Artist	Song
Elvis Presley	Heartbreak Hotel
from Elvis: 30 #1 Hits (2002)
Hank Williams	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
from 20 of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits (1997)
Whitney Houston	I Will Always Love You
from Whitney - The Greatest Hits (2000)
Roy Orbison	Crying
from The Essential Roy Orbison (2006)
Patsy Cline	I Fall to Pieces
from Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits (2003)
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles	The Tears of a Clown
from The Ultimate Collection: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (1998)
The Everly Brothers	Bye Bye Love
from The Everly Brothers' Best (2007)
Al Green	How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
from Let's Stay Together (1972)
Ray Charles	I Can't Stop Loving You
from Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music, Vol. 1 & 2 (2009)
Willie Nelson	Always On My Mind
from 16 Biggest Hits: Willie Nelson (1998)
Neil Diamond	Love On the Rocks
from Neil Diamond: The Greatest Hits (1966-1992) (1992)
The Righteous Brothers	You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
from The Very Best of the Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody (1991)
Barbra Streisand	The Way We Were
from Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (1978)
Little Anthony & The Imperials	Tears On My Pillow
from Little Anthony & The Imperials: Greatest Hits (2005)
No Doubt	Don't Speak
from The Singles 1992-2003 (2003)
The Rolling Stones	As Tears Go By
from Hot Rocks 1964-1971 (2005)
Janis Joplin	Piece of My Heart
from Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits (1996)
Dionne Warwick	Walk On By
from The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits (2005)
Boyz II Men	End of the Road
from Legacy - The Greatest Hits Collection (Deluxe Edition) (2004)
Toni Braxton	Un-Break My Heart
from Ultimate Toni Braxton (2003)
George Jones	He Stopped Loving Her Today
from 16 Biggest Hits: George Jones (1998)
Gram Parsons	Love Hurts
from Heartaches & Highways: The Very Best of Emmylou Harris (2005)
Mary J. Blige	Not Gon' Cry
from Reflections - A Retrospective (2006)
Céline Dion	My Heart Will Go On
from Let'S Talk About Love (1997)
Billy Vera & The Beaters	At This Moment
from Best of Billy Vera & the Beaters (2008)
George Michael	Careless Whisper
from Ladies & Gentlemen - The Best of George Michael (1998)
Faron Young	Hello Walls
from An Introduction to Faron Young (Re-Recorded Versions) (2006)
The Skyliners	Since I Don't Have You
from The Skyliners: Greatest Hits (2006)
Bonnie Tyler	Total Eclipse of the Heart
from Faster Than the Speed of Night (1993)
Ne-Yo	So Sick
from In My Own Words (2006)
Elvis Presley	Heartbreak Hotel
from Elvis: 30 #1 Hits (2002)
Hank Williams	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
from 20 of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits (1997)
Whitney Houston	I Will Always Love You
from Whitney - The Greatest Hits (2000)
Roy Orbison	Crying
from The Essential Roy Orbison (2006)
Patsy Cline	I Fall to Pieces
from Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits (2003)
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles	The Tears of a Clown
from The Ultimate Collection: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (1998)
The Everly Brothers	Bye Bye Love
from The Everly Brothers' Best (2007)
Al Green	How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
from Let's Stay Together (1972)
Ray Charles	I Can't Stop Loving You
from Singular Genius - The Complete ABC Singles (2011)
Willie Nelson	Always On My Mind
from 16 Biggest Hits: Willie Nelson (1998)
Neil Diamond	Love On the Rocks
from Neil Diamond: The Greatest Hits (1966-1992) (1992)
The Righteous Brothers	You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
from The Very Best of the Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody (1991)
Barbra Streisand	The Way We Were
from Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (1978)
Little Anthony & The Imperials	Tears On My Pillow
from Little Anthony & The Imperials: Greatest Hits (2005)
No Doubt	Don't Speak
from The Singles 1992-2003 (2003)
The Rolling Stones	As Tears Go By
from Hot Rocks 1964-1971 (2005)
Janis Joplin	Piece of My Heart
from Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits (1996)
Dionne Warwick	Walk On By
from The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits (2005)
Boyz II Men	End of the Road
from Legacy - The Greatest Hits Collection (Deluxe Edition) (2004)
Toni Braxton	Un-Break My Heart
from Ultimate Toni Braxton (2003)
George Jones	He Stopped Loving Her Today
from 16 Biggest Hits: George Jones (1998)
Gram Parsons	Love Hurts
from Heartaches & Highways: The Very Best of Emmylou Harris (2005)
Mary J. Blige	Not Gon' Cry
from Reflections - A Retrospective (2006)
Céline Dion	My Heart Will Go On
from Let'S Talk About Love (1997)
Billy Vera & The Beaters	At This Moment
from Best of Billy Vera & the Beaters (2008)
George Michael	Careless Whisper
from Ladies & Gentlemen - The Best of George Michael (1998)
Faron Young	Hello Walls
from An Introduction to Faron Young (Re-Recorded Versions) (2006)
The Skyliners	Since I Don't Have You
from The Skyliners: Greatest Hits (2006)
Bonnie Tyler	Total Eclipse of the Heart
from Faster Than the Speed of Night (1993)
Ne-Yo	So Sick
from In My Own Words (2006)

Comment:

It's a natural fact: what goes up must come down, and when it does, it tends to plummet like a piano off the 23rd floor. We start our excursion into love's heartbroken depths with Elvis Presley hobbling down the loneliest stretch of one-way road known to man, headed for a reservation at the Sad Bastard Suite in "Heartbreak Hotel." But at least he's moving; Ne-Yo gets sucked into the quicksand of soul-crushing weariness in "So Sick," every song on the radio — even his lover's voice on the answering machine — just one more dead weight pulling him under. Emmylou Harris & Gram Parsons wrap their honeysuckle voices around each other's like a fallen angel's shroud in "Love Hurts," a song made all the more hauntingly gorgeous by the fact that Parsons wouldn't live to see it released, and Harris would spend the rest of her career grieving his loss. And Whitney Houston builds from a tears-on-her-pillow whisper to a clouds-scraping, practically [i]keening[/i] climax in "I Will Always Love You" before crumbling back to earth, every ounce of emotion utterly wrung out. From Hank Williams to Mary J. Blige, from the Rolling Stones to Barbra Streisand, we've got every Kleenex-abusing, misery-magnifying moment of failed love's doom and devastation captured in song, to replay over and over and over . . .

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