I had a playlist all planned for this week and then was reminded that today is the anniversary of the plane crash in 1959 that claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and The Big Bopper. It was tempting to change to a playlist of a song from each of them… but I’m sticking with my original plan.
One of my favorite discs is Dar Williams’ Mortal City. [I wrote about her song The Christians and the Pagans back here and here too.] Her song February is one of the saddest songs I know. And the last time I listened to it I thought, “I should put that in a 3-SP… and February is coming up soon.” So here we are.
Don McLean is best known for his American Pie disc which contains Vincent and American Pie [the latter about the plane crash mentioned above. Don't ask me why that didn't make me remember that the anniversary was coming up.] But my favorite song on that disc is another really sad one, Empty Chairs, that I used in a post back here.
It was pretty easy for me to decide that those two songs should be in this list, but I had a hard time deciding what to use for the third. There are just too many sad songs that I love. [Sometimes I can't think of a third that fits my theme so I have several playlist ideas with only two songs in them. Maybe I should do a series of 2-SPs with a third less fewer songs than our regular playlists....] And then I heard You Don’t Know Me by Ray Charles on the radio last week. “Ah,” I thought, “That’s it.”
The videos aren’t great, so just close your eyes or cry or something and enjoy the songs.
The song titles link to YouTube videos and the artist names link to their official web sites.
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Let's do Something Cheap and Superficial 
auld lang syne by dan fogelberg gets me too
and don’t know why i didn’t come by norah jones…aside from having sad lyrics there is some personal meaning that makes is sadder for me
Fogelberg was in serious contention for this list and will likely show up in a 3-SP eventually. That song gets me every time.
I didn’t think about Norah Jones. I love her stuff too though so I’m sure she’ll show up somewhere. ~Tim