# Your nomination for the Sappiest Song Ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168 "2008-11-17T20:22:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![D.Fenestrator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aca169/32.png) [@D.Fenestrator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.Fenestrator)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/21 "2008-11-17T22:04:17Z")
I’ll second “Honey.” There is also some Dan Fogelberg stuff that, to me, is pretty darn sappy. No, I have bleached the titles out of my brain, so I can’t list them… ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/22 "2008-11-17T22:07:31Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Honey "See the three, how big it’s grown. .. " > > or > > Never Been to Me > > I could probably look up who sang them (or even if I got the titles right), but it has been mercifully erased from my memory and I don’t want to endanger that small bit of solace. Those would be “Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro & “I’ve Never Been to Me” by Charlene. (For anyone desperately needing to rush out and buy the records.) ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/23 "2008-11-17T22:12:12Z")
I knew I shouldn’t have re-checked this thread. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/24 "2008-11-17T22:12:22Z")
Muskrat Love? ---
**Author:** ![D.Fenestrator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aca169/32.png) [@D.Fenestrator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.Fenestrator)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/25 "2008-11-17T22:26:15Z")
You know, I had just about forgotten about “Muskrat Love,” and now it’s stuck in my head. Thanks. :rolleyes: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/26 "2008-11-17T22:53:11Z")
Love grows where my Rosemary goes - Edison Lighthouse. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr6H1a7YUac](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr6H1a7YUac) Sappy as a maple tree. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/27 "2008-11-18T00:03:37Z")
Good choices so far, but some are distinctly lacking that certain maudlin something. Thus I present [All By Myself](http://www.jango.com/stations/66596928/tunein?proxy_id=21292734&song_id=31716), by Eric Carmen. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/28 "2008-11-18T00:08:46Z")
> [@choie](#): > > Good choices so far, but some are distinctly lacking that certain maudlin something. Thus I present [All By Myself](http://www.jango.com/stations/66596928/tunein?proxy_id=21292734&song_id=31716), by Eric Carmen. Maudlin, sure. But who hasn’t secretly turned up the volume and wailed along when driving alone? ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/29 "2008-11-18T00:22:24Z")
How about “I’ll Walk” by Bucky Covington? A guy and a girl have a fight on prom night. She gets out of the car and starts walking down the road, then gets hit by a car, rendering her unable to walk ever again. The guy and girl get married (guilty much?) and she insists on walking down the aisle with her father. Bad, bad, bad. [See for yourself.](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/buckycovington/illwalk.html) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/30 "2008-11-18T00:43:27Z")
Rocky I’ve Never Been In Love Before. I can’t find a YouTube link though ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/31 "2008-11-18T01:30:06Z")
**We’ve Only Just Begun** by the Carpenters **Having My Baby** by Paul Anka **Watching Scotty Grow** by Bobby Goldsboro (Goldsboro has to be the all-time King of Sap) I have to stop now. I’m getting sick. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/32 "2008-11-18T02:04:52Z")
How could I have forgotten Shannon? Why, on purpose of course. It went down with the Wreck of the Emund Fitzgerald. ---
**Author:** ![ShermanAter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ShermanAter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShermanAter)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/33 "2008-11-18T02:14:49Z")
From 1967…Little Becky’s Christmas wish [http://www.bigozine2.com/features06/littlebecky.html](http://www.bigozine2.com/features06/littlebecky.html) I was 8 years old ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/34 "2008-11-18T02:24:26Z")
How could I forget? The dearly departed Dan Fogelberg’s eternal [Run for the Roses](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDwm3QIwfg) ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/35 "2008-11-18T02:25:48Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > **We’ve Only Just Begun** by the Carpenters > > **Having My Baby** by Paul Anka > > **Watching Scotty Grow** by Bobby Goldsboro (Goldsboro has to be the all-time King of Sap) > > I have to stop now. I’m getting sick. Quoted for truth. ---
**Author:** ![phil417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@phil417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phil417)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/36 "2008-11-18T02:30:25Z")
Barry Manilow’s “Mandy”. Not only is Barry enjoying his self-pity way too much, but the first time I heard it, the dj followed the song with the comment, “Mandy sounds like a dog.” So now I’m thinking of abandoned dogs. Sappy & a definite downer for an animal-lover. **Yllaria** , I fourth (fifth?) _Honey_. “Butterfly Kisses” is another matter. My older daughter’s dad (now deceased) sang this song at her wedding, so now it’s a part of our family history. Love, Phil ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/37 "2008-11-18T02:39:47Z")
> [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](#): > > How could I forget? > > The dearly departed Dan Fogelberg’s eternal [Run for the Roses](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDwm3QIwfg) I have to respectfully disagree, **CTTDSWHC**. Sorry, I know I’ll be in the minority, but I have a “thing” for animals. Same for the song “Shannon” by Henry Gross. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxz2wQX3EvA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxz2wQX3EvA) They can’t speak for themselves, so we have to speak for them. :Shrugs: Quasi ---
**Author:** ![dawson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@dawson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dawson)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/38 "2008-11-18T02:47:30Z")
\*\*\*Close to You \*\*\*by the Carpenters. The scary thing is that the youtube video is not available due to a third party copyright claim. Someone actually _wants_ to be credited with writing that drivel. What lengths people will go to for fame! ---
**Author:** ![dawson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@dawson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dawson)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/39 "2008-11-18T02:53:40Z")
> [@phil417](#): > > Barry Manilow’s “Mandy”. Not only is Barry enjoying his self-pity way too much, but the first time I heard it, the dj followed the song with the comment, “Mandy sounds like a dog.” So now I’m thinking of abandoned dogs. Sappy & a definite downer for an animal-lover. > > **Yllaria** , I fourth (fifth?) _Honey_. > > “Butterfly Kisses” is another matter. My older daughter’s dad (now deceased) sang this song at her wedding, so now it’s a part of our family history. > > Love, Phil Wouldn’t that make **you** her Dad, which would make you deceased, wouldn’t it 😕 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/40 "2008-11-18T03:03:49Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > What was that horrid one…“Butterfly Kisses” or something? I have a little girl myself and that song makes me gag. You beat me to it. Absolutely the worst. Never mind the creepy incestuous undertones. Just blech. “Mandy” is another contender, but the OP asked for more current stuff. I thought Mandy WAS about a dog! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168.md?page=3)