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The Saddest Song I Ever Heard
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = The Saddest Song I Ever Heard
| cover = ttsieh_foreal.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = For Real
| album = Free
| B-side = Free
| released = February 22, 1997
| recorded = 1996
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = R&B
| length =
| label = Arista
| writer = Diane Warren
| producer = Daryl Simmons
| prev_title = Like I Do
| prev_year = 1996
| next_title = Hold Me
| next_year = 1997
| misc =
}}
"'The Saddest Song I Ever Heard'" is the title of a R&B single by For Real. Written by Diane Warren. "The Saddest Song I Ever Heard" spent eight weeks on the US singles chart. The song would be covered two years later by Australian girl group Cherry. Their version, released with the shortened title "Saddest Song", peaked at #46 in Australia.
Sony BMG released the video to YouTube in 2007, since the video has received nearly 350,000 views as of October 2009.
Personnel
Information taken from Discogs.
*Latanyia Baldwin, Necia Bray, Josina Elder, Wendi Williams : lead and background vocals
*Diane Warren : writer
*Daryl Simmons : producer, keyboards and programming
*Vance Taylor : piano
*Ronnie Garrett : bass
*Thom "TK" Kidd : recording engineer
*Jon Gass : mixing engineer
*Mike Alvord, Kevin Lively, Alex Lowe : assistant engineers
Chart positions
References
Category:1997 singles
Category:1996 songs
Category:Songs written by Diane Warren
Category:Arista Records singles
Category:For Real songs
Category:Song recordings produced by Daryl Simmons
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