What's your favourite love song?

[Barbara Moulton]

We could put together the "ultimate" love song CD eh Joanne?

[Joanne Vergin]

Tell me what list would be complete without the Sonny and Cher classic I got you Babe?

[Joanne Vergin]

At Last by Etta James

[Jamie Wayne]

Etta James smokes on that one, Joanne.


Miss You in a Heartbeat - Def Leppard

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VfQ3a1T5yu8

Thanks for the invite...

[Laurie Florence]

How about this one.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tXmLRHnoSAs

[Jamie Wayne]

Surrender by Trixter

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BOOT4qyupDE

[Jamie Wayne]

Not Enough - Van Halen

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_eKMRNqF1hw

[Laurie Florence]

o.k. Jamie, you like the power ballads.
How about this one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ytXzERBnfOA

[Jamie Wayne]

With or Without You - U2

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yEfSnjL0pd8

[Jamie Wayne]

I almost just posted that one, Laurie...

[Laurie Florence]

Well, I'm typing quickly now. How about this one. Bon Jovi.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nE11Zrrp24I

[Jamie Wayne]

Amanda - Boston

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EqBD_rmIU4A

[Dana Grant]

Well, I can think of a gazillion of them, but this one would be in the top ten -- and it's the one that came to my mind first. Joe Cocker singing "You are so Beautiful"

YouTube - Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJxt0Cg52I)

Then the next one that came to my mind -- The Carpenters "Top of the World"
YouTube - The Carpenters - Top Of The World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq5pLi0huhw)

OK, one more -- Carpenters "We've only Just Begun"


YouTube - carpenters -We've Only Just Begun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn7tI)

Oh dear, I've become addicted to YOUTUBE!!!! AAAAAACCCCKKKKK

[Jamie Wayne]

Well, I'm typing quickly now. How about this one. Bon Jovi.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nE11Zrrp24I

Not bad...but not on my A list. :)

[Laurie Florence]

Love U2
How about this one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1wfv3lJs5qE

[Jamie Wayne]

Faithfully - Journey

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sxSMsIFkDZY&mode=related&search=

Don't Stop Believing - Journey

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ip1zsUIosoA

[Jamie Wayne]

Love U2
How about this one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1wfv3lJs5qE

LOL

NO!

:)

[Jamie Wayne]

No One Like You - Scorpions

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ea2s6-Pvhxg
(http://youtube.com/watch?v=2UqCkFTtOOs)

[Jamie Wayne]

Maybe I'm getting a little out of hand...but being invited into the ladies section - and on this particular topic...well, I'm just a little bit excited. :)

[Laurie Florence]

And then there is Aerosmith:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uR3ErFdLW4c

[Laurie Florence]

LOL

NO!

:)

You don't like "The Sweetest Thing" by U2. How could you not?????:basic05

[Jamie Wayne]

Don't Know What You've Got Till It's Gone - Cinderella

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6A0FxTDeklM

[Jamie Wayne]

And then there is Aerosmith:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uR3ErFdLW4c


Yeah...but...well, let's just say that there's a few things pertaining to that video, in its self, and an experience at a party at my house when that song was playing that I probably won't ever forget - but should. Kinda hard not to think of those things when I hear this song.

:)

[Jamie Wayne]

You don't like "The Sweetest Thing" by U2. How could you not?????:basic05

I'm a DUDE.

;)

[Jamie Wayne]

Love Bites - Def Leppard

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3yUZvw-Ps30

[Jamie Wayne]

Love Hurts - Nazareth

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KrSs7gfLDjc

[Laurie Florence]

O.K.,
Here's Guns N Roses
(This is a love song to my daughter, always reminds me of her when I hear it.)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oobDQ0vdm8M&mode=related&search=

[Jamie Wayne]

I really need to stop.

[Laurie Florence]

Love Bites - Def Leppard

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3yUZvw-Ps30

This is one of my favourites.

[Jamie Wayne]

November Rain - Guns n' Roses

http://youtube.com/watch?v=siBoLc9vxac

[Laurie Florence]

I really need to stop.


Well, I understand. The woman's forum is not for the faint of heart. ;)

[Jamie Wayne]

This is one of my favourites.

