So, I leave my current work and the country I'm in in a few months. For fun I've been joking about saying that I'm going to put together a playlist with songs about missing some one.

My hope is that I can submit the list to my employer and they'll create an official playlist for me that we can play in the store. Though, that's probably not going to happen.

So, the next thing is I just put a playlist on my phone and hook it up to the stereo we have.

Any suggestions?

So far I have:

Simply the Best - Tina Turner
Missing You - Puff Daddy
I Miss You - Blink 182
Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis
Missing - Everything But the Girl
Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
With or Without You - U2
Please Don't Go - KWS

I'm not looking for just ballads, some fun songs too.

Miss You - Rolling Stones
Miss You Nights - Cliff Richard

Oceans Away - Roger Daltrey (this was played all the time when a former GF went abroad for six months)
Still Got the Blues - Gary Moore
Bobbie Jean - Bruce Springsteen
Royal Mile - Gerry Rafferty
City to City - Gerry Rafferty
Days - The Kinks

"Now for discerning listeners....."

Three and a half years ago, I uploaded this video of one of my jukeboxes playing this 45rpm record, as much as for "technical information" as a tune I liked.
Surprisingly it's had nearly 6,000 YouTube hits in that time and they keep on coming.

Yet there are plenty of other uploads of this recording, so it must be very popular for so many different versions to be sought and found.
I think it fits the thread title description perfectly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prlFR6PnE74

Thanks. I shall give these songs a listen and maybe add them to my playlist.

Mary j bilge - Missing you
J- rawls feat. Jonell - Miss you
Natalie cole - Miss you like crazy
Aaliyah - Miss you
Wyclef jean - Gone till november
SWV - You're always on my mind
Mya feat. Chanelle - Wish you were here
Janet Jackson - Miss you much
Little brother - Away from me

James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover.

If you see her say hello bob dylan

The Drifters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq4GDm_Lq2k


Hot Chocolate

My little Lumix camera cannot replicate how good is the bass on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DpU9sMsC28

Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares To U

John Waite - I Ain't Missing You

Lady Antebellum - Need You Now

Massive Attack - Live With Me

The following songs from my most favorite singer James Otto fit this description perfectly.

"For You"

"Sunset Man"

"Never Say Good Bye"

God bless you and James always!!!

Holly

That's the best one

Wish I Didn't Miss You - Angie Stone
Goodbye - Mary Hopkin
Goodbye - Spice Girls
Leaving on a Jet Plane - Peter,Paul and Mary/John Denver
Trains and Boats and Planes - Billy J Kramer and fhe Dakotas
Airport - The Motors
Time to Say Goodbye - Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli
Ticket to Ride - The Beatles
Around the World - Daft Punk
All Around the World - Lisa Stansfield
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago

Some suggestions, probably not all suitable as more about leaving/goodbye than missing someone:

Never Can Say Goodbye - Jackson 5
Hello Goodbye - The Beatles
Don't Leave Me This Way - The Communards
Bye Bye Bye - N*Sync
Gone - N*Sync
Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
I'll Remember - Madonna
The Power of Goodbye - Madonna
Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash
If You Leave - OMD
When You're Gone - Avril Lavigne
Closing Time - Semisonic
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor (chorus lyrics kinda fit!)
Set Fire to the Third Bar - Snow Patrol & Martha Wainwright (again, lyrics fit!)
Come Back to What You Know - Embrace
So Long, Farewell - from The Sound of Music

One that's ALWAYS good for a teary farewell:
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) - Greenday

Right. I've managed to find some time ot listen to all your suggestions and I now have a good playlist. I've added some other too so here's what the xtra songs I've added are:

Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles
The Time of My Life - Dirty Dancing (just for a laugh)
Miss You - Rolling Stones
Days - The Kinks
Miss You Like Crazy - Natalie Cole
Miss You - Aaliyah
Gone til November - Wyclef Jean
Close to You - The Carpenters
Superstar - The Carpenters
Holding Out for a Hero - Bonnie Tyler
Goodbye - Mary Hopkins
Goodbye - The Spice Girls ( thought this choice might effect my coolness but I'm not cool at all so doesn't, ha!)
Leaving on a Jet Plane - Peter, Paul and Mary
Time To Say Goodbye - Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman (how did I forget about this one!)
Don't Leave Me This Way - The Communards
Bye Bye Bye - N'Sync
Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash
When You're Gone - Avril Lavigne
So Long, Farewell - The Sound of Music
Time of Your Life - Green Day
Whereever You Will Go - The Calling

Think I'm doing well so far. Could do with some more I reckon though.

This is the best.
I've loved this song for decades, it's on an LP album I have had since it was issued, but I also bought the 45rpm, a few years ago, for obvious reasons.

"Just a Song Before I Go."

Some two and a half thousand people seem to have liked listening to it this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qRdbk9sWwc

bruce springstien - born to run
oasis - half the world away
lenny kravitiz - fly away
areosmith - don't wanna miss a thing
the rembrandts - i'll be there for you
vera lynn - we'll meet again
bananarama - na na hey hey
chicago- if you leave me now
kc and the sunshine band / KWS - please don't go
nancy sinatra - these boots are made for walking
rihanna - farewell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRCkEpJ8XU4

Missing You - Artful and Ridney ft Terri Walker. Absolute quality tune

Stereophonics - I Miss You Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p69vXAkHty0