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Subject: sad-story songs?

Written By: the_OlLine_Rebel on 10/29/02 at 09:15 a.m.

It's amazing how many sad-story songs there were in the '50s era - I mean death and/or big troubles.  Off hand I can think of a few:

Tell Laura I Love Her
Leader of the Pack
Never Go Home Anymore
I forget the song name - Where Can My Baby Be?  What's it called?

I know there are more but it's been long since I've heard any.

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Steve_H_2002 on 10/29/02 at 09:43 a.m.

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Endless Sleep -
The night was black rain fallin' down
I looked my baby she's no where aroun'
Chased her footsteps down to the shore
Afraid she's gone for ever more ...


Written by Jody Williams and Dolores Nance, 1958.  Covered by Don Williams, Billy Idol and Wynonna Judd.  This is one sad sad song.

Here are a couple others with links:

Tell Laura I Love Her Ray Peterson

 http://backseatmemories17.tripod.com/telllaurailoveher.html

Fire and Rain  James Taylor

http://backseatmemories2.tripod.com/fireandrain.html

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Steve_H_2002 on 10/29/02 at 09:52 a.m.

Last Kiss by Wayne Cochrane.

Oh where, oh where, can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

We were out on a date in my daddy's car,
We hadn't driven very far.
There in the road straight ahead,
A car was stalled, the engine was dead.
I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right,
I'll never forget the sound that night.
The screaming tires, the busting glass,
The painful scream that I heard last.

Oh where, oh where, can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.


When I woke up, the rain was falling down,
There were people standing all around.
Something warm flowing through my eyes,
But somehow I found my baby that night.
I lifted her head, she looked at me and said;
"Hold me darling just a little while."
I held her close I kissed her - our last kiss,
I found the love that I knew I had missed.
Well now she's gone even though I hold her tight,
I lost my love, my life that night.

Oh where, oh where, can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

Wanna hear Pearl Jam stream it at you?
http://www.angelfire.com/de3/whereowhere/

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Bobo on 10/29/02 at 11:55 p.m.

Ebony Eyes, by The Everly Brothers?

On a weekend pass I wouldn’t have had time
To get home and marry that baby of mine
So I went to the chaplain and he authorized
Me to send for my ebony eyes

My ebony eyes was coming to me
From out of the skies on Flight 1203
In an hour or two I would whisper
To my beautiful ebony eyes

"The plane was way overdue so I went inside to the airlines desk and I said 'Sir, I wonder why 1203 is so late?' He said
'Aww, they probably took off late or they may have run into some turbulent weather and had to alter their course.'
I went back outside and I waited at the gate and I watched the beacon light from the control tower as it whipped through the dark ebony skies as if it were searching for

My ebony eyes

"And then came the announcement over the loudspeaker
Would those having relatives or friends on flight number 1203 please report to the chapel across the street at once."

Then I felt a burning break deep inside
And I knew the heavenly ebony skies
Had taken my life’s most wonderful prize
My beautiful ebony eyes

If I ever get to heaven I’ll bet
The first angel I’ll recognize
She’ll smile at me and I know she will be
My beautiful ebony eyes

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Gecko on 10/30/02 at 03:08 a.m.

Just wanted to say that I love the song Last Kiss - especially Pearl Jam's version.  I know it's a sad song but I think it is also a very beautiful song.

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: the_OlLine_Rebel on 10/30/02 at 07:49 a.m.

Have you heard the "Never Go Home Anymore"?  (Again, not sure that's the exact title.  It's an early Motown-type girl group song.)  It's a girl talking whose mother doesn't like her boyfriend, so she runs away and then the boy does her bad.  So she's wandering the streets homeless trying to or at least wondering if she should go home.  But she doesn't and her mother dies alone.     :'( :'( :'( :'(

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Steve_H_2002 on 10/30/02 at 03:48 p.m.


Quoting:
Just wanted to say that I love the song Last Kiss - especially Pearl Jam's version.  I know it's a sad song but I think it is also a very beautiful song.
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I think the Jam does those oldies really well.  I saw them on a special years ago... tribute to Bob Dylan... and they did a riveting "With God On Our Side".  That boy can sing... :)

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: itgirl on 10/31/02 at 08:08 p.m.

Have you ever heard or read the lyrics of any song by the truck-driving singer Red Sovine?  "Teddy Bear" and "Giddy-Up Go" and the one about the ghostly trucker on the highway (retold in the movie Pee-Wee's Big Adventure)....they're so sad it's creepy.


