52 Greatest Love Songs Ever
Greatest love songs ever: #40 L-O-V-E
By Tom Quiner What’s the difference between Nat King Cole’s rendition of “L-O-V-E” and Olivia Rodriguez’s song of the same title? Cole’s is still being sung 59 years since its…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #41 “I’ve Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)”
By Tom Quiner Love isn’t always pretty. Duke Ellington’s “I’ve Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)” is our second ‘torch song’ in our list of “52 Greatest Love Songs…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #42 “Ring of Fire”
By Tom Quiner “Love is a burning thing!” This line propels “Ring of Fire” out of the starting measure at breakneck speed. This is a love song about passion. Passion…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #43 “I’m a Believer”
By Tom Quiner The Monkees singing “I’m a Believer” What a shift! From the jazz-drenched “In a Sentimental Mood” last week to this week’s rocker from the sixties, “I’m a…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #44 “In a Sentimental Mood”
By Tom Quiner Critics tend to disparage sentiment. They prefer Stephen Sondheim’s cynical take on love over Oscar Hammerstein’s sentimental outlook. Duke Ellington falls into a different category completely, as…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #45 “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman”
By Tom Quiner Carol King is one of the greatest living songwriters. You and I could have a lively debate on which of her many love songs is the best.…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #46 “I Got You Babe”
By Tom Quiner Some of you are thinking I’m nuts for including “I’ve Got You Babe”, by Sonny Bono, in our list of ‘The 52 Greatest Love Songs Ever’. A…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #47 “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You”
By Tom Quiner The songwriting team of Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio wrote songs that delighted we Baby Boomers for more than four decades. Younger generations became acquainted with this…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #48 “And I Love Her”
By Tom Quiner Renown British novelist, Kingsley Amis, once drolly observed: “Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.” This obvious truth is belied by the radical replacement of the nice…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #49 “Unforgettable”
By Tom Quiner Seldom has a love song gotten more bang for the buck out of its spare lyric. Irving Gordon wrote”Unforgettable” in 1951 with two brief verses and a…
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