Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Bearheart Date: 28 Aug 00 - 05:38 PM Well... I resisted, but it was finally too much... My favorite theme. My personal collection of songs starts with a section for the happy ones and then a section for the sad/scornful ones... Where to start? Thanks guys for mentioning so many of my favorites. What about?: Suzanne by Leonard Cohen Boots of Spanish Leather Dylan Spanish is the Loving Tongue(the version I have is by Judy Collins) I Love to Sing Hoyt Axton (now there's a love song!) Queen Amang the Heather Dancing at Whitsun She's Like the Swallow (traditional) She's like the swallow that flies on high She's like the river that never runs dry She's like the sun, beaming on the lee shore... I'll Be Seeing You-- June Tabor does this nicely Deep in the Darkest Night-- Rick Kemp/recorded by Maddy Prior and this is only the beginning... |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: jacko@nz Date: 28 Aug 00 - 05:50 PM I can't get over the lack of mention of Rabbie Burns material, surely one of the all time great romantics. Top of his list, My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Groucho Marxist (inactive) Date: 28 Aug 00 - 05:55 PM Bob P mentioned "I Remember Loving You." Most people think that's a Utah Phillips original. But Utah's version is really a rewrite of a song written by two old miners from British Columbia. Utah's chorus goes: I remember loving you Back when the world was new And I think you loved me too I remember loving you. Utah told me the original chorus is: I remember loving you Out of all the girls I knew And I've had quite a few I remember loving you. Not nearly as romantic. Groucho |
Subject: Lyr Add: LOOKING AT YOU, GIRL^^ From: Mbo Date: 28 Aug 00 - 06:04 PM Here are the lyrics to "Look at You, Girl" written by Lanty Ross and as sung by Chris Ledoux. SHE cried when I sang it to her, which of course made me cry....
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Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: oggie Date: 28 Aug 00 - 06:16 PM 'You and I' Words Ewan Macoll, tune Martyn Whyndam-Read. All the best Steve |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Benjamin Date: 28 Aug 00 - 06:44 PM To add to my list now (of I'll write a song for you!)
Paul Simon-
James Taylor- Any love song sung by Jr. Walker and the All Stars! |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: bflat Date: 28 Aug 00 - 07:28 PM Here's a vote for Eden Abba's "Nature Boy." Quite a lovely and romantic song. bflat |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Mickey191 Date: 28 Aug 00 - 08:51 PM Forgot "And I Love you So," ."Che Gelida Manina," from Aida will finish my list for now. Matt, you probably were correct on the Gaelic spelling of the song I mentioned. I very carefully copied the name from the cassette cover- and just noticed this- Side B contains" Reid is the Rose." So much for accuracy. It is a Shanachie tape titled "The Makem & Clancy Collection"1987 |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: richlmo Date: 28 Aug 00 - 08:51 PM We've all heard it a million times, but " Wind Beneath My Wings" , the Gary Morris version, was Awesome the first time I heard it. |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Mbo Date: 28 Aug 00 - 09:02 PM Umm heh heh heh...not to be nit-picky Mickey, but "Che Gelida Manina" is from La Boheme by Puccini...definately a sound choice. My sister loves it! |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Big Mick Date: 28 Aug 00 - 09:02 PM I'm with Bob P. Hands down......it's "The Dutchman". Mick |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: DougR Date: 28 Aug 00 - 09:31 PM "I'll See You in my Dreams," "What'll I do?", "Our Love Is Here To Stay," "Song from Moulan Rouge," "Dear Heart," "I'll Be Seeing You," "Goodnight Sweetheart," from the Pop field. Folk: "I Know Where I'm Going," "Shenandoah," "Foggy Foggy Dew," "Think on Me." Country: "I Really Don't Want To Know," "Help Me Make It Through The Night," "Anytime," "You Don't Know Me." DougR |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Alice Date: 28 Aug 00 - 09:46 PM "La Vie En Rose" |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: thosp Date: 28 Aug 00 - 10:04 PM Alice i'd like to add "No Regrets" peace (Y) thosp |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Mbo Date: 28 Aug 00 - 10:07 PM Hymne L'Amour |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: GUEST,CLETUS Date: 28 Aug 00 - 10:14 PM Ime thinkin thet Major Tom song izza reel teer jerker. I know fer a fact thet alotta folks bin jerked by it fer a long time soze I figger thet it muzz be reely grate. I meen like I luv them asternot fellers so sum song abowt one uv em whuts got a screw loose wud hafta be mitey fine. CLETUS |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: mg Date: 28 Aug 00 - 10:55 PM Mary from Dunloe, Jock of Hazeldean, John Anderson my Jo, if I needed you, I can't help falling in love with you and THE WEDDING SONG