Love Bites is ridiculous! Gets me going every time.

[Jamie Wayne]

I've never cried more than during the song in my original post - Def Leppard Miss You in a Heartbeat.

Interesting, on that album they put THREE versions of that tune on there, an electric version, acoustic version, and if you wait about a minute after the last track on the disc, there is a "hidden" piano w/ classical guitar version that smokes.

I've shed more tears listening to that song than probably all my other tears combined...

[Laurie Florence]

This one's for Barbara, since I'm not sure she was thinking of power ballads for her CD. It's from the Phantom of the Opera.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S88rkpPu8_g

[Laurie Florence]

I've never cried more than during the song in my original post - Def Leppard Miss You in a Heartbeat.

Interesting, on that album they put THREE versions of that tune on there, an electric version, acoustic version, and if you wait about a minute after the last track on the disc, there is a "hidden" piano w/ classical guitar version that smokes.

I've shed more tears listening to that song than probably all my other tears combined...


The piano/classical guitar version sounds good.

[Jamie Wayne]

Barbara's not looking for POWER ballads? ;)

[Jamie Wayne]

The piano/classical guitar version sounds good.

The one that I posted earlier is the acoustic version...not the "hidden" version, but yeah, the "hidden" version is definitely my favourite.

[Jamie Wayne]

This one's for Barbara, since I'm not sure she was thinking of power ballads for her CD. It's from the Phantom of the Opera.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S88rkpPu8_g

Wow! I was a little surprised by Tony.

[Laurie Florence]

Wow! I was a little surprised by Tony.

So was I ... but it was a nice surprise. :)
I should probably get off Naznet now - it's getting late.
Blessings

[Jamie Wayne]

The Wedding Song - Noel Paul Stookey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12yu44mg2-A

At one of my sisters weddings, my brother and I played "The Wedding Song" as an instrumental, he on piano, and me on acoustic guitar...then we went into:

Michael W. Smith's "Friends"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdXT-v2hPUA

You can sorta kinda see my brother in both pics. In the bottom pic the dude on the left is my brother in law, and in between he and I is his brother - my brother is to the far left.

[Jamie Wayne]

So was I ... but it was a nice surprise. :)
I should probably get off Naznet now - it's getting late.
Blessings

Did you see the movie where he teaches those inner city kids how to tango?

[Gina Stevenson]

Laurie, you made several posts re YouTube without giving the names. As they usually take "forever" to load from there [even my hookup is very slow tonight, it seems], could you please just give us a list of those names, so we can have some idea what they are? Thanks!

Now, can we add, "I Can't Help Falling in Love with You" --- sung by Elvis, of course, tho' others have sung it all right, too. Yes, "I've Got You, Babe," was 'our [Danny's & my] song,' but this one's been a great one since forever, too. ;)

How about this one.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tXmLRHnoSAs

o.k. Jamie, you like the power ballads.
How about this one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ytXzERBnfOA

Well, I'm typing quickly now. How about this one. Bon Jovi.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nE11Zrrp24I

There are more below Dana's note, too, without names. ;) Thanks!

Boy, if you guys can just go to youtube & click on these & hear them all ... you HAVE to have something other than dial-up; I'm fortunate to get one youtube song/video loaded in a couple of hours most of the time on dial-up! :(

Well, I can think of a gazillion of them, but this one would be in the top ten -- and it's the one that came to my mind first. Joe Cocker singing "You are so Beautiful"

YouTube - Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJxt0Cg52I)
Oh, yes!! I do love this song, Dana!

But wait a minute ... we can't forget "When a Man Loves a Woman," either.

