Songs about love and loss

[Hoops66]

Here is a very old one, said to be based on a song played at Maria Theresa's wedding. The very name cries out betrayal.

Always liked this song, with a bit of a preference to Glenn Miller's rendition, which is smoother than this "peppy" version by Benny and Helen (which is also good).

 

[Bama fan]

For our friend @Hoops66 . Hard to beat Glenn and the Modernaires.

 

[Plebe]

"Love and loss" brought this gem to mind.

In composition, arrangement and interpretation, it seems to recall another era. Timeless.

 

[Bigboote]

Here's an unusual love-and-loss song. It was written by Danny Carnahan and Chris Caswell in the late-70's or early 80's. It's about a time-travelling youth who falls in love with a girl on Earth. They meet just before he's pulled back to his time. This version is from Kate Price, another west-coast folkie. I bought a humle from the father of the guy playing the dulcimer here.

 

[Hoops66]

For our friend @Hoops66 . Hard to beat Glenn and the Modernaires.

Yes, that's the one. Nice cigarette ad by Glenn! Wonder what he's smoking?

 

[Hoops66]

I don't know if anyone's seen this, but it is a gem, I think.

 

[Scud49]

Just one of the many gems from the musical vault of Van Morrison:

The sky is crying and it's time to go home
And we shall hurry to the car from the foam
Sit by the fire and dry out our wet clothes
It's raining outside from the skies up above

Inside it's warm love
Inside it's warm love
And it's ever present everywhere
And it's ever present everywhere
Warm love
Warm love

 

[uconnfan68]

Maybe my favorite Bonnie Raitt song....

"I can't make you love me" is mine.

 

[Bama fan]

I am with @uconnfan68 on this gem. That is Bruce Hornsby on the piano and it is magical.

 

[Bigboote]

Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge singing Jimmy Webb:

 

[Bama fan]

Here is Johnny bemoaning his love life before he crossed the Brooklyn Bridge.

 

[Scud49]

One of those kinda unknown - but great - Neil Young songs:

 

[Hoops66]

Well I wasn't going to post this because every time I play it a tear comes to my eye. But since this wonderful OT forum may be slowing down or coming to an end, and some of you might remember it, I thought I should give it try.

 

[Bama fan]

Yes, that's the one. Nice cigarette ad by Glenn! Wonder what he's smoking?

Chesterfields. He was on the Chesterfield Radio Show.

 

[Hoops66]

This 1957, New England Rockabilly number by Western Mass. star, Joe Therrien Jr. did make the charts. He had one or two other local hits but I have liked this one the most. Has anyone else heard him?

 

[TerpWomenFan]

old school

 

[Ozimoto]

Here is one from Sarah Borges, an artist from Massachusetts that is kind of a throw back to rockabilly.

 

[Hoops66]

In the early 1980s I stayed in a Holiday Inn in Southern Ct. where a group was playing. The leader said he had been a member of The Fireflies and that he (Paul Giacalone) wrote this one-hit-wonder that I remembered was one of my favorites. They sounded just as good as I remembered.

 

[Scud49]

In the early 1980s I stayed in a Holiday Inn in Southern Ct. where a group was playing. The leader said he had been a member of The Fireflies and the he (Paul Giacalone) wrote this one-hit-wonder that I remembered was one of my favorites. They sounded just as good as I remembered.

Ha - I remember that one - I must have heard it on some oldies stations as I wasn't listening to radio in 1959. But I do remember it - nice find.

 

[Beemer]

Well I wasn't going to post this because every time I play it a tear comes to my eye. But since this wonderful OT forum may be slowing down or coming to an end, and some of you might remember it, I thought I should give it try.

OMG I haven't heard this in literally ages. Pass the kleenex please.

 

[Scud49]

Its getting to be that time of year - Van Morrison and 10:37 minutes of pure bliss and beauty:

Chestnuts roasting outside
As you walk with your love by your side
And the old accordion plays mellow and bright
And you go home in the crispness of the night

 

[Hoops66]

OK be careful of getting an "earworm" from listening to this.

 

[Hoops66]

I didn't know that Lee Marvin could sing...and I still don't, but I do like this song from Paint Your Wagon, (along with They Call the Wind Mariah.)

 

[Waquoit]

Well I wasn't going to post this because every time I play it a tear comes to my eye. But since this wonderful OT forum may be slowing down or coming to an end, and some of you might remember it, I thought I should give it try.

This is an ear-meet-spindle song for me.

 

[Scud49]

One achingly beautiful love song from the Airplane: