Songs that make grown men cry

[Gritter]

Feeling kinda blue lately...but comfort can always be found in a minor key.

This is Feist's exceptional version of Now At Last...originally recorded by Blossom Dearie.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1bM_7kW0fk

[Oldrottenhead]

here's one that makes me cry but to get the full emotional impact you have to hear the studio version which i cant find on youtube st thomas stranger out of blue


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nle4Eu2jKY8

[Bluesberry]

I absolutly love Feists voice.  That is a wonderful song Sandy.

ORH, I can't get enough of St. Thomas lately.  I down loaded everything I could find on I-tunes, and there is not one bad song in the lot, incredible.  As for this song, it just stops me in my tracks everytime I hear it.  Yup, it does it for me.

[Greeny]

Barbara Streisand's 'Evergreen' makes me tearful everytime I hear it. It has no connection or resonance with anything in my life - the music just brings a lump to the throat everytime I hear it (since I was a teenager). In fact, I can't actually listen to it anymore. 'Mandy' by Barry Manilow also has a similar reaction, as does 'Here you Come Again' by Dolly Parton. I think I may have said too much already, lol. I'll be losing whatever little bit of cred I had on here, pmsl.

[Oldrottenhead]

i used to (still do) well up whenever i heard the theme tune to the first superman movie with christopher reeves in it. i didnt know why, then my younger brother told me it was the last movie we went to see with our dad before he died.

another one is is kirsty mccolls cover of the billy bragg song new england againi dont know why.


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

[Bluesberry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cefrrdRUid4

The Johnny Cash one gets me more, but the original is pretty spooky too.

[Greeny]

I totally get where you're coming from on that one, BB. The Johnny Cash video stopped me in my tracks when I first saw it. It's an epitaph rather than a music video... the pain and performance of someone who knows that this is the end of their music and life. It gives me a shiver everytime this song pops up on my mp3 player. It really is an incredible song.

[Greeny]

This one always got me since I was a kid too. I think I just have a very low slush threshold, lol


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ogkwp3OMH4

[Oldrottenhead]

when the johnny cash video was aired, i know of lots of grown men crying their eyes out myself included but the added caveat was all of our wives laughing at us.

[chapperz66]

This one gets me every time.  I got the CD about the time that my daughter was going off for an exchange year at a University in Sydney Australia.  My little girl going away for year.....it just wasn't right.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUyb9KqF9qg

Mind you, she's now back home and the house looks an absolute tip as a result - but the song still gets me.

It doesn't quite make me cry - I am British you know - but almost....