The one song that still moves you

The Story of my life by Neil Diamond.
The Living Years by Mike & the Mechanics.
A Different Corner by George Michael.
Angel by Sarah McLachlan
Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana Pietro Mascagni

So many pieces of music which I love have been mentioned already including Famous Blue Raincoat and others by Leonard Cohen, also nice to see Grace get a mention.

Many of Frank Sinatra’s songs hold memories for me but especially Autumn Leaves.

Someone else is a fan of Luke Kelly and this one is poignant, a much loved uncle always comes to mind when I hear it.

youtu.be/YTBC7ckTWpo

The Greatest Love Of All by Whitney Houston

Ahh, that's lovely! I've had to avoid this thread because it made me so emotional, but that's a great story.

Am really surprised to find that The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face is so well- loved.
I first heard it when newly- married and still in love! It featured in the Eastwood film Play Misty for Me.
We saw it with a couple who were close friends ands also newly married.
Time passed, we lost touch apart from Christmas cards. We divorced, they divorced. Many years later she and my ex met up in the pub/restaurant run by my daughter and near her home.
They've been married now for ten years. She healed rifts and tensions and we're good friends even sharing our grandchildren.
Romantic or what???

"I dreamed a dream in days gone by" from Les Miserable

Paddyann- I can't even go to Madam Butterfly anymore! From the first chord I start to cry and by the end I'm sobbing and making a noise and my face is swollen.... Fortunately I can go to Tosca and La Bohme but I do not like Turandot!
I would have to say in this vein that Tosca singing "Vissi d'arte" is very moving. Also Verdi, the end of Rigolletto, final quartet, beginning "Bella figlia del'amore" is awfully painful as Gilda's sobs rise and fall through the lascivious and totally carnal aims of the Count's love song.

Careless Whisper, George Michael was just released when my 2 week old son was admitted to Special Care. Very emotional time. Strapping 6 footer now and father of two.

I like all types of music if played well but above all I love the beautiful music of Mozart.

How could it be just one song? So many mentioned here will have me sniffling but I'd also include Rod Stewart's You're in my Heart, Van Morrison's Have I Told You Lately that I Love You? and Kiri Te Kanewa Now is the Hour (Maori Farewell) which my lovely Dad used to sing around the house. We had it played at his funeral and it reduces me to a blubbing jelly every time.

Mary59nana

Oh yes chrissie13, Parisienne Walkways, is so beautiful,

Absolutely loads including several already mentioned, I'll add
I'd Rather go Blind - Chicken Shack
Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore/Thin Lizzy
Amoureuse - Kiki Dee
First Cut is the Deepest - Rod Stewart
As Tears Go By - Marianne Faithful
When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars

Hot Chocolate's 'It started with a kiss'. And at 1503 on 31/12/1979, oh yes, it certainly did!!!

The lords my shepherd, I have never been able to get through a funeral service yet without the tears, and I know today will be another occasion as we lay my aunt to rest.

The other link was for 'Wonderful,' hopefully this one will be Dame Hilda & Co.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=get7UPCe3I8&t=623

Eloethan I'm so sorry I misspelt your name!

Etheltbags, I'm a 'Hokey Cokey' fan as well! And 'Roll Out the Barrel!'

The three dozen songs sorry having trouble reading OP due to tears!

So many.

'The Day Thou Gavest'

'Jerusalem'/'Land of Hope & Glory'

'London Pride' Noel Coward

'There is Nothing New to Tell You' Joyce Grenfell

'Mamma, Look Sharp' from an American musical called '1776' - a dying soldier is calling out to his mother to come and find him; it's almost unbearable. I honestly can't listen to it. If anyone looks it up, don't say I didn't warn you!

'Crazy World' from the film 'Victor/Victoria'

Anything sung by Welshmen, esp. The Black Mountain Choir. 17 years ago when Mum was in a coma I'd play their tape & every time her blood pressure, oxygen, etc. got better. In her last few months that tape and

'Green Green Grass of Home' Tom Jones were all she wanted to listen to. She'd whisper the 'Amens' of the Choir songs even when she could barely speak or breathe.

Have a good laugh about this one everybody, I won't be offended: no one can make me blub quite like Dame Hilda Bracket! She had a way with the old lovelies like 'Keep the Home Fires Burning,' 'If Only You Had Cared for Me,' etc. that just gets to me ridiculously. The 'Vilja Song' from 'The Merry Widow' as performed by the Dame and STOATS - the Stackton Trestle Operatic Amateur Traumatic Society (memory might not be perfect on that!) is my favourite version of an already favourite, turns-it-on-at-the-mains song.

More classical things than I could list, definitely 'Pearl Fishers' duet, Delius 'Summer Evening,' there's a Grieg folk dance whose name I can't remember but will have a look round for, roughly a hundred others. Madrigals often get me weepy - not so much from sadness as just beauty. But then that's true of lots of emotion.

Nelliemoser the version of 'Ave Verum' you linked is astonishing! Your description alone almost made me cry, it's so perfect. Thank you so much.

Eleo, lovely to know I'm not alone in my feeling about Richard Harris's music. Think he's sadly under-rated. 'MacArthur Park' & 'This Time We Almost Made It' are really remarkable.

Adam Ant's 'Wonderful' is so under-rated it's criminal. Not many pop songs really move me but I think both the song & the video express so much of what it feels like when you've hurt someone you love. Will try to link video, & Hinge & Bracket's 'Vilja' - it's at the end of a compilation, starts at abt. 9:45 or so.

Really hope I can do this www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLVlOyFmNIo

Well, I'd advise a day indoors, with a man size (is that politically correct these days?) box of tissues, Wilma
Not on the bus, like I was earlier.. I've cried all day reading these, and I haven't checked all of them yet.

MissA I've avoided doing that because I know how much of a temptation YouTube is for me and I have been short of time. But I will be doing the same because there's so many songs I haven't heard of before.

Not heard of it Eloethan, but I will check it out.

Going Back - Dusty Springfield
We've Only Just Begun - Carpenters
Vincent - Don McLean
Fast Car - Tracey Chapman
Macarthur Park - Richard Harris
Rainy Night in Georgia - Randy Crawford
Alfie - Cilla Black

And a very new one for me was the track played over the final scene of the most recent series of The A Word:

The Same Deep Water as Me - I am Kloot

Did anyone else notice it?

I've been blubbing all day. Every time someone posts a song a haven't heard of, I look it up and have another blub.

youtu.be/FdG-ITxL8ok

I feel a new playlist coming on, but it will be so long that I might blub for hours!

Just listening to Johnnie Walker talking about songs written for films and he played Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen. What a tear jerker, especially when you remember what the film was about.

CIlla Black Your My World