frogprince, I'd love to hear your song. Is it on the Internet?

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My favorite love song by Bruce Murdoch-that I know has been recorded-is "Come Across To You".

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One of my favorite love songs was Unchained Melody

But that scene with Whoopi Golberg channeling the deceased character played by Patrick Swazye in the movie "Ghost" kinda messed that song up for me.

For those who may be interested, here's some information about the song "Unchained Melody". Notice that it doesn't give the name of the song writer, an all too frequent practice that is discussed on this Mudcat thread: Forgotten writers of well-remembered songs

But I digressed. Here's that excerpt about "Unchained Melody":

"Unchained Melody" was written for the 1955 prison movie, "Unchained". The original recordings that came out soon after the movie were by Al Hibbler and by Roy Hamilton. Both were big radio hits that year. There was also a popular instrumental recording out by Les Baxter at the same time.

In 1963, a New York doo-wop group called Vito & The Salutations did an uptempo version of the song which got a lot of airplay, though it's very different from the usual ballad interpretations.

The most popular version of the song came out in 1965 by The Righteous Brothers. Though the label bore the duo's name, it was actually a solo vocal by the late Bobby Hatfield.

That recording resurfaced in 1990 when it was prominently featured in the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore/Whoopi Goldberg movie, "Ghost".

The song has been done by everyone from Willie Nelson to you name it but these are the most popular hit versions of the song".

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Oldies-2943/2009/8/unchained-melody.htm