Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them.....- Page 5

[COOOOLkid]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 1:35am

At the Ballet (ACL)
What I Did for Love (ACL)
One (ACL)
A Little Fall of Rain (Les Mis)
Sunday (SITPWG)
Around the World (GG)
Your Daddy's Son (Ragtime)
Wheels of a Dream (Ragtime)

and when performed in regional theatres, I cry everytime during the finale in Ragtime when there's that little piano playing a ragtime tune, then the ensemble sings "On the wheels of a dream!"

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 4:49am

'Dividing Day' from Light in the Piazza and 'Nothing in Common' from Jason Robert Brown's Wearing someone else's clothes album both bring a lump to the throat at the moment.

[RentHead2]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 11:07am

Mine:

Goodbye Until Tomorrow, Last 5 Years
If I Didn't Believe In You, Last 5 Years
For Good, Wicked
Alive, Company

[Norma D]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 12:54pm

I think the title of it is No One is Alone from Into the Woods. Never fails I weep every time!!

[brooklynbecca]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 1:07pm

Can't believe I forgot "See, I'm Smiling" from L5Y! Total tear jerker.

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:19pm

It Never Was You- LoveMusik ( I know it was originally from Knickerbocker Holiday, but LoveMusik was the first time I heard it)
Days Of Plenty- Little Women (That song is heartbreaking, and expresses a sense of grief I cannot even begin to imagine.)


Non-musical: The song that has made me bawl everytime since I was five, "Puff the Magic Dragon."

[The_Jackal]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:38pm

Maybe not EVERY time, but A Way Back to Then from [title of show]

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:09pm

For Good--Wicked

Being Alive--Company (Raul's version)

You Walk With Me--The Full Monty

Left Behind & Those You've Known (Spring Awakening--I want them played at my funeral--if I have one)

Another Winter in a Summer Town (Grey Gardens)

I'll Cover You (reprise) & No Day But Today (Rent)

There have to be more, but I'd have to dig through my Playbills to dig through my memories.
Updated On: 8/9/07 at 03:09 PM

[meredithchandler73]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 4:11pm

Maybe not every single time I've heard them, but lots:

You Walk With Me (FULL MONTY)
The I Love You Song (25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE)
How Glory Goes (FLOYD COLLINS)
If He Walked Into My Life (MAME)
Father To Son (FALSETTOS)
What More Can I Say (FALSETTOS)
What Would I Do? (FALSETTOS)

Getting weepy just thinking about some of these songs! Also - I never realized how many Bill Finn songs make me weepy!

Honorable mention:
My Brother Lived in San Francisco (not sure if it's from a show)
Your Daddy's Son (RAGTIME)

[Footlooser]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 4:32pm

I'm Not Afarid of Anything ~ Songs For A New World
The few bars of "Somewhere" at the end of WSS that Maria sings as Tony dies
Not Afraid ~ Easter Rising
No More ~ Into The Woods
Bring Him Home ~ Les Miserables
Climb Every Mountain ~ The Sound of Music
I'd Give it All For You ~ Songs For A New World
Bare ~ Bare: a pop opera
Johannah ~ Sweeney Todd
I'll Cover You (Reprise) ~ RENT

[MovieGuy1031]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 4:35pm

"The Old Red Hills of Home", "Leo's Statement: It's Hard to Speak My Heart", and "All The Wasted Time" from Parade.

Can't honestly say they make me cry, but i'll be damned if they don't give me chills every single time I listen to them.

[FutureAladdinOnB'Way]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 4:39pm

I don't really cry, but songs have given me chills:
-I Know Where I've Been
-For Good
-Finale B
-What I Did For Love
-No One is Alone

[starlyricist]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 5:02pm

Hmm. So many to pick from...

Five and a Half Minutes & His Arms
(both from The Woman Upstairs by Lowdermilk & Kerrigan)
Lot's Wife - Caroline, or Change
See Me/Warning and all of the songs from Queen Mab until the end (No Voice) - bare: a pop opera
Petrified - Taboo
Way Back to Then - [title of show]
How Glory Goes - Floyd Collins

There's also something about People Like Us from LaChiusa's The Wild Party that puts a knot in my throat. One of my favs.

Just my $.02

[glimpseofstocking]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 5:10pm

It's incredibly rare for me to cry while simply listening to a recording in my room, car, or wherever else. There is one song that brings me to tears every time I listen to it, and that's Judy Garland's "You'll Never Walk Alone". She made two recordings of it, one in the early 40's and another in the late 50's/early 60's. The latter version always turns me into an emotional basketcase.

Also, I've cried every time I have seen Rose's Turn performed live.

[Broadwayboy2631]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 6:31pm

"Left Behind"

[misschung]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 6:51pm

Non-musical: The song that has made me bawl everytime since I was five, "Puff the Magic Dragon."

I agree 110% and add to that "We're Off to See the World" from the Chipmunks Great Adventure

Updated On: 8/9/07 at 06:51 PM

[wendla5000]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 7:05pm

"Some Things Are Meant to Be" - Little Women
"Home" - The Wiz
"You'll Be in My Heart" - Tarzan (yes, I admit it)

and, obviously,
"For Good" - Wicked

I just moved away from North Carolina, my home of four years. My best friend there and I (who share a love for Wicked) kind of unofficially dubbed "For Good" as "our song", so whenever I hear it or sing it, I start bawling. My four years in NC were the best years of my life, so that's also why "Home" gets me teary-eyed.

Love ya, Lex!!

[winter_sky]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 7:06pm

Non-musical: Ben Folds "The Luckiest" and "Across the Universe".

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 7:18pm

I forgot "Saying Goodbye" from The Muppets Take Manhattan. It so upset me as a kid that one time when I was watching it, my mom thought I had injured myself, I was crying so hard.

I watched it on YouTube a while ago to see if I could get through it. I was a mess by 15 seconds in...

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 7:40pm

being tall- nine

[B3TA07]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 7:40pm

None.

[little_sally]

Posted: 8/21/07 at 12:22am

The Letter from Billy Elliot

[Alyssa Fox]

Posted: 8/21/07 at 10:26am

"Nobody Needs To Know" from The Last 5 Years.

Everytime.

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 8/21/07 at 10:36am

Lately, At the Ballet, from ACL.

[TBone]

Posted: 8/21/07 at 10:39am

"Old Folks" from JACQUES BREL...