Quoting:
It's amazing how many sad-story songs there were in the '50s era - I mean death and/or big troubles.  Off hand I can think of a few:

Tell Laura I Love Her
Leader of the Pack
Never Go Home Anymore
I forget the song name - Where Can My Baby Be?  What's it called?

I know there are more but it's been long since I've heard any.
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Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: max_power on 11/03/02 at 01:32 p.m.

Quoting:
Have you ever heard or read the lyrics of any song by the truck-driving singer Red Sovine?  "Teddy Bear" and "Giddy-Up Go" and the one about the ghostly trucker on the highway (retold in the movie Pee-Wee's Big Adventure)....they're so sad it's creepy.



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Phantom 309

Max Power

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: SammyReed on 11/04/02 at 10:30 a.m.

    There's a song that is said to be the song that ended the teen-death song. "I Want My Baby Back" by Jimmy Cross in 1964. I believe this was a satire of all the teen-death songs that were rampant at that time period. I heard this song went up to #93 in the top 100. Hard to find, but I think one of the Dr. Demento CD's has it.
    Then there was the parody "Leader of the Laundromat" by The Detergents, a male group singing about their girlfriend who was the "leader of the laundromat".

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: the_OlLine_Rebel on 11/04/02 at 12:13 a.m.

Here's another, I think the king of the teen-death songs - how could I forget - "Teen Angel".

Sammy, what are the lyrics like in that song "baby back"?  I wonder if I've ever heard it.

I once heard "Leader of the Laundromat" long ago, but can't recall much but that line!

There was a song that definitely was an antidote to the sad (and sometimes sick) songs around.  Wish I recalled who sang it.  Anyway it points out Mack the Knife (a killer, let's face it) among other things, and says something like "let's talk about living, let's talk about life".

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: max_power on 11/05/02 at 03:54 a.m.


Quoting:
Sammy, what are the lyrics like in that song "baby back"?  I wonder if I've ever heard it.
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I Want My Baby Back
Jimmy Cross

 

I want my baby back

Gotta have my baby back

I miss her oh so much

Can’t live without her touch

 



I don’t hardly know where to begin.  I remember we were cruising home from the Beatles concert.  I’d had such a wonderful evening, sitting there watching my baby screaming, and tearing her hair out, and carrying on.  She was so full of life.  Then, well, we were about three miles from home when all of a sudden it started to rain.  And I do mean rain.  I couldn’t hardly see nothing.  Well, we kept driving for about another mile when all of a sudden I see this stalled car right smack in front of me.  Well, I wasn’t about to slam on the brakes ‘cause I didn’t have none to start with.  So I swerved to the left.  And what do I see—some mushhead on a motorcycle headin’ right at us.  And I knew at last me and my baby were about to meet the leader of the…



…pack

 

Well, when I come to, I looked around

And there was the leader

And there was the pack

And over there was my baby

And over there was my baby

And way over there was my baby

 

I want my baby back

Gotta have my baby back

I miss her oh so much

Can’t live without her touch

 



It’s been many months now since that fateful night.  And you know something, I’ve tried.  Believe me, I have tried.  But I just can’t make without my baby.  So I’ve decided I’m going to have her back one way or another.  Oh, baby, I dig you so much.  Hot dang, pay dirt.

 



 

I’ve got my baby back

Now, I’ve got my baby back

I love her oh so much

Can’t live without her touch

I’ve got my baby back

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: SammyReed on 11/06/02 at 10:28 a.m.

Thanks, Max, for saving me the trouble. A pretty strange, funny song.

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Zella on 11/08/02 at 07:11 a.m.


Quoting:

Endless Sleep -
The night was black rain fallin' down
I looked my baby she's no where aroun'
Chased her footsteps down to the shore
Afraid she's gone for ever more ...


Written by Jody Williams and Dolores Nance, 1958.  Covered by Don Williams, Billy Idol and Wynonna Judd.  This is one sad sad song.
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Marc Bolan did a great version of the above song. Ironically, it was one of his last releases before his untimely death....

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: max_power on 11/09/02 at 09:20 p.m.

No problem! :D

Quoting:
Thanks, Max, for saving me the trouble. A pretty strange, funny song.
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Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Sioux Denim on 11/15/02 at 07:35 p.m.

Wayne Cochran??  That was J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers!

Quoting:
Last Kiss by Wayne Cochrane.

