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Subject: Favourite love song...? From: iRiShBaBe Date: 01 May 03 - 04:32 PM hey guys, just wonderin what's your favourite love song? favourites of mine gotta be 1) van morrison - have i told you lately 2) lionel richie - hello, still, stuck on you... 3) u2 - with or without you 4) bon jovi - thank you for loving me 5) most of sinatra's songs 6) boyz 2 men - on a bended knee 7) sting - fields on gold 8) stevie wonder - i just called to say i love you 9) david gray - this years love 10) chris de burgh - lady in red 11) wonderful tonight, cant think of the singer... startin to run out of ideas now... care to share anyone... |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Mark Clark Date: 01 May 03 - 04:43 PM Probably “Rye Whiskey.” Asside from number 5, I don't think I've ever heard any of the songs on your list, iRiShBaBe. - Mark |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Ralphie Date: 01 May 03 - 04:46 PM Lene Willemark Det Stod En Yungfrau. Go On...Try and find it !! Cheers Ralphie |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: PoppaGator Date: 01 May 03 - 04:53 PM Hey BaBe, "Wonderful Tonight" is Eric Clapton's -- innit? I certainly agree with your first choice, one of Van the Man's best ever. Your question made me stop and think, and to realize that many of my most favorite ballads are not so much "love songs" addressed directly to the object of one's desire as songs *about* love, heartache, etc. For example, Dylan's "Tomorrow is a Long Time," a longtime mainstay of my repertoire, always a surefire tearjerker. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST,Ouge Date: 01 May 03 - 05:13 PM She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah...!!!!! (The Beatles) |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Shonagh Date: 01 May 03 - 06:17 PM No contest, my favourite love song (and my fave song in the world!!) has 2 be "My love is like a red red rose." Gets me everytime! sho x |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Bat Goddess Date: 01 May 03 - 07:24 PM "Bridget Flynn" cuz that's what Curmudgeon sang to me a coupla days after we met. (He was sitting on the chair in front of my drawing board, wearing only his guitar. -- Don't tell Maggie Pierce, from whom he learned the song!) Linn |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Little Hawk Date: 01 May 03 - 07:32 PM My favourite...but only when sung by the original artist!...is: "Until It's Time For You To Go" by Buffy Sainte-Marie Everyone else who has recorded it turned it into a dreadful piece of schlock. But listen to Buffy's original recording. That's a love song. She's written some other great ones too. - LH |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST,Russ Date: 01 May 03 - 07:41 PM "Rose of My Heart" (Whitstein Bros.) "I Believe if I lived my life again"(Bruce Phillips) "Roseville Fair" (Bill Stains) "Love minus zero, no limit" (Bob Dylan) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr. Add: Night Song From: michaelr Date: 01 May 03 - 08:28 PM My favorite love song is this one I wrote for my wife: Night Song Come closer, sweet Annie And lie here beside me a while Smooth the frown from your brow now And show to me that fine smile Lay your head on my shoulder Let the firelight play on your hair There's no wind in the trees now There's a hush in the darkening air The day it is over And soon a thousand stars will shine on high As the bright world is hidden In the veil that is drawn by the night We are longtime companions And we know and love each other well What's behind us we've conquered What's ahead we can manage as well We will dream of the future And we'll think of the time that's gone by And there's no need for words now I can tell by the look in your eye Words by Michael Rofkar Tune trad. (Is Fada Liom Uaim I) (c)2000 pub. Kudzu Tunes |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Walking Eagle Date: 01 May 03 - 09:57 PM All My Love--McCartney> Susanne--Leonard Cohen> Fly me to the Moon--covered by Frank Sinatra. As a matter of fact, I like most of the love songs covered by F.S. I'm just an old hippie who is a closet Frank Sinatra Fan. Anymore of you out there? Someone to watch over Me> Yesterday (a.k.a.Scrambled Eggs)--McCartney. