For some reason I cannot listen to this song without turning into a blubbering idiot. No idea why.
Today I heard “Guantanamera,” made famous in the late 1960s by the Sandpipers. “The words mean I am a truthful man from the land of the palm trees…” It’s pretty corny stuff. It brought tears to my eyes. Really. I liked the song back then, but never expected I’d have an emotional reaction to it after all these years.
Tom Jones I’ll Never Fall in Love Again. Sappy, but Tom had a great voice.
I’ll see your Tom Jones and raise you an Engelbert Humperdinck:
Now that’s sappy. I feel like we could have a good road trip together.
My daughter likes to dance to this song. Al Stewart is IMHO a greatly underappreciated artist.
Andrew Gold’s “Thank You For Being a Friend”
And when we die and float away
Into the night, the Milky Way
You’ll hear me call as we ascend
I’ll see you there, then once again
Thank you for being a…
Some C&W bummers:
I was baffled how the band I listened to for a few of my younger years could put out a song that would be in this thread and with that description. Turns out this Coven is not the Coven of my youth. Not even close. I still have hearing damage from a show that featured the other Coven and Metal Church. I think my hearing repaired itself listening to this Coven.
The first time I heard this song was the day my mother died. I still tear up when I hear it. That is sappy enough for me.
An Australian band called Axiom (most of whom later went on to form the Little River Band) had a record that charted reasonably in the early '70s called ‘Little Ray Of Sunshine’. It’s about the birth of a little girl - supposedly inspired by the arrival of one band member’s neice.
It has become an Australian classic and featured regularly in the ‘Births, Deaths and Marriages’ announcements in the newspapers - and no doubt still does in whatever passes for those in this FriendFace-Internet world we are in.
Birth, marriage, and death announcements in the paper are called ‘Hatches, Matches, and Dispatches’
Ah, Racer, I’m sorry. Well, it is a song about that kind of thing…
This is so recent that I almost fear that it’s not eligible to participate in the thread, but I don’t care. It’s sappy, and silly, and I LOVED sharing it with my girlfriend for the first time.
I love them! This is my favorite:
Totally NSFW
Well, yeah, she thinks that one is funny, too, but there’s no way to characterize it as “sappy.”
Marilyn McCoo has a fantastic voice.
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails gave up this song to the man it’s said locked himself in an old coal mine while going through withdrawal:
Then there’s a cheerful one
One from upbeat teenage years
This counselor who comes around weekly asked me today, “So, you’ve been suicidal since high school?”
“Yeah; hasn’t everybody?”