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Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: GUEST,Mickey191 Date: 28 Aug 00 - 11:45 PM Mbo, I didn't type Aida-I Know I didn't type Aida. A momentary slip of the mind, or perhaps Alzheimers has at last arrived. Of course it is La Boheme, that was my first opera. I love it that "The Dutchman" is doing well. And HE really had Alzheimers. |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Mbo Date: 28 Aug 00 - 11:52 PM Don't worry, Mickey, I know how you feel! My sister will NEVER let me forget the time I inadvertantly put that Scott Joplin was Dixieland Jazz, on a music test. Talk about a mind slip! |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Mark Cohen Date: 29 Aug 00 - 12:40 AM Hey, thanks for starting this, and for all you folks who've reminded me of songs long forgotten. As this divorce gets ugly it's good to remember what love can be. I heard Ewan and Peggy say that "The First Time" was written during a series of transatlantic telephone calls. Now that's romantic... There's a song by Cosy Sheridan called "88 Keys" which is about old love; like "The Dutchman", it goes deeper into my heart every time I hear it. I have it on a sampler from Waterbug Music. (BIG PLUG: BUY WATERBUG CD'S HERE! YOU WON'T REGRET IT!) Also a song by Kat Eggleston called "Go to the Water" (from her Outside Eden CD, also on Waterbug) that isn't about two people but about love as a force, and I think is fantastic. OK, another shameless plug: one of mine that didn't make it onto the DT. Still waiting to find the one I really wrote it for... SOFT IS THE SOUND (Chorus) Soft is the sound of your voice as you sing to me Warm is the touch of your skin Bright is the morning with you lying next to me Happier I've never been Caught in the rush of the everyday comedy No time to stop for the view Along comes a song that sounds peaceful and calm to me I look around and it's you (CHO) Rain on the windshield and noise on the radio I'm leaving Philly behind Though the signs on the turnpike say many more miles to go You're always near in my mind (CHO) Off in the distance the mountain is glistening Lark in the morning flies high He's singing a song to the whole world that's listening Listen again, so am I (CHO) Aloha, Mark |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: JennieG Date: 29 Aug 00 - 02:04 AM I really really like "My love is like a red red rose"; if anyone ever sang it to me I would just melt - I would turn to marshmallow. I have never been serenaded *sigh* JennieG |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: GUEST,Michael in Swansea Date: 29 Aug 00 - 04:47 AM I'm not letting this thread pass without a mention of "Myfanwy" Michael |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: GUEST,INA Date: 29 Aug 00 - 12:10 PM for example: Terry Callier with Beth Orton: "Love can do" Neil Young: "Only love can break your heart" Bob Dylan: "She belongs to me"
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Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Mbo Date: 29 Aug 00 - 12:19 PM Poor Jennie! I'll sing it to you if you like... |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: GUEST,see above Date: 29 Aug 00 - 12:25 PM ...forgot: Tom Waits: "Martha"; "I'll be seeing you" ! |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Jim Krause Date: 29 Aug 00 - 12:53 PM Of songs about True Love, I nominate Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms lyrics by Thomas Moore (1779-1852) air My Lodging's On the Cold Ground traditional Irish. Of True Love lost, I nominate Spanish Is the Loving Tongue. This last song brings up the question, do we only get one chance at True Love in a lifetime? I don't think I'll bother to find out. I'll stick with the One I have. She's been awful good to me. |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: GUEST,yolantasflyght@hotmail.com Date: 29 Aug 00 - 12:59 PM We have a love song on our new cd (Sweet Temptations) called Tu es l'amour that is bilingual in nature. In fact our whole cd