# What musical performance or recording of a performance makes you tear up? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-musical-performance-or-recording-of-a-performance-makes-you-tear-up/1030616 **Category:** Cafe Society **Created:** [June 4, 2026, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-musical-performance-or-recording-of-a-performance-makes-you-tear-up/1030616 "2026-06-04T13:44:38Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
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The similar thread I started 21 years ago: > [@What songs make you cry?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/294347): > > I was listening to A Prairie Home Companion this morning, a rebroadcast with Randy Newman. He sang [Marie](http://randy-newman.the-lyrics.com/marie-009247.html), a song I have heard many times before (although not for quite a while). I was eating my breakfast, and as Randy came to the chorus, I loved you the first time I saw you, And I always will love you, Marie, I just burst out in tears. I’m a 50-year old guy, not terribly sentimental, not depressed, not given to emotional outbursts, and, no, I’ve never been in love with someone named Marie. B… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-musical-performance-or-recording-of-a-performance-makes-you-tear-up/1030616)._