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14 Jan 11 - 01:55 PM (#3074597) Subject: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: topical tom Since love (and hope) springs eternal and Valentine's Day is rapidly approaching, I think it would be fitting to tell me your favorite songs with the word "love" in the title. Two of my favorites are: "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You/" and "Give Yourself to Love" by the late, great Kate Wolff. Okay, your turn. |
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14 Jan 11 - 02:11 PM (#3074608) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: topical tom Kate Wolff's song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8B3ORVgHfM Sorry, I couldn't make the blue clicky. |
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15 Jan 11 - 05:30 PM (#3075344) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: topical tom Refresh |
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15 Jan 11 - 05:43 PM (#3075352) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: open mike you can see the playlist of my 2 hour radio show for the last 6 years...on my blog on my space for valentines day i always play songs of love...and also of lost love and broken hearts. www.myspace.com/laurelwoodsorrel |
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15 Jan 11 - 06:35 PM (#3075369) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: Louie Roy Let Me Call You Sweetheart it doesn't have love in the title but it is a beautiful song and dance tune with beautiful lyrics and you can really snuggle up to your Valentine.It has two verse and two choruses and most musician only play the chorus.It also has some very challeging chorus changes |
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15 Jan 11 - 08:23 PM (#3075422) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: oldhippie Plain and Simple Love - Holly Near |
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13 Feb 11 - 05:33 PM (#3094624) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: Steve Parkes Here's a poem I wrote this week for the library where I work. We're giving it away tomorrow in a goodie bag (with a few other goodies). Love in the Library Roses are red, violets are blue. I love the Lib'ry and so do you. I found love in the Library. I used to go there by myself; I was lonely: I'd begun to think I'd been left upon the shelf. How much did I long for The adventure of romance— Turn fantasy into non-fiction? I didn't have a chance. Then one day at the reading group He offered me his chair; I looked into his face and saw The love in large print there. He made me go all Dewey-eyed: There wasn't the slightest doubt He'd borrowed my heart, and happily I let him take me out. Now we go to the Library As often as we may. We renew our books before they're due And renew our love each day. |
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13 Feb 11 - 05:45 PM (#3094632) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: GUEST,leeneia 'A Very Precious Love.' How it melted my 12-year-old heart! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2iVSHLHHDI |
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13 Feb 11 - 05:50 PM (#3094636) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: GUEST,John MacKenzie I Used to KIss Her on the Lips, but it's All Over Now. |
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13 Feb 11 - 05:57 PM (#3094641) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: Bernard Another perfect song - very clever, concise words, but doesn't mention 'love', as it doesn't need to... Not Too Much To Ask (Mary Chapin Carpenter) To hear you say my name, to see you search my eyes To feel you touch my hand, it more than satisfies. If I was not the first, just say I'll be the last It's too much to expect, but it's not too much to ask. Now I can only dream of being all you need And I can only try to be the reason why You think about today and forget about the past It's too much to expect, but it's not too much to ask. Now I can only dream of being all you need And I can only try to be the reason why You think about today 'cause the past is just the past It's too much to expect, but it doesn't hurt to ask It's too much to expect, but it's not too much to ask. |
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13 Feb 11 - 06:54 PM (#3094671) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: GUEST,crazy little woman True Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4awCZr7GwY |
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13 Feb 11 - 07:02 PM (#3094676) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: bobad Get Together -Dino Valenti (aka Chet Powers) Love is but the song we sing, And fear's the way we die You can make the mountains ring Or make the angels cry Know the dove is on the wing And you need not know why C'mon people now, Smile on your brother Ev'rybody get together Try and love one another right now Some will come and some will go We shall surely pass When the one that left us here Returns for us at last We are but a moments sunlight Fading in the grass C'mon people now, Smile on your brother Ev'rybody get together Try and love one another right now If you hear the song I sing, You must understand You hold the key to love and fear All in your trembling hand Just one key unlocks them both It's there at your command C'mon people now, Smile on your brother Ev'rybody get together Try and love one another right now Right now Right now! |
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13 Feb 11 - 11:11 PM (#3094779) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: MGM·Lion I have often been exercised that the song Swan Arcade used to sing called "Last Valentine's Day" turned out on playing to be a hunting song and not a love song ~~ unlike Ophelia's song in Hamlet, "Tomorrow is St Valentine's Day", which is an anti-love, or betrayed-maiden, song. ~Michael~ |
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14 Feb 11 - 07:45 AM (#3094953) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: Charley Noble Certainly one should consider "There is a Tavern in the Town" as sung by Rudy Vallée, see dedicated thread for further discussion. And Happy Rudy Valléentine's Day to all! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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14 Feb 11 - 07:54 AM (#3094959) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: GUEST,ifor Am listening to Tom Wait's singing Blue Valentine on the radio as I am writing.Great! ifor |
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14 Feb 11 - 08:38 AM (#3094976) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: MGM·Lion I have refreshed old thread on Last Valentine's Day song I refd 3 posts back. ~M~ |
