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01 May 03 - 04:32 PM (#944437) Subject: Favourite love song...? From: iRiShBaBe 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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01 May 03 - 04:43 PM (#944441) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Mark Clark 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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01 May 03 - 04:46 PM (#944445) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Ralphie Lene Willemark Det Stod En Yungfrau. Go On...Try and find it !! Cheers Ralphie |
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01 May 03 - 04:53 PM (#944458) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: PoppaGator 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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01 May 03 - 05:13 PM (#944474) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST,Ouge She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah...!!!!! (The Beatles) |
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01 May 03 - 06:17 PM (#944514) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Shonagh 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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01 May 03 - 07:24 PM (#944539) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Bat Goddess "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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01 May 03 - 07:32 PM (#944546) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Little Hawk 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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01 May 03 - 07:41 PM (#944557) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST,Russ "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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01 May 03 - 08:28 PM (#944578) Subject: RE: Lyr. Add: Night Song From: michaelr 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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01 May 03 - 09:57 PM (#944602) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Walking Eagle 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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02 May 03 - 03:52 AM (#944702) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Susanl She Moved Through the Fair |
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02 May 03 - 04:24 AM (#944713) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: alanabit 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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02 May 03 - 04:30 AM (#944716) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Nemesis "You Do something to me ..." Paul Weller Stanley Road Album ..Brrrrr ...ooooooooh! |
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02 May 03 - 04:43 AM (#944720) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: kendall Faded Roses of December Utah Phillips A Bad half hour Tom Russell |
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02 May 03 - 03:44 PM (#945080) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: iRiShBaBe or, ' when i fall in love' by clive griffin... |
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02 May 03 - 04:52 PM (#945114) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Peg Song, Composed in August (Westlin' Winds) by Robert Burns |
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02 May 03 - 05:55 PM (#945151) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST,ClaireBear 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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02 May 03 - 06:28 PM (#945163) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: beardedbruce tossup betwee "I hold your hand in mine" :-) and Motorcycle Mama, by Sailcat. |
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02 May 03 - 10:23 PM (#945258) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Uncle_DaveO 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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03 May 03 - 11:31 AM (#945403) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Jim McLean 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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03 May 03 - 12:03 PM (#945414) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Deckman My favorite is Tom Paxton's "Wild Flying Dove." CHEERS, Bob |
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03 May 03 - 01:05 PM (#945430) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: IvanB '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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03 May 03 - 02:06 PM (#945460) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST,You Can Call Me Al 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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03 May 03 - 05:09 PM (#945532) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Mudlark 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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03 May 03 - 05:19 PM (#945535) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Gavin Tom Paxton's "Wild Flying Dove" (picked on an open-D tuning) - corny, but gets me. |
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03 May 03 - 05:22 PM (#945538) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST,You Can Call Me Al 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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03 May 03 - 05:44 PM (#945542) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Allan C. 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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03 May 03 - 08:32 PM (#945615) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Sandy Mc Lean 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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03 May 03 - 09:26 PM (#945633) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Joe Offer 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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03 May 03 - 09:33 PM (#945638) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST Spanish Is a Loving Tongue |
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03 May 03 - 10:25 PM (#945646) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: khandu "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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03 May 03 - 10:29 PM (#945647) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Janie "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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03 May 03 - 11:44 PM (#945665) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST,Mickey191 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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03 May 03 - 11:49 PM (#945667) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Ely 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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04 May 03 - 09:40 AM (#945777) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Sam L 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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04 May 03 - 02:33 PM (#945893) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST We get lots of requsts to do "I Will" (McCartney/Lennon) for weddings. |
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04 May 03 - 04:25 PM (#945924) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: iRiShBaBe 'love lift us up where we belong' joe cocker and jennifer warnes ' your song' elton john |
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04 May 03 - 08:02 PM (#945991) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Walking Eagle 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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04 May 03 - 09:52 PM (#946032) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST,.gargoyle 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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04 May 03 - 10:30 PM (#946055) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Stilly River Sage Ugg. What a post to follow. "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," the Roberta Flack version. SRS |
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05 May 03 - 03:45 AM (#946118) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: ooh-aah I also love 'In My Life' (Lennon/Mcartney). I think 'Northern Sky' by Nick Drake is my No. 1 favorite. |
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05 May 03 - 10:05 AM (#946198) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Peter T. 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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05 May 03 - 12:21 PM (#946267) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: PoppaGator 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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05 May 03 - 02:09 PM (#946344) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: paulo If the eyes match - Beautiful Brown Eyes paulo p.s. If they don't your knackered |
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05 May 03 - 04:48 PM (#946435) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: fsharpdim7 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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06 May 03 - 02:33 AM (#946742) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST,Guest Maggie (When You And I Were Young) |
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06 May 03 - 03:04 AM (#946758) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: McMusic 1-Beautiful dreamer 2-Always |
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06 May 03 - 03:38 AM (#946768) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Stewie Aye Waukin' O Curragh of Kildare Bonnie Bessie Logan --Stewie. |
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06 May 03 - 03:50 AM (#946775) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: McMusic 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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06 May 03 - 04:05 AM (#946783) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: GUEST - That's amore - fist time ever i saw your face - kiss ( sung by Dean Martin) |
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06 May 03 - 05:51 AM (#946809) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: fat B****rd "The way you look tonight" Fred Astaire "Lipstick traces" Benny Spellman "Annie" Ronnie Lane |
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06 May 03 - 08:33 AM (#946891) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: RoyH (Burl) Hey Joe Offer...Mrs Burl and I did exactly the same on Aug 3rd 1957. |
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06 May 03 - 03:11 PM (#947145) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: iRiShBaBe listin all these songs makes the reality of being single more obvious!! ouch!! |
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06 May 03 - 08:02 PM (#947388) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: McMusic 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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06 May 03 - 08:40 PM (#947415) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Susanne (skw) Victoria Wood's 'Love Song' - a lifetime together in three verses! |
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06 May 03 - 11:00 PM (#947481) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: anais 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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07 May 03 - 03:14 PM (#948012) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Renegade 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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08 May 03 - 07:55 AM (#948532) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Firecat 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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08 May 03 - 12:27 PM (#948725) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: YOR 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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08 May 03 - 04:21 PM (#948861) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: iRiShBaBe imagine the quality if all these songs were put on an album! pure quality! |
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08 May 03 - 05:16 PM (#948901) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: DaveA 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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09 May 03 - 08:46 AM (#949250) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: sweetfire 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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09 May 03 - 08:05 PM (#949629) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: McMusic Ow, sweetfire, that hurt. |
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10 May 03 - 10:22 AM (#949900) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: iRiShBaBe hehe, honesty and innocence! |
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10 May 03 - 01:46 PM (#950024) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: sweetfire hehehe sorry, but its true!!! |
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10 May 03 - 03:20 PM (#950085) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Mary in Kentucky 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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10 May 03 - 03:22 PM (#950087) Subject: RE: Favourite love song...? From: Mary in Kentucky And Renegade too! |