The one song that still moves you

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

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.

Come fly with me , Frank Sinatra

rosie, I love that.

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!

Streets of London
Maginot Waltz
both Ralph McTell

500 Miles
The Proclaimers

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

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

This: youtu.be/vt1Pwfnh5pc

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

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.

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.

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....."

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

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

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.

Another Day in Paradise - Phil Collins. It gets me every time.

KatyK
If Passing Strangers gets you, have listen to Niel Sadaka singing I Miss The Hungry Years. Even writing it makes me sad.
I've spent my life quoting Pegggy Lee saying "Is that all there is"
Another ( besides many on here) is Gladys knight singing Your the best thing that's ever happened to me.

So many beautiful songs already mentioned. Loving You by Minnie Ripperton. Not only because I love the song and the wonderful memories it brings to the fore but also because she died not long after recording it. Another song which I have always found a tear jerker is Puff the Magic Dragon. He dies at the end, always found that hard.

Seasons in the sun, by Terry Jacks.

Last time it came on the radio when I was in the car, I just burst into tears.

Those were the days, by Mary Hopkin has a similar effect on me nowadays too. Must be an age thing!

Agree Paddyann love Paulo Nutini Autumn leaves.
Also...
Ye banks and braes o' Bonny Doon
Bridge Over Troubled Water.
Dance with my father (my father's funeral)
Amazing Grace. (Mum's funeral)
Ave Maria
Northern Lights Of Old Aberdeen (as sung by my grandfather)

How long will I love you by The Waterboys.

So many of the songs mentioned bring back bitter sweet memories.

So many.
Rod Stewart duetting with Amy Belle, 'I don't want to Talk about it'.

Oh spooky lemon I so nearly said your first two!