songs that make you shiver/cry

[rocketeer]

Al Martino's Here in my heart.
Mick Garvey asked Shaun Foster Connelly to dedicate this to his[Micks] wife to say sorry for being an arse in the British TV series, 'Benidorm'.
kind of got me deep down.

 

[casechopper]

Hurt (the Johnny Cash version though the NIN version is good as well)

 

[vintageTink]

"Star Spangled Banner and Amazong Grace played on the bagpipes".

Add "Proud to be an American" to that list and you'll reduce me to the slobbering fits.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Dion and the Belmonts -- Take Good Care Of My Baby

[video=youtube;vB3SeEiRWlg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB3SeEiRWlg[/video]

 

[Rathdown]

There are several, but two that will be sung a my funeral: the fourth verse of "The Star Spangled Banner", and "Dream a Little Dream of Me".

 

[vitanola]

There are several, but two that will be sung a my funeral: the fourth verse of "The Star Spangled Banner", and "Dream a Little Dream of Me".

"Thus be it ever?"

More appropriate than the third, I think.

"Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps pollution."


I have always hoped that the old chesnut "Love's Old Sweet Song" might be played around my check-out time, but of course as funerals are really for the survivors this would be inappropriate, for that sentimental old ballad would be either incomprehensible or trite to most "moderns".


As far as songs that make one shivver or cry, well, the "Ruf aus der Gruft" from "Threepenny" does the trick for me, at least when well performed. To that I could also add, oddly enough the "Forgotten Man" finale from "Golddiggers of 1933"

 

[vitanola]

Pardon me, duplicate post

 

[p51]

I have to fight back the tears every time I hear Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon
When i was still an Army officer, I had to escort a body back to the hometown of the soldier who'd been killed. It was just a wide spot in the road with a Grange hall, a church and maybe three houses in the middle of Iowa. I met everyone who'd ever known this kid and I tried to act as if I knew him well (which, I didn't). The funeral was in light snow and right before the holidays. As I went back from the service with some of his family, that song was on the radio. Nobody said a thing. As we stepped out of the car, his father mumbled, "I'll hate that song for the rest of my life now."
Ironically, I had to do a family notification when one of my own was killed in an accident on our post. The song was on my radio as I took the Chaplain over to the house to tell a 21-year old (of course pregnant) woman that her young husband was never coming home. I told the Chaplain that I'd heard the same song after a funeral the year before and he said it happens sometimes like that.
But I can't hear this song today and not feel a crushing sense of loss.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

'Lonely Man' by Splinter, co-written by Beatles road manager Malcolm Evans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS-fqLk0JJg. Malcolm tragically died by gunfire in 1975. -dixon cannon

 

[Dixon Cannon]

'The Shelter Of Your Arms' by Neil Diamond (c.1979)

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB__WiOmAcg[/video]

-dixon cannon

 

[rjb1]

Song:"Tomorrow Belongs to Me", sung by the young Nazi, from the movie "Cabaret". It gives me the shivers every time, even if I know it's coming and try not to have any reaction.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

There is music in this, but this scene from 'Love Actually' which gets me every time! ≈ [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KtVKu9CfDA[/video]

-dixon cannon

 

[Joshbru3]

There are many songs from the 30's/40's/50's that give me goosebumps and make me shed a little tear, but two just do it to me every time.


Billy Eckstine - Somehow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKTVFHgDdso&list=FL56FPWW8nv4sxpimy-eblyQ&index=3


Nat King Cole - For All We Know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To7-3PMqvRo


The lyrics are SO well written and meaningful. Both Mr. B and Nat King Cole have such incredible voices and they convey the message of the song through their voice. Just listen to the lyrics.......

 

[Dapper-Dan]

If you're a Beatles fan, listen to any song by Tame Impala, and it will give you shivers because the singer sounds just like John Lennon

 

[Enough]

Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof

The full album, Days of Future Passed, Moody Blues

 

[LocktownDog]

Been on a sea shantey kick lately. This one always tears me up.
http://youtu.be/ZVc15-01RvM

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Two haunting ballads from 1925...

Jane Green -- Ida I Do (1925)

[video=youtube;oFDWvwPbvAo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFDWvwPbvAo[/video]

Coon Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra -- Alone At Last (1925)

[video=youtube;bAdYzGscVdU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAdYzGscVdU[/video]

I just can't believe it's true
Here we are alone we two
I have waited all my life it seems
To tell my dreams to you

There was I waiting all alone
Wondering why I was alone
Wondering when I would find you, dear
You were near, oh so far, though so near

Then we met and we've never known
What it means being all alone
Hold me close, time is flying fast
Till we are all alone at last

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Leo Reisman and his Orchestra -- Someday I'll Find You (1931)
vocal by Frances Maddox

[video=youtube;NE8tct_dCu4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE8tct_dCu4[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Fanny Brice -- The Song Of The Sewing Machine (1927)
accompanied by Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra

[video=youtube;a1RnU_ejLgk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1RnU_ejLgk[/video]

When I was young, a former son
Of a land that was milk and honey
Where people were rolling in money
All over the billowing sea
And so one day I sailed away
With a heart that was light and sunny
I came to the Land of the Free
I ask if this is liberty?

There is no sun, there no moon
There is no May, there is no June
If you listen to the song of the sewing machine
The babbling brook, the summertime
Is just a lazy poet's rhyme
If you listen to the song of the sewing machine
All through the day a drizzling rain
Is playing upon my window pane
And every drop is saying
There is no Lover's Lane
There is no song, there is no birds
And God is just another word
If you listen to the song of the sewing machine

Linen! Linen! Miles of linen!
Stichin', stichin', cotton pinnin'
With no end and no beginning
That's the song of the sewing machine
Cohen, Cohen, ever sewing
Going nowhere, always going
Growing older without growing
That's the song of the sewing machine
Tears, tears and yet more tears
Nights that last a thousand years
Heartaches for my souvenirs
What am I doing? And what does it mean?

There is no song, there is no birds
And God is just another word
If you listen to the song of the sewing machine

 

[bburtner@moran]

Tom Waits,"Your Innocent When You Dream".