This is db's favorite love song. (yes, the irony does not escape me) Anyway, please post a youtube of your love song. I'm interested! I'll put mine in the comments
I remember in the '70's when Kiss's Destroyer album came out. I was playing it and the song "Beth" was playing. My Grandmother said something like, "Now isn't that a nice song - must be some nice clean cut young man singing that song." I couldn't bring myself to show here the album cover. To this day I think she thought it was a Bobby Sherman type.
Good one! I was just behind the Kiss generation. Some of the more "advanced" kids in grade school liked them, but I wasn't into music much yet. Velvet Green probably falls into that category as well. Less so for the picture, but the lyrics!
Nice thread, I didn't click on every non identified link so I have hopes that this one is yet to join the party. http://youtu.be/Id_UYLPSn6U
"The First time ever I saw your face" comes from the night I met my wife. I'm not one who pauses when I hear music in the background, but when I catch this song, I do pause once I get home and smile and sometimes have tears of joy fall from eyes as I recall the day that changed my life.
Ah crap, I got a little touchy feely, so me and her are going to go play a game of golf. Have fun!
My husband likes The Righteous Bros. 'You are my Soul & Inspiration' as our song. I told him I have a major problem with the line "without you, baby, what good am I". So we have two our songs - Soul & Inspiration and Stand by Me - Ben E. King www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTCfQ6Bb8QE
I just found out recently, when "Love Is the Drug" came on the radio, that my wife, another child of the 80's, had never heard of either Roxy Music or Bryan Ferry.
Here are a couple of my all time favotites. Perhaps a little too patriotic for some but these really impressed me when I first heard them. Remember some of these were a long time ago.
And my sweatheart from Sweden, she was always one of my fantasies, but I really fell in love with her for her participation and support of Vietnam Veterans (her boys).
Thanks, and I strained my little dino brain to give you a thank you song (one I overlooked) during a quick drive to a gas pump before the weather gets bad in Bama for a little while. Since a lot of old Rock 'n' Roll love songs are based on a girl's name, I started reciting names until a good memory swam into my head. "Oh, yeah," I said aloud, "I really liked that one."
Like the Morrison song. Too old for some of the others, still back in the Sinatra era or Fred Astiare on "Something's Gotta Give" or Streisand (gag, liberal) but good song, "The Way We Were". Herb Alpert and TB on "Mae", gorgeous. Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade" still gets me. Guess you get old enough, you see how many are still worth listening.
There's another ELP song, Closer to Believing, which is more about faith and religion, but still contains my favorite love lyrics (even if taken out of context): But of course you know I love you Or what else am I here for Only you not face to face But side by side for evermore
Ian's voice is shot. Greg's is as well. Robert Plant has perhaps the most lasting voice in rock!
Just met Carl Palmer last Fall. What a nice, humble guy. Shorter than I thought, but good god can he still play the drums!. Also, the only one Buddy Guy let play his drum set.
Big chords of three chords for CSNY. Love the lyrics. They did some research! The vocals are just so perfect too. Not too smooth, not too gravelly. The momma bear.
Top Three Love songs for me, in the context of two people. and how to me a relationship should be. Listen close to the lyrics. Kathy Mattea: "Where have you Been" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl5Uog-M...
"Always" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin in 1925, as a wedding gift for his wife Ellin McKay, whom he married in 1926, and to whom he presented the substantial royalties. The song was supposed to be used for the Marx Brothers' Broadway musical The Cocoanuts but was cut by Berlin during out-of-town tryouts
Lots of great versions by lots of great performers. We kinda like the one by the Ink Spots:
;-)
I remember in the '70's when Kiss's Destroyer album came out. I was playing it and the song "Beth" was playing. My Grandmother said something like, "Now isn't that a nice song - must be some nice clean cut young man singing that song." I couldn't bring myself to show here the album cover. To this day I think she thought it was a Bobby Sherman type.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsMONyke...
