Also called "women's movies", "weepies", tearjerkers, or "chick flicks". Melodramatic and sentimental songs called "trane trekkers" (tearjerkers) were especially common. "The 100 Greatest Tearjerkers", broadcast in February 2005. The band revealed that there are lot of tearjerkers on the album. John Barry has contributed a score that evokes Douglas Sirk's glossy tearjerkers of the 1950s. The Bonediggers were formed shortly after the Tearjerkers ended in 1987. The Compulsive Gamblers, and The Oblivians and currently fronts Jack O & the Tennessee Tearjerkers. It would be unfair to call his stories tearjerkers however. With Yarber in control of the group, the band was rechristened the Tennessee Tearjerkers. "Tearjerkers are more difficult to make than any other type of movie," said Hunter.