LOVE SONGS

Just like fashion and trends, styles of music evolve in the world of ever-changing tastes and temperament. But whether it's hip-hop and soul or country and folk or jazz and new age, the one constant expression is the love song. EMI publishes some of the most memorable love ballads of all time and the following is a selection to whet your appetite and jog your memory.

AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (OUR LOVE AFFAIR) (Warren/Adamson/McCarey)
AGAIN (Newman/Cochran)
AGAINST ALL ODDS (TAKE A LOOK AT ME NOW) (Collins)
AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH (Ashford/Simpson)
AIN'T NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING (Ashford/Simpson)
All I DO IS DREAM OF YOU (Brown/Freed)
ALL I EVER NEED IS YOU (Holiday/Reeves)
ALL IN LOVE IS FAIR (Wonder)
ALMOST LIKE BEING IN LOVE (Lerner/Loewe)
ALWAYS ON MY MIND (James/Christopher/Thompson)
ANGEL OF THE MORNING (Taylor)
ANGIE (Jagger/Richards)
AT LAST (Gordon/Warren)

BABY I NEED YOUR LOVING (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
BABY LOVE (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
BACK IN MY ARMS AGAIN (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
BE MY LOVE (Cahn/Brodszky)
BECAUSE YOU'RE MINE (Cahn/Brodszky)
BEING WITH YOU (Robinson)
THE BEST OF MY LOVE (White/McKay)
THE BIGGEST PART OF ME (Pack)
BLUE MOON (Rodgers/Hart)
THE BOY NEXT DOOR (Martin/Blane)
BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO (Sedaka/Greenfield)
BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX (Webb)

CAN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU (Crewe/Gaudio)
A CERTAIN SMILE (Webster/Fain)
COME AND STAY WITH ME (DeShannon)
COME AWAY WITH ME (Jones)
COME SEE ABOUT ME (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE (Mercury)
CRYING IN THE RAIN (King/Greenfield)

THE DARK END OF THE STREET (Moman/Penn)
DIDN'T WE (Webb)
DO YOU LOVE ME (Gordy)
DON'T BLAME ME (Fields/McHugh)
DON'T BREAK THE HEART THAT LOVES YOU (Davis/Murry)
DON'T IT MAKE MY BROWN EYES BLUE (Leigh)
DON'T LET ME BE LONELY TONIGHT (Taylor)
DONNA (Valens)
DREAM BABY (HOW LONG MUST I DREAM) (Walker)

EBB TIDE (Sigman/Maxwell)
ELENORE (Kaylan/Volman/Barbata/Nichol/Pons)
EVERLASTING LOVE (Cason/Gayden)
EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE (Sting)

FALLIN' (Keys)
A FOOL IN LOVE (Turner)
FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE (Murden/Miller)
FOR YOUR LOVE (Gouldman)
FOR YOUR LOVE (Townsend)

GET READY (Robinson)
THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL (Masser/Creed)
A GROOVY KIND OF LOVE (Wine/Bayer)

HALFWAY TO PARADISE (Goffin/King)
(LOVE IS LIKE A) HEAT WAVE (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT (Kristofferson)
HERE AND NOW (Steele/Elliott)
HERE YOU COME AGAIN (Mann/Weil)
HERO (Iglesias/Barry/Taylor)
HEY GIRL (Goffin/King)
HEY BABY (Channel/Cobb)
HOLD ME (Little/Oppenheim/Schuster)
HOLD ME, THRILL ME, KISS ME (Noble)
HOOKED ON A FEELING (James)
HOW GLAD I AM (Williams/Harrison)
HOW SWEET IT IS (TO BE LOVED BY YOU) (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
HURT (Crane/Jacobs)
HURTS SO GOOD (Mellencamp)