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Susanl Date: 02 May 03 - 03:52 AM She Moved Through the Fair |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: alanabit Date: 02 May 03 - 04:24 AM Oddly enough, I saw Paul McCartney a few days ago and he sang "Every Night" from his first album. It must have been written in the very late sixties for Linda. Technically it's not a masterpiece, but when he sang it alone on his acoustic guitar, it was one of the most moving and affecting performances I have ever heard. We have these threads from time to time - and why not. My favourites are likely to change with my mood, the weather and what I had for breakfast this morning. I also like the sexy and overwhelmed mood of Lorenz Hart/Richard Roger's "Bewitched", traditional songs like "She Moved Through the Fair" and "Black is the Colour" and a whole heap of Dylan, Joni Mitchell and assorted rock songs which I will recall as soon as I have posted this. Probably one which few folks would regard as a love song is the Hooters "Dancing on the Edge". It's about the one you do not get to keep. I am off to put on "Karla with a K"... |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Nemesis Date: 02 May 03 - 04:30 AM "You Do something to me ..." Paul Weller Stanley Road Album ..Brrrrr ...ooooooooh! |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: kendall Date: 02 May 03 - 04:43 AM Faded Roses of December Utah Phillips A Bad half hour Tom Russell |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: iRiShBaBe Date: 02 May 03 - 03:44 PM or, ' when i fall in love' by clive griffin... |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Peg Date: 02 May 03 - 04:52 PM Song, Composed in August (Westlin' Winds) by Robert Burns |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST,ClaireBear Date: 02 May 03 - 05:55 PM This is really silly. I'm an old sentimentalist at heart. You'd think my favorite love song would be something like "Singing Bird," "Flow Gently Sweet Afton," "My Bonnie Dearie (Ca' the Yowes...)". Maybe the Fairport Convention setting of "to Althea from Prison." And all of those are GREAT love songs in my book. ...But for true depth of feeling -- heart-stopping, gut-wrenching, "I'd lay down my life for you" love -- the song that first comes to mind is Richard Thompson's "1952 Vincent Black Lightning," a song about two people I wouldn't want to meet in an alley and whose primary connection seems to be a motorcycle. Go figure. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: beardedbruce Date: 02 May 03 - 06:28 PM tossup betwee "I hold your hand in mine" :-) and Motorcycle Mama, by Sailcat. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 02 May 03 - 10:23 PM I guess this is really a "yearning for love song", but a great favorite of mine is The Nightingale Sings, not to be confused with a similarly named song, "The Nightingales Sing". The Nightingale Sings is to be found HERE Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Jim McLean Date: 03 May 03 - 11:31 AM The telling line in Burns's 'My Love is like red, red rose' is 'my love is like a melody that's sweetly played IN TUNE' |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Deckman Date: 03 May 03 - 12:03 PM My favorite is Tom Paxton's "Wild Flying Dove." CHEERS, Bob |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: IvanB Date: 03 May 03 - 01:05 PM 'Lock-keeper' Stan Rogers 'The Bramble and the Rose' Barbara Keith 'October Roses' Linda Allen 'All I Want to do is Sing Your Name' Utah Phillips 'Old Love' Neal Hagberg/Leandra Peak 'The Thing that Makes You Beautiful' Jane Voss 'How the Love Flows' Neil Woodward 'Dimming of the Day' Richard Thompson |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST,You Can Call Me Al Date: 03 May 03 - 02:06 PM Here are 10 that I never get tired of. The Dutchman by Michael Smith Another Time and Place by Dave Van Ronk Apples and Pears by Rosalie Sorrels Love Abides by Tom Russell Tomorrow is a Long Time by Bob Dylan I Remember Loving You by Utah Phillips Hot Buttered Rum by Tommy Thompson And Lovin' You by Tom Paxton In My Life by John Lennon & Paul McCartney Long Afternoons by Paul Siebel Al |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Mudlark Date: 03 May 03 - 05:09 PM The Dutchman gets me every time too. And in a more lighthearted vein I always liked "And even tho we aint got money, I'm so in love with you honey..." is that Dink's song? |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Gavin Date: 03 May 03 - 05:19 PM Tom Paxton's "Wild Flying Dove" (picked on an open-D tuning) - corny, but gets me. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST,You Can Call Me Al Date: 03 May 03 - 05:22 PM Mudlark, That's Danny's Song by Loggins and/or Messina. Dink's Song is "If I had wings like Nora's dove/I'd fly up the river to the one I love." Al |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Allan C. Date: 03 May 03 - 05:44 PM Mudlark, I always liked that one too; but I locked onto Anne Murray's version long ago. In fact, I could probably point to quite a few of her renditions as favorite love songs. