Best Love Songs

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mitchritz wrote:MY heart will go on is the best love song ever by the movie titanic

That song is so perfect for that movie.
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Bighuey wrote:One I always liked, altho its not exactly a love song, its more of an erotic song for bedroom games is Blues For Yolanda by Coleman Hawkins.
COLEMAN HAWKINS! Yes! Didn't know anyone still listened to him. I'm not real big on jazz, but ya gotta love his stuff.
How perfectly goddamned delightful it all is, to be sure.
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Tralala wrote:
Bighuey wrote:One I always liked, altho its not exactly a love song, its more of an erotic song for bedroom games is Blues For Yolanda by Coleman Hawkins.
COLEMAN HAWKINS! Yes! Didn't know anyone still listened to him. I'm not real big on jazz, but ya gotta love his stuff.

I always liked saxophone music, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young, some of Charlie Parker's stuff, and the best of them all, Sidney Bechet. Someone once said Bechet was the only one who could play beside Louis Armstrong and not embarass himself.
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Bighuey wrote:
Tralala wrote:
Bighuey wrote:One I always liked, altho its not exactly a love song, its more of an erotic song for bedroom games is Blues For Yolanda by Coleman Hawkins.
COLEMAN HAWKINS! Yes! Didn't know anyone still listened to him. I'm not real big on jazz, but ya gotta love his stuff.

I always liked saxophone music, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young, some of Charlie Parker's stuff, and the best of them all, Sidney Bechet. Someone once said Bechet was the only one who could play beside Louis Armstrong and not embarass himself.
I've heard OF Ben Webster and Lester Young, but I'm not sure I've actually heard either of 'em. Which means it's time for a music-swap again!
I actually got snookered by a recording of "Louis Armstrong" singing Oops, I Did It Again...yes, the Britney Spears song. Turned out to be a fake (whew!), but the person who sent it to me SWORE it was real...and hey, it sounded real. Wotta doofus. Me, I mean.
How perfectly goddamned delightful it all is, to be sure.
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They have been bringing a lot of those old songs back. The song Have You Ever Been Lonely? has been done by everyone from Elvis to Marie Osmand, I believe her version was on the charts for a while, but Ive got the original recording of it from 1932 by, hold on to your hat, Ozzie Nelson of Ozzie and Harriet fame. And that song by Leann Rimes, I Want to Be A Cowboys Sweetheart was done in the 40's by Patsy Montana.
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i will always love you is the best one i think so
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The one that moves me is Maria from West Side Story
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"when i say i do" by matthew west. but this is definitely a wedding song
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Hippie songs of the 70s are the best since they are poetic not egocentric songs of the later period as I would define many love songs of the 80s. Just an opinion. I would recommend song How Can I Tell You available in youtube. Love is about giving not taking. I have been married more than ten years and I still need to learn this lesson in every single day.
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Judy Collins - Wings of Angels
I know it was written following her son's suicide but it is still a very beautiful & evocative love song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNittvHI-SY
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Someday by Elton Britt
One Has My Heart and One Has My Name by Jimmy Wakely
Moonlight and Roses by various. The best version was by Roy Rogers.
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Fly Me to the Moon-Frank Sinatra...nice when he duets with George Strait too

Layla- Eric Clapton, the original, not that acoustic drivel he put out later

Come to my Window-Melissa Etheridge

Maria, Maria-Santana One of my all time favorite tunes of all time
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Anyone remember the Ink Spots? They did some awesome love songs.
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Can't believe nobody has mentioned ............ Danny Boy
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"Only One In Color" by Trapt
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