The Tunes That Make You Swoon
Casey ·
February 14, 2012 at 4:35pm
Nothing moves the heart quite like someone singing a song written by someone else about someone they love.
On this Saint Valentine's Day, won't you share your favorite love song?
Or perhaps you aren't the love song sort. That's OK... At Ricochet we value diversity of opinion. So please feel free to share that song that makes you want to scratch your eyeballs out with a butter knife.
Here's One That Fits Into Both Categories:
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Jun '11
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The favorite song is easy. But... Chet's version. And then, Miles too.
Dec '10
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Last year I took to posting songs on my wife's facebook page. Every day for a month she got at least one song, often more. We now have a list of about 150 "our song"s. The one that surprised me most in all the searching was a piano piece from Jim Brickman. No words, but the song expressed what I was feeling that day. The song: If You Believe. Or, if you require words, Jim Brickman and Lady Antebellum's Never Alone.
Dec '10
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I've shared this story before, but what the heck!
Last spring my wife and I celebrated our 25th Anniversary. We had plans to do a recommittment party, but my business hit some lean times (which continue) and the plan got dropped.
So I approached one of the young men in my daughter's a cappella group - Soul'd Out - and asked him to arrange this song and have them sing it at their spring concert. He did so, and unbeknownst to even me he had my daughter sing the solo. My daughter came out, explained the simple story of why they were doing this song, and then nailed it. As we sat in the audience, I don't think my wife has ever squeezed my arm quite so hard. Both of us had copious tears.
I also had 3 different women come up to me afterwards swooning with the romanticism of it all.
Thanx for starting this stream Casey!
Nov '10
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All of La Boheme. But this in particular, O Soave Fanciulla
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It took me a while to figure out that I was in love with the man I'm now blessed to be married to. 10CC's "I'm Not In Love."
Jul '11
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I sang "In My Life" to my wife at our wedding.
Sep '10
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Bryan Ferry cover of Bob Dylan's Make You Feel My Love. The song doesn't make me swoon. Its the song you listen to when you're drinking a single malt and staring out the moonlight window thinking of what might have been.
Sep '10
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And just ignore this, please:
Bryan Ferry married his girlfriend, Amanda Sheppard, at a luxury beach resort in Turks and Caicos on January 4th. The former Roxy Music frontman, 66, wed the 30-year-old publicist in an intimate ceremony. Ferry originally met Sheppard while she was romantically involved with his son, Isaac.
Eew.
Aug '10
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Dire Straits' Romeo and Juliet.
It will incline your heart to woo.
Check out The Killers' cover, recorded live at Abbey Road.
Mar '11
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"Time After Time", the Rod Stewart version from The Great American Songbook
Aug '10
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"U Stink But I ♥ U" by Billy and the Boingers
Sep '10
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Kiss of Life - Sade
May '10
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The one my wife and I call "our song" was True Love, the last big hit for both Bing Crosby and its composer, Cole Porter. Bing sang it to Grace Kelly (who could have been Mrs. Bing had she not fallen for that whole Princess stuff) in the 1956 MGM musical High Society.
Sep '11
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At our civil partnership ceremony Liz and I played the Bailero from Canteloube's songs of the Auvergne, sung by Jill Gomes, an Azerbaijani folk song arranged by Luciano Berio and sung by Cathy Berberian, and the Stevie Wonder song As, sung by George Michael and Mary J. Blige. But this is what we signed the register to: I Only Have Eyes For You by the Flamingoes. We played it this morning over breakfast.
Oct '11
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Unchained Melody. Sarah (Fleetwood Mac) You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart). Any of those three songs come on the radio it's a red-letter day.
May '10
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The Great Adventure!: I've shared this story before, but what the heck!
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Oh, geez, GA, tough act to follow there buddy. Feelings of inadequacy are welling up within.
And Pseud...thanks so much for sharing. Ugh! Reminds me of Bill Wyman and his bride. Wasn't she something like 16 at the time he married her?
Well, my wife and I are hitting 30 years this year so I must be doing something right even if I don't have "our song."
Apr '11
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We fell in love so fast we never needed a special song. There was a Jackson Browne song that I thought spoke to our history, but she rejected it emphatically. So we've gone through the decades without a sound track, giving each other blank-on-the-inside greeting cards.
Jul '11
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So many choices; I'll try to keep it brief:
Lovers in a Dangerous Time by The Barenaked Ladies
Anything on Kurt Elling's album Nightmoves, but most especially Leaving Again/In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning and Body & Soul.
Tú by Shakira (live version)
-E
Sep '11
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Someone Like You by Van Morrison. Danced to it at our wedding.
Also concur with Pseud about Make You Feel My Love. I like the original by Bob, but I also really like Adele's cover.
King Prawn, I love your selections as well. This has nothing to do with this thread, but I have to say I miss Pepe...
Mar '11
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Best love song ever, well obviously Whole Lotta Love!
Curiously, the highest ranked single of Led Zeppelin's incomparable career. Funky Knebworth version featured here.