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 03 May 03 - 08:32 PM On a similar thread a few days ago I voted for Leon Payne's "I Love You Because You're You." He wrote this over 50 years ago for his wife Myrtie. It crossed from country to pop and was a hit for several singers over the years. To my mind it was the best love song of all time. Sandy |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Joe Offer Date: 03 May 03 - 09:26 PM Cole Porter's "True Love," from the movie High Society. My friends from the church choir sang it at our wedding reception, and I danced my first dance with my bride. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST Date: 03 May 03 - 09:33 PM Spanish Is a Loving Tongue |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: khandu Date: 03 May 03 - 10:25 PM "Bridget O'Malley"- Andy M. Stewart "Sweetheart Like You"-Dylan "Deep Forest Green"-Ranger Dave "Love Story"-Jethro Tull "Cathy's Song"-Simon & Garfunkle "Operator"-Jim Croce k |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Janie Date: 03 May 03 - 10:29 PM "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (Ewan McColl) "The Last Real Kiss" (Carl Jones) "Hey,That's No Way to Say Goodbye" (Leonard Cohen) At least these are favorites tonight. Janie |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST,Mickey191 Date: 03 May 03 - 11:44 PM Someone to Watch Over Me Have I Told You lately That I love You? In This Life Only You Unchained Melody Come to me, Bend to me. To Where You Are. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Ely Date: 03 May 03 - 11:49 PM How pathetic is it that I can't think of a single love song that I really like? The best I can do right now are: "In My Life" by the Beatles "Orphan Annie" by Norman Blake "No Lonesome Tune" [??--sorry, I've had a long week at work and I'm foggy. The TVZ one that goes "Daddy said to me/"Son, it's hard as you will see,/to find someone upon whom to rely."/In the kitchen, Momma sneezed,/and he grinned big as you please,/said, "Bless you,"/ and a tear rolled from his eye."] |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Sam L Date: 04 May 03 - 09:40 AM I can't really think of any I especially like for being love songs. Two of us, and For No One are good McCartney love tunes. Honey Pie. Dylan's I Want You, and the one that starts My Love she speaks like silence... Khandu, I can't think what Tull song "Love Story" is, but I love that a guy's wife wrote the lyric to Aqualung about him, and he wrote Cross-eyed Mary about her. I really think that's lovely, somehow. Also liked Wond'ring Aloud. Did someone already mention Romeo and Juliet? Mark Knopfler. John Hiatt's Learning How To Love You. Simon and Garfunkel, Ccelia. I love sluts, I guess. Among my slutty friends, when I was a kid, Meatloaf's 2 Out Of 3 Ain't Bad was considered the greatest song ever written. That still breaks my heart. Lucinda Williams, several songs. For some reason I get a kick out of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers' Why Do Fools Fall In Love. Red River Valley. Come and sit by my side if you love me--that's a great first line. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST Date: 04 May 03 - 02:33 PM We get lots of requsts to do "I Will" (McCartney/Lennon) for weddings. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: iRiShBaBe Date: 04 May 03 - 04:25 PM 'love lift us up where we belong' joe cocker and jennifer warnes ' your song' elton john |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Walking Eagle Date: 04 May 03 - 08:02 PM That IS a funny thought, ClaireBear! I had Bridge over Troubled Water performed at my wedding. Long itme ago. Now I'd probably choose When I'm 64! When I think of all of these great romantic songs mentioned, I wonder where are the men and women they are intended for? Where are the men and women who would sing these to their lovers? Maybe it's just pipe dreams, but wouldn't a little romance expressed in these songs be nice right now? Sorry, thread creep. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 04 May 03 - 09:52 PM Every Monday morning, Sam at the autoshop would be whistling and siing and happy. Dan on the other hand would show up with a terrible case of the Monday Morning Blues.
One day Dan asked Sam, "What is UP with you? EVERY stinkin Monday you come in here so happy and chipper it just makes me want to puke! What's goin on with you?"
Sam replied, "Oh, man every Sunday night my woman gives me the hottest, most passionate, down-home loving good night of sex, sex, sex, its all I can think about throughout the day. Sometimes it can carry me all the way into next weekend."
"Oh, Yeah?" said Dan, "My woman don't give me nothin but a headache, what's your secret?"
