Posted on 03/18/2020 3:38:21 PM PDT by Old Yeller
Since isolation is the new theme for the indefinite future, how about listing your favorite solitude, alone or loneliness songs.
Johnny Cash
Sunday Morning Coming Down
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“Any country song?”
Yep. First to come to my mind was Help Me Make It Through the Night and Sunday Morning Coming Down”
I’ve done the same thing, until I found your comment.
...Dock of the Bay was the first song that came to mind relative to the term solitude.
How about: Over the Mountains...or: A Thousand Miles Away
Very clean guitar.
Mr. Lonely--The Videls (1960)
Counting flowers on the wall - Statler Bros.
That's life,
Some are doing too well,
The other goes wrong;
Sometimes you lose heart.
But what you didn't find today,
Tomorrow maybe it's here,
And I don't have to ask anymore,
When does happiness come to me?
I walk the streets at night
For hours without a goal,
Could hate the whole world
Because I feel abandoned.
The bar is small and smoky,
Where I buy a round
Just to ask everyone,
When does happiness come to me?
Alone--The Shepherd Sisters (1957)
You and Me Against The World.
What about Bobby Goldsboro’s “Honey”.. I think the record came with an overdose size of sleeping pills
There was a truck driver singer back in the 60-70’s timeframe that had to be the Grim Reaper on wheels. I can’t remember his name. One of his songs was about a teddy bear or a kid named Teddy, or something.
Mahalia Jackson— You’ll Never Walk Alone
Laura Nyro — Lonely Women (with Zoot Sims on tenor sax)
Here are some other songs, some of which are "lonesome" songs, and some which could be called "pre-lonesome" songs, but they're all pretty sad. I've posted some of them before on other threads, but I thought they would fit in pretty well with the general mood of this thread too.
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"Crying Time" - Ray Charles "Red River Valley" - Stevie Nicks & Chris Isaak "Blue Side Of Lonesome" - Jim Reeves "It Makes No Difference Now" - Gene Autry "Am I That Easy To Forget" - Engelbert Humperdinck "There Goes My Everything" - Engelbert Humperdinck "Tennessee Waltz" - Patti Page "I Can't Stop Loving You" - Ray Charles "He Stopped Loving Her Today" - George Jones "Detroit City" - Bobby Bare "Blues Stay Away From Me" - Charlie McCoy "Beyond the Sunset/Should You Go First and I Remain" - Gaithers |
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