Hello again! I really need some fresh music, and I'm hoping to find some songs that, if sung properly, can make everyone cry. I'm an alto with a decent range. please give me as much as possible! thanks!
No song will make EVERYONE cry, no matter how it's sung. And lots of songs don't have the same emotional impact out of context.
And if you didn't know you'd get snarky answers, you didn't do ANY research: neither about what you want NOR where you were asking for help.
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To give you a real response... I'd say Losing My Mind, Not A Day Goes By, If He Walked Into My Life, No One is Alone, Send in the Clowns (overdone, but most people rarely do it well. The trick is to not over sing it), Being Alive. Stuff like that.
Although, I do agree that, out of context, some of these might not work as well.
"You'll Never Walk Alone" - Carousel. "For Good" - Wicked. "The Life I Never Led" - Sister Act. "I Know Where I've Been" - Hairspray. "Children Will Listen" - Into The Woods. "No One Is Alone" - Into the Woods. "Your Daddy's Son" - Ragtime. "Back To Before" - Ragtime.
EDIT: I didn't read the post properly and included male songs, which would be odd sung by an alto.
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
You go out there and you give them SAD and hope 1800 people don't laugh thier asses off.
But a couple suggestions Sun and the Moon Tell Me On a Sunday The Man That Got Away You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore Let Yourself Go You Must Love Me I Don't Know How to Love Him I Miss The Mountains Back to Before Calling You Get Here ( the Calling You / Get Here arrangement Patti performs is great) The Rose
So many more great songs. My suggestion is you start listening to a lot of songs and see what you respond to emotionally and what you want to perform.
It's not really within you're range, but "For Good" from WICKED makes me cry everytime. It may not have the emotional impact out of context as others on this thread have said, but it truly is sad. I perform in plays/musicals alot, and for some reason I always end up with the part that has to cry in the show. When I have to do that I sing "For Good" in my head. I played it for my aunt once and she had never even heard of WICKED and it made her cry.
Theatre is my life. No one can take that away from me.
Don't know anything about range either but these are always some tearjerkers for me. I think it's good not to go for the expected.
"Dyin' Ain't So Bad" - Bonnie & Clyde "Fly, Fly Away" - Catch Me "Everything I Know" or "Breathe" - In the Heights "Still Hurting" and pretty much anything else from Last 5 Years "So Anyway" - N2N "The Hill" - Once "A Way Back to Then" - [tos] "Tell Her" - 13 "I'm Not Afraid of Anything" - Songs from a New World "Perfect" - Edges
"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah
Bus From Amarillo - Whorehouse Lullaby From Baby To Baby - Runaways (although it is tricky) My Coloring Book - early Kander and Ebb
and then any "I'm-a-good-woman-but-he-done-me-wrong" song.
My Man comes to mind; however comparisons will be made. Or its counterpart The Music That Makes Me Dance.
Look at the Tammy Wynette songbook. She practically invented the above genre. Just because she was a country singer doesn't mean that all her songs have to be sung in a country style.
Hint: the song might seem 'sadder' if you sing it smiling through tears.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher