Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???

17 Jan 11 - 07:29 PM (#3076767)
Subject: Sapiest Love Song in Yer Repotoire???
From: Bobert

Well???

Okay, I hate to admit it but there's a song I first heard when I was like 13 or 12 by Kathy Young entitled "A Thousand Stars" and it is 110% sap but I learned it along time ago and still pull it out now and then depending on the audience...

There... I showed ya' mine so now time fir ya'll to 'fess up...

If anyone says they do Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey" they will get extra points... Yuck!!!

B~

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17 Jan 11 - 07:40 PM (#3076778)
Subject: RE: Sapiest Love Song in Yer Repotoire???
From: Steve Shaw

And quadruple points to anyone who admits to doing Poor Little Angeline.

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17 Jan 11 - 07:45 PM (#3076782)
Subject: RE: Sapiest Love Song in Yer Repotoire???
From: kendall

Palace Grand. I love it.

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18 Jan 11 - 11:33 AM (#3077155)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Bobert

Never heard it, Capt'n...

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18 Jan 11 - 12:47 PM (#3077205)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: kendall

If you want to hear it go to my web site

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18 Jan 11 - 12:49 PM (#3077206)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: SINSULL

It's not sappy, Captain. A little weird when you sing it to Max and you're both plowed.
M

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18 Jan 11 - 12:54 PM (#3077215)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Little Hawk

I may have done a sappy love song at some time in the past, but if so, I can't recall it at this moment...

PLEASE don't sing "Leavin' On a Jet Plane" around me, okay? ;-)

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18 Jan 11 - 01:01 PM (#3077221)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: kendall

For anyone who is interested, that song, among others, can be heard at www.captainkendallmorse.com

My thanks to Old Dude for putting that up on the internet.

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18 Jan 11 - 01:04 PM (#3077226)
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From: kendall

Sinsull, I was not "Plowed". I almost remember that night.

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18 Jan 11 - 01:14 PM (#3077233)
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From: maeve

Sins, he was just a little furrowed.

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18 Jan 11 - 01:17 PM (#3077237)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Amos

Palace Grand, especially Kendall's rendiution, is world-class. Not sappy exactly but deeply sentimental.

My choice is "The Kind of Love You Never Recover From", by Christine Lavin.

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18 Jan 11 - 01:19 PM (#3077240)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: GUEST,Songbob

I'm afraid the sappiest love song I know is one of mine. Heck, most of mine are sappy, but one is sappier than all the others.

The first verse:

I'd write a love song, if I could,
To sing to you, you know I would.
I'd try to tell you how you make me feel so fine,
If I only wrote one line.


See?

Bob

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18 Jan 11 - 01:20 PM (#3077241)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Little Hawk

If I was John Denver's wife, kendall, I would've kicked him for writing that song... ;-) ...probably in a painful spot.

When I feel in danger of being menaced by sappy love songs, I just put on Bob Dylan singing "Wiggle, Wiggle", and the fear goes away... (grin)

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18 Jan 11 - 01:36 PM (#3077258)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Little Robyn

Uhoh. Kendall, your 'Palace Grand' is the song I call 'Lady Mary' and was one of the first 2 I ever sang in public. We pinched it from Joan Baez back in 1963.
We thought it was luverly. (We were only teenagers at the time - I guess that explains it.)
Robyn

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18 Jan 11 - 02:22 PM (#3077317)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: kendall

I didn't notice until it was too late that I forgot one verse.

There in his palace so grand, on a flower strewn bed he lies,
His beautiful lids are closed o'er his sad dark beautiful eyes;
And among the mourners who mourn, why should I a mourner be?
For I was nothing to him, though he was the world to me.

Little Hawk, are you telling me John Denver wrote Palace Grand?

I know many guys who would never sing a woman's song for fear of being branded a sissy. Well, if anyone calls me a sissy, I'll brain him with my purse.

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18 Jan 11 - 02:30 PM (#3077327)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Bill D

I suppose mine would be "Little Joe"....except some consider it merely 'poignant'

Oh...then there is "The Bold Fisherman"

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18 Jan 11 - 02:37 PM (#3077332)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Bill D

Oh...LOVE song? I read it wrong.

