Pretty please, with sugar on it, that’s how I like it. Whats dirty about that?
Spring 1976. Finally got a driver’s license! Now I can cruise down the Interstate with this on the radio:
Dung_Beetle:
One Tin Soldier - Lyrics - Coven - YouTube.
“Manipulative as hell but I can’t sing it out loud without getting all choked up.”
I would see your lousy song from an atrocious movie and raise you, but my raise is a lousy song in a brilliant movie:
It all depends on what “it” is.
This one chokes me up every time:
If I’m not being whooshed…some of the lyrics that apparently aren’t in the shortened 45 version (courtesy of Genius.com):
I had a taste of the real world (Didn’t waste a drop of it)
When I went down on you, girl
When I start dancin’ inside ya (Oh, baby)
You make me wanna sing (I love you so)
John Lennon Woman. Mega-Sappy, icky-poo anthem of devotion to his usual object of adoration, and yet it moves me to tears. Go figure.
Does Stan Rogers’ The Mary Ellen Carter count as a sappy song?
When I was about 12 years old, I thought Last Kiss was wonderful – so sad and romantic:
Well, where oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She’s gone to heaven, so I got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.
Then I got older and realized it was a pretty crappy song. So I was gobsmacked when Pearl Jam covered it.
Sappy songs that I loved back then and still love are most of Gene Pitney’s oeuvre: Town Without Pity, It Hurts to Be in Love, Half Heaven Half Heartbreak, etc. etc.
It seems I’m inadvertently establishing a theme:
Sonny & Cher - A Cowboy’s Work Is Never Done
There are other YT clips of this without sound FX but I love the cartoon.
We had to sing that in elementary school music class. We hated it!
Lou Reed’s “Walk On The Wild Side” and Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way” rank right up there.
We are the world
USA for Africa
Oh my God, I’ve got a story about this…
Let’s have it.
Hello it’s Me.
I like the Paul Giamatti version from the movie Duets.
This is one of my favorites. Little River Band - Reminiscing (1978)
A +1 for both “Reminiscing” and “I’m Not In Love” (which is an amazingly-produced song, as well as having excellent lyrics).
Well this one is sweet.
