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Silly Love Songs
I found this quote in one of my old travel journals, that really rings true for me today.
“Life is a journey and LOVE is what makes the journey worthwhile”
A lot of great music over the years have embraced this topic, and why not, it seems in the end love is all that matters as that Beatles song goes.
Here is a big earworm for me from the 70s I remember humming it growing up.
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Mona and Lisa, for me one of the best is yours. It’s so heartfelt, and emotional. If a love song is supposed to make you feel the longing and passion for love, once had and lost, this one you created fulfills it’s mission perfectly!!!!!
Nothing good ever lasts.
Anything good
Anything worth doing
Anything worth having
Has a beginning and an end
That’s the way of this world
Nothing good ever lasts
But we can take comfort
in having had that something good
For it was worth it
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Well, Jung, having grown up in a household where Elvis, Bobby Vinton, Tom Jones and predominantly country music reigned, my late parent’s music tastes… those were the kind of Silly Love Songs, and yes, Big Band Era stuff too… where’s my older brothers had their own music tastes..lol…not really Silly Love songs material per se but the oldest bro was more and still is into the country/southern rock stuff while other bro still enjoys his Blues/Rock, and I, having the ecclectic music 5aste in my famiky, a little most everything…. I do like that Paul McC’s ” Silly Little Love Sonf” that you offered up the link of, and yes MLT’S ” Close To You” has a great effect…
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I love Silly Love Songs. I don’t know it for a fact, but I suspect that the part near the end with the three intertwining vocals was inspired by a similar stretch near the end of Good Vibrations.
I first heard the song when I saw Paul’s 1984 film Give My Regards to Broad Street. Not knowing the title, for quite a while I just referred to it as The White Paul Song.
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Hold on to everything dear.The terms of endearment are that it’s only foe a while.
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One of my favorite “lost love” songs is this one, written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The best-known version was sung by Bobby Vee, but there was this little group from Liverpool that performed it at their audition for Decca Records:
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I was listening to ORANGE on my way home tonight. It was on shuffle, which can create some interesting playlists. Close To You was last. I love this timeless classic. A lot of us have commented about memories this song brings up while reflecting on the past. These old souls are writing some beautiful songs.
I love silly love songs. I love the bass on this version. I have a vinyl LP with the Broad Street version and NonMore Lonely Nights, one of my favorites.
If you like NoMore Lonely Nights, Allison Krause did a great cover of it.
JP
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This song used to and still does melt my heart!!!! ‘Daisy Jane’ by America.
Give the video a few seconds. There is some quiet percussion at the beginning
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Wow, really loved eveyone’s silly love song selections, of course not silly at all. Thomas, those Kansas guys can really sing great even so many years later! I have the original Kansas vinyl Dust In The Wind from the 70s when it was released, thanks to my older brother. Diana, I haven’t heard that awesome America song in ages, brought back so many emotions. I also like America’s “Sister Golden Hair” which has a similar feel to Daisy Jane. Jacki, isn’t it awesome to have older brothers with great musical tastes that piqued our young minds. David, that video you posted of Silly Love songs, is that actually Paul McCartney? With the face paint, he looks so young there, at first I thought it was someone else, but it looks like him?? That Beatles cover of Take Good Care of My Baby sounds great. JP, yeah Orange is so timeless indeed, I will have to listen to it in shuffle mode, never tried that before! I am so looking forward to the new album!
Thanks everyone!
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Yes, Jung, that’s the real Paul! He was probably 41 when that was filmed, but in the early 80’s he was looking extra young for some reason, with or without the face paint.
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Hi David, for some reason I thought that video was from later, but in the 80s it makes sense. I think music kept Paul young.
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