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Can anybody give me some song ideas? I'd like to find songs that are kind of melancholy (sp?) sounding, from perhaps the late 50s to mid 70s. Examples would be songs such as "As Tears Go By" by Rolling Stones, "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" by Dusty Springfield, "Runaway" by Del Shannon, "Heart of Gold" by Neil Young, etc.

Thanks in advance.

QuasiMojo

"He Was A Friend Of Mine"
Bob Dylan

"This Guys In Love With You"
Bacharach

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djtestudo

"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" by Hank Williams.

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kl0pper

lost cause - beck

Averett

That's a great song, but he's asking for old as in 30-40 years ago. Not 2 years ago

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Phil Ochs - Crucifixion. Get one of the live versions, the studio version is very much inferior.

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kl0pper

heh my bad..

try tom waits - ol 55
thats from the late 60s

KWSN

Thom Parrott - Hole in the Ground

Thom Parrott - Pinkville Helicopter

Thom Parrott - The Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy

Townes Van Zandt - Pancho and Lefty

Townes Van Zandt - Marie


They might be tough to find, but if you can, they're perfect.

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Strange Famous

Frank Sinatra - Angel Eyes, Only the Lonely, Guess I'll Just Hang My Tears Out to Dry

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Rodney

Peggy Lee -- "Is That All There Is?

"If that's all there is, my friend,
then let's keep dancing.
Let's break out the booze and have a ball,
if that's all .......
there is. "

Simon and Garfunkel were good at melancholy, too: "Sounds of Silence,' "I am a Rock," "America," "Homeward Bound," "Richard Corey," and others.

If you want to go back beyond the 50s a little, I highly recommend Billie Holiday's rendition of "God Bless the Child."

Paradise Lost

I think the Eagles - Take it to the Limit qualifies as a mid 70s
song, and it's pretty mellow.

I don't know and listen to many mellow songs, so
that's as best as I can do :P

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nanofever

Beatles - "Hey Jude" and "Yesterday"

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CinnamonGirl

hmmm...

Operator - Jim Croce
All By Myself - Eric Carmen
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
All I have to Do is Dream - the Everly Brothers
It's Too Late - Carole King
Angie - The Rolling Stones

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New sad songs are great as well. "I Do" by Jude is an extraordinary example.

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balderdash111

"Feel Like Going Home" by the Notting Hillbillies

Sion

Frank Sinatra: It was a very good year

Don Henley: New York Minute

The Eagles: Desperado

just about anything from James Taylor

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I jus' want ta thank you...falettinme...be mice elf...agin...

HamiC

Joe Jackson -- Be My Number Two


Won't you be my number two
Me and number one are through
There won't be too much to do
Just smile when I feel blue

And there's not much left of me
What you get is what you see
Is it worth the energy
I leave it up to you

And if you got something to say to me
Don't try to play your funny games on me
I know that it's really not fair of me
But my heart's seen too much action

And every time I look at you
You'll be who I want you to
And I'll do what I can do
To make a dream or two come true
If you'll be my
If you be my number two

Redjake

the song that Pearl Jam did a cover of. "where oh where can my baby be! the Lord took her away from me....."

don't know the original, but I'd imagine it's pretty sad

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Beatles - For no one
Beatles - In my life
(Also good is the cover of In My Life by Johnny Cash)
Beatles - Hide your love away
Beatles - Don't let me down
Drifters - Save the last dance for me
The Eagles - The girl from yesterday
Fleetwood Mac - Silver springs
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a wonderful world
Carly Simon - The spy who loved me
Jimi Hendrix - Castles made of sand
John Lennon - Imagine, acoustic and not
Neil Diamond - When you miss your love
Otis Redding - I've got dreams to remember
Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine
Ray Charles - Georgia on my mind
Rolling Stones - memory motel
The Mamas and the Papas - i call your name and various others
BB King - The thrill is gone
Jim Croce - Time in a bottle
Bill Withers - Ain't no sunshine
Whitesnake - Here I go again
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Not that time, but incredible...
Radiohead - fake plastic trees
Radiohead - bulletproof..i wish I was
Mazzy Star - Wild horses
Sebadoh - Willing to Wait

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Rodney

Oh yeah, "I Wish it Would Rain," by The Temptations. It was later covered by a lot of other people later, but the original version is best, I think.

izzzzy

THERES AN OLD COUNTRY AND WESTERN SONG ,I THINK IT WAS BY MOE BANDY AND JOE STAMPLEY CALLED THANK GOD AND GREYHOUND YOURE GONE.IT STARTS OUT REAL SWEET AND THEN........

Xiangsu

Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here

rockzilla

It was called Last Kiss, I can't remember the name of the group who recorded it originally (someone and The Cavaliers, I think).
For a teenage death song, it's surprisingly upbeat.

maleficent

Patsy Cline -- Crazy
Simon and Garfunkel- Bridge over trouble water
Imagine - John Lennon
Winter- Tori Amos
Yesterday - the beatles
Wildfire - michael Martin Murray (or something like that)
So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams
Crazy Love - Paul Simon
Lucky—Til’ Tuesday
How will you go?—Crowded House

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