Significant other songs
A latter-day (well, 1977, anyway) single by the Carpenters advances the notion that “it’s a dirty old shame when all you get from love is a love song.” I certainly don’t expect anything more than that. On the other hand, a good love song is worth hearing on the 364¼ days each year that aren’t Valentine’s Day, and since JenX was kind enough to put up a playlist of some of her favorites, I figure this might be a good time to point you once again to my infamous V-Day mix, now six years old and not even slightly dated. (Then again, I’m fifty-six years old and not even slightly dated these days.) One of these years I’m going to have to knock out a Volume Two.
paulsmos »
13 February 2010 · 7:11 pm
For sheer syrupy sweetness, howzabout “I want my baby back” by Jimmy Cross….makes me shudder!!
Dick Stanley »
13 February 2010 · 9:41 pm
I’d only add “Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa,” which is, admittedly, a breaking up song, as well as a love song. Hey, two for the price of one.
CGHill »
14 February 2010 · 9:28 am
Some of the most startling revelations about love come at the very moment it’s unraveling.
Dawn Eden contributed a review of “Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa” to this very site back in 2004.
Dick Stanley »
14 February 2010 · 8:44 pm
Indeed.
Thanks for the link.Seems superficially-hip to me, Big Media-style writing, though I will look into her book which I never heard of. (I lead a sheltered existence.)
I still like the song, though Pitney does seem to be singing about the thrill of the chase more than the endurance of love. I can see why it bothers her and why it might appeal to men.
As for Eden, herself, leopardskin (the collar in her picture) has always seemed to me to be the original floozy fabric.