Motown Tearjerkers

[jbpintus]

...and more recently Stevie Wonder’s “Shelter in the Rain” can’t be beaten as the most tearjerker song ever [[about Syreeta’s passing). Be sure to continue the listening of the “A Time 2 Love” after that, as Stevie cleverly follows it with “Positivity”, a song that can only make you feel good and happy and positive.
Yes, you’ll have your tears dried by then!

[tjl]

1. What's So Good About Goodbye - The Miracles
2. I'll Have To Let Him Go - Martha & The Vandellas
3. Farewell Is A Lonely Sound - Jimmy Ruffin
4. Stay In My Lonely Arms - Four Tops
5. Put Yourself In My Place - The Elgins
6. Baby Baby Don't Cry - The Miracles
7. Forget Me Not - Martha & The Vandellas
8. Helpless - Kim Weston
9. 7-Rooms Of Gloom - Four Tops
10. Lonely Lonely Man Am I - Temptations
11. My World Is Empty Without You - The Miracles [[very sad)/Supremes
12. Statue Of A Fool - David Ruffin
13. Truly Yours - The Spinners
14. My Heart Can't Take It No More - The Supremes
15. The Love I Saw In You Was Just A Mirage - The Miracles
16. Sweet Harmony - Smokey
17. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin
18. Since You've Been Gone - Four Tops
19. Walk Away Renee - Four Tops
20. We've Come Too Far To End It Now - The Miracles
21. Don't Look Back - The Temptations
22. Yesterme, Yesteryou, Yesterday - Stevie
23. That's How Heartaches Are Made - The Marvelettes
24. It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday - GC Cameron
25. Abraham, Martin and John - Tom Clay

[WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance]

6. Baby Baby Don't Cry - The Miracles
7. Forget Me Not - Martha & The Vandellas

Those two songs really surprised me with just how emotional they make me. "Baby Baby Don't Cry" really sounds like there is something much deeper going on in the lyrics. Don't know why, but I always think of the racial tensions and general turmoil that was going on at that time; I had the feeling some of that was coming out in the music in some way. The part in that song that triggers the flood gates of tears is when it changes key after Smokey sings "and only losers weep." That key change gives the song a powerful emotion, and there I am. Weeping.

"Forget Me Not" does it to me because after reading about how Sylvia Moy and Martha both had brothers in Vietnam, the song just sounds so personal and that makes it all the more sad to think about the men who didn't make it out.

[midnightman]

Those two songs really surprised me with just how emotional they make me. "Baby Baby Don't Cry" really sounds like there is something much deeper going on in the lyrics. Don't know why, but I always think of the racial tensions and general turmoil that was going on at that time; I had the feeling some of that was coming out in the music in some way. The part in that song that triggers the flood gates of tears is when it changes key after Smokey sings "and only losers weep." That key change gives the song a powerful emotion, and there I am. Weeping.

"Forget Me Not" does it to me because after reading about how Sylvia Moy and Martha both had brothers in Vietnam, the song just sounds so personal and that makes it all the more sad to think about the men who didn't make it out.

Speaking of Vietnam and Martha and her brother, that was also the inspiration behind I Should Be Proud, another tearjerker.

[marv2]

Speaking of Vietnam and Martha and her brother, that was also the inspiration behind I Should Be Proud, another tearjerker.

Mary Wilson's brother Roosevelt was in Vietnam at that time too.

[WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance]

Speaking of Vietnam and Martha and her brother, that was also the inspiration behind I Should Be Proud, another tearjerker.

O.K. I didn't know that. And you're right, I Should Be Proud is a real tearjerker. When Martha does that spoken part, I can't help but tear up because SHE sounds as if she was very close to crying at any moment.

[jboy88]

O.K. I didn't know that. And you're right, I Should Be Proud is a real tearjerker. When Martha does that spoken part, I can't help but tear up because SHE sounds as if she was very close to crying at any moment.

Sadly, her brother died either during the war or from PTSD related complications upon returning[[ i’ve heard different stories). So Martha might of very well been singing through tears.

[WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance]

Sadly, her brother died either during the war or from PTSD related complications upon returning[[ i’ve heard different stories). So Martha might of very well been singing through tears.

Wow. Now that just gives that song even more poignancy.