Vinyl Gym: Oldies of Love & Romance

It doesn’t need to be Valentine’s Day to give these gems from decades gone by a real workout! So many love songs lit up (and continue to light up) the charts! Songs of romance, erotic love songs, sad songs, love gone bad songs, silly love songs and peppy feel-good love songs – so many to choose from!

In 1957 perhaps Mickey & Sylvia said it best with their Billboard hit: Love is Strange, but hopeless romantics will enjoy songs like Close to You by the 70’s duo, the Carpenters or Precious and Few by Climax.

In 1977, songwriter turned singer, Alan O’Day had his one and only lost Billboard hit, Undercover Angel. But O’Day also wrote Helen Reddy’s Angie Baby and the Righteous Brothers Rock and Roll Heaven.

Ronnie Milsap was a country chart success, and in the late 70’s and early 80’s crossed over into the pop charts with 6 Billboard Hits, all sad love songs.

The 80’s fielded plenty of hard rockin’ groups singing some pretty rough songs about love: Bon Jovi had pointed the proverbial finger with: You Give Love A Bad Name and Bad Medicine. Def Leppard wails that Love Bites. Two Abba members spun off love songs of their own: Frida made it clear to her guy: I Know There’s Something Going On, while Agnetha Faltskog proclaimed: Can’t Shake Loose.

So take a leisurely stroll down Memory Lane with these classic blasts from the past. Load them into your favorite listening devices or check them out on YouTube.

Love Is Strange – Mickey & Sylvia ‘57

Young Love – Sonny James ‘57 Tab Hunter ‘57

Love Potion #9 – The Clovers ‘59

I’m Into Something Good – Herman’s Hermits ‘64

Love Me Do – The Beatles ‘64

As Tears Go By – Rolling Stones ‘65 Marianne Faithful ‘65

A Lover’s Concerto – The Toys ‘65

I Hear A Symphony – The Supremes ‘65

Hungry – Paul Revere & the Raiders ‘66

When A Man Loves A Woman – Percy Sledge ‘66

Light My Fire – The Doors ‘67

Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You – Franki Valli ‘67

This Guy’s In Love With You – Herb Alpert ‘68

Midnight Confessions – Grassroots ‘68

I Can’t Get Next To You – Temptations ‘69

LOST My Pledge of Love – Joe Jeffrey Group ‘69

Someday We’ll Be Together – Diana Ross ‘69

I’ll Never Fall In Love Again – Dionne Warwick ‘70

Close To You (They Long To Be) – Carpenters ‘70

The Love You Save – The Jackson 5 ‘70

Knock Three Times – Dawn ‘71

LOST: Rings – Cymarron ‘71

Precious and Few – Climax ‘72

Nights In White Satin – Moody Blues ‘72

Behind Closed Doors – Charlie Rich ‘73

Midnight Train to Georgia – Gladys Knight & the Pips ‘73

Fallin’ In Love – Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds ‘75

Feel Like Makin’ Love – Bad Company ‘75

Love Machine – Miracles ‘76

Still The One – Orleans ‘76

Undercover Angel – Alan O’Day ‘77

The Things We Do For Love – 10CC ‘77

Bad Case Of Loving You(Doctor, Doctor) – Robert Palmer ‘79

Smokey Mountain Rain – Ronnie Milsap ‘81

A Little In Love – Cliff Richard ‘81

Love Is Like A Rock – Donnie Iris ‘82

Smoky Mountain Rain – Ronnie Milsap ‘81

I Wouldn’t Have Missed It For The World – Ronnie Milsap ‘81

Can’t Shake Loose – Agnetha Faltskog ‘83

Sentimental Street – Night Ranger ‘83

I Know There’s Something Going On – Frida ‘83

I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down – Paul Young ‘85

Take Me With U – Prince ‘85

High On You – Survivor ‘85

Sweet Love – Anita Baker ‘86

I Want Your Sex – George Michael ‘87

Bad Medicine – Bon Jovi ‘88

Love Bites – Def Leppard ‘88

I Wanna Sex You Up – Color Me Badd ‘91

All 4 Love – Color Me Badd ‘91

 

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