is based on love ...We are new but have a unique sound.. lovingly yours Yolanta's Flyght |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Mbo Date: 29 Aug 00 - 01:03 PM I've seen it mentioned here so much.."I'll Be Seeing You", I must agree heartily. That song really means a lot to me these days. |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: GUEST,Ina Date: 29 Aug 00 - 01:14 PM btw: "I'll be seeing you" is on June Tabor's new album "A quiet eye" and I read somewhere that she was so moved by the lyrics she had to cry when singing it! |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Jim Krause Date: 29 Aug 00 - 01:31 PM I can't sing and cry at the same time. How does she do it? Also, I'd rather get the audience to do the crying for me. |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: GUEST,Ina Date: 29 Aug 00 - 01:33 PM Well, I can't cry and listen at the same time. How do you do it? |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: GUEST,John Bauman Date: 29 Aug 00 - 03:30 PM "You looked like a princess the night we met, With your hair piled high, I will never forget... I'm drunk right now, Baby, But I'd have to be, or I never could tell you what you mean to me. But I loved you the first time I saw you, And I always will love you, Marie. R. Newman Fascinating, a song where the chorus is absolutely riviting love verse--stays GLUED to your mind. Then you start in with the rest of the words... One of my FAVORITES! |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: GUEST,Mickey191N.Y. Date: 29 Aug 00 - 04:00 PM I was just given Chieftans "Tears of Stone" C.D. and must add one more love (unrequited) song - "Raglan Road"Extra- ordinary.How old is this song? I've heard it sung before but I must not have been Listening.What made me listen was this Great singer -Joan Osborne-she is fantastic. You probably all know her and her work. Any comments or recomendations on her work.I would love to read the opinions of anyone who has heard"Danny Boy" by Diana Krall on this same CD. |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Kim C Date: 29 Aug 00 - 04:27 PM I love the Tears of Stone CD. Just about any Beatles love song is cool with me - my favorite is In My Life, with If I Fell following a close second. And I like their version of Music Man's Till There Was You. I had some others but now I can't remember what they were. :) |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: hesperis Date: 29 Aug 00 - 05:23 PM I just bought that CD! Listening to "Raglan Road" right now. I like it. |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Mbo Date: 29 Aug 00 - 05:34 PM I like "I Know My Love" that the Chieftains & The Corrs do on Tears of Stone. |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Tony Burns Date: 29 Aug 00 - 05:51 PM Little Hawk: Lies is at the top of my (ever changing) list. I think I would like to sing this song but fear that I would be reduced to tears of joy before I could finish it. "She looked up in that weathered face that loved hers line for line and saw the maiden shining in his eyes" Big Mick: Interesting that you mention The Dutchman. I was listening to it today and realised that it is the parallel song to Lies. I recently learned how much the setting can mean. At The Woods camp Peggy Seeger sang The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. While it was not particularly great from a perfomance point of view I sat there stunned thinking that not only was the song written for her but she was there for every event mentioned in the song. At the end of it I was so numb I couldn't clap properly. I was numb for about an hour after, went for a walk and had to force myself back to take part in the dance band. I get chills writing about it now. |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: hesperis Date: 29 Aug 00 - 06:10 PM Tony - beautiful. For love of land, I would like to nominate "Lothlorien" by Enya. That forest is one of my favorite places. I choreographed a Circle Dance to this song, the meaning of the steps to me is: Winds surround me Earth I hold Branches reach to heav'n, water to my roots branches reach to heav'n, water to my roots The dance ends with hands slowly coming to rest on the heart. ~*sirepseh*~ |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Alice Date: 29 Aug 00 - 06:41 PM Un Bel Di, Vedremo - from Madama Butterfly click here
One fine day we'll notice
Then the trim white vessel
See you? now he is coming!
From out of the crowded city there is coming,
Can you guess who it is?