That wold be..depending on yer attitude... "Do You Think That I Do Not Know"...Henry Lawson.

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18 Jan 11 - 02:38 PM (#3077335)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Bobert

Never heard "Little Joe" either??? Okay, there was Little Joe at the Ponderosa but I doubt Bill would sing him a song...

BTW, Capt'n... That song ain't a sappy love song, just sappy (jus' funnin')... Guess again...

B~

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18 Jan 11 - 02:47 PM (#3077341)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Darowyn

It's one of mine and I mean every word every time I sing it.

"Told you so a thousand times,
I'll tell you 'bout a million more.
With everyone I've loved before,
It was you that I was looking for.
Ghosts can rise up from the past,
And their shadows can be cold and black,
But when love saves the best for last,
There'll be no going back."

("Going Back" by Darowyn)

And if you can't be sappy or sentimental about the love of your life, then you have not found him or her (yet)!

Cheers
Dave

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18 Jan 11 - 05:02 PM (#3077444)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Bobert

Now that is some serious sap...

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18 Jan 11 - 05:09 PM (#3077450)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: SINSULL

There is a video of that night. An exchange of hats; a plaintive love song sung into poor Max's limpid eyes (actually droopy might describe it better). Max seated on the floor gazing adoringly into Kendall's baby blues. And there were many witnesses. Most in the same condition.
The Getaway is wonderful.
SINS

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18 Jan 11 - 06:56 PM (#3077534)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Little Hawk

No, I was referring to "Leavin' On a Jet Plane", kendall.

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18 Jan 11 - 07:14 PM (#3077542)
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From: Bill D

Hey Bobert: (I have slightly different version)

DARLIN' LITTLE JOE

What will the birds do, mother, in the spring
When the little brown birds come to my door?
They'll hop on the window, they'll hop on the step
Asking why Little Joe roams no more.
Mother, love Tiger, love Tiger for me
For you know he will mourn for me true,
Show him my coat so he will not forget
For then his master will be dead;
Speak to him often and gently of Joe
And pat him on his black shaggy head.

What will ole Thomas, the gardner say
When you ask him for flowers for me?
He'll give you the roses he tended so long
The first fairest flowers on the tree.
What will the kitten do, mother, all alone
Will she in her frolic run and play?
Or lie on the rug by the side of my bed
As she did when I once went away.

Poor Uncle Ben in a far away camp
Will be sad o'er the letters that you write,
He'll say, mother dear, little Joe's gone to rest
Marching nearer and nearer the line.
And you, Mother dear, will you miss me for a while
But up in Heaven, no larger will I grow
And many kind angels will know when you ask
At the gate for your own little Joe.

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18 Jan 11 - 07:45 PM (#3077559)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Bobert

Strong on the sap factor, Bill... Weak on the love factor... I mean, didn't ya ever get eat up in love with a girl and either write or borrow a song that purdy much said what you were feelin'??? That's what we are talkin' about here... Not sentimental stuff which, sniff, do get me a little weepy... But boy-girl love songs... Unless one4 is gay then it's boy-boy or girl-girl songs... No matter, that Kathy Young song that I been doin' going back, oh shit, 40 some years works fir any of the above combinations I've thrown out...

I mean, write a love song to Rita, gol danged it... I mean, she's about as purdy and nice as they come... Yer never too old to write a sappy love song... Heck, I wrote one fir the P-Vine... Didn't hurt at all... Purdy decent song, too...

B~

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18 Jan 11 - 09:56 PM (#3077625)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Bobert

Good 'un, Gargz

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19 Jan 11 - 12:26 AM (#3077674)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Lonesome EJ

Women like sappy love songs. If you don't have one in your repertoire, that could be why you're sleeping alone again tonight.
With my band, I like to do Richie Valens' old ballad We Belong Together.
Every Getaway I look forward to Lucy singing Sonny. I can't really tell if it's sappy or not, but something about the refrain and Lucy's heartbroken voice make me tear up.

