Sad Movies

Loudermilk and appears on Thompson's 1962 Hickory Records album Meet Sue Thompson.
Released as a single in 1961, "Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)" was Thompson's first song to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it peaked at #5 in October. The song also reached the top of the Billboard Easy Listening chart, which had been created earlier in 1961, becoming the second song by a female vocalist to top this list (following "Together" by Connie Francis). In Australia, the song topped out at #6 on the Kent Music Report, while in the United Kingdom, it peaked at #46 on the UK Singles Chart.
Although Thompson was in her thirties when she recorded "Sad Movies", her singing style and young-sounding voice appealed to many of the Baby Boomers whose influence was starting to become apparent on the US music charts. Loudermilk was inspired to write the song after a girlfriend of his went to see the 1960 film Spartacus: "After the movie went off, they turned the bright lights on, and it was just an ambience killer. songs | Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks number-one singles | Songs written by John D.