There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)

"There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)"
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Single by Billy Ocean
from the album Love Zone
Released	1986
Format	7", 12"
Recorded	1986
Genre	Soul, R&B
Length	4:55
Label	Jive
Writer(s)	Billy Ocean Wayne Brathwaite Barry Eastmond
Certification	Gold
Billy Ocean singles chronology
"When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" (1986) "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" (1986) "Love Zone" (1986)

"There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" is a 1986 single by Billy Ocean. The song was written and produced by Wayne Brathwaite and Barry Eastmond; Ocean was also credited as a co-writer for the song. It appears on Ocean's 1986 album Love Zone, which was released on Jive Records. The song went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week beginning 5 July 1986, where it remained for one week, becoming the 600th song to ascend to that position. It also topped the adult contemporary and R&B charts in the United States that same summer.

Background

According to Barry Eastmond, the song was inspired by an incident involving Ocean's hit song of the previous year, "Suddenly". Eastmond told Fred Bronson in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits about a friend of his wife's who had recently broken up with a long-term boyfriend. While at a party given by her new boyfriend, the song "Suddenly," which reminded her of her previous boyfriend, was played, and she broke down in tears. Eastmond and his co-writers used this scenario as the basis for writing "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)."

Music video

The music video consists of Billy Ocean performing the song live at one of his concerts in 1986. [There is a not-live-performance video in which towards the end, Billy stands seeing a woman coming towards him and as he gets ready to hug her, she just walks past him, to his devastation.]

Chart (1986)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)	10
Canada (RPM)	1
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)	12
US Billboard Hot 100	1
US Billboard Hot Black Singles	1
US Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary	1

References

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition, 1996

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Preceded by "On My Own" by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald	Canadian RPM number-one single 5 July 1986	Succeeded by "I Can't Wait" by Nu Shooz
Preceded by "On My Own" by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald	Billboard Hot 100 number-one single 5 July 1986	Succeeded by "Holding Back the Years" by Simply Red
Preceded by "Live to Tell" by Madonna	Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one single 21 June 1986	Succeeded by "No One Is to Blame" by Howard Jones
Preceded by "Nasty" by Janet Jackson	Billboard Hot Black Singles number-one single 28 June – 5 July 1986	Succeeded by "Who's Johnny" by El DeBarge