Many thanks for the background: the Kamahl original is weepier than the Midler cover. It's truly a melancholy classic. Here are two of my choices for equally weepy numbers:

El Perro del Mar: "A Better Love" (the persona finds it difficult to relinquish a failed romance): https://youtu.be/kiX85XNcnuw

Val Stoecklein, "David to Bathsheba" (self-promotion in the link that follows--a doomed romance leads to the death of a child and never-ending guilt): https://medium.com/plethora-of-pop/val-stoeckleins-david-to-bathsheba-f8f877fe2cd2