Saddest Song of 70s??

Another dishonorable mention:

 

For those of you younger folks wondering why there were so many depressing songs in the early 1970s, we were smack dab in the middle of the first oil crisis, stagflation, Watergate and really ugly clothes and haircuts.

 

Another one from The Band:

Without your love I'm nothing at all
Like an empty hall it's a lonely fall
Since you've gone it's a losing battle
Stampeding cattle
They rattle the walls
And the sun don't shine anymore
And the rains fall down on my door

 

Basically picture year 2 of the trump administration but with polyester clothing

 

Late for the Sky

Needle and the Damage Done

Meeting Across the River

Hello in There, Six O'Clock News (John Prine)

 

As if the leisure suit wasn't bad enough.

Wayne Newton? Oh, that's going to cost you some valuable sj.com points, or a middle-round draft pick.

 

Going to triple vote for cats in the cradle. No matter where I am at, it's get dusty in the last verse...especially as a dad now realizing I make the same "mistakes" as my old man.

American Pie, for some reasons, always leaves me melancholy at the end. Something about the other voices coming in at the end to sing "day I died."

As for Superstar...the song is about Eric Clapton and that sort of makes me laugh.

 

If we're bringing up John Prine songs, Angel From Montgomery, especially Bonnie Raitt's version, could make Mother Teresa feel like she'd squandered her life.

 

The Prine/Raitt duet is impressive too, closed the show with it when they toured together in the 90s.

Eric Clapton's "If I saw you in heaven" tears me up.

 

Another vote for "Shannon".

I'll throw Cat Steven's "Father and Son" in the mix.

 

Love Nilsson, but liked Badfinger's original version much better. It was preceded by another great song, "No Matter What," on their No Dice album.

 

Was thinking of "Tecumseh Valley," but I think that was released in '69.