Oh where, oh where, can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

We were out on a date in my daddy's car,
We hadn't driven very far.
There in the road straight ahead,
A car was stalled, the engine was dead.
I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right,
I'll never forget the sound that night.
The screaming tires, the busting glass,
The painful scream that I heard last.

Oh where, oh where, can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.


When I woke up, the rain was falling down,
There were people standing all around.
Something warm flowing through my eyes,
But somehow I found my baby that night.
I lifted her head, she looked at me and said;
"Hold me darling just a little while."
I held her close I kissed her - our last kiss,
I found the love that I knew I had missed.
Well now she's gone even though I hold her tight,
I lost my love, my life that night.

Oh where, oh where, can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

Wanna hear Pearl Jam stream it at you?
http://www.angelfire.com/de3/whereowhere/
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Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Marian (Guest) on 11/19/02 at 01:40 p.m.


Quoting:
Ebony Eyes, by The Everly Brothers?

On a weekend pass I wouldn’t have had time I love that one
To get home and marry that baby of mine
So I went to the chaplain and he authorized
Me to send for my ebony eyes

My ebony eyes was coming to me
From out of the skies on Flight 1203
In an hour or two I would whisper
To my beautiful ebony eyes

"The plane was way overdue so I went inside to the airlines desk and I said 'Sir, I wonder why 1203 is so late?' He said
'Aww, they probably took off late or they may have run into some turbulent weather and had to alter their course.'
I went back outside and I waited at the gate and I watched the beacon light from the control tower as it whipped through the dark ebony skies as if it were searching for

My ebony eyes

"And then came the announcement over the loudspeaker
Would those having relatives or friends on flight number 1203 please report to the chapel across the street at once."

Then I felt a burning break deep inside
And I knew the heavenly ebony skies
Had taken my life’s most wonderful prize
My beautiful ebony eyes

If I ever get to heaven I’ll bet
The first angel I’ll recognize
She’ll smile at me and I know she will be
My beautiful ebony eyes
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;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) :'( :'(I love that one!delightfully ambiguous,if you listento the lyrics carefully1It's my good-luck traveling song.Two other sad story songs by Don and Phil are "Put my Little Shoes Away"and "LIghtning Express'By the way,"Endless Sleep ' has a happy ending--the guy saves the girl at the end.Cheers!

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Syncronos on 11/19/02 at 01:46 p.m.

I don't know who sings it...but I remember that song 'Sad Eyes' would always make me cry when I was little, because I thought he was crying :'(

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Cat_Lover on 11/24/02 at 06:11 p.m.

Funny someone mentioned Wayne Cochran! I used to be friends with his daughter! He is now a big time evangillist, here in the South Florida area! Well at least he was in the 80s! Haven't seen him or his daughter in about fifteen years!

Peace,Cat Lover

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Hitchy on 11/26/02 at 05:04 a.m.

Are some of today's lyrics really that much different? I'm not really up to the music of today, but there seems to be so much talking about suicide and death. The only difference appears to be that they don't match the music to the mood like they did in the '50s. It was the profliferation of not-so-happy tunes that prompted Don McLean to pen American Pie. For a few years, I feel that we listened. Now, it appears that death and destruction are back in vogue.

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Barbara Ann on 12/04/02 at 12:14 a.m.

There was a local group here in the NYC area in the 1960's, Reparata and the Delrons.  They did a song "I'm Nobody's Baby Now".  Get out the kleenex...

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Eli_Sheol on 12/14/02 at 12:10 a.m.

Two really sad songs were "The Grave" by Don McClean and "Golden Ribbons" by Loggins & Messina. :'(

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Steve_H on 12/15/02 at 09:14 a.m.

Another pretty, sad song by Don McLean was "Starry, Starry Night".

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Zenobia on 12/15/02 at 03:23 p.m.


Quoting:
Another pretty, sad song by Don McLean was "Starry, Starry Night".
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Gotcha Steve! That should be in the Songs Called by the Wrong Title" thread! It's actually 'Vincent'.

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Steve_H on 12/16/02 at 03:30 a.m.


Quoting:


Gotcha Steve! That should be in the Songs Called by the Wrong Title" thread! It's actually 'Vincent'.
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You're right!  Oops and mea culpa.  :-[

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Marian on 01/15/03 at 09:19 p.m.


Quoting:
Ebony Eyes, by The Everly Brothers?

