberg.

Longer than there's been fishes in the ocean... this song has been sending me into a diabetic coma.

[DeVena]

Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42ty-4IsLpQ) - John Denver

Click the link... I dare ya!

[eleanorigby]

Too bad! "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart." You know how we roll around here!

Bastard! <glares in Hazle's general direction>


I'd say most stuff by Barry Manilow, or as I like to call him: Barely Manenough. And Paul McCartney and Wings were none too sincere, either. How about "Ebony and Ivory"? That's putrid. I know that's Sir Paul and Jacko, but what the hell--Paul always was the Beatle with the worst case of treacle/smarm.

[outlierrn]

I hear the cottonwoods whisp'ring above
Tammy, Tammy, Tammy's in love

[Quasimodem]

We're forgetting something, y'all.

At the time those songs played on the radio, they weren't "sappy" at all to some of us.

We changed. Got more cynical, grew tougher skins or something, but a lot of those songs mentioned here might have been someone's favorite song at one time.

I'd like to add one more, if I may?

My friends know that I am a huge John Wayne fan. (I know, I know ..... but I am anyway, okay?:)) and my favorite Duke movie is The Green Berets. The song from that film (The Ballad of The Green Berets) was one of my favorites back then, and I still like it today.

And yeah, I guess it can be considered sappy, but it is one of the tunes I liked and still do.

Just sayin';)

Q

[eleanorigby]

well, yes, I'll confess to loving Seasons in the Sun, but I was (I think) 9 years old. Who were the ADULTS or TEENS who made that song #1? Young kids like bubble gum and schmaltz, but what's the excuse for the older people? Someone should take the fall for this. Off with their heads, say I!

[Quasimodem]

Smiling at you, Eleanor! :) I love your humor!

Quasi

[The Punkyova]

Barry Manilow's "Mandy". Not only is Barry enjoying his self-pity way too much, but the first time I heard it, the dj followed the song with the comment, "Mandy sounds like a dog." So now I'm thinking of abandoned dogs. Sappy & a definite downer for an animal-lover.

According to TV's Craig Fergusson, he knows the person who wrote "Mandy." It's actually about a drug called mandralone, to which the songwriter was addicted at the time.

Gives the song a whole new twist.

[kelly5078]

"Tell Laura I Love Her," by Ray Peterson, at least deserves mention. Not quite as high on the sapmeter as "Honey," but it's about as overwrought a performance as one can find. Outside of C&W anyway.

[phil417]

Wouldn't that make you her Dad, which would make you deceased, wouldn't it :confused:

dawson, I'm female. I grew up, basically, without a dad (my first stepdad worked shifts, so he was never around). "Butterfly Kisses" to me was about a dad who was always around, who helped his daughter grow up, who took care of his daughter, etc. The idealized father in the song was the daddy I never knew. There might be other female dopers who feel the same way.

Anyway, whenever I see a music box or plaque or something else with the words to the song, I send one to my daughter.

Love, Phil

[Hazle Weatherfield]

How about "Think of Laura," by Christopher Cross!

[DarRRva]

"Last Kiss," Snickers, and I think it was Pearl Jam.

I hear that song, and I want to start killing people. When it was popular, I almost went insane because of hearing that song on the radio all the time. It might actually have been that song that finally made me decide to stop listening to the radio altogether.

And whoever's bad mouthing Total Eclipse of the Heart, that song totally isn't sappy. It's AMAZING. If you've never been drunk off your ass, lying on the floor and screaming that song along with the stereo with 40 other people at four in the morning and being interrupted by noise control, well... You've never really been to a proper party then have you :D

[pseudotriton ruber ruber]

Maybe it's not number 1, but it's a contender, just likey "Honey", or "Watching Scotty grow". It's called Sometimes When We Touch, by Dan Hill


This reminded me--I once rewrote the lyrics to that song, which I then imagined as being sung by a pre-Fuhrer Adolf Hitler as "Sometimes when we putsch..." which took virtually all the sentimental air out of those overinflated tires.

[panache45]

I don't see Feelings, as presented by the redoubtable Morris Albert, up there...

Beat me to it.

[jali]

Knock Three Times and Tie a Yellow Ribbon and Paint the Front Door Blue and Plant a Rosebush Facing North and Hang a Flag Out The Window and Be There or Be Square any thing by Tony Orlando and that effing Dawn.

I happen to like Muskrat Love.

[eleanorigby]

Smiling at you, Eleanor! :) I love your humor!

Quasi

Um, I was being serious.... ;) (thanks) :)

[Hazle Weatherfield]

Sad Eyes

[Ellen Cherry]

"Tell Laura I Love Her," by Ray Peterson, at least deserves mention. Not quite as high on the sapmeter as "Honey," but it's about as overwrought a performance as one can find. Outside of C&W anyway.

This song is the reason I stand before you today, Ellen Cherry and not Laura Cherry. My mother loved the name Laura but this song put my dad off the name forever. So Ellen I am!

[gigi]

In the sappy love song category, I'd have to nominate "When I Need You" by Leo Sayer. I listen to accuradio.com Love Songs channel and this one just played...I'm recovering.