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"The Saddest Song I Ever Heard" is the title of a R&B single by For Real. Written by Diane Warren.[1][2] "The Saddest Song I Ever Heard" spent eight weeks on the US singles chart.[3] The song would be covered two years later by Australian girl group Cherry. Their version, released with the shortened title "Saddest Song", peaked at #46 in Australia.

"The Saddest Song I Ever Heard"
Single by For Real
from the album Free
B-side	"Free"
Released	February 22, 1997
Recorded	1996
Genre	R&B
Label	Arista
Songwriter(s)	Diane Warren
Producer(s)	Daryl Simmons
For Real singles chronology
"Like I Do" (1996) "The Saddest Song I Ever Heard" (1997) "Hold Me" (1997)
Music video
"The Saddest Song I Ever Heard" on YouTube

Sony BMG released the video to YouTube in 2007, since the video has received nearly 350,000 views as of October 2009.[4]

Personnel

Information taken from Discogs.[5]

• Latanyia Baldwin, Necia Bray, Josina Elder, Wendi Williams : lead and background vocals
• Diane Warren : writer
• Daryl Simmons : producer, keyboards and programming
• Vance Taylor : piano
• Ronnie Garrett : bass
• Thom "TK" Kidd : recording engineer
• Jon Gass : mixing engineer
• Mike Alvord, Kevin Lively, Alex Lowe : assistant engineers

Chart positions

Chart (1997)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs	65

References

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