I BELIEVE IN YOU (Cook/Hogin)
I BELIEVE IN YOU AND ME (Wolfert/Linzer)
I CAN DREAM ABOUT YOU (Hartman)
I CAN LOVE YOU LIKE THAT (Kimball/Diamond/Derry)
I CAN MAKE IT WITH YOU (Taylor)
I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH ME (Gaskill/McHugh)
I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE (Fields/McHugh)
I CAN'T HELP MYSELF (SUGAR PIE, HONEY BUNCH) (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
I CAN'T LET GO (Taylor/Gorgoni)
I CRIED FOR YOU (Freed/Arnheim/Lyman)
I FALL IN LOVE TOO EASILY (Cahn/Styne)
I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE (King)
I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE (Whitfield/Strong)
I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU (Wonder)
I JUST CAN'T HELP BELIEVIN' (Mann/Weil)
I LOVE HOW YOU LOVE ME (Mann/Kolber)
I NEED YOU (Orsborn/Robinson)
I SECOND THAT EMOTION (Cleveland/Robinson)
I THINK I LOVE YOU (Romeo)
I THINK I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU (Mellencamp/Rooney/Shea)
I WANT YOU TO WANT ME (Nielsen)
I WAS MADE TO LOVE HER (Wonder/Moy/Hardaway/Cosby)
I WISH IT WOULD RAIN (Whitfield/Strong/Penzabene)
I'LL BE (McCain)
I'LL BE THERE (Gordy/West/Davis/Hutch)
I'LL NEVER STOP LOVING YOU (Cahn/Brodszky)
I'LL STAND BY YOU (Hynde/Kelly/Steinberg)
I'M A BELIEVER (Diamond)
I'M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Fields/McHugh)
I'M THRU WITH LOVE (Kahn/Malneck/Livingston)
(I'VE HAD) THE TIME OF MY LIFE (Markowitz/DeNicola/Previte)
IF I GIVE MY HEART TO YOU (Crane/Jacobs/Brewster)
IF I WERE YOUR WOMAN (Sawyer/Jones/McMurray)
IF YOU LOVE ME (LET ME KNOW) (Rostill)
IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD (Ellington/Kurtz/Mills)
IRIS (Rzenzik)
ISN'T SHE LOVELY (Wonder)
IT TAKES TWO (Stevenson/Moy)
IT'S RAINING (Toussaint)
IT'S TOO LATE (King/Stern)

JUST A LITTLE LOVIN' (EARLY IN THE MORNIN') (Mann/Weil)
JUST MY IMAGINATION (RUNNING AWAY WITH ME) (Whitfield/Strong)
JUST TO BE CLOSE TO YOU (Richie)
JUST YOU, JUST ME (Klages/Greer)

KISS AND SAY GOODBYE (Lovett)
A KISS TO BUILD A DREAM ON (Kalmar/Ruby/Hammerstein II)

LADY MARMALADE (Crewe/Nolan)
LAUGHTER IN THE RAIN (Sedaka/Cody)
LAURA (Raksin/Mercer)
LET'S GET IT ON (Gaye/Townsend)
LET'S HANG ON (TO WHAT WE'VE GOT) (Crewe/Randell/Linzer)
LIPSTICK TRACES (ON A CIGARETTE) (Toussaint)
LITTLE THINGS MEAN A LOT (Lindeman/Stutz)
LONELY TEARDROPS (Gordy/Gordy/Carlo)
THE LOOK OF LOVE (Bacharach/David)
LOOKIN' FOR LOVE (Mallette/Ryan/Morrison)
LOOKING THROUGH THE EYES OF LOVE (Mann/Weil)
LOVE (Blane/Martin)
L-O-V-E (Kaempfert/Gabler)
LOVE HANGOVER (Sawyer/McLeod)
LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING (Fain/Webster)
LOVE MACHINE (Moore/Griffin)
LOVE ME FOR A REASON (Bristol/Brown/Jones)
LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER (Sedaka/Greenfield)
THE LOVELIEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR (Rosas/Aaronson/Webster)
A LOVER'S CONCERTO (Linzer/Randell)
LOVING HER WAS EASIER (THAN ANYTHING I'LL EVER DO AGAIN) (Kristofferson)

MANDY (Kerr/English)
MAYBE (Barrett)
MISS YOU (Jagger/Richards)
MOONGLOW (Hudson/DeLange/Mills)
MORE LOVE (Robinson)
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL (Sherrill/Wilson/Bourke)
MY CHERIE AMOUR (Wonder/Moy/Cosby)
MY EYES ADORED YOU (Crewe/Nolan)
MY GIRL (White/Robinson)
MY GIRL JOSEPHINE (Domino/Bartholomew)
MY GUY (Robinson)
MY HEART HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN (Greenfield/Keller)
MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE (Wood/Mellin)
MY WORLD IS EMPTY WITHOUT YOU (Holland/Dozier/Holland)

(YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE) A NATURAL WOMAN (Goffin/King/Wexler)
NEEDLES AND PINS (Nitzsche/Bono)
NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE (Davis)
NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE (Bramlett)

OH-OH I'M FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN (Hoffman/Manning/Markwell)
ONCE IN A WHILE (Green/Edwards)
ONE FINE DAY (Goffin/King)
ONE MORE NIGHT (Collins)
OOO BABY BABY (Robinson/Moore)
OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND (Hunter/Otis)
OVER THE RAINBOW (Harburg/Arlen)

THE POWER OF LOVE (Vandross/Miller)
THE POWER OF LOVE (Mende/Rush/Applegate/Derouge)
PRELUDE TO A KISS (Ellington/Gordon/Mills)
PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART (DeShannon/Holiday/Myers)

REACH OUT, I'LL BE THERE (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
REAL LOVE (Malloy/McCormick/Brannan)
REET PETITE (Gordy/Carlo)

SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST (Lind/Waldman/Galdston)
SAVING ALL MY LOVE FOR YOU (Goffin/Masser)
THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE (Mandel/Webster)
THE SECOND TIME AROUND (Cahn/Van Heusen)
SHINING STAR (White/Bailey)
SHOULD I (Freed/Brown)
SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED, I'M YOURS (Wonder/Wright/Garrett/Hardaway)
SOFTLY AS I LEAVE YOU (Calabrese/DeVita/Shaper)
SOLITUDE (Ellington/Delange/Mills)
SOMETHING IN THE WAY SHE MOVES (Taylor)
SOMETHING'S GOT A HOLD ON ME (Woods/Kirkland/James)
SOMEWHERE MY LOVE (Jarre/Webster)
THE SONG FROM MOULIN ROUGE (WHERE IS YOUR HEART) (Auric/Engvick)
SOPHISTICATED LADY (Ellington/Parish/Mills)
(YOU'RE MY) SOUL AND INSPIRATION (Mann/Weil)
STAND BY YOUR MAN (Sherrill/Wynette)
STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF LOVE (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
STARDUST (Carmichael/Parish)
STILL (Richie)
STOP! IN THE NAME OF LOVE (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT (Kaempfert/Singleton/Snyder)
SUGAR (THAT SUGAR BABY O'MINE) (Pinkard/Alexander/Mitchell)

TAKING A CHANCE ON LOVE (Fetter/Duke/Latouche)
TEMPTATION (Brown/Freed)
THAT'S MY DESIRE (Lovejoy/Kresa)
THAT'S THE WAY LOVE GOES (Harris II/Lewis/Jackson/Brown/Wesley)
THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE (Gouldman/Stewart)
THIS OLD HEART OF MINE (Holland/Dozier/Holland/Moy)
THREE TIMES A LADY (Richie)
TO BE LOVED (Gordy/Gordy/Carlo)
TO BE WITH YOU (Grahame/Martin)
TOGETHER AGAIN (Owens)
TONIGHT I CELEBRATE MY LOVE FOR YOU (Goffin/Masser)
TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT (Wright/Clarke)
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT (GONNA BE ALRIGHT) (Stewart)
TOUCH ME IN THE MORNING (Miller/Masser)
THE TRACKS OF MY TEARS (Robinson/Tarplin/Moore)
TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS (Woods/Campbell/Connelly)

UNTIL I MET YOU (Wolf/Green)
UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME (THAT'S WHAT I'M GONNA DO) (Wonder/Paul/Broadnax)

WALKIN' IN THE RAIN (Mann/Weil/Spector)
THE WAY HE MAKES ME FEEL (Legrand/Bergman/Bergman)
THE WAY WE WERE (Hamlisch/Bergman/Bergman)
THE WAY YOU DO THE THINGS YOU DO (Robinson/Rogers)
WE BELONG (Lowen/Navarro)
WE BELONG TOGETHER (Carr/Mitchell/Weiss)
WHAT ARE YOU DOING THE REST OF YOUR LIFE (Legrand/Bergman/Bergman)
WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKEN HEARTED (Dean/Riser/Weatherspoon)
WHAT DO YOU WANT THE GIRL TO DO (Toussaint)
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO WIN YOUR LOVE (Bristol/Fuqua/Bullock)
WHAT YOU WON'T DO FOR LOVE (Caldwell/Kettner)
WHEN I GROW TOO OLD TO DREAM (Romberg/Hammerstein II)
WHEN YOU WALK IN THE ROOM (DeShannon)
WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN (Stevens)
WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
WHOLE LOTTA LOVIN' (Domino/Bartholomew)
WILL YOU LOVE ME TOMORROW (Goffin/King)
WITH YOU I'M BORN AGAIN (Shire/Connors)
WOMAN (Lennon)
WONDER WHY (Cahn/Brodszky)

YOU AND I (Meyers)
YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE OF MY LIFE (Wonder)
YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
YOU DECORATED MY LIFE (Morrison/Hupp)
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A STAR (TO BE IN MY SHOW) (Glover/Dean)
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME
(Donaggio/Palavicini/Wickham/Napier-Bell)
YOU KEEP ME HANGIN' ON (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
YOU STEPPED OUT OF A DREAM (Brown/Kahn)
YOU WERE MEANT FOR ME (Brown/Freed)
YOU'RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY (Ashford/Simpson)
YOU'RE IN MY HEART (THE FINAL ACCLAIM) (Stewart)
YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND (King)
YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELIN' (Mann/Weil/Spector)
YOU'VE MADE ME SO VERY HAPPY (Gordy/Wilson/Holloway/Holloway)
YOU'VE REALLY GOT A HOLD ON ME (Robinson)

ROCK ON !
Alan Warner

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