Best Love Song

Subject: Best Love Songs
From: number 6
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 12:09 AM

Boots of Spanish Leather - Bob Dylan
Witchita Lineman - Jimmy Webb

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: DonMeixner
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 12:34 AM

Red River Valley

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: Metchosin
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 12:37 AM

difficult....Fields of Gold, for a start.

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 12:41 AM

On THIS PAST THREAD you'll find quite a list as well as links to quite a few other threads which might be interesting as well.

I'll still go with two...........I hadn't considered it before Sandy Paton brought it up, but "When You and I Were Young" ("Maggie") has got to be up there, especially as we age. A truly beautiful old chestnut that tugs hard at the heart.

The other is Donovan's "Catch the Wind" which has a beautiful "stridency" about it.....a plaintive and longing quality which is very compelling to me.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: fat B****rd
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 04:30 AM

"Annie" by Ronnie Lane and "The Way You Look Tonight" by thingy.

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 04:50 AM

"Nights in White Satin"
"Lady in Red".
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: alanabit
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 05:10 AM

"The Way You Look Tonight" was by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields. I like "Annie" too. It's a great album that too, isn't it?

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: Metchosin
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 12:26 PM

Lay Ye Doon Love sung by Ian Benzie.....hmmm....my choices this go around seem to be a little less cerebral, seems to me before I chose Catch the Wind too, on previous threads. Maybe its an age thing.

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: mg
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 12:39 PM

Peggy Gordon. mg

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 02:06 PM

I Love you Because by Leon Payne. See re-activated sister thread.
                   Sandy

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: GUEST,chinmusic
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 03:00 PM

Pretty hard to beat Ewan MacColl's, The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face. I would also nominate Guy Clark's, Coat From The Cold.

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From:
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 05:07 PM

I guess I'm not a lot into love songs but "Time Wears Awa" from the singing of Willie Scott gets me.

Jack

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: Midchuck
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 05:20 PM

MacColl's "First Time Ever..." Nothing else even comes close. Well, there's one we recorded by Dick McCormack...

Peter.

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: GUEST,ranger1(still passwordless)
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 05:35 PM

Not a traditional love song, but my vote goes to Ramona by Fred Gosbee of Castlebay.

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: BB
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 05:40 PM

One from another thread - 'Take Your Time' by Pete Mundey.

Barbara

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: GUEST,Scoville at Dad's
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 06:27 PM

"Hot Buttered Rum" by the original Red Clay Ramblers

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 06:43 PM

Some good nominations above. Here are some more:

Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Dylan
Ain't No Cure For Love - Leonard Cohen
Yesterday - Lennon/McCartney
A Man - Buffy Sainte-Marie
Timeless Love - Buffy Sainte-Marie
Until It's Time For You To Go - Buffy Sainte-Marie (and her recorded versions are the only ones worth listening to)
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go - Dylan
Winter Boy - Buffy Sainte-Marie
Some Day Soon - Ian Tyson
Girl From the North Country - Dylan

Mary Chapin Carpenter's done some beauties too...such as "This Shirt".

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: number 6
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 07:44 PM

'Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Dylan'

Forgot that one .... thanks George

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: cool hand Tom
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 07:48 PM

for me the night visiting song sung by luke kelly.

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: freightdawg
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 08:14 PM

Love songs can take many forms. You need to ask "Love from whom and towards whom?

For a song about love between a man and his wife the number one song on my list is "A Song For All Lovers" by John Denver. (especially poignant if you know the story behind the song).

However, in terms of lyrics, sentiment and even guitar accompaniment there is no song in the world that can match "Leader of the Band" by Dan Fogelberg. It is a love song between a man and his aging father. Not commonly thought of as a love song and that is a shame.

But then there are a lot of other categories...love for a pet, love for a nation/state, etc.

There are a lot of love songs for 'dawgs, you know.

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: number 6
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 12:14 AM

Here ya go Freightdawg

'I love my Dog' by Yusaf Islam (Cat Stevens)

What more can be said ... a love song is just what it is, a song about love.

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: Peace
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 12:29 AM

Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Dylan
Jubilee - Mary Chapin Carpenter

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 12:49 AM

"And I Love You So" by Don McLean
                                     SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: Amos
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 12:59 AM

The oldest and must piercing in some voices: My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose.

OF more recent era: a single verse from "Woodie Knows Nothin' But Pluckin' on the Bow" that says "I never knew 'til I met you....".

