The Best Love Song Of All Time?

It's the sort of song that'll give you goosebumps everytime. And wasn't Ghost just a brilliant movie. I also love Eternal Flame by the Bangles in, I think, 1989. There's so many great ones. I love the idea of having a soundtrack for your stories, Rachel  

Al Green's "Let's Get Married Today" always give me chills (the good kind!). "I Got You Babe" really is a fabulous song too. As is "River Deep, Mountain High" by Ike and Tina Turner. I do find that the real life relationship slightly diminishes my enjoyment, though. Lots of great Elvis songs, too. It's hard to choose!

My books don't really have a soundtrack, but they can be influenced by what I'm listening to at the time. The radio station I listen to in the car was playing loads of 70's disco while I was writing my Feb book "Millionaire's Secret Seduction" and my characters ended up at at Studio 54 reunion party

Jen

And here I thought I was the only one that put together a special selection of songs for each book!  How bizarre.  I have to confess, I don't go to the trouble of making an actual CD.  I'll load the songs onto iTunes on my computer in a special folder and then hit "auto replay."  I remember for one of my books...Bridegroom on Approval, maybe--it was one of the Fairytale Wedding/Cinderella Ball ones and he dressed up like Zorro for the masked ball where they met--I played the soundtrack to Zorro over and over and over for that book.  It's still one of my favorite books (even if I can't remember the title!).  Another book was Don Juan de Marco.  And now I'm going to hear Bryan Adams' Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman in my head all day, lol.  But there's another great love song.

As for favorite love song?  I really don't have one because I'll get bored with one and switch to another.  One of my all-time favorites, though, is Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.  I could listen to that over and over all day--and have.

Great topic, Rachel!

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I  always liked Heaven by Bryan Adams. 

First I have to wholeheartedly second "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers and Bryan Adams' "Heaven".  In fact, I'm convinced by listening to his music that Bryan Adams is deeply in love with a woman because so many of his songs sound like they come from the soul, such as:

• Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman  (the lyric "When you can see your unborn children in her eyes, then you know you really love a woman" just melts me every time)
• When You Love Someone
• Please Forgive Me
• Everything I Do I Do It For You
• All For Love
• Here I Am

He has that slightly raspy quality to his voice that gives me goosebumps, too.

Other good ones are:

• Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours"  (a sweet, happy love song)
• Art Garfunkel's "I Only Have Eyes for You" (sweetly romantic.  We played this one at our wedding for our first dance)  or "Angel Claire" (a kind of poignantly sweet love song)
• Association "Never My Love"  (sweetly romantic)
• Paul Stukey's "The Wedding Song"  (for obvious reasons -- this was played at our wedding)
• Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" (romantic and kind of sexy) 
• Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful"  (sweetly romantic)
• Extreme's "More Than Words"  (This one came as a total surprise to me because Extreme is, as I understand it, a heavy metal group.  I heard this one on the radio and went into a store to find it for our anniversary one year.)
• The Beatles' "Yesterday" (very sadly romantic)

JV, they have other pretty songs as well. Ever heard their song, Hole hearted?

I had to think for awhile on this, but I have to say my favorite is Carrying Your Love With Me by Goerge Strait. Loved that song when I was little and still love it now.

No, I haven't heard that one.  I did find a compilation album of love ballads by heavy metal and hard rock bands that had "More Than Words" on it.  It's really a beautiful song.  I'll have to look for that one and give it a listen!

[Edited to add:  Just listened to it on YouTube.  These are the only two songs I've ever heard by them, and I begin to wonder if they are, indeed, a heavy metal band.  This song had lots of acoustic guitard and lovely harmonies on the vocals.  Hmmm.  If so, they definitely know how to display their softer side as well!]

JV, you might also want to look for their album Three Sides to Every Story (well, the name of the album was something along those lines). There are some pretty songs there, too.

My favourite song is 'Right here waiting' By Richard Marx. I love how this song packed with emotion. 

I never thought of them as heavy metal. To me heavy metal is like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath etc... I thought of them as hard rock. I though of a lot of the hair bands that came out in the 80's as hard rock because they also did these monster ballads. I also really like some of the ballads from Def Leppard like Love Bites, Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad, Two Steps Behind

All My Life - Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville

Carried Away - George Strait

Can't Help Falling in Love - Elvis Presley

I Love You For Sentimental Reasons - Nat King Cole

It Had To Be You - Harry Connick Jr 

I'm a music freak, and just reading over the previous posts helped me remember a few that I adore.

AT LAST-Etta James

I'LL STILL BE LOVING YOU-Restless Heart (Sang at a wedding)

I MELT-Rascall Flatts (not really a 'love' song, but a great gettin' in the mood song IMHO)

I'LL GO ON LOVING YOU-Alan Jackson (another like the one above, but does have a 'forever' message)

THERE YOU ARE-Martina McBride (Sang at a wedding)

I DO-Paul Brandt (Sang at a wedding)

KEEPER OF THE STARS-Tracy Byrd is great, too

These next 2 weren't released as singles, but are still AMAZING songs!

THE NERVE-George Strait

I WAS BORN TO GIVE MY LOVE TO YOU-Martina McBride (I had played at my wedding.)

I was trying to think of other songs I've sang at weddings.  I've done IT'S YOUR LOVE by Tim and Faith someone mentioned earlier.  I've also done GROW OLD ALONG WITH ME (Mary Chapin Carpenter version), and I can't remember the others!  (I must not have felt they were memorable as a wedding song) 

If I think of more, I'll be sure to let you know!!!!!

Hugs,
April

I've done soundtracks for a couple of books. 

Probably my all time favorite romantic song is Van Morrison's You Don't Know Me. Just so much raw emotion. But Etta James's At Last is another favorite.

Nat "King" Cole's duet with Natalie on "Unforgettable" and Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman"!

I'm not much of a muso - sometimes something in the lyrics of a song will spark a story, but when I'm writing I like absolute silence.