SENTIMENTAL LADY, a poll

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"Sentimental Lady" is a song written by Bob Welch. It was originally recorded for Fleetwood Mac's 1972 album Bare Trees, but was re-recorded by Welch on his debut solo album, French Kiss, in 1977. It is a romantic song, originally written for Welch's first wife. Welch recorded it again in 2003 for his album His Fleetwood Mac Years & Beyond.

We will not be polling the 2003 version.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
1977 Bob Welch version	13
1972 Fleetwood Mac version	7

― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 June 2018 01:23 (seven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCNKs7Gu9kk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM_9nfDMzE8

― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 June 2018 01:24 (seven years ago)

voted welch w/o listening but then listened and agreed, dope song never listened to pre buckingham-nicks mac

― sprout god (lag∞n), Sunday, 24 June 2018 01:32 (seven years ago)

https://www.marypages.com/14-stations-of-joy-en.html

― velko, Sunday, 24 June 2018 05:48 (seven years ago)

wish there was an Ebony Eyes b-side from Future Games sessions

― velko, Sunday, 24 June 2018 05:50 (seven years ago)

welch looks like hell there, kudos for surviving another 35 years i guess

― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 June 2018 05:56 (seven years ago)

never listened to pre buckingham-nicks mac

Oh dear, get to it!

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 24 June 2018 14:24 (seven years ago)

welch looks like hell there, kudos for surviving another 35 years i guess
― mookieproof, Sunday, June 24, 2018 1:56 AM

comment of the day

― enochroot, Monday, 25 June 2018 00:23 (seven years ago)

OK, that video is just creepy.
Why would she want out make out with him when he has cigar breath?
And that scene at the end with 5 chicks vying to light his cigar. It's like he's not sure whether he'd rather be John Denver or Ron Jeremy.

― enochroot, Monday, 25 June 2018 00:30 (seven years ago)

Both songs are maudlin.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 June 2018 00:31 (seven years ago)

versions rather

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 June 2018 00:31 (seven years ago)

the song is called sentimental lady; of course it's maudlin

― mookieproof, Monday, 25 June 2018 00:59 (seven years ago)

I love Bare Trees. I skip "Sentimental Lady," though.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 June 2018 01:13 (seven years ago)

You lack a will to be merry

― velko, Monday, 25 June 2018 01:25 (seven years ago)

The will is willing, the soul is weak.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 June 2018 01:52 (seven years ago)

Oh dear, get to it!

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, June 24, 2018 10:24 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

guess i shd

― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 25 June 2018 05:09 (seven years ago)

the 1977 version of this is one of those songs that's in my head b/c i heard it a ton on the radio as a kid, but i couldn't have put an artist or correct lyrics to it until seeing this now.

lol, bob was 32 in that video.

― circles, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 03:48 (seven years ago)

The best is after the (long!) makeout scene during the solo, Bob starts singing again, realizes he's forgotten to hold the mic , and then very slowly brings it back to his mouth

also no mic during the exciting scene at the end where he admires the scarves or whatever those things are that are draped on the sofa

I didn't think it was possible to love Bob Welch more than I already did, but here we are

― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 11:34 (seven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 28 June 2018 00:01 (seven years ago)

I love this song so much I did this vocoder version of it a few years ago:

https://soundcloud.com/the-me/sentimental-lady

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 28 June 2018 01:51 (seven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 29 June 2018 00:01 (seven years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Sentimental_Lady_77.jpg

― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 00:46 (seven years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/jAP4EED.jpg

― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 00:48 (seven years ago)

FWIW, I like the FM version – I came to it later but it has kind of a folkiness(?) to it that I find appealing. But the pop sheen of the version on French Kiss—with the autoharp and Christine McVie bgd vox—is really something special.

― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 29 June 2018 01:18 (seven years ago)

i voted for the FM version, but it does miss the backing vocals

― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 01:35 (seven years ago)

also i enjoyed yr womb version!

― mookieproof, Friday, 29 June 2018 01:37 (seven years ago)

four years pass...

listened to the bob solo version tonight in honor of the christine mcv backing vocals

also sang it to my cat, who was unimpressed despite 'you are here and warm/but i could look away and you'd be gone' perfectly describing our relationship

― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 December 2022 02:50 (three years ago)

Unsentimental kitty

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 1 December 2022 03:01 (three years ago)

Belated thanks, mookieproof!

And, agreed this was one of the first songs I thought of when I heard Christine died. Not sure this is the greatest version, but this is Bob singing this live with Christine singing backgrounds and Mick on drums: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjH84W_-V1c

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 1 December 2022 05:18 (three years ago)

Also, holy shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLlZZpwdF-0

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 1 December 2022 05:19 (three years ago)

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