Posts Tagged ‘52 Greatest Love Songs Ever’
Greatest Love Songs Ever: #20 “You Go To My Head”
By Tom Quiner, Board President, Pulse Life Advocates Romantic love is simply intoxicating. It can make you feel dizzy, giddy, and even silly. The songwriting team of J. Fred Coots…
Read MoreGreatest Love Songs Ever: #22 “All the Things You Are”
By Tom Quiner, Board President, Pulse Life Advocates “You are the promised kiss of springtime, that makes the lonely winter seem long.” These romantic words by the legendary Oscar Hammerstein…
Read MoreGreatest Love Songs Ever: #24 “Do You Love me?”
By Tom Quiner, Board President, Pulse Life Advocates What IS this thing called love? That’s the question Cole Porter poses in a song by that very title. Sheldon Harnick, lyricist…
Read MoreGreatest Love Songs Ever: #27 “My Funny Valentine”
We live in an era of liposuction, breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty, and abdominoplasty. Turn on the television and you’ll hear pitches for hair gloss, face serum, cream blush, toner mist,…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #28 “Sweet Caroline”
“The good times never felt so good!” That’s the feeling that washes over young lovers as they bask in the glow of Neil Diamond’s classic 1969 love song, “Sweet Caroline.”…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #29 “Happy Together”
This frothy confection vaulted to number one on the Billboard charts in 1967. “Happy Together” is a simply delightful example of American pop music at its finest. It is…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #30 “Cheek to Cheek”
Of all of the songs ever performed in the history of cinema, “Cheek to Cheek” ranks #15, according to the American Film Institute. That’s how good it is. It was…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #31 “Something”
Sinatra said that “Something” was the best love song written in the last fifty years. He should know, as he crooned all of the best of the genre in his…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #32 “My Girl”
The intro of “My Girl” immediately grabs, as the bass guitar plays, “bap boom boom, bap boom boom, bap boom boom …” Then a clean electric guitar riff pipes in,…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #33 “Cry Me a River”
Younger readers will think “Cry Me a River” was written by Justin Timberlake in 2002. It’s better to say he ripped off Arthur Hamilton’s song title of the same…
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