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Thread #14561 Message #1479833
Posted By: GUEST,Genie too lazy to log in
06-May-05 - 11:38 PM
Thread Name: Most haunting melodies?
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
Hmm...
Here's a list of songs that you folks have already mentioned that are also on my list:
Lorena Ashokan Farewell Midnight On The Water I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Angel Skye Boat Song Wayfaring Stranger Scarborough Fair Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring El Condor Pasa The Boxer Ne Me Quitte Pas La Vie En Rose Hallelujah (Leon Dodi Li Torna A Surriento (Come Back To Sorrento) Yesterday Shenandoah Barbry Allen Sheebeg & Sheemore (Hills Of Haversham) The Minstrel Boy O Mio Bambino Caro Un Bel Di Bring Him Home Polovetzian Dance #9 (?) - Borodin (Stranger In Paradise) Tecumseh Valley Angel Band Hallelujah! (Leonard Cohen)
Some that I would add are: Con Te Partiro (sung by Anrea Bocelli) To Where You Are (sung by Josh Groban) The Prayer (Andrew Lloyd-Weber) Brahms's Violin Concerto In D Minor (I think it's violin) - very moving and haunting main theme Silkie (as sung by Joan Baez) Take This Waltz (Leonard Cohen) La Paloma Blues In The Night (melody: Harold Arlen) Over the Rainbow (melody: Harold Arlen) Stormy Weather (melody: Harold Arlen It Was A Very Good Year Those Were The Days Otchee Tchornya (Dark Eyes) Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen (Yiddish lullabye) Erev Shel Shosanim (Israeli folk song and dance) Samba De Orfeo (from "Black Orpheus") Manha De Carnival (from "Black Orpheus") Windmills Of Your Mind Forbidden Games (I forgot the older melody this song is se to) Sheherezade main theme Memory (Grizabella's song from "Cats" -- Lloyd-Weber) Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair Home On The Range (I don't care if it's overdone, it's beautifully hauntine) Londonderry Air (ditto) La Paloma High Barbary Farewell to Tarawathie Haul Away, Joe Rollin' Down To Old Maui Greensleeves (How could we forget?) Louie, Louie - §;-D Star Of The County Down Bridget O'Malley Blue Bayou Gulf Coast Highway (James Lee Hooker & Nanci Griffith) Spooky (Well, it IS haunting!) Sakura (Japanese "Cherry Blooms" song) In My Life (Beatles) Here, There, & Everywhere (Beatles) Blackbird (Beatles) Kiss From A Rose (Seal) The Rose (Amanda McBroom) Now Is The Hour (Maori melody learned by Allied forces in WWII) The Rebel Jesus (Jackson Browne) Anathea (as sung by Judy Collins) Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming (Es Ist Ein' Roz' Entsprungen) Geordie (as sung by Joann Baez) Mountains O' Mourne/Bendemeer's Stream Loch Lomond Mo Mary Bridge Over Troubled Water Stardust Isle Of Innisfree (Richard Farelly) Do You Love An Apple? Tumblin' Tumbleweeds (Bob Nolan)