Originally Posted by daisy
Lady in Red...
Lady in Red was recorded by
Chris DeBurgh in the late 1970's.
(This could be interesting - that's the only song title on this thread I'm familiar with.)
I rather like
Journey's "
Open Arms" though "why" is too personal to say here.
I force my wife to stop whatever she's doing and dance around the kitchen (or living room, or resaurant foyer, etc) whenever
Unchained Melody is played. One time it even happened, beside the road with the world watching, when we were stuck in a traffic jam. It used to embarass the kids something fierce - we'd hear things like "Stay away - they're doing mushy hug dancing."
I've liked
The Moody Blues' material (
And Here) for a LONG time. A lot of it speaks of people searching to re-establish a lost relationship. The '60's and 70's albums, like "Days of Future Passed" and "Threshold of a Dream", really need to be heard as a single, extended work rather than a collection of cuts.
"Nights in White Satin" is one of my favorites of all time, when they play it with Graeme Edge's "Poem" that immediately follows on the original album - but commercial radio being what it is, they almost never do.
"Story In Your Eyes" is another good cut.
Among more recent performances I like the sexy, vibrato-rich voice of
"Miss Jane O" (
Jane Olivor) - especially the
Love Decides CD, including "
However Dark The Night".
Although
Fernando Ortega is a Christian (religious) performer, compositions like
Angel Fire and Margee Ann are actually personal love songs.
As you grow older you may find some music is meaningful to you because of its association to events, rather than its lyric content. I won't try to explain why I sing a certain piece to my wife whenever we attend the church where we were married - it's a long ways from what people would call a "love song". But Rachmaninov's "
Variations on Paginini's Theme" makes us look at each other, because it's the theme from the romantic movie "
Somewhere in Time". We're familiar with the location where it was filmed, and have snapshots of us re-enacting, on the original location, the scene where Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour first met.
this means no Elton John or Celine Dion stuff (except for exceptional cases).
thank you!
It's exactly what I was looking for, thank you 
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