Artist	Song
The Marvelettes	Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead (1965 #61)
Spinners	It's a Shame (1970 #14)
The Lovin' Spoonful	Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind (1966 #2)
Mary Wells	You Beat Me To The Punch (1962 #9)
The Rolling Stones	Out Of Time (1975 #81)
Terry Stafford	Suspicion (1964 #3 - His 1st Hit)
Roy Orbison	Only The Lonely (1960 #2)
Brenda Lee	Break It To Me Gently (1962 #4)
Percy Sledge	Take Time To Know Her (1968 #11)
Ann Peebles	I Can't Stand The Rain (1973 #38)
Patsy Cline	Walkin After Midnight (1957 #12)
Elvis Presley	(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame (1961 #4)
The Animals	I'm Crying (1964 #19)
The Box Tops	Cry Like A Baby (1968 #2)
Gene Pitney	She's A Heartbreaker (#16 1968)
Four Tops	Standing In The Shadows Of Love (1967 #6)
The Sanford/Townsend Band	Smoke From a Distant Fire (1977 #9)
Tyrone Davis	Turn Back The Hands Of Time (1970 #3)
Neil Sedaka	Breaking Up is Hard to Do (slow version) (1976 #8)
Brenda Holloway	Every Little Bit Hurts (1964 #13)
Marvin Gaye	That's the Way Love Is (1969 #7)
The Temptations	Since I Lost My Baby (1965 #17)
Nancy Wilson	Face It Girl, It's Over (1968 #29)
The Walker Bros.	The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore) (1966 #13)
Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas	Trains And Boats And Planes (1965 #47)
Sandie Shaw	(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me (1965 #52)
The Searchers	Needles and Pins (1964 #13 - Their 1st Hit)
LaVern Baker	See See Rider (1963 #34)

Comment:

Meant to upload this on Valentines Day, but AOTM chrashed. Maybe that was just as well, because this isn't your typical VD mix. I scoured my collection for songs about love gone bad that I hadn't already included on similar mixes (My early '60s mix of "Songs of Love in Shades of Blue" and "The Love I Lost" mix). Seems I have quite a few songs like that and these are what I consider to be the best of the rest.

Most of these songs are from the '60s, but there is one song from '57 and six from 1970-77.

The songs are available as a one file mp3 mix (link on first song title) or a zip file with the individual mp3 files for each track (link on 2nd song title). I wanted to mix in an instrumental or two (such as "Mrs Robinson" by Booker T and the MGs, but I didn't have the room for it). Hope this isn't too much of a downer to all you sunshiny, optimistic lovers out there.

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