# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/81 "2008-11-19T03:21:09Z")
We’re forgetting something, y’all. At the _time_ those songs played on the radio, they weren’t “sappy” at all to some of us. We **changed**. Got more cynical, grew tougher skins or something, but a lot of those songs mentioned here _might_ have been someone’s favorite song at one time. I’d like to add one more, if I may? My friends know that I am a huge John Wayne fan. (I know, I know … but I am _anyway_, okay?:)) and my favorite Duke movie is _The Green Berets_. The song from that film (_The Ballad of The Green Berets_) was one of my favorites back then, and I still like it today. And yeah, I guess it _can_ be considered sappy, but it is one of the tunes I liked and still do. Just sayin’😉 Q ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/82 "2008-11-19T03:44:28Z")
well, yes, I’ll confess to loving Seasons in the Sun, but I was (I think) 9 years old. Who were the ADULTS or TEENS who made that song #1? Young kids like bubble gum and schmaltz, but what’s the excuse for the older people? Someone should take the fall for this. Off with their heads, say I! ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/83 "2008-11-19T03:57:12Z")
Smiling at you, **Eleanor**! 🙂 I love your humor! Quasi ---
**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/84 "2008-11-19T04:07:53Z")
> [@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. According to TV’s Craig Fergusson, he knows the person who wrote “Mandy.” It’s actually about a drug called mandralone, to which the songwriter was addicted at the time. Gives the song a whole new twist. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/85 "2008-11-19T05:34:32Z")
“Tell Laura I Love Her,” by Ray Peterson, at least deserves mention. Not quite as high on the sapmeter as “Honey,” but it’s about as overwrought a performance as one can find. Outside of C&W anyway. ---
**Author:** ![phil417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@phil417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phil417)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/86 "2008-11-19T07:14:44Z")
> [@dawson](#): > > Wouldn’t that make **you** her Dad, which would make you deceased, wouldn’t it 😕 **dawson** , I’m female. I grew up, basically, without a dad (my first stepdad worked shifts, so he was never around). “Butterfly Kisses” to me was about a dad who was always around, who helped his daughter grow up, who took care of his daughter, etc. The idealized father in the song was the daddy I never knew. There might be other female dopers who feel the same way. Anyway, whenever I see a music box or plaque or something else with the words to the song, I send one to my daughter. Love, Phil ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/87 "2008-11-19T07:26:21Z")
How about “Think of Laura,” by Christopher Cross! ---
**Author:** ![DarRRva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@DarRRva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarRRva)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/88 "2008-11-19T08:21:38Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > “Last Kiss,” Snickers, and I think it was Pearl Jam. I hear that song, and I want to start killing people. When it was popular, I almost went insane because of hearing that song on the radio all the time. It might actually have been that song that finally made me decide to stop listening to the radio altogether. And whoever’s bad mouthing Total Eclipse of the Heart, that song totally isn’t sappy. It’s AMAZING. If you’ve never been drunk off your ass, lying on the floor and screaming that song along with the stereo with 40 other people at four in the morning and being interrupted by noise control, well… You’ve never really been to a proper party then have you 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/89 "2008-11-19T08:29:58Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Maybe it’s not number 1, but it’s a contender, just likey “Honey”, or “Watching Scotty grow”. It’s called **Sometimes When We Touch** , by Dan Hill This reminded me–I once rewrote the lyrics to that song, which I then imagined as being sung by a pre-Fuhrer Adolf Hitler as “Sometimes when we putsch…” which took virtually all the sentimental air out of those overinflated tires. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/90 "2008-11-19T08:33:52Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I don’t see _Feelings_, as presented by the redoubtable Morris Albert, up there… Beat me to it. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/91 "2008-11-19T14:28:22Z")
_Knock Three Times_ and _Tie a Yellow Ribbon_ and _Paint the Front Door Blue_ and _Plant a Rosebush Facing North_ and _Hang a Flag Out The Window_ and _Be There or Be Square_ any thing by Tony Orlando and that effing Dawn. I happen to like _Muskrat Love_. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/92 "2008-11-19T15:19:36Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Smiling at you, **Eleanor**! 🙂 I love your humor! > > Quasi Um, I was being serious… 😉 (thanks) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/93 "2008-11-19T15:46:53Z")
Sad Eyes ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/94 "2008-11-19T15:57:35Z")
> [@kelly5078](#): > > “Tell Laura I Love Her,” by Ray Peterson, at least deserves mention. Not quite as high on the sapmeter as “Honey,” but it’s about as overwrought a performance as one can find. Outside of C&W anyway. This song is the reason I stand before you today, Ellen Cherry and not Laura Cherry. My mother loved the name Laura but this song put my dad off the name forever. So Ellen I am! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168/95 "2008-11-20T15:52:54Z")
In the sappy love song category, I’d have to nominate “When I Need You” by Leo Sayer. I listen to [accuradio.com](http://accuradio.com) Love Songs channel and this one just played…I’m recovering. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-sappiest-song-ever/473168.md?page=4)