Fantastic choices! Some of mine are probably quite cheesy:
Roxy Music - Avalon (not this one though )
Judie Tzuke - Stay With Me Til Dawn Champaign - How 'Bout Us
Heatwave - Always and Forever Alexander O' Neal - If You Were Here Tonight
The Style Council - You're The Best Thing
The Jam - English Rose (beauty!)
Blur - To The End
Paula Abdul - Rush Rush Anita Baker - Sweet Love-this is an amazing song!Stunning vocals-one of the contestants sang this on AI the other week:eek: Brenda Russell - Piano In The Dark
Rose Royce - I Wanna Get Next To You
Terence Trent D'Arby - Let's Go Forward
Hall & Oates - One On One
George Michael - A Different Corner
Madonna - Crazy For You/ Live To Tell/ Take A Bow
Simply Red - For Your Babies (not ashamed to admit to it either)
Janet Jackson - Let's Wait A While
Atlantic Starr - Secret Lovers-another amazing record:)
Randy Crawford - Time For Love Randy Crawford - Secret Combination
Randy Crawford - Rainy Night In Georgia
Kate Bush - Wow
Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You Fat Larry's Band - Zoom
Alessi - O Lori
Sophie B Hawkins - Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
The Beatles - Something
Category of their own:
Frank Sinatra - One For My Baby (One More For The Road)
Frank Sinatra - All The Way
Dean Martin - Everybody Loves Somebody
Nat King Cole - What'll I Do
Nat King Cole - Unforgettable
Billie Holliday - The Very Thought Of You Etta James - At Last
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You
The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Wow you have got an amazing selection-great taste in music.
The ones I like in particular are highlighted.
I would add for mine:
Roberta Flack/Peabo Bryson-Tonight I celebrate my love for you.
Roberta/Flack/Donny Hathaway-The closer I get to you
The Kane Gang-Closest thing to Heaven
George Micheal-Careless Wisper
Tina Turner-Let's Stay together (prefer this to Al Green version).
Gladys Knight-Licence to Kill (Bond theme!)
Stevie Wonder - You and I
Mariah Carey - Mine Again, Butterfly, Vanishing,
Whitney Houston - I Have Nothing, Saving All My Love For You
Aretha Franklin - Ain't No Way
Destiny's Child - Cater To You
Pink-Nobody Knows, I Don't Believe You, Glitter in the Air, Crystal Ball
Mariah Carey- Vision of Love, Mine Again
Spice Girls- 2 Become 1, Viva Forever, Too Much
Whitney Housten- Greatest Love of All, One Moment in Time
"Something" - The Beatles
"God Only Knows", "Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)" - The Beach Boys
"You Do Something To Me" - Paul Weller
"Zoom" - Fat Larry's Band
"You Send Me" - Sam Cooke
"Quiet Storm (Motown Remixed version) - Smokey Robinson
"Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying" - Gerry & The Pacemakers
"Hello (It's Me)" - The Isley Brothers
"Edge Of The Universe", "How Deep Is Your Love" - The Bee Gees
"I Can't Tell You Why" - The Eagles
"Stand By My Woman", "It Ain't Over Til It's Over" - Lenny Kravitz
"Captain Of Her Heart" - Double
"Be Thankful For What You've Got", "Gypsy Woman" - Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions
"Harvest For The World" - The Isley Brothers or The Christians
"You Really Got Me" - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
"Love Is A Losing Game" - Amy Winehouse
Agree. This song still makes me tear up a little bit, even at the 683rd listen. Would also like to add:
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
Harvest Moon - Neil Young
Nightswimming - R.E.M.
Going outside of the 'established' norm; and pretty unusually for me for otherwise normally being completely uninterested in the genre; I really love brief top 20 hit 'All Cried Out' by Allure from the late 90s, an earnest attempt by a female r'n'b group to recreate the 'big black soul ballad' of the 80s which succeeds, wonderfully.
Another big r'n'b soul throwback screecher I love is of course En Vogue's persistently popular smash 'Don't Let Go (Love)'.
