# Singers Who Cried On Studio Albums?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [December 31, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-who-cried-on-studio-albums/929363 "2020-12-31T16:49:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moris/32/2846_2.png) [@Moris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moris)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-who-cried-on-studio-albums/929363/21 "2021-01-03T08:59:55Z")

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The only two I can think of at the moment are these:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/q_bq5mStroM/hqdefault.jpg "Ne me quitte pas (Jacques Brel) - [English subtitles]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_bq5mStroM)

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bTqV1pnQoos/hqdefault.jpg "Buffy Sainte Maire - "My country 'Tis Of Thy People You're Dying"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTqV1pnQoos)

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**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-who-cried-on-studio-albums/929363/22 "2021-01-03T15:32:18Z")

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Michael Jackson appears to choke up at the end of She’s Out of My Life.

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**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-who-cried-on-studio-albums/929363/23 "2021-01-05T01:59:54Z")

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(Now I know what an ALDIS Lamp is!  
I remember one Navy day at sea when we were exchanging formalities with another ship, and I was catching every word or so of the exchange because of my teenage ham radio days. It wasn’t anything exciting, but I smiled knowing that the other sailors around me didn’t know what the blinking light was saying.)

But to continue your thought, Stanley Kubrick went through great effort to have the big round table in the War Room in Dr. Strangelove done up in green felt, like a billiard table. He wanted to create an atmosphere like they were all playing a game.

The movie was filmed in black and white.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-who-cried-on-studio-albums/929363/24 "2021-01-06T05:40:30Z")

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An ALDIS lamp, you say?

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sZEeBqZsmQM/hqdefault.jpg "Julius Caesar on an Aldis Lamp - Monty Python's Flying Circus - S02E02") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZEeBqZsmQM)

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