Sweet! There is no such thing as a sappy love song. R

They're all sappy! That's why I love them.

Seeing Leo Sayer makes me think Richard Simmons did have a role model, lol. Loved this, a really voice break!

Buffy, it was the 70s. That hair was everywhere!

Sometimes we need just that...

We do, Patrick, don't we. Peace to you.

Well, although almost 40, I still think that life is in your words...

"..idealistic youth, when fairy tales came true and perfect love was just over the horizon. "

I believe that these all can be our life!! And thank you for reminding me to forget what is not included in all these beautiful feelings you have shared with all of us.!!

Stathi, funny you should mention almost 40. Ten years, no eleven years ago, I moved back to Indiana thinking I could go home, find a family, and have the peace and love I was lacking. I turned 40, felt like I was on top of the world, and had a complete meltdown. In the 10 years since, I have found that the absolute most important thing in the world is to be at peace with myself. Fate works as it will. Wishing gives me something to strive for, but I personally don't believe that all I have to do is seek and I shall find. I believe that I will be given when it is time for it to happen, and for now, learning to live with myself is the most important.

These songs, tonight, take me to a place in my mind that is lovely. I'm glad you see it, too.

And I truly hope you find your love. I want everyone to have their wishes come true.

Awwwwwww come on. Let's see, The Association's "Never My Love" was sappier and arguably the "sap, sap, sappiest" would be "I Want to Make it With You" but not as sappy as "Muskrat Love" by The Captain and Tenille. And those are all from the "rock" era--I'm not even dipping back into the mid/late 60's "bubble gum rock" (I have selective amnesia when it comes to those groups).

Walter, I like "I Want to Make it With You," but can live without Muskrat Love. I have to be in a really good mood to listen to that one.

Muskrat Suzy
Muskrat Sam
Do the jitterbug
In-a muskrat land

You're right- the ultimate in sappy!

Phyllis--thanks for the response. "I Want to Make it With You" is one of the ultimate sappy songs. And an "ultimate" just came to mind: The Mindbenders "Groovy Kind of Love" (not the Phil Collins remake). I can remember slow dancing to this song in Junior High School--the requisite hand width between me and the 13 year old girl--and, as they say, "sportin' wood".
Anyway, I love a little silliness on Friday. Thanks.

Sometimes a gal just needs a sappy love song. Or, to quote my boyfriend Paul McCartney: You'd think that people would Have had enough of silly love song,s But I look around me and I see it isn't so...

I love these songs; but what? No "Bizarre Love Triangle" by New Order? Now there's a sappy love song for you. :)

How did I miss these great songs? I don't recognize any of them. When I think sappy, I think of lots of disco music too. This must have been the sappy era. Thanks for the listen! /R

Walter, I don't remember the old version- Phil Collins is now singing in my head.

lschmoopie, your boyfriend got it right!

MM, I don't remember that one. I'll have to look it up.

Nilesite, I just read your post. It sounds like you were busy when these songs were playing. And doing good things, too.

Ultimate in sap "Don't Worry Be Happy."

: P

Oh, my, Phyllis, those songs really do take me back, I remember listening to Taylor Dane over & over and dreaming about my "lost" love. I used to have a tape I called my "Sappy 70's mix" filled with songs like "Wildfire" & "If I Can't Have You" .....Sigh....oh to be that young again.

Kate, I don't know about sappy but annoying comes to mind!

A. S. S., Those were some good old days, weren't they.

[r] Just Phyllis -- Thanks! I got to three before my laptop went nuts. I was thinking, years ago the sappiest song I used to play was Diana Ross' "Touch Me in the Morning" post a breakup. Talk about savoring one's rejection:

Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday

snip

Well, I can say goodbye in the cold morning light
But I can't watch love die in the warmth of the night

snip

Let me watch you go
With the sun in my eyes
We've seen how love can grow
Now well see how it dies

Geeeessshhhh.

These days to get sappy I play Moulin Rouge "Your Song" and it has me at one line:

"How wonderful life is, now you're in the world"

WOW!!! Now if that refrain doesn't sweep one off one's feet, especially as sung on the album! Whoa. I thought something was sparking up with someone a while ago and began playing this. The song kept its enchantment longer than the flirtation. Sigh. Still, was nice to have the rush for a bit. :-)

best, libby

Okay, I tried. I really did and only because I like you. I vaguely remember the first one and don't remember the second or third. I had one in Jr. High so I remember hearing a lot of sappy 80's love songs.

As a result of being married a lot I don't have a romantic bone left in my body so I automatically tune out lots of love songs. I didn't listen to the last few, just couldn't do it.

As far as I know the only song my mom has been seen dancing to in over 50 years is "I will Survive." Every wedding or whatever, there goes little mama (who doesn't like to dance) trotting out to shake it up.

Oops, forgot to rate...

Libby, Those are some dramatic songs. I really like that Diana Ross song, mostly because I get a kick out of the melody and trying to sing it. I haven't heard the Moulin Rouge version of "Your Song," but I do like the original. At least it now holds a good memory for you!

Bleue, you were in junior high in the '80s? That might be why you don't recall these- and I also spent two tears in England (May 86- May 88) so I tend to get the England played songs mixed in to the American played. Thank you for persevering as far as you did. I have to admit that I have trouble playing songs on other blogs, too.

Loving the new banner, Phyllis.
Couldn't access the vids, but from the comments & tags I get the drift.
I love silly love songs.
I love this, from you : "... the absolute most important thing in the world is to be at peace with myself."
& Walter's "sportin' wood," not an expression I was familiar with ...
... Walter remembers that ?
:-)
& don't believe Bleue for a minute, when she says she doesn't have a romantic bone left in her body ...
We all do. It's the one we use when we dance, isn't it.

Kim, thanks! I'm learning to draw in Microsoft Paint using only the pad on my laptop to move the cursor. Luckily there is an "undo" on the "edit" tab!

Walter "sportin' wood" was fairly normal, I think, but I didn't get to dance with boys in school. They didn't ask. I was weird.

And I kinda think Bleue is romantic, too. Have you seen her drawings?

I avoid sappy love songs usually -- and love Dave Matthews, all his depressing, un-singable-to songs: Gravedigger, Bartender, When the World Ends...his love song being Into the Great White Light....I've never understood why I don't like mushy love songs until I heard the depressing ones and found love in those somewhere.
Weird, yes.

On the comments here between you and Stathi: I am convinced the 40s is a nightmare decade, it was for me, anyway.
I absolutely love being in my 50s !
...and none of this is because of external life situations, just everything else....
Statistics say women are the least happy in the 40s too, and life happiness is like a U-shape with yes, the 40s, right at the bottom...so hang in there anyone in their 40s and not too happy about it.

*This comment officially has nothing to do with anything on this post, sorry about that*

Happy Monday, Phyllis : )

JT, Happy Monday! Hope you had fun!

And really glad to know that I am officially on an upswing now...

hah? what? speak up! i cant hear you over the music, which is
arg.

"Remembering when life was, oh, what am I trying to say?"
(bearable, cuz there was purpose)

"When life was young and all was possible and love was sweet.
That is a nice feeling to feel tonight."
(well, that is infatuation and it is cool.. it happens at the beginning, and if u are lucky, it continues to old age, but it is just a
state of mind. like enmity. or grief or
gregariousness or
misogyny
or misanthropy.
all is fluid.

sappy is good . much can be
built on sap.)

lovely lovely, i say. also, arg.
i am in a non sappy mood tonite.
arg to me.

James, Arg to you, too. I like infatuation. It is a happy feeling when anything is possible and it's all good.

Thanks for sharing good feelings and music.