And more recent still, John Denver's "You Fill Up My Senses".


A

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: GUEST,Clint Keller
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 01:13 AM

"To lay Me Down" by Hunter & Garcia gets me every time. And Margo Timmins does it wonderfully well.

To lie with you
With our dreams entwined together.
To lie beside you my love still sleeping.
To tell sweet lies one last time
And say goodnight…

clint

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 01:19 AM

Ten Thousand Miles, by Nick Jones.

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: Bill the Collie
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 11:01 AM

My Pittenweem Jo by John Watt. See "101 Scottish Songs", edited by the late Norman Buchan M.P.

Oh I gang wi' a lass frae Pittenweem
She's every fisher laddie's dream
She guts the herrin' doon on the quay
An' saves her kisses just for me.


The best love songs have a certain nobility; this song certainly has it.

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: jaze
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 11:19 AM

Grow Old Along With Me
Maggie

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 11:24 AM

Donald of Glencoe (Trad).

but If You See Her Say Hello wins hands down.

Pete

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: GUEST,Mary
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 02:12 PM

Ettrick by Archie Fisher

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: stevi
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 02:19 PM

very difficult! so many good ones been written. but one of my favs is kathys song by paul simon

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: mg
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 03:29 PM

some good lines: Donald was the bravest man and Donald he was mine..Highland Widow's lament..

Muckle lighter is the load when love bears up the creel...the boatie rows.

The Scots do have a good way with love songs...

mg

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: number 6
Date: 19 Dec 04 - 03:59 PM

"She guts the herrin' doon on the quay
An' saves her kisses just for me."

That is absolutely beautiful Bill the Collie!

Thanks for presenting this.

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: late 'n short 2
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 04:06 PM

The Christmas season always brings fond memories of my late grandparents and aunts and uncles of that generation. With that my mind drifts to songs like "The Dutchman" and "A Daisy a Day"

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Dec 04 - 06:53 PM

One vintage Tom Paxton: "One Time and One Time Only"
And one later Tom Paxton: "Home to Me is anywhere You are".

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: JulieF
Date: 21 Dec 04 - 09:25 AM

Ae fond Kiss    Sad and gracious

Fare ye well my first and fairest
Fare ye well my best and dearest
Thine be ilka joy and treasure
Peace, contentment , love and pleasure....

Almost my favourite Burns song.

Julie

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 21 Dec 04 - 09:27 AM

@Ace of Spades' by Motorhead.

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Dec 04 - 10:01 AM

Wonderful Tonight - no contest

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 06:46 AM

The Devil and the Feathery Wife, be in no doubt, any woman who would go through this for her man has real true love for him.

eric

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: Splott Man
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 07:57 AM

Sorry, that last guest was me.

Found my cookie now.

Splott Man

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 11:05 AM

Braw, braw lads
A very precious love is what you are to me...
I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places...

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: radriano
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 11:13 AM

Another useless thread. After all, one person's favorite song might be another's least favorite.

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: GUEST,Reagle
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 11:15 AM

I was on "The first time ever I saw her face" then I noticed that someone had it already.

Not the same genre but "She" has always struck a chord with me.

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 11:24 AM

I like this one, but then I would, wouldn't I? Written for a girl called Annie Weichler, who hailed from Chicago and whom I met in Devon back in the late seventies.


Annie Won't You Stay

Would it make you sad
Would it make you feel ashamed
Honey if I asked you to stay, to stay
I know we've just met
Only shared a drink or two
But tonight I need someone like you, like you

Chorus:
Annie won't you stay with me
Stay with me 'till dawn
Annie won't you stay with me
Let me keep you warm, keep you warm

You must have known yourself
What it's like to be alone
Needing someone sometimes to hold, to hold
More than just a friend
A lover and a confidante
Who can share the beating of my heart, my heart

Chorus

So come and take my hand
Please believe me when I say
This isn't just another one night stand, one night stand
Lay down by my side
Who could ever say it's wrong
When it feels so right in every way, every way

Chorus

And when the morning comes
Maybe there'll be promises
Maybe we will find ourselves in love, in love
Or in the light of day
We could see things differently
We could even simply say goodbye, goodbye

Chorus

Break

Repeat 1st Verse

Chorus

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: GUEST,Douglas
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 12:27 PM

I agree with Julie.

Ae Fond Kiss by Robert Burns

Subject: RE: Best Love Song
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 09:06 AM

Surprised no-one has mentioned "Plaisir D'Amour"!