Talk:Cry Me a River (Arthur Hamilton song)

message: whats 'torchy' mean? Mostlyharmless 10:20, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Noticed she got moved to the head of the line.
I guess alphabetical order won't do for the
leftwing pukes who eat her up.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.104.192.57 (talk) 00:50, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  the babswhazee strike again 

message: Wasn't his song cry me a river a completely different song rather than a version of this one?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matty3891 (talk • contribs) 16:13, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That should be mentioned in the article, though.
--Felix Tritschler (talk) 21:34, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Justin Timbalake 

message: I heard the Susan Boyle and Julie London versions of Cry Me a River plus Te Lloré un Río from Maná and I think Te Lloré... isn't a cover of Cry Me a River (although the Te Lloré... lyrics might be inspired in Cry Me... and the same song may contain some kind of plagiarism (apart from any possible rights deal from this rock band or his label)).—Preceding unsigned comment added by Efgn (talk • contribs) 00:48, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Spanish version? 

message: The Michael Bublé section of this page is sycophantic opionated drivel probably written by an intern from his record company. 
"'Cry Me A River' EP is now available to pre-order at iTunes. The EP has 4 tracks; including the new single 'Cry Me A River' and an incredible live recording of 'Everything' from Madison Square Gardens."
This belongs on the EMI home page-not wikipedia!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matty3891 (talk • contribs) 02:38, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This is fine with me.  All of Billionaire's other edits are song stuff, with perhaps a Canadian content thing going on.  I'm at work (this is not work) but it might be worth a look into,  Einar akaCarptrash (talk) 19:09, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michael Bublé Advert 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I've removed the giant table of a few of the artists who have recorded this. It would be a good idea to list notable (i.e., charting or otherwise noteworthy, mentioned in their performer's article) versions of the song; for example, Joe Cocker and Michael Buble charted with it; Barbra Streisand's was the opening number on her debut album. But it's a standard; the whole point is that people who do standards are going to do this song, and it's not particularly noteworthy that they've done so over 60 years. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇  15:41, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: And someone reverted it, saying to discuss it on the talk page, and of course did not participate on the talk page. Yes, a lot of people added stuff to that list, and that's the problem. There are well over a thousand recordings of this song, and of course anyone interested can go over to allmusic.com or a similar site to find such a list. The list in this article is selected with no apparent criteria other than someone noticed someone else had covered the song. Why leave out the other hundreds of covers? --jpgordon𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇  05:28, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: And I've reverted again, per WP:SONGCOVER and WP:PROSE. In an article about a song we have NOTHING about the song, but a long list of people who recorded it. Why did they record it? I'll leave that for someone else to answer. --Richhoncho (talk) 09:25, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: A list of 1000 is certainly too many, even 100, but cover versions help to tell the story of a  song.  I dislike the idea of expecting readers to rely on other sources, especially without referring them to a source containing a more exhaustive list.  In selecting which ones to include, I prefer that we err on the side of noteworthiness instead of on the side of deletionism. - JGabbard (talk) 03:56, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I would have no objection to a piece of prose noting why a particular recording is notable, with references. All in line with WP:PROSE, WP:GNG and WP:SONGCOVER. What I don't want to see is references to unauthorised recordings of the song, single performances on TV and other trivia that was there.   --Richhoncho (talk) 08:40, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: "Unauthorized" recordings? --jpgordon𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇  14:07, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Artists 

message: I am inclined to remove the "blues" out of the statement "A jazzy blues ballad," because I can't find, either in the music or the sources anything to support it.  Unless I missed something, which you can point out. Carptrash (talk) 20:05, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd suggest "bluesy", not blues. Listen, for example, to Ella's or Sam Cooke's versions. (All OR, of course.) Is it using a blues scale? --jpgordon𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇  16:59, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Possible usable source: Billboard, Irv Lichtman "Words and Music": "a classic bluesy love-lost opus"  --jpgordon𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇  17:05, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: A year later,  I am willing to accept "bluesy" without the link to blues. So I am removing that.  The song is not a blues song as defined in that article.  'Bluesy" is an adjective (?) that describes a mood that fits the song well.   I also am concerned about source 1, the WSJ, since I can't access the part being referenced.  Can anything be done about that? Carptrash (talk) 18:43, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, there a copy of the WSJ article at https://cei.org/content/crying-river-years but I'd rather keep the original link. The cite is certainly legit -- what's being quoted is indeed in the article -- and paywalled sources are generally acceptable. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇  19:39, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way, my jazz combo does an exact cover of the Julie London version of this (me on bass.) --jpgordon𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇  21:29, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Blues]]?