I was just behind the Kiss generation. Some of the more "advanced" kids in grade school liked them, but I wasn't into music much yet.
Velvet Green probably falls into that category as well. Less so for the picture, but the lyrics!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vudA72h...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiEIToOW...
http://youtu.be/Id_UYLPSn6U
"The First time ever I saw your face" comes from the night I met my wife. I'm not one who pauses when I hear music in the background, but when I catch this song, I do pause once I get home and smile and sometimes have tears of joy fall from eyes as I recall the day that changed my life.
Ah crap, I got a little touchy feely, so me and her are going to go play a game of golf. Have fun!
And they're still around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htlGkhIR...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9SgaDnM...
That makes a total of two people in The Gulch who have heard of them.
And even though their music is *very* anti-life and their politics are *very* leftist, Under the Milky Way was their "Howard Roarke" moment.
Notice how they disappeared right after that?
They decided not to "sell out" and went back underground.
So... three then.
Can you elaborate?
This song was just gaining traction when 9/11 happened and then radio stations wouldn't play it because it was too upbeat, for like a year. :(
Nine Inch Nails: Closer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYxoAJ3B...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTCfQ6Bb8QE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kp3N3wQ...
It took me a moment to process that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-YqaTDD...
"San Francisco" by Jeanette MacDonald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKgPadQk...
"God Bless America" by Kate Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEJo7x9y...
"God Bless America" by Celine Dion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB2_j7c0...
And my sweatheart from Sweden, she was always one of my fantasies, but I really fell in love with her for her participation and support of Vietnam Veterans (her boys).
"I Aint Got Nobody" by Ann Margret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxOaQRZx...
#2: Perhaps Love
#3: Somewhere My Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTCfQ6Bb...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRV6r2ja...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouanlAQ-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed3GWsIf...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTffa6I2...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMCCHVYV...
Since a lot of old Rock 'n' Roll love songs are based on a girl's name, I started reciting names until a good memory swam into my head. "Oh, yeah," I said aloud, "I really liked that one."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_BwauaX...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaHPgTd...
How could ANYONE forget THAT one?
From the Beginning (ELP, original picture montage)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKI0d6TM...
Summer Day Sands (Tull):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOHozS1k...
Also love CSNY Southern Cross (a little more dystopian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw9gLjEG...
But of course you know I love you
Or what else am I here for
Only you not face to face
But side by side for evermore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UliPSwZD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1z4vkPWkLQ
Robert Plant has perhaps the most lasting voice in rock!
Just met Carl Palmer last Fall. What a nice, humble guy. Shorter than I thought, but good god can he still play the drums!. Also, the only one Buddy Guy let play his drum set.
Kathy Mattea: "Where have you Been"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl5Uog-M...
Niel Sedaka: "God Bless Johanna"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ynChkCG...
Kina Grannis, and David Choi: "The Way You Are"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbPhf_KX...
http://youtu.be/XWWyu6M9Zt8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBR2G-iI3...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70p6GYk5f...
and a really obscure one::: a group of graduate
students in music in SF in '74 -- "White Bird"
starts the album:::
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ili5LdQFr...
others, and Gloria came to mind. . Stevie's
"Isn't She Lovely" is another favorite! -- j
http://my.mail.ru/mail/volodia563/video/...
and Rita Coolidge's "We're All Alone":::
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv3IyfMvZ...
and Pure Prairie League's "Sister's Keeper":::
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihKRbDH57...
and one which no one may know -- Barefoot Jerry's
"If There Were Only Time For Love":::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCHJp7ZF...
and Nat's Stardust, my parents' favorite:::
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjU6ZjrQu...
(having DJ'd for 50 years, I can go on and on...)
Oh, did you mean romantic love?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhn9pQt5...
There must have been something else going on under that captain's hat.
Lots of great versions by lots of great performers. We kinda like the one by the Ink Spots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LREzwZaj...
Load more comments...