Then the next one that came to my mind -- The Carpenters "Top of the World"
YouTube - The Carpenters - Top Of The World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq5pLi0huhw)

OK, one more -- Carpenters "We've only Just Begun"

YouTube - carpenters -We've Only Just Begun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn7tI)

Oh dear, I've become addicted to YOUTUBE!!!! AAAAAACCCCKKKKK

Love U2
How about this one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1wfv3lJs5qE

And then there is Aerosmith:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uR3ErFdLW4c

O.K.,
Here's Guns N Roses
(This is a love song to my daughter, always reminds me of her when I hear it.)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oobDQ0vdm8M&mode=related&search=

This one's for Barbara, since I'm not sure she was thinking of power ballads for her CD. It's from the Phantom of the Opera.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=S88rkpPu8_g

[Jamie Wayne]

What Might Have Been - Little Texas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cysd38iI96I

[Jamie Wayne]

Take it Easy on Me - Little River Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm8DCQLiV44

[Jamie Wayne]

I Cross My Heart - George Strait

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3aqZV463Yis

[Jamie Wayne]

Don't Take the Girl - Tim McGraw

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RP1G5i5q-hk

[Mike Wooldridge]

You Decorated My Life by Kenny Rogers. I had it played at Mary's memorial service.

[Alisa Stoll]

When Ken and I were dating it was Barry Manilow ........











Commercial medley!

Alisa

[Laurie Florence]

Laurie, you made several posts re YouTube without giving the names. As they usually take "forever" to load from there [even my hookup is very slow tonight, it seems], could you please just give us a list of those names, so we can have some idea what they are? Thanks!


Sorry Gina. :o
Here's what I posted. The first song was cute. It was from The Little Mermaid, Kiss The Girl. It's where Ariel and Prince Eric go on a canoe in a lagoon.

The next few were all louder, rockier, power ballads: "When This is Love", by Van Halen; "Living on a Prayer", by Bon Jovi; "The Sweetest Thing", by U2; "Crazy", by Aerosmith; and, "Sweet Child of Mine", by Guns N' Roses.

The last song I posted was very nice. It was "The Phantom of the Opera" performed by Sara Brigthman and Antonio Bandaras. This one really really is worth downloading if you have the time!

Of course, my favourite love song of all time, I did not post last night, as I got sidetracked listing power ballads. :basic01 It was my first dance at my wedding: "Suddenly", by Billy Ocean.

[Mike Wooldridge]

When Ken and I were dating it was Barry Manilow ........commercial melody

The one that ends with the jingle he didn't sell, "Hoover really sucks! " :eek:

[Joanne Vergin]

I knew Barbara should hve posted this in general. ;)

[Barbara Moulton]

The Wedding Song - Noel Paul Stookey


That's the song that got me started thinking about this.

My sister sang it at my wedding.

I came online and saw 48 responses and got all excited thinking 48 people had posted songs.

Then I see its Jamie and Laurie having a late night chat. LOL!

[Barbara Moulton]

I knew Barbara should hve posted this in general. ;)

I can take a hint. I've moved the thread :-)

[Joanne Vergin]

Hey Barbara,
Does Coldplay have any love songs? :)

[Ryan Scott]

Yours by Blues Traveler

and


You're My Best Friend by Queen



There's others, but those two are the most south of mainstream.

[Brian Hammons]

"I Don't Want to Miss A Thing" by Steve Tyler

"You Lift Me Up " by Josh Groban, or nearly anything else by him.

Il Divo is excellent too.

Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful" is a classic."

But my favorite is actually a collection of music & poetry readings done by Ron Perlman in character as Vincent. Do you remember the TV series Beauty & the Beast? It starred Linda Hamilton as a NYC assistant DA and Perlman as the beast.

[Laurie Florence]

Did you see the movie where he teaches those inner city kids how to tango?


Yes, saw it with my daughters. We loved it. We have a household that loves music and dancing. :basic01

[Anne and Dwayne Hood]

You Are My Special Angel, Sent from Heaven Above

[Gina Stevenson]

Thanks, folks. Have seen a few listed here that I'd forgotten about. As for the videos ... might just keep this thread open indefinitely and --- one by one by one every few days or so --- try to get through all those videos noted herein. ;)

[Jamie Wayne]

To Be With You - Mr. Big

I still remember where I was the first time that I heard this tune...

[Barb Bouldrey]

I know I am showing my age here....

But John would sing to me the love song, "More." "More than the greatest love the world has known; this is the love I give to you alone....."

I absolutely love the Righteous Brothers and "Unchained Melody." It still makes me melt.

Barb

[Hans Deventer]

Love U2
How about this one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1wfv3lJs5qE

Did you know the story behind this video?