"Simple," replied Sam, "Woman like to be wooed, they like poetry, and love songs, and being told they are special."
"Poetry? Love Songs? Thats it? That's all? What type of song?"
"Well," said Sam, " Something simple, not fancy, just something to let them know you appreciate them, like:"
Next Monday morning Dan showed up to work, all beaten up; a swollen lip, black-eye, and a powerful limp in his left leg.
Sam, asked, "What happened to you?"
Dan replied, "You and your fuckin love song shit!"
Sam backed up and said, "What did you sing to her?"
And Dan said, just a little song that should be added to the Mudcat Rugby thread:
Nappy, Nappy hair
Head down, ass up
Sincerely, |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 May 03 - 10:30 PM Ugg. What a post to follow. "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," the Roberta Flack version. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: ooh-aah Date: 05 May 03 - 03:45 AM I also love 'In My Life' (Lennon/Mcartney). I think 'Northern Sky' by Nick Drake is my No. 1 favorite. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Peter T. Date: 05 May 03 - 10:05 AM Hate to say this, but my favorite is still the original version of the love song in the film "Romeo and Juliet" (before it got trashed). Probably the images in the film are woven into it indelibly for me. Also being 18 at the time. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: PoppaGator Date: 05 May 03 - 12:21 PM The Dylan tune that starts out "My love she speaks like silence" is entitled "Love Minus Zero / No Limit." It's my wife's single absolute favorite song. I'd also like to mention another lovely-if-unconventional love song from the same album, "She Belongs to Me," whose lyrics start "She's got everything she needs, she's an artist, she don't look back." My favorite romantic *recording* of all time would have to be the doo-wop version of "I Only Have Eyes for You," as performed by the Flamingos, produced by Harvey Fuqua in Chicago in the late 1950s. I still get goosebumps whenever I hear it, and wonder at the fact that no other record before or since has ever created a remotely similar sonic atmosphere. The song itself is a pop "standard" from the 1930s and has been recorded many, many times (normally in a more "straight-ahead" style, or as the "fake-book" basis for jazz improvisation). I would have guessed it was written by Cole Porter, but I just looked it up and the music is by Harry Warren and lyrics by Al Dubin -- hardly household names. Little-known fact: R&B legend Ernie K-Doe was a member of the Flamingos as a teenager. His mother had brought him to Chicago in an effort to break him into show business, but he returned home to New Orleans within a year or two and spent the rest of his life here. About a year before he died in 2001, he began claiming credit for the lead vocal on "Eyes," which is probably not true. However, he may well have been one of the background voices on the record. There is no doubt he was a member of the group at one point, since his face appears in the group photo on the front of the "Best of the Flamingos" LP and CD. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: paulo Date: 05 May 03 - 02:09 PM If the eyes match - Beautiful Brown Eyes paulo p.s. If they don't your knackered |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: fsharpdim7 Date: 05 May 03 - 04:48 PM I think the best overall love-song album was Paxton's "And Loving You," which he did with Bob Gibson - "That cold Chicago wind was howling down the street, the rain had turned to sleet......." (close to this am's weather forecast!). Anyhow, what are the chords for this song? I've tried all the combo's of minors and diminished chords that I know and they never sound right. If someone could just post the chords, without words, it would help. Thanks, Chris in Chicago p.s. other great love songs are Ian Tyson's, What does she see in that old Cowboy, and Navajo Rug too. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST,Guest Date: 06 May 03 - 02:33 AM Maggie (When You And I Were Young) |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: McMusic Date: 06 May 03 - 03:04 AM 1-Beautiful dreamer 2-Always |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Stewie Date: 06 May 03 - 03:38 AM Aye Waukin' O Curragh of Kildare Bonnie Bessie Logan --Stewie. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: McMusic Date: 06 May 03 - 03:50 AM Forgot one. No words to this but, "If Ever You Were Mine" doesn't need any. A beautiful fiddle tune done beautifully by Natalie MacMaster. Just listening to her play this song gives me the chills and makes me weak in the knees. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST Date: 06 May 03 - 04:05 AM - That's amore - fist time ever i saw your face - kiss ( sung by Dean Martin) |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: fat B****rd Date: 06 May 03 - 05:51 AM "The way you look tonight" Fred Astaire "Lipstick traces" Benny Spellman "Annie" Ronnie Lane |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: RoyH (Burl) Date: 06 May 03 - 08:33 AM Hey Joe Offer...Mrs Burl and I did exactly the same on Aug 3rd 1957. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: iRiShBaBe Date: 06 May 03 - 03:11 PM listin all these songs makes the reality of being single more obvious!! ouch!! |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: McMusic Date: 06 May 03 - 08:02 PM iRiShBaBe, I've been single all my life. It's not all bad (just sometimes). And, after all, even without Holy Matrimony, love is a wonderful thing. Oh God!!! I just quoted Michael Boulton! @#$#!!!^%$#&&!!!! |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Susanne (skw) Date: 06 May 03 - 08:40 PM Victoria Wood's 'Love Song' - a lifetime together in three verses! |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: anais Date: 06 May 03 - 11:00 PM oh my dimming of the day and vincent black lightning both throw me every time, i am especially fond of the greg brown version of the latter. other than that time has told me-nick drake by weary well-robin williamson (why don't more people sing that one!!!!) first girl i loved also by robin williamson case of you-joni mitchell flow gently sweet afton- oh god just a lovely song i am a youth that's incllined to ramble-paul brady but the real killer for me is june tabor's rendition of one of les barker's "serious" songs, "the turn in the road"...can anyone find me the words to this gem? |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Renegade Date: 07 May 03 - 03:14 PM Thought I had a rare one, but Mickey 191 had it; see 05-03 post, "Come to Me Bend to Me"; from "Brigadoon", yes? Hopefully I'm not repeating anyone else's. These are some of the songs I would sing to my lover: Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Here There Everywhere - Beatles Feels So Right - Alabama Stand By Me - Ben E. King In the Still of the Night - 5 Satins Sea of Love - Phil Phillips You Are My Sunshine - Various All I Have to Do is Dream - Everly Bros. My Girl - Temptations Then she left me and I can't listen to love songs anymore, much less sing them. Except for the sad ones, like Love Has No Pride - Linda Ronstadt, or Red is the Rose - Ferris Sisters (?) off a Chieftains album Oh well. Bill |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Firecat Date: 08 May 03 - 07:55 AM Mty favourite love songs are:- Careless Whisper by George Michael Breathing by North And South One Of Us by Abba Why? by Steps The Long And Winding Road by The Beatles Say Goodbye by S Club There's loads more, but I've not got time to put them!!! |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: YOR Date: 08 May 03 - 12:27 PM Nice list going on here. "Babe, I'm gonna leave you" Zep, LOL. "Weve got tonight" Bob Seger (turned 58 this week) "Heaven" Bryan Adams "Everytime I look at you", Paul Stanley & Bob Erzin(sp) And many from above, esp Beatles, Elvis, Morrison, Elton John. And, I'm having this serious brain fart with several Billy Joel songs. Enjoy, Roy |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: iRiShBaBe Date: 08 May 03 - 04:21 PM imagine the quality if all these songs were put on an album! pure quality! |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: DaveA Date: 08 May 03 - 05:16 PM Interesting thread this - fits the "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" requirements for a bride which does fit the overall theme. A couple of wild cards: I Got Over You a Long Long Time Ago - Mike McLellan My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose - sung by Kenneth McKellar Forty Five Years - Stan Rogers Cheers Dave |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: sweetfire Date: 09 May 03 - 08:46 AM say goodbye - s club this is pretty new, and i am sure there are some great older songs, but im only young so old, songwise, to me is the beatles etc... |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: McMusic Date: 09 May 03 - 08:05 PM Ow, sweetfire, that hurt. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: iRiShBaBe Date: 10 May 03 - 10:22 AM hehe, honesty and innocence! |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: sweetfire Date: 10 May 03 - 01:46 PM hehehe sorry, but its true!!! |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 10 May 03 - 03:20 PM Hey Mickey, I fell in love with Come to Me, Bend to Me the first time I heard it. I heard it two years ago in a high school production, sung by a skinny-legged 16 year old boy in a kilt, and I still loved it! I remember someone commenting that the introductory interval in that song is the "sensuous interval." It's the same one as in Music of the Night (from Phantom of the Opera). |
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Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 10 May 03 - 03:22 PM And Renegade too! |
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