I, without answ'ring,
And then, a little troubled,
This will all come to pass as I tell you, |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Don Firth Date: 29 Aug 00 - 07:04 PM If we're including opera, how about "E lucevan le stelle" from the final act of Puccini's La Tosca? Mario Cavaradossi is about to be taken out and shot, and he's reminiscing about Floria Tosca's "sweet kisses and languid caresses" and how, now that he is about to die, life has never been so sweet. Give it a listen sometime. Speaking of tenors about to die, Anthony Kearns, one of the three Irish Tenors sings a song called "Grace." I suspect it's not a folk song, but it does have an Irish folk song quality about it. Never fails to choke me up. Among folk ballads, I have a CD of Mary Black singing "Annechie Gordon" which has much the same effect. Jeez! I'm getting maudlin. It's not necessarily a song of romantic love, but it's a love song nevertheless -- Gordon Bok's "Turning Toward the Morning." (I need some endorphins. Where did I leave that chocolate bar?) Don Firth |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Alice Date: 29 Aug 00 - 07:35 PM Yes, I've seen that Anthony Kearns performance - it was taped in Belfast, wasn't it? I'll have to get the video out. I do remember how emotional it was. |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: guinnesschik Date: 29 Aug 00 - 08:41 PM Hmmmm. "Indoor Fireworks" by Elvis Costello. "I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You" by Tom Waites. "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and I can't remember the name of it, but that Gram parson's song that goes "Twenty thousand roads I've been down, down, down/And they all lead me straight back home to you." I get really misty-eyed when I hear that one. Oh, and "Crazy Love" by Van Morrison. |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 29 Aug 00 - 09:24 PM ...don't get me started on opera. There are just so many extremely emotional songs. But if it has to be love songs, how about Thee I Love (from Carmen, don't know correct name), but just before Carmen dies, she sings Thee I Love, Escamillo. Then of course Vissi D'arte from Tosca, where she sings her heart out while her lover is being tortured off stage. (The sugary song, "Smile Though Your Heart is Breaking" was set to this melody.) Then from La Boheme, Mi chiamano Mimi where she describes seeing the first rays of the April sun as Spring arrives...or the Wedding Sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor where each person describes their thoughts, such a powerful assertion of innermost feelings... |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: richlmo Date: 29 Aug 00 - 09:51 PM I think I've got it , but I may think of another, " Where've You Been ", recorded by Kathy Matea, written by her husband and some other folks. Thats love! |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Mbo Date: 29 Aug 00 - 10:01 PM Did you know that song is actually about Kathy's husband's Mother & Father? It's a true story! |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: richlmo Date: 29 Aug 00 - 10:06 PM I did Know that. I love her. She records the same sort of songs I like to play and sing. Rare in music today. She has sort of lost it here in the last few years, though. |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Mbo Date: 29 Aug 00 - 10:11 PM When she did "Love Travels", I couldn't believe that someone else out there actually felt like I did. Such a great song. |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Little Hawk Date: 29 Aug 00 - 10:16 PM Lookin' better all the time... Here is possibly my most enduring song lyric...a popular song around here among my fellow folkies (in Orillia, Ontario):
Love Is A Flame
Love is a flame, I see it burn
And this love...I give it to you
Love is a flame, I see it burn Copyright c 1993 George Coventry/Dawn Parade Music Believe it or not, there are some young Cuban musicians singing it now (in English). They learned it from me when I was down there. It can be used to express any kind of love, romantic or otherwise. This, in fact, is just how much the Great Spirit loves humanity, and all living things. Little Hawk (GC) |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 29 Aug 00 - 10:17 PM ...speaking of writing songs for loved ones...Richard Wagner wrote Siegfried Idyll for his wife's birthday (forget which wife) and surprised her with violinists on the stairway serenading her when she arrived home. Here 'tis: The Classical Midi Connection - Romantic - Wagner - Siegfried Idyll. |
Subject: RE: Greatest love songs...and love generally From: hesperis Date: 29 Aug 00 - 11:25 PM Hey, Little Hawk, have I heard that one? Maybe I should pay more attention to your songs... That is beautiful.
I said I'd post the story of "Night Garden" so here it is:
I really wanted to write a gothic love song, especially after I had found this really awesome website called mAlice's gothic garden, which is all about night-blooming flowers.
So I closed my eyes, and imagined the most beautiful garden there ever was... |
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