“Tear Stained Letter” - Johnny Cash
“Tear Stained Letter” - Richard Thompson
“I’m Cryin’” - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Taking a small tour of my singles database:
Slim Whitman - Darlin’ Don’t Cry
Johnnie Ray - Cry (double A-side of “The Little White Cloud That Cried”)
Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis, others - Crying In The Chapel
Eddie Dean - Cry Of A Broken Heart
Elvis, The Beatles, others - I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry Over You
Buddy Holly - Crying, Waiting, Hoping
Bobby Curtola - I Cry And Cry
Dion - (I Was) Born To Cry
The Everly Brothers - Crying In The Rain
The Four Seasons - Big Girls Don’t Cry
The Caravelles - You Don’t Have To Be A Baby To Cry
Lesley Gore - Judy’s Turn To Cry
Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters - Cry Baby (already mentioned by Janis Joplin, but this is the definitive performance)
The Animals - I’m Crying
Gerry & The Pacemakers - Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying
The Magicians - Invitation To Cry
The Mamas & The Papas - Did You Ever Want To Cry
The Box Tops - Cry Like A Baby
The Troggs - You Can Cry If You Want To
Elvis - Don’t Cry Daddy
Joe Cocker - Cry Me A River
The Poppy Family - No Good To Cry
Les Emmerson - Cry Your Eyes Out
Don Goodwin - Time To Cry
George Harrison - This Guitar (Can’t Keep From Crying) (sequel to “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”)
Alice Cooper - I Never Cry
The Rolling Stones - Fool To Cry
Buckingham / Nicks - Crying In The Night
Melissa Manchester - Don’t Cry Out Loud
Journey - Who’s Crying Now
Prince - When Doves Cry
Squeeze - Crying In My Sleep
Continuing:
Doris Day & Her Country Cousins - Crocodile Tears
Johnny Burnette Trio, The Beatles - Lonesome Tears In My Eyes
Ray Charles - Drown In My Own Tears
Fats Domino - Valley Of Tears
Marty Robbins - Grown Up Tears
LaVern Baker - I Cried A Tear
Ray Price - Wall Of Tears
Santo & Johnny - Tear Drop
Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs - When My Tears Have Dried
Pat Hervey - Tears Of Misery
The Miracles, Johnny Rivers - The Tracks Of My Tears
Ben E. King - Tears, Tears, Tears
The Monkees - Tear Drop City
The Beach Boys - Tears In The Morning
Roberta Flack - No Tears (In The End)
Freddy Fender - Before The Next Teardrop Falls
George Harrison - Teardrops
Also, The Dramatics - In The Rain (same theme as Dee Clark “Raindrops”)
Boy George - The Crying Game (from the movie of the same name).
Burst forth, my tears
Flow, my tears
Weep you no more, sad fountains
I saw my lady weep
Flow not so fast, ye fountains
Go crystal tears
All by John Dowland. Probably not what you were asking, but he is the ULTIMATE emo. There’s probably more.
Llorando—Rebekah Del Rio
“Tonight I Wanna Cry” -Keith Urban
Yay me! I got one.
Bell Bottom Tear - Beautiful South
Cry Baby Cry - The Beatles
I’ll Cry Instead - The Beatles
Tear Stained Letter - Richard Thompson
Never Make Me Cry - Fleetwood Mac
To Cry About - Mary Margaret O’Hara
Can’t Cry Any More - Sheryl Crow
One pf the most incredible things I’ve ever seen or heard was Rebekah Del Rio’s performance of “Llorando” (Roy Orbison’s “Crying” in Spanish) in the movie Mulholland Falls.
“How Many Tears” - Helloween
“I Never Cry” Alice Cooper
“No Time For Tears” Alice Cooper
“Million Tears” -Kasey Chambers
“Stop Crying” - Bob Dylan
“Cry Awhile” Bob Dylan
“It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” Bob Dylan
“Trippin’ On My Own Tears” - Ringo Starr
“Sailing On My Tears” -Hanoi Rocks (or something like that–been a long time since I heard it).
“It’s All Right To Cry”- Rosie Grier
Some of these are going to be better than others, you did ask for ALL suggestions, not just GOOD ones!
Smokey Robinson: The Tracks of My Tears
Beck: Lonesome Tears
Emmylou Harris: All My Tears
Ozzy Osbourne: No More Tears
Kylie Minogue: Tears
Qkumba Zoo: Weeping
The Beegees: I’m Weeping
Chris de Burgh- The Last Time I Cried
Hanson: Cried
Morrissey: He Cried
Midge Ure: She Cried
LeAnn Rimes: Ten Thousand Angels Cried
Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry – Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn – recorded by Frank Sinatra and others
Dry My Tears and Move On-Richard Thompson
Carl Smith - “If Teardrops Were Pennies”
Maddox Brothers and Rose - “Don’t Bother to Cry”
Bettye LaVette - “Cry Me a River” (different than the “classic” version)
Broadcast - “Still Feels Like Tears”
Tommy Roe - “Cry on Crying Eyes”
The Cure - “Boys Don’t Cry”
Richard Ashcroft - “Cry Til Morning”
Cry by James Blunt
Mrs. Furthur
For the record, they’re all good!
A quick scan of my iTunes reveals these:
All-Time Quarterback–Why I Cry
Massive Attack–Teardrop
Paul Beribeau–Only Babies Cry
The only song I have on my computer with “cry” in the title is “Why I Cry” by the Magnetic Fields.