1968 pop song ends "because she was an angel"

This is an old and obscure one, so I doubt anybody will identify it, but what the heck.

I believe I first heard this in autumn 1968, around the same time that the song "Honey" hit the top 40. The song is very much like "Honey". From what I recall, the song idolizes a woman, maybe she has special powers, and at the end is a powerful strings-and-vocal part with a lot of women singing in dramatic harmony what sounded like "Because she was an angel." It was some kind of story song, maybe the lady died or something, and that climax seemed to be the supernatural explanation to the woman's powers/mystery/identify. If that's what they were really singing (I'm not 100% sure), it is really hokey.

I believe I heard the song only once, but I remembered that incredibly hokey lyrical ending, though done very convincingly via music, ever since. It would be nice to finally know what that song was, and what it was singing about, although musically it didn't stand out as particularly appealing to me. Not much to go on, but if anybody happens to know it, the artist or title would probably come to mind immediately.

Here's the similar song "Honey" I mentioned...

Honey (Bobby Goldsboro, 1968, "Honey" album)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxcmucT1zNY

By the way, Bobby Goldsboro has a lot of similarly incredibly hokey (almost creepy) songs in that style, but I have a large collection of his greatest hits and it wasn't any of those.

Originally Posted by simnia

This is an old and obscure one, so I doubt anybody will identify it, but what the heck.

I believe I first heard this in autumn 1968, around the same time that the song "Honey" hit the top 40. The song is very much like "Honey". From what I recall, the song idolizes a woman, maybe she has special powers, and at the end is a powerful strings-and-vocal part with a lot of women singing in dramatic harmony what sounded like "Because she was an angel." It was some kind of story song, maybe the lady died or something, and that climax seemed to be the supernatural explanation to the woman's powers/mystery/identify. If that's what they were really singing (I'm not 100% sure), it is really hokey.

I believe I heard the song only once, but I remembered that incredibly hokey lyrical ending, though done very convincingly via music, ever since. It would be nice to finally know what that song was, and what it was singing about, although musically it didn't stand out as particularly appealing to me. Not much to go on, but if anybody happens to know it, the artist or title would probably come to mind immediately.

Here's the similar song "Honey" I mentioned...

Honey (Bobby Goldsboro, 1968, "Honey" album)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxcmucT1zNY

By the way, Bobby Goldsboro has a lot of similarly incredibly hokey (almost creepy) songs in that style, but I have a large collection of his greatest hits and it wasn't any of those.

Try this song...

Adamo - She Was An Angel {1965}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R19_4VJp4CU


She was an angel
She could be mine
I've been so cruel to her
I'm the one to blame

I was too young to realise
How marvellous true love can be
No, I no longer see her eyes
I only know that I'm so sorry

I didn't think her love was true
'Cause they all told us, we're too young
But now she's gone, I feel so blue
I understand that I've been wrong

She was an angel
She could be mine
I've been so cruel to her
I'm the one to blame

And now I'm waiting all alone
Everything makes me feel so sad
For my mistake my baby is gone
I didn't take the chance I had

She was an angel
She could be mine
I've been so cruel to her
I'm the one to blame

Oh baby, please come back to me
I see now what a fool I've been
And if you do, we'll hear them say
A love like ours, they'll never seen
She was an angel
She was an angel...

Dan

Originally Posted by Claybricks

Try this song...

Adamo - She Was An Angel {1965}
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R19_4VJp4CU

Thanks for the effort but that's not it.

Correct era. (It could very well have come out a few years before 1968, as you suggested.)
Close lyrics.
Wrong speed. (It was slower, like "Honey.")
Wrong style. (It was probably mellow and romantic, like "Honey.")

Come to think of it, I didn't really say if the singer was male or female. I think it was a male singer who was only enhanced by female singers at the end, but I'm not even sure of that by now. I guess I could blame my memory on the drugs of the '60s, except I didn't take any drugs back then. It was just a long time ago...

Thanks again. I doubt anybody will get this one. I didn't do a deep Google search on this one, but deep enough to know that most songs referenced are way too recent.

Another song to try,

This song has the female singers but does not have your lyrics.

Johnny Tillotson - Angel {1965}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvBV6KfkO48




Dan

Originally Posted by Claybricks

Another song to try,
Johnny Tillotson - Angel {1965}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvBV6KfkO48

Nope, not that one, sorry.

The part of the lyrics I wrote about an angel might not even be correct--that's just what it sounded like to me through all the vocal harmonies--in which case it's going to pretty much require somebody recognizing that specific song from memory rather than look-up being effective.

Remember: If it were easy, I would've already identified the song.

Thanks for your efforts, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu2gIs94pi0

That's the closest I know, but it hardly matches the description. I just thought I'd throw it out, just in case? =/

its a cover of an earlier song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_szGb...eature=related

Another version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcDpbBPSpnc

The last two are similar, just the second is easier to hear

Originally Posted by Asuyuka

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu2gIs94pi0

That's the closest I know, but it hardly matches the description. I just thought I'd throw it out, just in case? =/

Thanks for the idea, but I'm already familiar with that song and it's not the one.

Here's an example of a woman's chorus that sounded roughly like what I remember--the beginning of Don't Blame the Children (Sammy Davis, Jr., 1967, single). In fact, the rhythm of the melody might be similar: just substitute "because she was an angel" for "don't blame it on the children" and put this intro toward the end of the song to get an idea of the song's finale...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxZseSNZRDc

Sorry to post this awful song, by the way--that Sammy Davis, Jr. composition was so bad that I think a lot of people wish it had never been done, sort of like the song "African Child" in the movie "Get Him to the Greek"!