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19 Jan 11 - 05:24 AM (#3077743)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: GUEST,MC Fat (at work)

The fiddler I play with usually come out with the line 'What a load of sentimental old tosh' when I sing Pete Abbott's 'Windy Harbour' but he really really hated Beth Neilen Chapman's 'Time Won't Tell'and I daen't play it again when he's there.

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19 Jan 11 - 08:06 AM (#3077813)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: GUEST,Desi C

Mine is Long Long Before Your Time, by Irish songwriter Johnny McEvoy, Dad talking to Daughter re his late wife, Surprisingly good song for such soppy lyrics (I take it sappy is the same as soppy/gushy)
I wouldn't do Honey but have to confess, it was a favourite of mine when I was much younger ;)

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19 Jan 11 - 08:40 AM (#3077833)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Bobert

Yer right, eee-jay, the womenz eat a sappy love song up... The P-Vine loves it when I sing Don Williams "Say it" to her...

"Oh, all I needed was one look
One magic moment was all it took
From that momment, well, I loved you so
Now that I found you, never gonna' let you go so...

Say it, well say it again
It sound so good say it one more time again
If you mean it, say it again
The hard parts over
Let the loving times begin...

etc...

B~

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19 Jan 11 - 01:32 PM (#3078006)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: GUEST,christine lavin

Thanks for including my song in your 'sappiest of all time' -- I'm honored! Ironically it is my most requested song, so what does that tell you? It's the end of civilization as we know it.

While traveling in the middle of the night the other night listening to xm, "Honey" came on the radio. Now that's my favorite all time sappiest. Holy crap, who thought that was a good idea for a song?

While on tour in Tucson this fall I met the woman who inspired "MacArthur Park." I was telling my road manager about her . . . when "MacArthur Park" came on the radio. How spooky is that? We were driving from Rhode Island to Westchester County in a Prius with a slammin' sound system and cranked it WAY up. Bliss.

I don't think I should tell you her name, but she is now married to the cousin of one of the most famous singers to ever come out of Tucson. And she is still a real beauty. I asked her what the sweet green icing was about and the cake in the rain -- she didn't really understand those lines, either. But it sure was fun to meet her and talk about that song.

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19 Jan 11 - 02:00 PM (#3078027)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Lonesome EJ

Christine
Welcome to Mudcat!

Can we really call MacArthur Park sappy, though? Its strangeness transcends the sappy category and sends it right into monumentally silly. Where else could you find a song that not only has Richard Harris putting his heart and soul into lyrics like "someone left the cake out in the rain", accompanied by the marshalled forces of the London Symphony Orchestra, spliced into a mid-song psychedelic-pop instrumental romp, and ending with two or three false codas that finally result in Richard being acoustically morphed into Minnie Ripperton on an end note that only German Shepherds can hear? Ridiculously sublime, says I.

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19 Jan 11 - 02:40 PM (#3078070)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Gurney

I'm working on 'When You Sat Nothing At All.' Trying to get the full flavour of sappiness. Then I'm going to try Chas and Dave's 'Rabbit' to redress the balance.

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19 Jan 11 - 03:10 PM (#3078103)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Amos

Christine:

Mea Culpa. "THe Kind of Love..." is my favorite love song, bar none, just so ya know. By the time I wrote that post I had forgotten that the thread was about "sappiness". While it is a very sentimental song in the best sense of the word, it is not sappy. So I'm sorry I put my vote in the wrong thread. Thanks for writing it!

A

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19 Jan 11 - 05:37 PM (#3078196)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Nancy King

"True Love," from the movie "High Society" (otherwise a fun film) gets my nomination for sappiest love song. It is NOT in my repertoire, but a friend of mine sings it occasionally. Another friend always leaves the room when she does...

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19 Jan 11 - 05:56 PM (#3078213)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: Amos

For you and I have a guardian angel on high, with nothing to do
But to give to me and to give to you
Love foreeeeeever true.


Shades of the barfing Fifties!! :D



A

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19 Jan 11 - 07:38 PM (#3078290)
Subject: RE: Sappiest Love Song in Yer Repertoire???
From: KT

Welcome, Christine! Good to see you here. And I just wanna add that Amos does a wonderful rendition of that song. Puts a lump in my throat every time I hear it!

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