The one song that still moves you

I love the hokey cokey. I hate sloppy love songs. They are ok on the radio in the bacground if im driving a fair distance. Im not turned on by music.
I always sing hokey cokey to dgd.

Stay with me baby Ruby Murray.
When we were young by the Killers.
You look wonderful tonight by Eric Clapton.

Dance with my father again Luther Van-dross
A change is going to come Sam Cooke
And a thousand others

Lara's Theme from Dr Zhivago which my late husband put on the record player the first time I went to his flat.
Subtitled "Music to be seduced to....."

So many of these (particularly the Leonard Cohens). And I'd like to add another Eva Cassidy - I Know You By Heart - and Abba's Slipping Through My Fingers. And Scarlet Ribbons, which my father sang to me.

Maggie my Dad sang it to me too and I should have mentioned it earlier and I have both the Jim Reeves and the Val Doonican versions on my tablet.

Would add Sometimes When We Touch by Dan Hill and Time in New England by Barry Manilow too.

I have a play list of ballads that has so many of the songs mentioned on this thread. I could keep choosing songs for days!

Does anyone else find that a song you love can be spoiled for you?

Years ago when Terry Wogan first played Eva Cassidy, I fell in love with Fields of Gold. I bought about 5 or 6 of her albums and played them all the time. Then Cancer Research used Fields of Gold in an advert. It was a very moving advert and choosing a song by Eva Cassidy was fitting because she died of cancer.

Unfortunately I couldn't listen to her albums anymore because I felt too sad. I lost my Dad to cancer and her songs reminded me of the advert and the loss of my Dad. I don't have her albums anymore because I gave them away, but I feel like listening to her music again so this is a great thread.

Mozart, Ave Verum Corpus. Not a long piece but the music sort of circles up to you and hugs you.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvFUw9HvRf8

This: youtu.be/vt1Pwfnh5pc

You`re my Best Friend, by Don Williams
Bright Eyes, by Art Garfunkel
When a Child is Born, by Johnnie Mathis
Love Changes Everything, by Michael Ball

just watched Joan Baez 75th birthday concert on Sky Arts channel,it was really good well worth seeing if its repeated ,Guests include,Paul Simon,Judy Collins,Jackson Browne and richard Thomson.She looks amazing too

Streets of London
Maginot Waltz
both Ralph McTell

500 Miles
The Proclaimers

WilmaKnickersfit (about favourite songs being spoilt). The night my first marriage broke up, I crept downstairs and played the Bridge Over Troubled Water album over and over until dawn, while I cried my eyes out. Many years have passed since then, I was only 23, but that album still hurts me to hear, especially the title song. Boo Hoo!

rosie, I love that.

Come fly with me , Frank Sinatra

Oh gosh, yes, FarNorth, Streets of London! That was one of my mother's favourites, and it's always brought a lump to my throat too.
I just had to find it on YouTube and listen - I found this recording. It includes a short interview with Ralph McTell, in which he explains that he wrote the song originally about Paris, but changed it when he found there was already a song about the poor people of Paris. And of course, as he says, the words could apply to any major city in the world. But he was in Paris at the time, and it was the poor of that city which inspired the song.

Rosie that is such a powerful song, and so terribly poignant.

Remember When - Alan Jackson.
Wondered if we should have it played at our upcoming Golden Wedding party, but I would be in bits at the first chord!

Tanith, I agree with you about Forever Autumn.

Also Sitting in the Park by Georgie Fame.
That's all we could afford to do after we first met.

All these beautiful songs are making me quite sad!

Yes I like the Alan Jackson song too in fact any song that reflects life especially relating to children growing up i.e. Slipping through my fingers by Abba or Sunrise Sunset from Fiddler on the roof.

Arty, they've made me put a CD on.

What a lovely thread, so many songs bring a tear to my eye but I have to agree Eva Cassidy , Songbird, which we played at my husbands funeral last year has just had me in tears again.
Rosie I had not heard that Johnny Cash song before, loved it very poignant.

When You Are Old by Gretchen Peters ........
How You Loved by Beth Neilson Chapman .....
Similar themes about what’s important in life and getting older.

America by Simon and Garfunkel, Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen and (my funeral choice) In My Life by the Beatles

Oh I love Eva Cassidy have her cd, brings me to tears every time.
My favourite song is Elvis singing she was always on my mind. Played at my sil funeral, I really broke down when i heard it.