Lots of good choices here, but I'll add one: Holly Coles' rendition of Tom Waits' "Take Me Home" on the album "Temptation". Just wow.
What Is The Most Romantic Song That You Have Ever Listen To?
Name the most romantic songs1.BEAUTIFUL WORDS [ a romantic song https://youtu.be/GfkBL3ChE98
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A very beautiful heartfelt performance from great jazz pianist Jacky Terrasson and lovely Cecile McLorin singing Oh MY Love, a John Lennon number. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KR4w1MIdHU @ghasley and @bigaud, Billy Paul's version of Elton John's Your Song is the best! |
The Promise-Tracy Chapman Only You- Yaz Love of my Life- Queen Open Arms- Journey Take My Breath Away- Berlin In Your Eyes- Peter Gabriel Still- The Commodores Through the Barricades-Spandau Ballet Many others, most likely on an 80's mix tape I spent hours on recording for my high school sweetheart. Been together since 1985, married 27 years. Music matters folks and gets us through so much crap! |
la chapelle au clair de lune by the inimitable Leo Marjane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZe14XRcp-khttp:// |
"Accidentally Like A Martyr" The phone don't ring And the sun refused to shine Never thought I'd have to pay so dearly For what was already mine For such a long, long time We made mad love Shadow love Random love And abandoned love Accidentally like a martyr The hurt gets worse and the heart gets harder The days slide by Should have done, should have done, we all sigh Never thought I'd ever be so lonely After such a long, long time Time out of mind We made mad love Shadow love Random love And abandoned love Accidentally like a martyr The hurt gets worse and the heart gets harder |
I don't know the title of this song or singer. I heard it on a 24 hour no commercials or talk, all Christmas music nights. Song was about this young man driving to a school Christmas party. He saw this girl walking. Picked her up. Took her to the dance. They had a great time. On the way home she said she was cold so he lent her his jacket. Dropped her off at her house and good nights. On his way home he forgot about his jacket. Went back to the house he dropped her off at. Knocked on the door and this elderly man answered. He told this man about this young lady he just dropped off there and his jacket. The elder man got upset. Explaining that she died on this night a year ago on her way to a school party. Unbelieving, the father? takes him to her grave. Hanging on a tree next to her grave was his jacket. Wow.... |
The other day I was buying a CD called Compact Jazz by Oscar Peterson. The woman who was checking my purchase out was reading the songs on the CD. She said oh my God, The Shadow of your Smile, and began to cry. So in honor of Joanne, easily in her sixties, I'm submitting The Shadow of Your Smile which is admittedly a stunningly romantic song. She's originally from Italy so I'm guessing Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett would have been her pick. |
Bella Maria de Mi Alma (Beautiful Maria of My Soul) by Antonio Banderas. The video might be a little smarmy, and for plot line purposes Armand Asante is shown singing, though it was sung by Antonio Banderas. But one need not speak a word of Spanish grasp the romance of this beautiful song. If you've never heard it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxyY0_x2fec |
Stairway To Heaven - O'Jays Love Won't Let Me Wait - Luther Vandross Love Ballad - Jeffrey Osbourne/L.T.D. Always Together - Dells Someone To Watch Over Me - Glady Knight The Shadow of Your Smile - Lou Rawls You Send Me - Sam Cooke I Wish You Love - Nat King Cole After All - Al Jarreau La Vie En Rose - Halie Loren Our Love is Easy - Melody Gardot My My My - Johnny Gill Every time I Close My Eyes - Babyface w/ Kenny G Distant Lover - Marvin Gaye I Miss You - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes a.k.a Teddy P Now go have a candlelight dinner.... |
and this is up there too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLTe8h0-jo God Only Knows by Mr. Brian Wilson |
"Make It With You" Bread (now that the Nine Inch Nails Nineties are over....) https://youtu.be/s0KXV0gB0dw |
@pgaulke60 Moments can make the song and the song can make the moment. A beautiful moment and Alzheimer's is cruel. A few through the years that are fun to remember. * I'm so proud-The Impressions * Maybe I'm Amazed-Paul McCartney * Here's an obscure one: Suavecito-Malo * Several by Tower of Power-Still a Young Man, All the City Lights * Keep on Walking-Gino Vanelli * Always and Forever-Heat Wave * Skylark-(several versions I like) * Someone Like You-Van Morrison and one that probably shouldn't be romantic, Billy Paul's version of Me and Mrs. Jones. We could all go on forever but at least for me, it would be remembering moments framed by a song...or an album. For my wife and I it is Coltrane-Hartman. |
Without a doubt, for me it is John Hiatt's "Have A Little Faith In Me". Played and danced to that tune on our plywood floors with my future wife just before I flew back home to conclude an overseas romance. She was worried, but that dance and song provided real comfort to us both. We had a wonderful 30 year marriage, only interrupted by Alzheimer's Disease. |
Obviously there is only one answer, missed by all above. "Love Serenade," by Barry White, is the most romantic song of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj1QRbhEmlU |
How Do I Live - LeAnn Rimes I realize this post was about personal preference of romantic songs, but this one has some statistical backing as the favorite of many people: #4 all time on Billboard’s Hot 100 and the highest rated love song. 69 weeks on the chart, with 62 of those weeks being in the top 40, 32 weeks on the top ten and 25 in the top five, all records at the time. Imagine a song staying in the top 40 for 62 straight weeks. Mind blowing. And it made a nice contrast to the insanity of Malkovich, although that was the Trisha Yearwood version used in Con Air. |