Boyz II Men - Doin' just fine
Whitney Houston - One moment in time
Whitney Houston and Deborah Cox - Same script, different cast
Lionel Richie - Hello
Boyz II Men - End of the road
Lemar - Another day
Oasis- Don't go away
Skunk Anansie - Hedonism
Def agree with you RusselIan on All Cried out - Allure ft 112, I absoloutely love that song.
Bette Midler - Wind beneath my wings
Madonna - You'lle see
Kci and JoJo - All my life
Marah Carey - My all
Phil Collins - Against the odds
All 4 One - I swear
Richard Marx - Right here waiting
Natalie Cole - Miss you like crazy
Luther Vandross - Dance with my father
Micheal Jackson - She's out of my life
Micheal Jackson - You are not alone
So many more I could be here all day lol!
Whitney would feature another hundred times to, and Boyz II Men lol.
Wow you have got an amazing selection-great taste in music...
I would add for mine: Roberta Flack/Peabo Bryson-Tonight I celebrate my love for you.
Roberta/Flack/Donny Hathaway-The closer I get to you
The Kane Gang-Closest thing to Heaven
George Micheal-Careless Wisper
Tina Turner-Let's Stay together (prefer this to Al Green version).
Gladys Knight-Licence to Kill (Bond theme!)
Thanks for the compliment! If only most of my friends thought the same!!! Your additions were high calibre as well, particularly the Roberta Flack selections. I used to play both of those routinely at my gigs when I was DJing. Out of interest, did you ever hear the cover version of "The Closer I Get To You" by Luther & Beyonce? Roberta and Donny win my vote every time but I was impressed with the cover.
Boyz II Men - End Of The Road
James Morrison - You Give Me Something
Take That - Love Aint Here Anymore
Mariah Carey - I Don't Wanna Cry
Luther Vandross - Dance With My Father
Michael Jackson - Human Nature/One Day In Your Life/ Music & Me
Christina Aguilera - Hurt
Sinead O'Conner - Nothing Compares 2 U
The Killers - Smile Like You Mean It
U2 - With Or Without You
Bette Midler - Wind beneath my wings
Madonna - Live To Tell/Take A Bow
George Michael - Careless Whisper
Snow Patrol - Run
Spice Girls - Viva Forever
Destiny's Child - Emotions
Aware that this is an old thread, but I found it searching for a particular song and thought I might as well add some of my faves, so;
Judie Tzuke - Shoot From the Heart
Evanescence - My Immortal (album version with drums)
Evanescence - Swimming Home
Cyndi Lauper- Hot Gets a Little Cold
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric
Warpaint - Undertow
Goldfrapp - Clowns
Goldfrapp - Eat Yourself
Lana Del Rey - Ride
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
Samantha Sang - Emotion
The XX - Angels
Rihanna - Stay
Little Dragon - Twice
James Blunt - 1973
Damien Rice - Volcano
Tegan and Sara - I Was A Fool
Scissor Sisters - Mary
Scissor Sisters - Land of a Thousand Words
Ordinary World - Duran Duran
Come Undone - Duran Duran
The Drugs Don't work - The Verve
Stay - Shakespeare's Sister
Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
Forever - Goldfrapp
Kiss from a rose - Seal
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Wow you have got an amazing selection-great taste in music.
The ones I like in particular are highlighted.
I would add for mine:
Roberta Flack/Peabo Bryson-Tonight I celebrate my love for you.
Roberta/Flack/Donny Hathaway-The closer I get to you
The Kane Gang-Closest thing to Heaven
George Micheal-Careless Wisper
Tina Turner-Let's Stay together (prefer this to Al Green version).
Gladys Knight-Licence to Kill (Bond theme!)
Lovely song. Has such a warm feel to it.
