Name a nice old love ballad that we don't hear much any more.

[TheTecknician]

I'll start with 'Longer' by Dan Fogelberg.

ooh thought of another couple

In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning by Carly Simon (from the Sleepless in Seattle soundtrack). Absolutely pitch perfect.

If I Loved You from Carousel. Many years ago a young theatre group were singing songs from musicals in the Whitgift Centre in Croydon. DH went off to go to the gents and came back to find me in tears in the doorway of one of the shops listening to a lad who couldn't have been more than 15/16 was singing it. It is one of my favourite songs and it was a beautiful rendition. I often wondered if he went on to have a career in musical theatre.

Lovely songs there. Can't improve on Dusty Springfield singing My Lagan Love though!

I love this one!

A lot of them about love lost etc aren't they?

I like Smoke gets in your eyes- but the Engelbert version.

And Billie Davis' Angel of the Morning.

Or First Cut is the Deepest (PP Arnold version.)

or ruby turner- stay with me baby

@SapatSea She Moved Through the Fair is pretty but about death really

It is very haunting. Padraic Colum wrote the words I think , though the air is much older. It was played at my mum's funeral.
The English priest announced it as She Moved Through the Air which conjured up images of the Snowman theme and gave us a little chuckle .

Islands in the Stream - Dolly Parton and Kenny Rodgers
Everything I own -Bread

Annie’s Song - John Denver

If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot. I don't think that's had a mention yet.

I note the mention of Stay With Me Baby upthread. Lorraine Ellison's version takes the song into power ballad territory but not corny crap power ballads. Needs high volume for maximum spinal shivers!

Oops, sorry - posted previous on wrong thread! Have reported.

That Gordon Lightfoot song is my favourite song ever.

Oh my @Abhannmor !
Dusty Springfield singing My Lagan Love is beautiful.

Disillusion, by Agnetha Faltskog /ABBA
Slipping Through my Fingers, ABBA
One Man, One Woman, ABBA
Our Last Summer, ABBA
Andante, Andante, ABBA
Another Town, Another Train, ABBA
Like an Angel Passing Through my Room, ABBA
I Let the Music Speak, ABBA
I Wonder, ABBA
My Love, My Life, ABBA
Lovi g her was Easier, Kris Kristofferson
I'll Never Love This Way Again, Dionne Warwick
Send in the Clowns, Frank Sinatra

Time after Time. Cyndi Lauper.

It was playing when DH & I met in the 80's, it played, randomly, somewhere on most holidays we took in Europe for the last 35 years.

And it still plays now he is gone & brings a tear to my eye every time.

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Chris De Burgh- Lady in red
Simply red- Stars.

Mind you, I listen to Mellow Magic most evenings while I’m cooking dinner (at the grand old age of 36 😆) so hear a lot of these old love songs every eve.

I Have Dreamed - Matt Monro

Why Did I Choose You - Barbra Streisand

Wonderful Life - Black

What a lovely memory. The lyrics are very apt too.

Sorry for your loss @magimedi
Time After Time is fabulous.
I've heard it sung recently in a much slower tempo and it was beautiful. For the life of me I can't remember by whom. ☹️

@LadyEloise1 Possibly Eva Cassidy?

Just listening now to All By Myself by Eric Carmen. A corking old song.

I've never heard this before. It's lovely! Thank you

Michael Kiwanuka's both Love and Hate and Cold Little Heart.

So many favourites here already but I didn't notice

That's no way to say goodbye, Leonard cohen

These foolish things, I love the Bryan Ferry version

Mac Arthur's Park Richard Harris version.

I love Cold Little Heart. The lyrics are beautiful.

'I've been losing you one day at a time'

Heartbreaking!