The one song that still moves you

Any Puccini aria and ‘Baker St’by Gerry Raferty and Nilsson ‘Without you’and ‘Ca sera sera’ by Doris Day. To be fair there are a number of songs and hymns too that can really impact on me.

Neil Diamond singing 'The Story of my Life'. My husband and I were married for only 1year and 8 days when he died from brain tumours and cancer. Just before he went into a coma, he told me he had just heard it for the first time on the radio, and that it was our song. It was about 4 weeks after his funeral that I heard it, and the first time I cried. I bought the record and played it over and over, and it helped me so much. I still love it, the words mean so much to me. He died in 1986, and I still think of him every day. We were married at home, because he was so ill, was only given 3 months, but managed 16 months. Believe it or not, it was the happiest time of my life. After 2 disasterous marriages, when i believed i would never meet the right person, i met my soulmate, and since then no one could take his place.

Theme from a Summer place. Instrumental, but played at my mother's funeral. Can't hear it without full scale blubbing session!

Hurt by Johnny Cash, The Wind beneath my Wings Bette Midler and The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves.

'If You Go Away', which is a version of the the 1959 Jacques Brel song "Ne me quitte pas".

Also Adele's 'Someone Like You'.

Ae Fond Kiss, always has the tears running down my face, as we sang this at my dads funeral

Also Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks. Feels like being covered with a warm blanket !

Yes, linjon, You Can Close Your Eyes is such a beautiful song

Purple Rain by Prince. Always loved it and daughter and sil had it as their wedding dance. Since Prince died I can't hear it without blubbing

Ellen Vannin sung by Robin Gibb.

One Day Like This - Elbow.
Days - The Kinks/Kirsty Mcoll
Hymn to Her - The Eurythmics (played at my mothers funeral)
You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor & Carly Simon
Songbird - Christine Mcvie
Song For You - Leon Russell
I could go on!! Love this thread.

It's Only Rock and Roll but I Like it - Stones.

Blimey, I've got loads - I love music so find it hard to pick just one. However, here goes:

Climb Every Mountain from The Sound of Music
The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel
Someone Like You by Adele
Everybody Hurts by REM
Reflections of my Life by Marmalade

I once played a few sad tunes on YouTube and I got a 'drop-down' message asking me if I wanted counselling as all the songs were 'break-up' songs! No, I just felt like a bit of a mooch, as we all do sometimes.

How could I have forgotten to mention Andrea Bocelli? So many of his songs send shivers down my spine too Llamedos, one especially is "L'abitudine"

L'abitudine

Have I told you lately that I love you
VAN MORRISON
gets me every time ....

Remember this from my parents’ record collection- it’s so beautiful but so sad.
youtu.be/zzIi2C7cc9E

I’ll be seeing you by Billie Holiday

I’ll be seeing you by Billy Halliday

This version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I

Difficult to choose one as I'm a bit of a softy and cry easily( every episode of call the midwife as an example), but these three are the guaranteed one's.
Jennifer Rush the power of love. I gave this record to my husband when he left me with four kiddies to live with a woman nearly 20 years his junior.
Luther Vandross dance with my father again, I still remember as a little girl, standing on the tops of his feet dancing at weddings and parties.
Jerry and the pacemakers you'll never walk alone, I bought the single for my dad when he started cancer treatment. He sadly died 6 months later.
I can't stop the tears every time I hear these.

The Last Post - my eyes are watering now just thinking of it!

It's the protest songs that get me every time, as I feel I should have done more about the things they sing about:
The Times they are a changing — Bob Dylan
Big Yellow Taxi — Joni Mitchell (Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till its gone?)
Where have all the flowers gone?
and of course, The Byrds, Turn, Turn, Turn (to everything there is a season)

Sailing by Christopher Cross so many people confuse it with sailing by Rod Stewart. They are nothing alike.
Also most of Eva Cassidy,s songs. When you start thinking about it there are so many. Some lovely ones here.

Sorry! Should have proof read Elvis of course (why on earth does predictive text change that to Elvia??
Culver - where did that come from? I meant cycle!

In the Ghetto by Elvia Presley - I always cry at the end because it’s a rondo and the whole culver is going to repeat again. Then I think how old that song is and realise it’s still happening today. I find that very depressing.

On the other hand, Someone Like You, by Adèle makes me cry for entirely personal reasons!