Top 10 Sad Songs

This is for the saddest ones in animated movies.

Okay, these are the saddest songs in animated movies. It's pretty self-explanatroy, so grab your tissues and go! (I don't know how to get the videos up so if anyone knows please tell me for now just please copy and paste the youtube codes into your search bar)

NOTE: This is a version of the same thing with slight changes from my last attempt I figured out the youtube codes here so it works now.

11.Love Survives-- All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989)

I only rank this low on the list because it's only truly a sad song if you understand the sentiment behind it. This song was dedicated to Judith Barsi, the little girl who voiced Anne-Marie. She was murdered by her father a year and a half before this movie was finished in her memory. This song was written as a final farewell to Judith leaving the cast and crew of All Dogs Go To Heaven. RIP Judith Eva Barsi (1978-1988)

10. Once Upon a December-- Anastasia (1997)

This is a powerful dance number. It makes you feel sorry for Anastasia for not remembering who she is but at least she's slightly remembering. It's truly beautiful and powerful.

9.God Help the Outcasts-- the Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

Esmerelda is a charachter I can relate to well. I also truly wonder why some people are hurt the way they are for being different. This song is truly powerful and is only ranked kinda low because it's not tearjerking for me.

8.When She Loved Me-- Toy Story 2 (1999)

Jessie is a charachter who I can truly relate to, high energy, outgoing, but with a deffonitely sad or traumatic experience. I can completely sympathize with losing someone. However, in this case it's more like being thrown away. It's the idea of being truly rejected here. I swear, I will never give away my favorite stuffed puppy, especially after hearing this song.

7.Somewhere Out There-- an American Tail (1986)

This is a song with pretty simple subject matter. Simple as that, being lost and lonely. This movie's pretty sad either way and a song that pretty much sums up Feivel and Tanya's emotions sure gets the point accross. Sorry I couldn't find the clip from the movie. This is the best recording I could find.

6.If We Hold On Together-- the Land Before Time (1988)

This song needs no visuals to be sad it was in the end credits. This song truly sums up the movie so well with it's themes of hope and inspiration. This song truly is words of wisdom for everyone.

5.Wherever You Are-- Pooh's Grand Adventure (1997)

Similar to "Somewhere Out There" this song is just about lonliness and missing someone. I guess the thing that makes this song so sad is because Pooh never gets this sad. He's always such an optomist. I always cry a little when Rabbit wraps Pooh up in the map like its a blanket. I guess nobody wants Pooh to be sad.

4. Deliver Us-- Prince of Egypt (1999)

This movie is truly powerful and a great religious based movie. The story itself has truly heart breaking moments and thank god for the music and happy ending here. "Deliver Us" introduces the condition of Egypt at the time and introduces the slaves. The faith they have in god despite all they've been through is enough for a small tear alone. This song prooves it! The chorus singing and hebrew intro make it all the more powerful.

3.Someone's Waiting For You- the Rescuers (1977)

This movie tends to be easily forgotten and some people only remember this depressing song. Poor Penny, she really needs parental love! This song truly makes me feel sorry for her. Also, tears are commonly shead here
too.

2.Bright Eyes-- Watership Down (1978)

This song says it straight up, everyone's dead and we should pay our respects. It also deals with surreal concepts of what death truly is. Honestly, it seems much more associated with wittnessing a death at close range. It's truly a sad and powerful song.

1.Baby Mine- Dumbo (1941)

This song is DEPRESSING. Pretty, yes but just so sad. I can't listen to this without tearing up a tiny bit. When I consider how Dumbo can't sleep next to his mommy when everyone else can the first thing I think is that it's not fair.

So here ya go, I don't think I forgot anything. I hope you like it because I really tried to get good ones here. I hope this attempt turns out better than the first attempt!

Comments

Brings tears to my eyes when I see/listen to "Deliver us"! Amazing song,Amazing movie!

yah i never thought of that but it deffonitely makes sense. that almost litterally makes sense there.

I really felt something with the song from "The Land Before Time." It made me think about a community of people coming together after a horrible tragedy such as a natural disaster or a an attack of some kind like NYC after 9/11 or New Orleans after Katrina.

it's always great knowing you brought nostalgic joy to someone by your writing on a retro site

Credit for including the theme to Land Before Time. That song sent me back into a nostalgic frenzy.

If you did not weep at "When She Loved Me" on Toy Story 2, you are inhuman.

I agree with whit451. I also found "Please Wake Up" in Once Upon A Forest to be very sad and emotional too. Not a very well known movie though, but a good one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sK74e9Guo0&feature=related Song starts at 1:05

Though I don't see it on this list, "A Love Before Time" (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) is a real tearjerker for me. Well done, 2DM!

No Last Unicorn songs? FAIL!

that I did not know

that would be a great funeral song..........

I remember the song "Whenever You Are" from Pooh's Grand Adventure. It was played during the funeral for Roy Edward Disney. You see, On December 16th, 2009, Roy Edward Disney died of pneumonia. He was at age 79. It was a very sad day as well.

Even sadder is the song Please Wake Up from Once Upon A Forest where Cornelius sings to his sick niece Michelle.

Personally I like it when the writing is a little more in depth, but I can't argue with the selection. Each song on the list is a classic tear jerker. All in all this is a very good article.

I saw Toy Story 2 for the fist time when I was 25 years old and it still kinda got to me. I used to watch Watership Down all the time when I was a little kid, and all the violence and death didn't bother me at all. I just perceived it as a nice movie about bunnies.

Malbosia, I've never seen Grave of the Fireflies but by all means that WOULD be on here if I did. It's considered the saddest animated movie ever made internationally. and yah Plague dogs is by the same director as Watership Down, I refuse to watch it because I love dogs too much.

and to the person who mentioned Hook, that's not animated!

glad this was liked!

Hey Nightwatcher if you liked Watership down check out The Plague Dogs.Also very sad but a great film by the same people who made Watership Down I believe.

Wow, I forgot all about Watership Down, and I'm kind of glad. It was easily one of the darkest and saddest animated movies I've ever seen. I used to watch Dumbo, An American Tail and The Land Before Time all the time so of course I had to listen to those songs, more nice nostalgic memories. Knowing what the song from ADGTH was about nearly made me shed a tear right off the bat. I was thinking of downloading "Somewhere Out There", the radio version by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram not the movie version, from amazon. Jessie's song from Toy Story 2 was also a nice touch. It's official, you've won me over, not to mention that you also almost made me cry...almost. I'm pretty tough against animated kid's movies these days so that's not easy. I think Don Bluth's movies had some of the best songs.

top 10 depressing songs is a more appropriate title

I'm surprised that you didn't include When You're Alone from Hook.

nice article. I would have included the montage at the end of Grave Of The Fireflies.That was the saddest thing I have ever seen.

sorry, there was a typo in the title and it's top 11