The song was written by Bono as an apology to his wife Ali Hewson for forgetting her birthday during The Joshua Tree sessions. At Alison's request, proceeds from the single went to her favorite charity, Chernobyl Children's Project International. Actually, she only agreed to be in the video because of that.

[Hans Deventer]

I had to think a while to answer that question. But it's probably The Moody Blues - "Nights In White Satin" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPg3_3avju8

That would be because this song affected me most as a teen.

[Hans Deventer]

On second thoughts: Turn Of The Century by Yes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tb2a7EeyGc

Realising a form out of stone
Set hands moving
Roan shaped his heart
Thru his working hands
Work to mould his passion into clay
Like the sun

In his room, his lady
She would dance and sing so completely
So be still, he now cries
I have time, oh let clay transform thee so

In the deep cold of night
Winter calls, he cries, don't deny me
For his lady, deep her illness
Time has caught her
And will for all reasons take her

In the still light of dawn, she dies
Helpless hands soul revealing

Like leaves we touch, we learn
We once knew the story
As Winter calls he will starve
All but to see the stone be life

Now Roan no more tears
Set to work his strength
So transformed him
Realising a form out of stone, his work
So absorbed him
Could she hear him
Could she see him
All aglow was his room dazed in this light
He would touch her
He would hold her
Laughing as they danced
Highest colours touching others

Did her eyes at the turn of the century
Tell me plainly
When we meet, how we'll love, oh let life so transform me

Like leaves we touched, we danced
We once knew the story
As autumn called and we both
Remembered all those many years ago
I'm sure we know

Was the sign of the day with a touch
As I kiss your fingers
We walk hands in the sun
Memories when we're young
Love lingers so.

Was it sun thru the haze
That made all your looks
As warm as moonlight
As a pearl deep your eyes
Tears have flown away
All the same light

Did her eyes at the turn of the century
Tell me plainly
When we meet how we'll look
As we smile time will leave me clearly

Like leaves we touch, we see
We will know the story
As Autumn calls we'll both remember
All those many years ago

[Roland Hearn]

This was certainly my favorite at one time.
Meatloaf, "You took the words right out of my mouth." Skip the dramatic intro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fAPEUWowEc

[Brad Mercer]

When Karen and I had been married a year or so there was a popular song that said: "You're still the one". We sang that one to each other a lot, and thought it was impressive of us to still be able to say that to each other after a whole year of marriage. ;-)

The song that I most often sing to Karen now for some reason, even though it's never been one of my favorite songs, is the old Stevie Wonder song, "I just called to say I love you."

There have to be love songs I actually like way better than either of those, but those are the first two that come to mind.

Brad

[Mike Schutz]

My favorite is a real oldie:

"I Only Have Eyes for You" was first written in 1934. Most folks know it as recorded by the Flamingos in 1959, by The Lettermen in 1966, or by Art Garfunkel in 1975.

[Mike Wooldridge]

The song that I most often sing to Karen now for some reason, even though it's never been one of my favorite songs, is the old Stevie Wonder song, "I just called to say I love you." Brad

For Brad and Karen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY45DkaP9Ls

[Joanne Vergin]

mike, I sing that a lot if we are out after dark. It makes my kids eyes roll right out of the sockets. :fav08

[Hans Deventer]

My favorite is a real oldie:

"I Only Have Eyes for You" was first written in 1934. Most folks know it as recorded by the Flamingos in 1959, by The Lettermen in 1966, or by Art Garfunkel in 1975.

I know it from the Ray Conniff Singers. My dad used to have quite a lot of his records, and it was THE way for me to get to know many of these 50's and 60's songs.

[Gina Stevenson]

I know it from the Ray Conniff Singers. My dad used to have quite a lot of his records, and it was THE way for me to get to know many of these 50's and 60's songs.

When I saw the title, what came to my mind is something I think PBS had on re oldies ... and Natalie Cole's daddy was singing this song. If it wasn't PBS, then perhaps it's on a CD I found at a garage sale for $1 with Natalie & her daddy (Nat King Cole) singing together (his oldies mixed in with her, newly recorded, singing along).

[Mike Schutz]

I know it from the Ray Conniff Singers. My dad used to have quite a lot of his records, and it was THE way for me to get to know many of these 50's and 60's songs.

