Greatest Break-Up Songs

[dawn]

Definately! Gabrielle's out of reach is another one.

[Cheza]

Can I get a bit cheesy for a moment...*ahem*...

"Knowing Me, Knowing You"...ABBA

[chicagojoe]

Cheza
You're not being cheezy. "Dancing Queen" is also a great song.

[Cheza]

Thanks, Chicagojoe. This was a great idea for a thread by the way.

[stephiehope]

Don't know what you got til it's gone and Nobody's Fool - Cinderella
I won't forget you and Life goes on - Poison
You're all i need - Motley Crue.....awesome song!!
Love Bites - Def Leppard

Just a few for now

[Cheza]

I hadn't thought of "You're All I Need" in ages.

What about "I Saw Red" by Warrant?

[chicagojoe]

Stephiehope just reminded me of "Bringin' on the Heart-ache" by Def Leppard.

[dawn]

I can't believe I didn't list any Def Leppard. When Love & Hate Collide is another song that got totally overplayed whenever I was dumped.

[Cheza]

I LOVE WHEN LOVE & HATE COLLIDE!!!!

What about "Look Away" by Chicago?

[jillywilly65]

Well by looking at the songs mentioned its official!!
We are a bunch of OLD FARTS ;D

ABBA
Chicago
Def Leppard
Gladys Knight
etc.
etc

My back hurts.......old age rearing its ugly head

They just don't write them like they used to


Jilly

[Cheza]

Nope...How about I go even older??? Before my time, but they're great songs...

"Don't Get Around Much Anymore" and "Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues" by the incomparable Duke Ellington

[jillywilly65]

yeah the Duke

hey I grew up with a dad that made me listen to Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Duke, all the greats

I love all music!!!

[Cheza]

I have to add "The Final Countdown"...I know it's weird, but one of my girl friends in high school was dumped by three different boys to that song at three different dances!!!!!

[chicagojoe]

The two Ellington songs that you mentioned, Cheza, were excellant. One of my favorites by Ellington is "Caravan", however, it's not a break-up song.

How about "Send in the Clowns"? I know for sure that Sinatra sang this one, but I think I heard Peggy Lee sing it first. Not certain though.

[jillywilly65]

Oh geez I cannot believe I forgot
Al Green's
"Let's stay Together"

Al Green knows his stuff!!!


Jilly

[Cheza]

Thanks, chicagojoe. I used to introduce some of my students to Ellington by showing a tape I had of Play On! which uses his music but follows the basic plotline of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night minus Viola's twin brother...in it Viola goes from the south to Harlem to visit her uncle, Jester (= Feste in Shakspeare), she wants to be a songwriter. Jester tells her songwriting is a man's world and dresses her as a man to present her to The Duke (= Orsino) who pines away for the Cotton Club vocalist Lady Liv (= Olivia)...and then there are the characters of Rev, who loves Liv and is tricked into visiting her in a yellow zoot suit (ala Malvolio in his yellow stockings and cross-garters), Sweets the bandleader (= Sir Toby Belch) and his girl, Miss Mary (= Maria)...in the end it all works out of course and Duke ends up with Viola and Liv ends up with Rev instead since there is no Sebastian. The name of the play is not only from Ellington's song, but also from one of the opening lines of the play, which belongs to Duke Orsino - ""If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die."...translation: If music makes love grow, then play it to excess until I'm sick of love and stop loving.

What about "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"? On the flip side (since I just finished watching the Tony Awards) - from the movie Grease - "Hopelessly Devoted To You" and from the play it was based on "It's Raining On Prom Night"...in the play Sandy does not go to the dance...she listens to it on the radio. I'm curious to see how they make that work in the new production since they will be incorporating material from the movie as well into the revival.

[Cheza]

Going back to Ellington...how could I forget "Mood Indigo"? That's another of my Ellington faves.

[dawn]

2 more for you.................

With or without you - U2

If you're not the one - Daniel Beddingfield.

[chicagojoe]

Ladies, you're coming up with some awsome songs.

Cheza. Ellington was truely one of the greats. By the way, my brother has the "Twelfth Night" on DVD. It's really great. Sounds like you're a big fan of jazz. That's cool. I've been trying to find some break-up songs by Louis Armstrong, but no luck so far. "St. Louis Blues" is one of my favorites by Armstrong. I like the extended version with the trumpet solos.

[Cheza]

Chicagojoe, when I was in school one of our marching band shows in high school opened with "St. Louis Blues" I think the same show originally included Ellington's "Solitude", but that got cut later. I just really dig the whole jazz vibe. I'm tend to get perturbed when I hear the school jazz band playing rock and pop songs and no JAZZ!!!! I'm thinking about seeing what can be done about that next year.

Peace.