Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Love and loss mingle beautifully in Thomas Moore's 200-year-old ballad. If such love is demonstrated, all the law and prophets are fulfilled. Fauteux was listening to it at the time, and while not explicitly about love, the album is forever associated with one of the happiest times of his life. His other favourite, Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms, is a wistful, lilting ballad about love and loss, penned almost 200 years ago by the Irish poet and composer Thomas Moore. Harrison built his own quintessential love song around one line. Elvis Presley's Possible Identities If He's Still Alive, Get to the roots of rock at Elvis' birthplace in Tupelo, How Elvis Turned Christmas Into Rock's First Comeback, "Don't Let Me Down" by the Beatles - History. Songwriter Nick Cave talked about duende in his lecture ‘The Secret Life Of The Love Song’. It is a howl in the void.”. “The one song that really made an impression on me growing up was Chet Baker singing ‘My Funny Valentine’,” said Lucinda Williams. “Walking On Sunshine” is a very upbeat song that will instantly bring a smile to anyone listening!
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‘Be My Baby’, which Spector co-wrote with Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, “documents that initial explosion” said the singer, who married Spector in 1968. But why do performers and listeners enjoy songs which overflow with melancholy and despair? The head of the Episcopal Church, Bishop Michael Curry, preached love when he presided over the marriage of Meghan Markle to Prince Harry. In the 80s, it was rappers in the inner city. “It’s a simpler song that nevertheless expresses love that is ageless,” Ratzlaff says. From Elvis to the Beatles to ABBA, discover artist profiles along with their biggest hits. That’s why a love song like ‘Stormy Weather’ works,” said songwriter Martha Wainwright. No one seems sure of how many love songs there actually are (one offering on answers.com numbers them in the millions), but one thing is for sure: we love to love our love songs.

Besides the basics of creating a chord progression, coming up with a melody and lyrics and arranging the song, there has to be the magic ingredient of talent and creativity to make it special – and that is hard even for the experts.
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That hasn’t been said before? About your plans to make me blue, in ‘I Heard It Through the Grapevine’, written by Motown masters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong; or in the beginning to Paul Simon’s ‘Homeward Bound’, I’m sitting in the railway station Lovers long before us, Love may be all you need, as The Beatles memorably sang, but songwriters throughout history have faced the challenge Leonard Cohen described as “the search for exactly the right language to describe interior landscape”. From the first flushes of romance, to heartbreak, loss and lust, the love song puts emotions to words – and music – remaining a core part of our lives. Their love is not to be like the love the world has (Luke 6:32, 35). LiveAbout uses cookies to provide you with a great user experience. The video was so convincing that many suspected the actor in the video was actually Amy Grant's husband. ‘Bent Out Of Shape’: Rainbow Refuel Rock Radio With Seventh Album, ‘Walking The Blues’: Maestro Willie Dixon Gets A Hit Of His Own, ‘Three Coins In The Fountain’: Frank Sinatra Tops The First UK Top 20, Hank Williams’ Ultimatum: ‘You’re Gonna Change (Or I’m Gonna Leave)’, Freddie Mercury’s Influences: From David Bowie To Pavarotti And Beyond, Eagle Rock Announces ‘John Lee Hooker Live at Montreux 1983 & 1990’, Lewis Capaldi, The Weeknd Lead UK’s Biggest Albums And Singles Of 2020 To Date, Two New Amy Winehouse Box Sets Due For Release In November, Mexican Pop Icons RBD Announce Virtual Global Reunion, Ari Lennox Returns With Sensuous New Single ‘Chocolate Pomegranate’, Lost Beatles ‘Twist & Shout’ Will Make You Scream, Best Music Arrangers: 20 Artists You’ve Heard But Not Seen, The Beatles’ Rooftop Concert: Behind The Group’s Final Public Performance, The ‘Adiós’ Interviews, 3/3: Carl Jackson On Friend & Hero Glen Campbell, Up To 11: The Songs That Inspired Heavy Metal, ‘Peace & Love For Christmas’: Lennon, Harrison, Clapton, Moon And More, ‘Last Dance,’ First Grammy: Donna Summer Soundtracks The Disco Boom, ‘Wind Of Change’: Peter Frampton Heralds A Coming Whirlwind, “There Was A Beautiful Soul In Him”: George Harrison Remembered By Family And Friends, ‘Yesterday’: The Story Behind The Beatles’ Song, ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’: Elton John’s Path To Greatness, Gimme Some Truth: When John Lennon Faced US Deportation, Procol Harum’s ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’: A Song Of Many Colours, ‘Tug Of War’: Star-Packed Album Gives Paul McCartney A Chart Double, Pop Goes The Movies: Iconic Songs In Films, Fiddler Of Choice: Remembering Western Swing Giant Johnny Gimble, ‘That’s The Way God Planned It’: Billy Preston With Clapton, Harrison Et Al, George Harrison’s Best B-Sides: 5 Tracks Worth Discovering, Tragic Heroine: Patsy Cline, A True Country Queen, ‘Photograph’: A Snapshot Of Ringo Starr’s Amazing 1973-1974 Season, Watch The 2015 Restored Version of The Beatles ‘Hey Jude’, Innocence And Endless Promise: Elton John’s ‘Empty Sky’ Debut, Wings’ ‘Wild Life’: Paul McCartney Gets Back With A Band, Producer-Engineer Bill Price: Memories Of A Studio Maestro, Who Were The Wrecking Crew?

If you’re looking for a very happy song, look no further. Behind The Most Recorded Band In Music, Join The Club – Iconic Music Clubs in the US and UK, The Beatles Meet The Maharishi For The First Time, ‘All You Need Is Love’: 25 Inspiring Peace Songs, ‘John Barleycorn Must Die’: Traffic’s Multi-Layered Rebirth. Randy Newman, for example, captured the idiosyncrasies of desire through the picky narrator of ‘Lover’s Prayer’ (“Don’t send me nobody with glasses… don’t send nobody takin’ night-classes”). Louis Armstrong’s ‘What A Wonderful World’, a love song to humanity, would arguably fail the Cave test, but it is clear that the compulsion to use a song to make sense of pain chimes with the experience of many songwriters, including Lucinda Williams. But I am confident that it won’t be invented by the ruling class or social elites.”, Leonard Cohen succeeded more than most in finding the right words and his great love songs include ‘Ain’t No Cure for Love’ and ‘Famous Blue Raincoat’. But BTS' self-love anthem says you can learn to love yourself little by little each day. No matter how much time has passed since the song's release in 2011, the message remains the same: Everyone is beautiful in their own way and anyone who says otherwise is wrong. Above all, Blue is an unsparing and honest work of art.