Many evenings my mom and dad would have Ray Conniff albums playing on the big old hi-fi in the living room. We knew not to go into the room, because they would be snuggling!

[Gina Stevenson]

Many evenings my mom and dad would have Ray Conniff albums playing on the big old hi-fi in the living room. We knew not to go into the room, because they would be snuggling!

Snuggling, eh? With someone singing an appropriate song, such as, "My Embraceable You." (think that's the name of an oldie I've heard now & then somewhere ... is that another NK Cole one, too? Not sure ................)

[Hans Deventer]

Many evenings my mom and dad would have Ray Conniff albums playing on the big old hi-fi in the living room. We knew not to go into the room, because they would be snuggling!

I can just hears the songs :basic05

Everybody loves somebody sometime
Everybody falls in love somehow
Something in your kiss just told me
That sometime is now

Everybody finds somebody someplace
There's no telling where love may appear
Something in my heart keeps saying
My someplace is here

If I had it in my power
I'd arrange for every girl to have you charms
Then every minute, every hour
Everybody would find what I found in your arms

Everybody loves somebody sometime
And though my dreams were overdue
Your love made it all worth waiting
For someone like you

If I had it in my power
I'd arrange for every girl to have you charms
Then every minute, every hour
Everybody would find what I found in your arms

Everybody loves somebody sometime
And though my dreams were overdue
Your love made it all worth waiting
For someone like you

[Rich Hudson]

"Longer" Dan Fogelberg

I especially like these lines....

Through the years as the fire starts to mellow
Burning lines in the book of our lives
Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow
Ill be in love with you.

[Ian Gentles]

Oh this is bad, ok i aint a romantic lol

[Laurie Florence]

Here's a love song from Cold Play. It's called "Green Eyes". Love it!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hon-BAyhlCk&mode=related&search=

[Hans Deventer]

Here's a love song from Cold Play. It's called "Green Eyes". Love it!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hon-BAyhlCk&mode=related&search=

I love Coldplay. It's one of the few recent bands that try to play Music.

[Jim Franklin]

I've gone through this whole list and do not recognize any of the songs but it seems Ray Coniff is hazily familiar. I think I will nominate "I'll be Loving You, Always" as sung by Natalie Neven of the Lawrence Welk program would probably be mine.

[Joanne Vergin]

Hey Jim. I still watc Lawrence Welk re-runs. And I willingly watched them as a kid too. My parents were from the Big Band era and I love that music. I could add Night and Day to my list of favorite love songs.

[Charles W Christian]

"Someday when things are good, I'm gonna leave you/ I can't seem to go when things are bad...." -- Merle Haggard :basic03


Ahhh the love and poetry in those words:basic05....
----------------------------------------
Seriously, I like "I Will Be Here" by Stephen Curtis Chapman, mostly because it was played at my wedding....:)


Charles

[Joanne Vergin]

My Funny Valentine

[Laurie Florence]

Careless Whisper by Wham

[Chris Baker]

...Seriously, I like "I Will Be Here" by Stephen Curtis Chapman, mostly because it was played at my wedding....:)

I love his song "We Will Dance" for the same reason.

[Meghan Schoonover]

"Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton.

[Brad Mercer]

I've gone through this whole list and do not recognize any of the songs but it seems Ray Coniff is hazily familiar. I think I will nominate "I'll be Loving You, Always" as sung by Natalie Neven of the Lawrence Welk program would probably be mine.

The song "Winchester Cathedral" just popped into my head yesterday and I went around all day singing it to myself. The first time I ever heard it was one of those evenings in childhood when I was being forced to watch the Lawrence Welk show with my parents or grandparents. It was a catchy song and got irretrievably stuck in my head.

Brad

[Mike Schutz]

The song "Winchester Cathedral" just popped into my head yesterday and I went around all day singing it to myself. The first time I ever heard it was one of those evenings in childhood when I was being forced to watch the Lawrence Welk show with my parents or grandparents. It was a catchy song and got irretrievably stuck in my head.

Brad

True, so true. I saw it for exactly the same reason, and it is a song that just sticks in your head.

