Aren't You Someone I Used To Know

The fourth Ramones album, "Road To Ruin," features this ballad of a forgotten love.

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In the throes of breakup, one may claim that their love will never die or subside, but over time and as life goes on, might that love wane?

Such is the situation Joey Ramone describes in Questioningly. Confronted by a former lover, the singer struggles with the recall of painful memories and laments being accosted.

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You Will Have Flown

Bob Hilliard's lyrics set to Burt Bacharach's tune for Any Day Now play on the adage of "If you love something, let it go."

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Chuck Jackson's recording was his biggest ever hit, topping out at #23 in June 1962.

Ronnie Milsap's country-styled version reached #1 on the Billboard Country charts.

The song has also been recorded by Luther Vandross and Elvis Presley and was used as the theme song to a 1998 television series of the same name.

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I Let Her Go When I Saw What She Wanted

In the same year that Kenny Rogers sang "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town," Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison teamed up to deliver See Ruby Fall.

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While Rogers' Ruby is the story of a Vietnam vet who is losing his wife after suffering disabling injuries in the "conflict," the Ruby of the Cash/Orbison tune has traded in a moderate lifestyle for the "attractions" of the red-light district.

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How Blue And Lonely I'd Be

Being left is never easy, especially once you've come to the realization of how much you need the other person.

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Don't Leave Me Now premiered in "Jailhouse Rock" (1957), sung by a young Vince Everett (Elvis Presley).

In the movie, Everett is struggling to get the feeling that he knows this ballad should have. No wonder, he is singing it like he wants to be the next Perry Como! After a few takes in the studio, he lets loose and belts out this heart-felt version.

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Let Her Learn From All The Things There

Sometimes you just have to let people find things out for themselves the hard way.

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So urges Jonathan Richman as he makes his case. "You want to tell her she don't know where it's at. She won't listen, 'cuz she's not listening. Just take them sheets to the laundromat."

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