What's the saddest song you ever heard? | Houston Music | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "George Jones thought the saddest song was too sad. So he carried He Stopped Loving Her Today around with him for nearly a year, insisting to his producer that it needed a different ending.
The song opens with the line “He said, ‘I’ll love you ‘til I die,’” and makes good on that promise when its protagonist, distraught over a breakup, finally expires. Jones thought the “she” who prompted this lifelong infatuation needed to return. Despite decades of flying like a bottle rocket on a diet of booze and drugs, the singer had a whisper of sentimentality that told him the song was too bleak to connect with anybody.
She ultimately did return in a spoken coda added to the song, which was released in 1980. “I still didn’t think it would ever be a hit because it was so sad,” Jones said. “I was wrong because it ended up being my signature song.”"
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I used to feel that way about "Honey" by Sammy Kaye (at least that's who is credited on the lyrics page: http://www.mtv.com/lyrics/kaye_sammy/honey/86405/lyrics.jhtml). I cried every time I heard that song. It's still terribly sad to me...
It's a great song, Bill. There's a reason it was voted the number one country song of all time. It just grabs at your heart.
Rie - Bobby Goldsboro (sp?) was the singer of the song when it became a pop hit.
Kenny Rogers singing about a paralyzed Vietnam vet with a straying wife. Ruby, you see, "takes her love to town."
You'd think she'd at least have the decency to smother the poor bastard with his pillow.
Now that would be a great song.
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