You can curse a person just by singing the first few lines of a song like that. It will be with them all day! The contemporary equivalent is "Kung Fu Fighting" :fun06

[Brad Mercer]

You can curse a person just by singing the first few lines of a song like that. It will be with them all day! The contemporary equivalent is "Kung Fu Fighting" :fun06

One of my little ways of entertaining myself is to deliberately stick a weird song in the head of Roland's wife Emmy. All I have to do is just walk past her singing some old pop song from the '70's, or worse yet, a Hank Williams country song, and no matter how much she hates the song, it'll be stuck in her head and she'll go around singing it to herself for the next hour. It's great fun. ;-)

Brad

[Gina Stevenson]

The song "Winchester Cathedral" just popped into my head yesterday and I went around all day singing it to myself. The first time I ever heard it was one of those evenings in childhood when I was being forced to watch the Lawrence Welk show with my parents or grandparents. It was a catchy song and got irretrievably stuck in my head.

Brad

The song that used to do that to me was that old CCM song, "Say, 'I Do'," ... once it got into mine, I sang it for a good while while this one friend & I were painting some scenery long years ago ... then it got stuck into my friend's head, too ... for which she wanted to crown me! :rolleyes:

One of my little ways of entertaining myself is to deliberately stick a weird song in the head of Roland's wife Emmy. All I have to do is just walk past her singing some old pop song from the '70's, or worse yet, a Hank Williams country song, and no matter how much she hates the song, it'll be stuck in her head and she'll go around singing it to herself for the next hour. It's great fun. ;-)

Brad

You little deviant, you! :fav18 That's funny, Brad ... 'sounds like my kind of humor [see above].

EDIT: had to come back to say that there's this one song I listened to how-many times today, as I'd not heard it in awhile. Yeah, I learned to program the CD player [as I don't read directions much, I decided I wanted to hear that song more than once badly enough to take time to figure it out today ;)] I've had "forever," so programed the song as #1, then a couple of more songs, then my favorite on the CD again, then another couple of songs, then that favorite again ... well, you get the picture. ;)

It was something I found at a neighbor's garage sale. I'd always liked the song on those occasions I'd hear it out West, and figured it was old enough, I'd never find it in the store. It was Glen Campbell's "Jesus & Me" testmony song. It's just a nice, catchy tune [along w/decent words].

I have sung for kings & queens, all around the world.
I have romanced millions with my guitar & a love song.
et cetera ...................

Just wait until Christmastime! I can play the favorite(s) on every CD how-many times ........... :basic05 Well, actually, I pulled out a Christmas CD today along w/a few others. Didn't catch my station the day they did Christmas in July, so I'm doin' my own version of it in August. ;)

[Mike Wooldridge]

Just wait until Christmastime! I can play the favorite(s) on every CD how-many times ........... :basic05 Well, actually, I pulled out a Christmas CD today along w/a few others. Didn't catch my station the day they did Christmas in July, so I'm doin' my own version of it in August. ;)

Christmas means Mannheim Steamroller (http://www.mannheimsteamroller.com/index2.html)! :fav18

[Gina Stevenson]

Christmas means Mannheim Steamroller (http://www.mannheimsteamroller.com/index2.html)! :fav18

While not the entirety of "Christmas, musically," they're definitely on my "Love 'Em!" list. ;)

One of the others on that list is TransSiberian Orchestra! Wow! Nearly splurged & saw them last year with a friend, and then we decided maybe we'd try to get a video, or maybe another of their CD's (have one so far). Didn't do that, so maybe we'll just go ahead and go this year ... after all, have not done any Christmas concert in years, so maybe could "justify" it by figuring it's how-many concert tickets all wrapped up into one (things are expensive at VanAndel---Amway dude---Arena, you see ;)).

Which reminds me ... the other day they mentioned on the news they were going to have a huge retirement party for the oldest employee (70-something) of the Amway Grand Plaza. He began there in '53 when it was The Pantlind Hotel. There's some of the old Pantlind in the house here, too. When they tore out a lot of it to remake it into the Amway Grand, my dad rushed down there to get some pieces of the marble floors they were tearing up (sentimental, I guess, since he'd worked there as a kid), and those chunks are in jigsaw fashion as the fireplace hearth.

