With Valentine’s Day just last week and my anniversary the week before that, I was curious when I saw that Amazon’s “music experts” had curated a list of the 100 greatest love songs from the past.
Needless to say, they did not mesh with what I think they should have picked! But that’s the way of these lists of the “very best” of anything, right?
There were quite a few of my favorites on the list, just not at the number on the list where I thought they should be. Grinning here, because no one is going to agree on everything, but some of these songs I never even heard of. Because I am old…
Some of my old favorites are on the list—
14—Stand by Me – Ben E. King
12—The Way You Look Tonight—Frank Sinatra
11—Wonderful Tonight—Eric Clapton
10—Faithfully—Journey
7—Ain’t No Mountain High Enough—Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
4—I Will Always Love You—Whitney Houston version
2—Can’t Help Falling in Love—Elvis Presley
And who can argue with Percy Sledge belting out When a Man Loves a Woman? (#17)
I do love The Beach Boys, but God Only Knows placed #19 on the list—above Bette Midler’s The Rose at #22, Always On My Mind by Willie Nelson (#25) and My Girl by The Temptations (#27). Uh…no.
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack at #33? WHAT? Sigh…
Sam Cooke’s You Send Me came in at #74, and Sonny and Cher’s I Got You Babe at #73.
What were the last songs on this list? #98—Love Theme from A Star is Born (Evergreen) by Barbra Streisand; #99—Lovin’ You by Minnie Ripperton; and #100—Suddenly by Billy Ocean.
Number 1 was At Last by Etta James—no argument there!
My absolute favorite song—bar none—in any category is Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers. It came in at #18.
What’s your favorite love song of all time? Do you and your significant other have a special song? My hubby and I don’t—I wish we did!