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14 Feb 11 - 10:13 AM (#3095023) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: melodeonboy I think I shall shall piss everybody off at The Good Intent (Rochester) tomorrow night by singing "Valentine's Day Is Over" by Billy Bragg! :) |
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14 Feb 11 - 11:58 AM (#3095089) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: Bernard I'm amazed no-one has mentioned the Beatles' 'All You Need is Love' yet... well, now I have! Ten Beatles songs have 'Love' in the title - eleven if you count 'Lovely Rita'... |
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14 Feb 11 - 01:08 PM (#3095138) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: GUEST,mg There is one about families of the lost Ocean Ranger men getting valentines after the disaster.. Newfoundland...mg |
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14 Feb 11 - 01:23 PM (#3095157) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: JohnB Jon Boden seems to like Cupids Garden for Valentines day, in his A Folk Song A Day blog. JohnB |
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14 Feb 11 - 02:01 PM (#3095179) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: MGM·Lion And, still folkwise, I seem to recall a brief track by English Tapestry on one of Fred Woods' Folk Review albums of the 1970s, called something like 'A Valentine Chant'. It went, IIRC, something like "Good Morrow to you Valentine, What you give me shall be mine; An apple, a peach, a plum or a cherry Or any such thing to make me merry" ~ & then, strangely, lost countenance with the strange ending, "We're hard up, hard up, without food or fire. Have to lace our boots up with a little bit of wire". Couldn't find it in DT. Anyone else remember it? ~Michael~ |
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14 Feb 11 - 05:25 PM (#3095316) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: Arcane Lag Good Ale - thou art my darling Cheers |
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14 Feb 11 - 05:38 PM (#3095324) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: dick.hamlet Bob Coltman's WEB OF BIRDSONG gets my nomination. (Ask Mudcat for a nice thread on it.) It was sung at my wedding, remembered from being sung around the campfire at East coast outing-club events in the early 1960s. But I didn't know it was Bob's until I looked up the thread to post this. Now for the Mudcat testing: Does anyone know the woman who sang it so well that I remembered it for 27 years? All I can provide as clue is that it would have been on the Fork Island park in Lake George, NY, c. 1963, maybe under the auspises of the Cornell Outing Club. |
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14 Feb 11 - 07:01 PM (#3095370) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: Herga Kitty Last year I sang "I'll weave my love a garland" on the Monday night folk club nearest to Valentine's Day, but this year I sang Gav Davenport's Walkley Anthem - "love and money both shall make a fool out of thee"... though it was as an antidote to a very sentimental love song from the preceding singer, George Papavgeris! Kitty |
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15 Feb 11 - 06:30 AM (#3095555) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: saulgoldie From Bill Staines, as performed by Schooner Fare. Roseville Fair Oh the night was clear, the stars were shining, The moon came out so quiet in the sky. The people gathered 'round, the bands were tuning, I can hear them now, playing "Coming Through the Rye." You were dressed in blue, you looked so lovely, Just a gentle flower of a small-town girl. You took my hand, we danced to the music. With a single smile, you became my world. (cho.) And we danced all night, to the fiddle and the banjo, Their drifting tunes seemed to fill the air. So long ago, but I still remember, How we fell in love at the Roseville Fair. We courted well, and we courted dearly. We'd rock for hours on the front porch chair. A year went by from the time I met you. And I made you mine, at the Roseville Fair. And we danced all night, to the fiddle and the banjo, Their drifting tunes seemed to fill the air. So long ago, but I still remember, How we fell in love at the Roseville Fair. So here's a song for all the lovers, Here's a tune that they can share. May they dance all night to the fiddle and the banjo, The way we did at the Roseville Fair. And they danced all night, to the fiddle and the banjo, Their drifting tunes seemed to fill the air. So long ago, but I still remember, How we fell in love at the Roseville Fair. "Our song." But that was then, 14 years ago. Today, everything is up in the air. :-o Saul |
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15 Feb 11 - 08:38 AM (#3095606) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: Tattie Bogle Slightly thread drifting but we have a theme night at one of our local club sessions this Thursday, the theme being "slush". Any candidates for that? There are some old threads on sentimental songs, from which it seems that any given song can be for some people, "our song", for others bring tears to the eyes or heavy palpitations, and for others having them reaching (or retching!) for the sick bucket! |
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15 Feb 11 - 09:56 AM (#3095679) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: melodeonboy What about "Good King Wenceslas"? I know the snow lay deep and crisp and even, but it must have turned to slush at some stage! :) Or "Let It Snow"? You could rewrite it as "Let It Thaw"! :) |
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14 Dec 14 - 05:12 AM (#3685528) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: MGM·Lion Only 2 months exactly to Valentines's. Revisiting this thread, reminded of little snatch sung by English Tapestry that I quoted above [14 Feb 11, 0201 pm], so googled further & found it comes from Thurley, Bedfordshire; where, however, the bit about fruit becomes, even more irrelevantly it seems, "Rags behind and rags before; Come old lady remember the poor", followed by that odd "Hard up, hard up, without food or fire - Have to lace our boots up with a little bit of wire". As the Thurley thread remarks, not very loving or romantic! Any ideas how these strange elements got imposed on a Valentine's Day song? ≈M≈ |
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14 Dec 14 - 05:57 AM (#3685542) Subject: RE: Love Songs For Valentine's Day From: bubblyrat So will Saints George ,Andrew ,David and Patrick all go the same way as Saint Valentine on "their " days ?? Or is Valentine just not very saintly any more ?? |