On a weekend pass I wouldn’t have had time
To get home and marry that baby of mine
So I went to the chaplain and he authorized
Me to send for my ebony eyes

My ebony eyes was coming to me
From out of the skies on Flight 1203 that's my good luck song when i go on a plane.Cheers!
In an hour or two I would whisper
To my beautiful ebony eyes

"The plane was way overdue so I went inside to the airlines desk and I said 'Sir, I wonder why 1203 is so late?' He said
'Aww, they probably took off late or they may have run into some turbulent weather and had to alter their course.'
I went back outside and I waited at the gate and I watched the beacon light from the control tower as it whipped through the dark ebony skies as if it were searching for

My ebony eyes

"And then came the announcement over the loudspeaker
Would those having relatives or friends on flight number 1203 please report to the chapel across the street at once."

Then I felt a burning break deep inside
And I knew the heavenly ebony skies
Had taken my life’s most wonderful prize
My beautiful ebony eyes

If I ever get to heaven I’ll bet
The first angel I’ll recognize
She’ll smile at me and I know she will be
My beautiful ebony eyes
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;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Bobo on 01/16/03 at 00:05 a.m.

I had a feeling you'd say something like that when you noticed! There's also "It's All Over", but that's less a story, much more a song...

Quoting:

;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
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Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Bobo on 01/16/03 at 00:07 a.m.

Yeah, I've always like Put My Little Shoes Away, but it's on the concert CD that I can't find. "Lightning Express", however, at 4:50, is one heck of a long listen.

Quoting:
:'( :'(I love that one!delightfully ambiguous,if you listento the lyrics carefully1It's my good-luck traveling song.Two other sad story songs by Don and Phil are "Put my Little Shoes Away"and "LIghtning Express'By the way,"Endless Sleep ' has a happy ending--the guy saves the girl at the end.Cheers!
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Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Bobo on 01/16/03 at 00:09 a.m.

What about "Young Man Is Gone" by The Beach Boys, written to the tune of "Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring, in honour of James Dean.

Now a young man's gone
But his legend lingers on
For so much had he to give

But his life is through
For the story told is true
For he died just as he lived.

For this daring young star
Met his death while in his car
No one knows the reason why

Screaming tire, flashing fire
And gone was this young star
Oh how could they let him die

Still a young man is gone
Yet his legend lingers on
For he died without a cause

And they say that he'll
Be known for evermore
As the Rebel Without A Cause

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Marian on 01/16/03 at 10:11 a.m.


Quoting:
Yeah, I've always like Put My Little Shoes Away, but it's on the concert CD that I can't find. "Lightning Express", however, at 4:50, is one heck of a long listen.

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:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) 8) 8) :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :oPut Muy Little Shoes away is on "Songs Our Daddy taught Us"LP and "The Everly Brothers--the Complete Cadence Collection--1957-1960",both of which I have."Lightning Express" is one I'd love to play at a party,or at least drive my neighbors crazy by playing it in my backyard.Cheers!

Subject: Re: sad-story songs?

Written By: Suga_Baby on 01/23/03 at 10:46 a.m.

now this is not a 50's song..but I think from the early 70's...but one song that I always thought was sad... was "Alone Again Naturally" In a little while from now

If I’m not feeling any less sour

I promise myself to treat myself

And visit a nearby tower

And climbing to the top will throw myself off

In an effort to make it clear to who

Ever what it’s like when you’re shattered

Left standing in the lurch at a church

Where people saying "My God, that’s tough

She's stood him up

No point in us remaining

We may as well go home"

As I did on my own

Alone again, naturally



To think that only yesterday

I was cheerful, bright and gay

Looking forward to well who wouldn’t do

The role I was about to play

But as if to knock me down

Reality came around

And without so much, as a mere touch

Cut me into little pieces

Leaving me to doubt

Talk about God in his mercy

Who if he really does exist

Why did he desert me in my hour of need

I truly am indeed  

Alone again, naturally

 

It seems to me that there are more hearts

Broken in the world that can’t be mended

Left unattended

What do we do? What do we do?

 

Alone again, naturally

Now looking back over the years

And whatever else that appears

I remember I cried when my father died

Never wishing to hide the tears

And at sixty-five years old

My mother, God rest her soul

Couldn’t understand why the only man

She had ever loved had been taken

Leaving her to start with a heart so badly broken

Despite encouragement from me

No words were ever spoken

And when she passed away

I cried and cried all day

Alone again, naturally

Alone again, naturally