Mariah Carey - Mine Again, Butterfly, Vanishing,
Whitney Houston - I Have Nothing, Saving All My Love For You
Aretha Franklin - Ain't No Way
Destiny's Child - Cater To You
Mariah Carey- Vision of Love, Mine Again
Spice Girls- 2 Become 1, Viva Forever, Too Much
Whitney Housten- Greatest Love of All, One Moment in Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYEgisIhcCI
"God Only Knows", "Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)" - The Beach Boys
"You Do Something To Me" - Paul Weller
"Zoom" - Fat Larry's Band
"You Send Me" - Sam Cooke
"Quiet Storm (Motown Remixed version) - Smokey Robinson
"Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying" - Gerry & The Pacemakers
"Hello (It's Me)" - The Isley Brothers
"Edge Of The Universe", "How Deep Is Your Love" - The Bee Gees
"I Can't Tell You Why" - The Eagles
"Stand By My Woman", "It Ain't Over Til It's Over" - Lenny Kravitz
"Captain Of Her Heart" - Double
"Be Thankful For What You've Got", "Gypsy Woman" - Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions
"Harvest For The World" - The Isley Brothers or The Christians
"You Really Got Me" - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
"Love Is A Losing Game" - Amy Winehouse
Jesus to a Child - George Michael
Careless Whisper - George Michael
Brown Eyes - Lady Gaga
Agree. This song still makes me tear up a little bit, even at the 683rd listen. Would also like to add:
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
Harvest Moon - Neil Young
Nightswimming - R.E.M.
Another big r'n'b soul throwback screecher I love is of course En Vogue's persistently popular smash 'Don't Let Go (Love)'.
Whitney Houston - One moment in time
Whitney Houston and Deborah Cox - Same script, different cast
Lionel Richie - Hello
Boyz II Men - End of the road
Lemar - Another day
Oasis- Don't go away
Skunk Anansie - Hedonism
Def agree with you RusselIan on All Cried out - Allure ft 112, I absoloutely love that song.
Bette Midler - Wind beneath my wings
Madonna - You'lle see
Kci and JoJo - All my life
Marah Carey - My all
Phil Collins - Against the odds
All 4 One - I swear
Richard Marx - Right here waiting
Natalie Cole - Miss you like crazy
Luther Vandross - Dance with my father
Micheal Jackson - She's out of my life
Micheal Jackson - You are not alone
So many more I could be here all day lol!
Whitney would feature another hundred times to, and Boyz II Men lol.
Thanks for the compliment! If only most of my friends thought the same!!! Your additions were high calibre as well, particularly the Roberta Flack selections. I used to play both of those routinely at my gigs when I was DJing. Out of interest, did you ever hear the cover version of "The Closer I Get To You" by Luther & Beyonce? Roberta and Donny win my vote every time but I was impressed with the cover.
James Morrison - You Give Me Something
Take That - Love Aint Here Anymore
Mariah Carey - I Don't Wanna Cry
Luther Vandross - Dance With My Father
Martine McCutcheon - Perfect moment
Stop Crying Your Heart Out -Oasis
I Miss You - Blink 182
We Are Broken- Paramore
Christina Aguilera - Hurt
Sinead O'Conner - Nothing Compares 2 U
The Killers - Smile Like You Mean It
U2 - With Or Without You
Bette Midler - Wind beneath my wings
Madonna - Live To Tell/Take A Bow
George Michael - Careless Whisper
Snow Patrol - Run
Spice Girls - Viva Forever
Destiny's Child - Emotions
So Cruel - U2
Move Closer - Phyllis Nelson
Judie Tzuke - Shoot From the Heart
Evanescence - My Immortal (album version with drums)
Evanescence - Swimming Home
Cyndi Lauper- Hot Gets a Little Cold
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric
Warpaint - Undertow
Goldfrapp - Clowns
Goldfrapp - Eat Yourself
Lana Del Rey - Ride
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
Samantha Sang - Emotion
The XX - Angels
Rihanna - Stay
Little Dragon - Twice
James Blunt - 1973
Damien Rice - Volcano
Tegan and Sara - I Was A Fool
Scissor Sisters - Mary
Scissor Sisters - Land of a Thousand Words
Metallica 'Nothing Else Matters'
Slipknot 'Snuff'
Foreigner 'I wanna know what love is'
Black Sabbath 'Planet Caravan'
Billy Joel 'Honesty'
Come Undone - Duran Duran
The Drugs Don't work - The Verve
Stay - Shakespeare's Sister
Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
Forever - Goldfrapp
Kiss from a rose - Seal