[Jim Franklin]

I don't understand the idea that anyone was "forced" to watch Lawrence Welk for it is the most enjoyable entertainment on television ever.

[Brad Mercer]

I don't understand the idea that anyone was "forced" to watch Lawrence Welk for it is the most enjoyable entertainment on television ever.

Likewise I don't understand how anyone could successfully avoid ALL knowledge of popular culture for 50 years of adult life.

I found Lawrence Welk to be more nearly the least entertaining TV. I much preferred American Bandstand.

Brad

[Jim Franklin]

Hey, Brad, we Old Time Nazarenes grew up being taught to turn our back against anything that hinted at "devilish modernism" so I have come a long way from even tolerating the opinions of some of the whippersnappers on this forum.

[Hans Deventer]

Hey, Brad, we Old Time Nazarenes grew up being taught to turn our back against anything that hinted at "devilish modernism"

Now that's a good thing. I'm more into post modernism anyway. I certainly don't like modernism.

[Brad Mercer]

Hey, Brad, we Old Time Nazarenes grew up being taught to turn our back against anything that hinted at "devilish modernism" so I have come a long way from even tolerating the opinions of some of the whippersnappers on this forum.

I grew up the same way in the 1960's. I remember a pastor friend of my dad's giving me a book by Bob Larson entitled: "Rock and Roll: The Devil's Diversion" in about 1970. But even he had to listen to enough of it to quote the lyics in his book to illustrate how evil it was. Even then, at 13-14 years old, it occurred to me that he could just have well quoted lyrics from popular country songs of the day, and write of Country Music the devil's diversion, but he hadn't. Then I started listening to some of the popular music of the pre-rock era and discovered some of the same moral values implicit that rock just made explicit.

I could just never quite get what year God quit liking popular music and why. The music on Lawrence Welk was, for the most part popular music from the 30's and 40's being sung on his show in the 60's by people other than the original artists who made them popular. I just couldn't figure out the rules for acceptable pop music. I remember my dad despised Elvis and his "hip-jerking, bone-grinding, immoral" music -- until the Beatles came along with their longer hair and drugs and Hinduism. Then suddenly Elvis was okay.

I don't listen to a lot of popular music now, but I still go to www.billboard.com and see what the top albums and singles are, then go to www.amazon.com to find those albums and listen to a few of those singles, just to keep in touch with the rest of the world. I don't think we can effectively love people if we aren't interested in getting to know them in the context of their own culture. Missionaries have to do that. I'm pretty sure we do, too, if we want to be agents of transformation in that culture.

Brad

[Gina Stevenson]

Thanks for the tip on how to do this, Brad. Have felt myself that I'm waaay behind in at least knowing what kids are being influenced by today, and have teenaged nieces. Wondered, without leaving some radio station on for too long, how to hear. So, now I know:

(1) billboard.com and then
(2) amazon.com.


Thanks again, Bro! ;) :fav18

I don't listen to a lot of popular music now, but I still go to www.billboard.com (http://www.billboard.com) and see what the top albums and singles are, then go to www.amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com) to find those albums and listen to a few of those singles, just to keep in touch with the rest of the world. I don't think we can effectively love people if we aren't interested in getting to know them in the context of their own culture. Missionaries have to do that. I'm pretty sure we do, too, if we want to be agents of transformation in that culture.

Brad

[Ryan Scott]

I don't understand the idea that anyone was "forced" to watch Lawrence Welk for it is the most enjoyable entertainment on television ever.


I love watching the Lawrence Welk reruns on PBS. It's some of the most ludicrous, hilarious entertainment on TV today...




...oh, what? It's not a comedy program? Whoops.

[Jim Franklin]

No, No, No, you young whippersnappers, I often get blessed to point of shouting my Lord's praises when Tom Netherton sings "How Great Though Art." Your minds and tastes have been adulterated by worldly modernism. There has not been a reasonably popular song written since 1960. And even though Elvis became popular during my high school years I had nothing but disdain for his brand of whatever it is called and the bugs, too. For absolute enjoyable entertainment Lawrence Welk is right up there with "Evening at the Met." May the generation gap roll on.

[Jim Severns]

Gladys Knight and the Pips.

