The one song that still moves you

Eva Cassidy's version of Fields of Gold. Reminds me of my Mum.

I’ve been reading this thread to my daughter and she’s mentioned some of her favourites:
Real Love by Tom O’Dell
You’re just too good to be true - Andy Williams
If you go away - Dusty Springfield
Mollie’s Song - Beverly Craven
Dance with my Father Again - Luther Vandross

The first four are intensely personal for her and are guaranteed to bring a lump to her throat (a happy lump though )

The Car's 'Drive'. Takes me back to Live Aid and thoughts of all those starving children.

Bring him home, from Les Miserables www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXnRf3TQcpk
I once heard a busker sing this perfectly in Stratford, and I didn't have a tissue with me!

Agree about 'You'll Never Walk Alone' Gerry Marsden version
'The Wind beneath my Wings'
'Hello Again' Neil Diamond from The Jazz Singer
'Everybody Hurts'
All real tear jerkers for me

If I could turn back the hands of time by R Kelly makes me cry and This songs not for you folks it's for my dad by Nancy Sinatra , bring back happy memories and a huge lump in my throat

Too many but here are three

Diamonds and Dust Joan Baez

Into the Mystic Van Morrison

And also love the Welsh National Anthem sung by a rip roaring rugby crowd.

"The Living Years" - Mike and the Mechanics.

Someone else said Bright Eyes so beautiful, so sad

Distant Drums by Jim Reeves my dads favourite and Harry Belafonte singing Scarlett Ribbons

What a lovely idea, i have enjoyed reading everyones favourites and agree with many of them.
Hooty, have you heard israels wonderful world/over the rainbow combo? We played it at my mums funeral because both songs mean a lot.
Other favourites
Slipping through my. Fingers abba
Sunrise sunset
Come to me, les mis
Pearl fishers duet
Those were the days mary hopkin
You’ll never walk alone carousel
Time to say goodbye
Danny boy
Bridge over troubled water
When a child is born, andy williams, baby daughter and i queuing to pay the gas bill, me in floods of tears as the gas board music plays in the background
Almost anything sung by a choir in harmony.
Almost Anything sung by small children, usually not in harmony.

Love this thread,lots of songs resonate with me,currently Donna Taggart reduces me to tears
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd_b1OvDxfE

Danny Boy for my Mum , and Ravels Bolero for my Dad, I love Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin,
Peace Train by Cat Stevens makes me cry, so does George Harrison While My Guitar Gently Weeps

One day I'll fly away by Randy Crawford.

I saw Annie Lennox singing 'many rivers to cross' on children in need a few years ago, and that was very moving.

Passing strangers by Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughan, absolute heaven.

Sierra always makes me cry too. I'd never seen the lovely video before.

CIlla Black Your My World

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.

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

youtu.be/FdG-ITxL8ok

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.

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?

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.

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.

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