Your absolute favourite ONE ballad ever, and I mean EVER!.... what is it?

Bellycaster · March 14

Dominic said:

It was a very good year .........Frank Sinatra

Great one, I forgot about the real oldies.

Nature Boy by Nat King Cole is another one.

Stavros · March 14

Bellycaster said:

Dominic said:

It was a very good year .........Frank Sinatra

Great one, I forgot about the real oldies.

Nature Boy by Nat King Cole is another one.

In the same vein - Love me Tender….Elvis (I also like the Mick Ronson version though have to admit the vocals aren’t as good).

Emp_Fab · March 14

I will always love you - Dolly's original - NOT the belter-fest that Whitney Houston did.

Stavros · March 14

Emp_Fab said:

I will always love you - Dolly's original - NOT the belter-fest that Whitney Houston did.

That is a great shout.

snowblind · March 14

This oughta do the job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NoIeg00ONg

Jonathangus · March 14

Although I'm a little surprised no-one has said this yet:

west · March 14

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Emiel · March 14

It has to be this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u90beUXTKwo

Cranky · March 14

Stavros said:

Emp_Fab said:

I will always love you - Dolly's original - NOT the belter-fest that Whitney Houston did.

That is a great shout.

But is that really a ballad? “Coat of Many Colors” (my grandma’s favorite song) is a proper ballad — it tells a story.

Also a proper ballad: “Country Death Song” by Violent Femmes. Far from my favorite, but I’m just proud of myself for having just learned what “ballad” actually means thanks to this thread.

RocknRollDave · March 14

Emp_Fab said:

I will always love you - Dolly's original - NOT the belter-fest that Whitney Houston did.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68543777

BBC article about the song, 50 years on.

Kurtis · March 14

Cranky said:

Stavros said:

Emp_Fab said:

I will always love you - Dolly's original - NOT the belter-fest that Whitney Houston did.

That is a great shout.

But is that really a ballad? “Coat of Many Colors” (my grandma’s favorite song) is a proper ballad — it tells a story.

Also a proper ballad: “Country Death Song” by Violent Femmes. Far from my favorite, but I’m just proud of myself for having just learned what “ballad” actually means thanks to this thread.

Is Bob Dylans hurricane a balled then?

Grumpyrocker · March 14

I'm also very fond of My Immortal by Evanescence. Really gets me in the feels.

Teetonetal · March 14

Need your love so bad by Peter green's Version of fleetwood Mac.

Ozzie744 · March 15

Queen - Those were the days of our lives

Cranky · March 15

Kurtis said:

Cranky said:

Stavros said:

Emp_Fab said:

I will always love you - Dolly's original - NOT the belter-fest that Whitney Houston did.

That is a great shout.

But is that really a ballad? “Coat of Many Colors” (my grandma’s favorite song) is a proper ballad — it tells a story.

Also a proper ballad: “Country Death Song” by Violent Femmes. Far from my favorite, but I’m just proud of myself for having just learned what “ballad” actually means thanks to this thread.

Is Bob Dylans hurricane a balled then?

Appears to be a protest ballad, yeah. Just going by Wikipedia and the Poetry Foundation. But being so far removed from folk times, our pop ballads aren’t really passed down orally.

I don’t really know what I’m talking about. I just always assumed that “ballad” basically meant “love song” because of the so-called “monster ballads” that 80s hair bands were said to sing.