Is it too early to post about romantic songs/shows for Valentine's Day???

I know it's a few days away, but I'd love to start a thread about romantic songs/shows.

I'll start with the obvious: All I Ask of You from Phantom (I love the show anyway, but this song remains, in my opinion, one of the most romantic songs I've ever heard)

Others I find particularly romantic:

Some Enchanted Evening (I love this song-might be one of the only songs I could have playing forever on my iPod)
If I Loved You
Tonight (the duet not the quartet)


I bet I'll think of more-I'm a hopeless romantic!

"My Funny Valentine"

"I'd be surprisingly good for you" -Evita
"Shall we dance" -The King and I

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Say what you will about Wildhorn, the man has composed some incredible romantic ballad-y songs. "Du bist meine Welt (I Was Born for You)" from Rudolf comes to mind. It really doesn't fit the horror and tragedy of the moment, but it's a great love song...

In its own way, "Dyin' Aint So Bad" from B&C pulls on the heart. Then there's "So lange ich lebe (The longer I live)" and "Whitby Bay Reprise" from Dracula.

Since I'm thinking in German, I always loved the reprise of "Help Me Through the Night" from Rebecca...

There are so many it's almost impossible to list just a few.

Of course My Funny Valentine as After Eight mentioned.

Some of my other faves are:

Say It Somehow (Piazza)
I Have Dreamed (King and I)
I Chose Right (Baby)
When I First Saw You (Dreamgirls)

and a recent addition:

More and More (Death Takes a Holiday)

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Regarding "My Funny Valentine," there are so many recordings of that song, but to me, none can top the performance by rock-jazz crossover artist Elvis Costello. Accompanied only by a clean jazz guitar, he sings the song simply, directly and with a definite sense of melancholy. It's haunting.

I just did my pre-Valentines program yesterday and played the following selections:

Nino Rota's Love theme from ROMEO & JULIET (Boston Pops)

True Love (from HIGH SOCIETY - film soundtrack)
Song on the Sand (from LA CAGE AUX FOLLES -1983 original cast)

They Say it's Wonderful (ANNIE GET YOUR GUN - B.Peters/T.Wopat)

Paula - An improvised Love Song (THE GOODBYE GIRL - OBC)

Loving You (PASSION - Peabo Bryson & Nancy Wilson)

Love Look Away (FLOWER DRUM SONG - 1958 OBC)

Lover Come Back to Me (THE NEW MOON - studio cast)
My Heart is So Full of You (THE MOST HAPPY FELLA - Percy Faith)

This is Love (THIS IS LOVE - Toronto cast)

One Face (TRISTAN - Shaw Festival cast)

My Funny Valentine (BABES IN ARMS)- Swing Shift band

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"Something Good" from the film version of THE SOUND OF MUSIC is a pretty romantic song.

"I Have Dreamed/We Kiss In A Shadow" as well...

Gigi?

Really?

I find the song creepy. It's sung by a man in his 30's about a girl in her mid teens, who he has always treated like a little sister but now has the hots for because she's hit puberty.

Could you picture it if it was a guy in his thirties singing about a Boy who was 15? Would it still be considered a romantic song then?

In the story it's based on Gigi is 15 at the start and 16 at the end.
In the movie she is in high school and has a couple years left.
Even though Ms Caron was in her 20's , Gigi is 15.

And to get on topic:
"My Heart is So Full of You" from The Most Happy Fella
"What More Can I Say" from Falsettos

Updated On: 2/11/13 at 02:57 PM

"If Ever I Would Leave You" from CAMELOT

Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, You are love- Show Boat