11-08-2008, 08:27 PM
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I've always found the haunting sadness of Janis Ian's At Seventeen touches me deeply.
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Yes, and the sentiment goes beyond just the girls.
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11-08-2008, 08:43 PM
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My sad song
a bit different from what everyone else has posted but this was my anthem my senior year of high school and still tends to bring me close to tears and on bad days I do cry.
Hurt
Nine Inch Nails
I hurt myself today
To see if i still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But i remember everything
What have i become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone i know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear my crown of s**t
On my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stain of time
The feeling disappears
You are someone else
I am still right here
What have i become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone i know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If i could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way
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11-08-2008, 10:40 PM
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It's the Johnny Cash version that gets me^^^^^
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11-08-2008, 11:53 PM
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Johnny Cash did "At Seventeen"? Amazing.
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11-09-2008, 12:45 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Oldfart
Johnny Cash did "At Seventeen"? Amazing.
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No, but it was probably on his "to do" list...
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11-15-2008, 08:16 AM
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Etta James song covered
At Last by Celine Dion, LIVE in Sweden. As good as they come. Only the youthful impassioned voicing of Etta James in long gone past years ago could tear your heart out with such a glorious song of grand love and committed elation.
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11-17-2008, 02:03 AM
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At the risk of "too many" contribs to this thread, I'll give this as my final one then stay out of it for some time so's that all yous other peeps can put yers in here.
Rather than a SAD SONG, this is a very poignant Hope Song.
This tune is a powerful string puller and evokes a strong emotion for me (& others), mainly 'cause its a song of hope imminent in realization if only I listen to my heart. I watched the television show on our tiny round/oval black & white TV set on a night when he performed it. I loved it, not only 'cause the schnozzola was singing it, but I got to stay up an extra half hour past bedtime. He walked off, into the series of spotlights, stopping and waved good-bye, then vanished into the night. Presumably to go looking for Mrs Calabash. Hey, I think I was only seven or eight years old!
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I like; a) taint brushing: b) a good cigar: c) our juices together; d) champagne: e) protein squirts; f)more of these; g)much more of these; h) Damn, slide that thing into me. Deep!
Adage: 2 things are certain in life; Death & Taxes. Therefore; God & Beelzebub had a meeting to fix the problem. A mighty storm prevailed for ages until finally they ended the storm with the agreement: From now on Anyone whom chooses doesn't have to die. "Everyone wins said Beelzebub. You get an eternally grateful bunch of worshippers praying forever for lower taxes as I goad & prod them forever with higher & higher taxation."
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11-17-2008, 12:53 PM
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Yankee in Dixie
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Is it me, or is he the guy that did the songs for the old claymation Christmas movies?
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11-18-2008, 09:13 AM
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Yeh, I lose track of which one, but I think Durante did provide the voice, & inspired the face of one of the Christmas Claymation classics. I'll forgive you (for now anyway) for being too young to remember Jimmy Durante, Burl Ives, Bing Crosby, and any other once internationally popular stars who wisely elected to ensure that future generations of kids would have some idea that they even existed
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11-18-2008, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by citrus
At the risk of "too many" contribs to this thread, I'll give this as my final one then stay out of it for some time so's that all yous other peeps can put yers in here.
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No such thing as "too many posts" to a thread...please, feel free to contribute here anytime a song tugs at your heartstrings...
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11-18-2008, 11:37 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Snow
Is it me, or is he the guy that did the songs for the old claymation Christmas movies?
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I believe Mr. Durante did the narration/singing in Frosty the Snowman.
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11-18-2008, 04:25 PM
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The younger ones should remember him from the "Sleepless in Seattle" soundtrack.
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11-18-2008, 05:24 PM
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Call me FWM :)
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Originally Posted by citrus
At the risk of "too many" contribs to this thread, I'll give this as my final one then stay out of it for some time so's that all yous other peeps can put yers in here.
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Got to agree with scotzoidman, citrus, don't stop posting to this thread...
I was 'caught' by a song that I must have heard hundreds of times over the years, but I've not played it very often in recent times. It hit me like a smack in the face as I was driving along in the car today and I was unable to fight back the tears. It's probably the first time I've really listened to it since my father died some years ago i've linked to youtube.
Tank Park Salute
Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers
Leave the light on at the top of the stairs
Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky
A tree taps on the window pane
That feeling smothers me again
Daddy is it true that we all have to die?
At the top of the stairs
Is darkness
At the top of the stairs
Is darkness
I closed my eyes and when I looked
Your name was in the memorial book
And what had become of all the things we planned
I accepted the commiserations
Of all your friends and your relations
But there's some things I still don't understand
You were so tall
How could you fall?
Some photographs of a summer's day
A little boy's lifetime away
Is all I've left of everything we've done
Like a pale moon in a sunny sky
Death gazes down as I pass by
To remind me that I'm but my father's son
I offer up to you
This tribute
I offer up to you
This tank park salute
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11-18-2008, 11:31 PM
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Yankee in Dixie
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HEY! I know who Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Burl Ives and a few others are. I grew up on those old claymation Christmas classics. I hate the fact that they took most of them off the air. I just didn't know that one off the top of my head. I may be young, but I'm not that young. Now that it was mentioned, I believe it was Frosty the Snowman.
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11-21-2008, 01:12 AM
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