I play it for Faye from a CD every year on our anniversary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RctsRbQP_wM



Lyrics for: Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

I've had my share
Of life's ups and downs
But fate's been kind
The downs have been few
Oh I guess you can say
that I've been lucky
Or I guess you can say
that it's all because of you

If anyone should ever write my life story
For whatever reason there might be
You'd be there between each line of pain and glory
Cause you're the best thing that ever happened to me

Oooh there have been times when times were hard
But always somehow I made it through
Cause for every moment that I spent hurting
There was a moment that I spent on just loving you

If anyone should ever write my life story
For whatever reason there might be
You'd be there between each line of pain and glory
Cause you're the best thing that ever happened to me

[Gord Evans]

"Midnight at the Oasis", Maria Muldaur

http://www.youtube.com/v/Kf-FnX7WbMQ

[Meghan Schoonover]

Oh man, this Lawrence Welk talk reminds me of my Nana, who was *convinced* that Lawrence Welk was still around and filming "those girls in the lovely costumes." "No, Nana, those are re-runs...they don't make them only more." "But dear, I just saw it last week!"

[Joanne Vergin]

Hooked on a Feeling.

5 6 7 8 !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O90CYGNvOfE

[John Rivas]

My favorites are:

"If" by Bread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hSydUKfG5U

"Heartbreaker" by Grand Funk Railroad (THE GREATEST BAND EVER IMO!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW3nPqPPBDw&mode=related&search=

I may catch some flack for this last one, but it is a wonderful ballad -

"He was a friend of mine" - Willie Nelson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf0hoiXRcss

[Gina Stevenson]

'Forgot about that one ... 'Hooked on a Feeling' ... good one. There are a lot of good ones out there, aren't there? Wonder how long this list'll get ... ??

[Mike Schutz]

:fun06Careless Whisper by Wham

"Midnight at the Oasis", Maria Muldaur

[[QUOTE=Joanne Vergin;119324]Hooked on a Feeling.

5 6 7 8 !
[QUOTE=John Rivas;119350]My favorites are:

"If" by Bread


"Heartbreaker" by Grand Funk Railroad (THE GREATEST BAND EVER IMO!)


I may catch some flack for this last one, but it is a wonderful ballad -

"He was a friend of mine" - Willie Nelson



Okay, now that I know this about them, how am I ever going to take seriously anything Gord, Laurie, Joanne or John say, in any thread, ever.

Compared to these, "Don't Worry, Be Happy" and "Kung Fu Fighting" represent quality song writing.

Excuse me, I need to go to my "happy place" now to get the lyrics of these so-called songs out of my head.

[John Rivas]

" ...need to go to my "happy place" now to get the lyrics of these so-called songs out of my head."


Who sings that, Mike?

[Joanne Vergin]

Mike,
If I ever visit your church I'll know what to sing! :basic05

[Laurie Florence]

:fun06
Okay, now that I know this about them, how am I ever going to take seriously anything Gord, Laurie, Joanne or John say, in any thread, ever.


Careless Whisper was the first song my husband and I ever danced to on our first date, many years back. Who cares what quality the song writing is? I fell in love to that song!:fav14

[Gina Stevenson]

Careless Whisper was the first song my husband and I ever danced to on our first date, many years back. Who cares what quality the song writing is? I fell in love to that song!:fav14

'Never heard it. Hmmmmmmm ... anyone find a midi? ;)

[Jim Severns]

Careless Whisper was the first song my husband and I ever danced to on our first date, many years back. Who cares what quality the song writing is? I fell in love to that song!:fav14

I'm sorry, but as far as love song lyrics are concerned, "I'm never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm" is about as romantically inspiring as "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas". Puhhhhhlleeeeeeeese!

[Laurie Florence]

I'm sorry, but as far as love song lyrics are concerned, "I'm never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm" is about as romantically inspiring as "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas". Puhhhhhlleeeeeeeese!

It wasn't the words, silly! :rolleyes:
We were in a dance club, on the observation deck of the CN Tower. All of Toronto was beneath us, there is a saxaphone playing in the song, and my husband has gorgeous blue eyes. Under these circumstances, how could I ever be expected to pay attention to the lyrics of the song. I was love struck! :basic01