The 50 Saddest Songs Of All Time

admin · Post by **b0b** » 12 May 2015 9:09 am

Quite an interesting list. Jerry Byrd gets credit for "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", which comes in at #2.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/list ... -time.html

Josh Sommovilla · Post by **Josh Sommovilla** » 12 May 2015 9:34 am

Personally, I'd vote for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5IFMculBUg

Mitch Drumm · Post by **Mitch Drumm** » 12 May 2015 10:46 am

I've heard exactly 7 of them, but then I don't get out much.

None of them written prior to "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"? Hmmmmmm......guess they didn't have teen angst prior to that.

Or maybe "Josh Jackson" was born yesterday.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 12 May 2015 12:07 pm

I don't see Down To Seeds & Stems Again. My internet must be broken.

John Limbach · Post by **John Limbach** » 12 May 2015 12:07 pm

Or maybe the entire album "When Tragedy Struck" by Hank Snow

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 12 May 2015 12:15 pm

Earnest Bovine wrote:I don't see Down To Seeds & Stems Again. My internet must be broken.

Mama Hated Diesels missed the cut too.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 12 May 2015 12:23 pm

I'm dubious of any such list that omits Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life", as sung here by the finest ever to sing it, the inimitable Johnny Hartman!

https://youtu.be/7d6_LUDa_Zw

John Peay · Post by **John Peay** » 12 May 2015 12:29 pm

Not a Red Sovine song on the list??

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 12 May 2015 12:32 pm

Well, "Teddy Bay-er" ought to make the list too, methinks...

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 12 May 2015 12:38 pm

John Prine. Hello In There.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ85Hep0kD0

Curt Trisko · Post by **Curt Trisko** » 12 May 2015 2:38 pm

I like that it includes multiple genres of music: Neutral Milk Hotel to Vern Gosdin is pretty broad.

admin · Post by **b0b** » 12 May 2015 4:48 pm

Nina Simone can get really sad at times.

https://youtu.be/VmO_0tIGo-4

Quentin Hickey · Post by **Quentin Hickey** » 12 May 2015 5:18 pm

I hope they put Vince Gill in there as well as Glenn Campbell wespecially Witchita Lineman.

Ken Pippus · Post by **Ken Pippus** » 12 May 2015 6:10 pm

No "Bringing Mary Home?"

Tim Herbert · Post by **Tim Herbert** » 12 May 2015 6:24 pm

Gene Pitney's "I'm Gonna Be Strong"; plenty corny but still gets me every time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldcZkWLOTCI

And T. Graham Brown's "Wine Into Water" sure tells a story... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSdze_yYeKc

I'm going to crawl into bed and cry myself to sleep now.

John Peay · Post by **John Peay** » 12 May 2015 7:04 pm

Ken Pippus wrote:No "Bringing Mary Home?"

Oh man, for sure!

Clyde Mattocks · Post by **Clyde Mattocks** » 12 May 2015 7:26 pm

If they think George Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today" is sad, they must not have heard his "Mama Take Me Home".

Steve Pawlak · Post by **Steve Pawlak** » 12 May 2015 7:41 pm

Or maybe the entire album "When Tragedy Struck" by Hank Snow

My dad had this record and I would listen to it when I was a kid
Nobody's Child is pretty sad

Bob Watson · Post by **Bob Watson** » 12 May 2015 9:12 pm

Here are a few more wrist slitters that didn't get mentioned. Green Green Grass Of Home, Long Black Limousine, Sing Me Back Home, Misery and Gin, Smokey Mountain Memories, Flowers for Mama. The list could go on and on.

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 12 May 2015 9:47 pm

I guess Red Foley's "Old Shep" and Walter Brennen's "Old Rivers" were before their time! $:\$

Darrell Birtcher · Post by **Darrell Birtcher** » 12 May 2015 10:02 pm

"Boulder to Birmingham" always does it for me.

Honorable mention has to go to The Louvin Brothers for "How's the World Treating You" or any of it's remakes, especially the version by Alison Krauss.

These also go especially well with steel.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 13 May 2015 2:57 am

Only six of these tunes were familiar to me (how did DIVORCE make it on to the sad list? unless we're talking about sad songwriting: 'little J-O-E...')

Where is 'You Don't Know What Love Is?' And 'Meaning of the Blues?'

Where is Barber's 'Adagio? or Moonlight Sonata?

I'd vote for Hank or Cash. That lonesome whipporwill....

Graham · Post by **Graham** » 13 May 2015 3:07 am

Cal Smith's "I Didn't Even Cry".

Roger Kelly · Post by **Roger Kelly** » 13 May 2015 3:22 am

I'd vote for this one.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWVwVTFAs4c

Mark Carlisle · Post by **Mark Carlisle** » 13 May 2015 6:57 am

Jim Cohen wrote:I'm dubious of any such list that omits Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life", as sung here by the finest ever to sing it, the inimitable Johnny Hartman!

https://youtu.be/7d6_LUDa_Zw

I backed a wannabe Sinatra vocalist on solo jazz guitar ala the Joe/Ella duets (although I'm no JP) One night he came in with a setlist: "Lush Life" "You Don't Know What Love Is" and "I'm a Fool To Want You" back to back. I told him he may as well provide a 38 at each table. Thanks, Jim, Johnny Hartman's/Coltrane version is chilling.