"The Saddest Song I Ever Heard" is the title of a R&B single by

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. Written by

Diane Warren Diane Eve Warren (born September 7, 1956) is an American songwriter. She has received several awards including a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, three ''Billboard'' Music Awards and an Honorary Academy Award. Wa ...

. "The Saddest Song I Ever Heard" spent eight weeks on the US singles chart. The song would be covered two years later by Australian girl group

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. Their version, released with the shortened title "Saddest Song", peaked at #46 in Australia.

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released the video to

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in 2007, since the video has received nearly 350,000 views as of October 2009.

Personnel

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. *Latanyia Baldwin, Necia Bray, Josina Elder, Wendi Williams : lead and background vocals *

: writer *

Daryl Simmons Daryl L. Simmons is an American R&B musician, songwriter and record producer, who worked with the production duo of L.A. Reid and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. In 1977–1980 Daryl, with Manchild (band) recorded 2 soul & funk albums & the minor h ...

: 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

References

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