Over 175 Stars and Industry Pros Picked Their Favorite Love Songs – What's Yours?- Page 3

[Curly3]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 4:06pm

i just registered today but i've been reading the site for a while.

i have a lot of favorite love songs. very near the top has to be people will say we're in love from what else? oklahoma.

[LorelaiGilmore]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 5:00pm

Does "love is my legs" count? That's one of my favorites.

If not, I've been listening to "Still Hurting" all day.

[kec]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 5:42pm

Loving You from Passion

I Believe My Heart from Woman in white

And from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella -- Do I Love You? and Ten Minutes Ago.

[catstagestud]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 6:11pm

I'd say "How Could I Ever Know" from Secret Garden for the exact same reasons as everyone elses-the reaching someone from the grave aspect...gives me chills every time I hear it.

Cheers,

C.

[Rob]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:41pm

Just a quick heads up that a few more wonderful people - Paige Price, Orfeh, and Andy Karl, have been added on in to the list!

[BreeDaniel]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 10:01pm

And the three of them (Karl, Orfeh, Price), were all in Saturday Night Fever together. I will agree with Orfeh, just about anything the Gershwins' wrote could get my vote. I appreciate her sense of humor with regards to the "long running" Fascinating Rhythm.

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 10:03pm

I love their sense of humor.

My favorites are "The Next Ten Minutes", "Maria", and definitely the title song from Bare. Even though Jason's dying, that song is just so beautiful.

[Marguerite Chauvelin]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 11:33pm

Favorite:
Where's the Girl?- Scarlet Pimpernel (Terry version) I die of happiness whenever I hear that song.

Other noteables:
You Walk With Me- Full Monty
Wanting- Rags (Another Terry song)
Secret Soul or Sirens- Jane Eyre
Unworthy of Your Love- Assassins

Just to cover all bases:
Any love song ever written by Sondheim or sung by Terrence Mann or James Barbour.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 11:35pm

I feel a little afraid that I have to agree with Nathan Lane, but I don't think it gets much better than "Too Many Mornings".

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 10:30am

There are so many...."How Could I Ever Know" is one of my favorites...also "A Little Fall of Rain" and "On My Own"...I ma a complete cliche.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 1:42pm

There Once Was A Man and Hey There....Pajama Game

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 4:02pm

If "Fable" from THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA is considered a love song, definitely that one (hey, it talks about love)

and if it isnt, its a tie between "Love to Me" (which made me cry when i saw the show) or "Say It Somehow", which are both from PIAZZA, too!

LITP is just so romantic, isnt it? :)

[Magical_Ms._Mistoffeles_72]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 9:38pm

I have a few. Poor Sweet Baby from Snoopy
Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love ACL
I'll cover you Reprise RENT
One Hand One Heart West Side Story
Suddenly Seymour LSOH

[musicaltheater1]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 9:49pm

Lea Salonga's pick "Sun and Moon" from Miss Saigon is actually one of my favorite love songs. Here are my other picks:

1. Fallin' from They're Playing Our Song
2. If He/She Really Knew Me from They're Playing Our Song
3. If I Loved You from Carousel
4. What About Love from The Color Purple
5. For Good from Wicked
6. God Only Knows - not from a musical but I like Joss Stone's version.
7. When October Goes from Could It Be Magic

[overthemoon419]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 10:30pm

For the record:

I am well aware that the soundtrack to When Harry Met Sally... is covers of old standards. However, I don't recall Harry Connick, Jr. singing "I Could Write a Book" at any time in Pal Joey, and his version *IS* from When Harry Met Sally, which was not a movie musical. It's not just the lyrics that make the song romantic and wonderful, but also the performance.

Therefore, I will once again state that "I Could Write a Book" *FROM* When Harry Met Sally... is perfection in my mind, even though it is not from a musical.

[OddExoticCreature]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 12:01am

I was going to say I can't believe how many people are saying so many songs about unrequited or lost love are their favorite songs...that is so masochistic. "Still Hurting"??? Oh my God how can that be anyone's favorite love song? It makes me want to die. (whoa melodrama) and "On My Own" I have loved since I was 12 but it's really sad if considered a favorite love song.

Even "The Next 10 Minutes" I find bittersweet. Yes the words and meaning are beautiful and really grasp the beauty of love in the moment...but I have a problem taking songs out of context. I can't listen to that song without thinking, "BUT THEN LOOK WHAT HAPPENED!!!!!!" How am I so cynical at 21? Oy.

Anyway...I then realized that the song I immediately thought of as my favorite love song is just as much a double-edged sword as some of the others!

"You Should Be Loved" from Sideshow. It is SO BEAUTIFUL, but in the end...she cannot take that risk, and he if left with all this love for her that he can't give to her. Hmm...

Screw it, I'm with John. Send in the Clowns.

edit: oh hahahahahaha musicaltheatre1 you said "For Good" HAHAHAHAHAHA that's awesome.

Updated On: 2/13/06 at 12:01 AM

[jasobres]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 12:12pm

I would have to say mine would be the musical version of "Your Eyes."

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 2:31pm

I think my favorites would be:
"Lets do it,lets fall in love"
"So in Love"
"Loving you"
"Not a day goes by"
"Not while I'm around"

Posted: 2/13/06 at 10:34pm

HAHAHA, well well. The song that Michelle Federer chose was "The Next 10 minutes." Now THAT'S love!
Updated On: 2/13/06 at 10:34 PM

[rose&lark]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 11:48pm

Mine:
"All I Ask of You" (The Phantom of the Opera)
"All the Wasted Time" (Parade) *such a beautiful tune*
"I'll Cover You" and "Seasons of Love" (RENT)
"You Are Beautiful" (Flower Drum Song)
"To Have and to Hold" (The Beautiful Game)
"Love to Me" (The Light in the Piazza)
...Though there are many, many out there...

Updated On: 2/14/06 at 11:48 PM

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 1:30pm

New Words, the Maury Yeston song from One Two Three Four Five, sung to perfection by Liz Callaway... that's my favorite :)

[DramaDork925]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 3:38pm

I'd Give It All For You from Songs for a New World

[Anthony3]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 6:31pm

my favorite love song is:

"All I Ask Of You"
sung by Sandra Joseph and Peter Lockyer (or Tim Martin Gleason)

also:

"Wishing you were somehow here again"
sung by Sandra Joseph

[ALWrules]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 8:51pm

On the Street where you live