![]() Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 22nd 1968, "This Magic Moment" by Jay and the Americans entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart and on March 2nd, 1969 it peaked at #6 (for 1 week) and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100.Įight years earlier on February 16th, 1960 the original version by the Drifters entered the Top 100, it peaked at #16 on March 28th, 1960 and stayed on the Top 100 for 11 weeks.Music industry was set up to enrich song writers vocalist seldom if ever get their due. Cm Leonard from N.j.Love the music of Ben E.It's a great song that transcends time for me." (Read more in our interview with Kenny Vance.) There's a whole world of people that are still interested in that, but most of this music has been taken off of the radio, and there's a whole other thing on the radio that doesn't have this purity or sentimentality or honesty. It says something about who the writers were, what kind of people they were, Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, who also wrote " Save the Last Dance for Me." And it also says something about what people were interested in. ![]() It says something about who people were in those days. Songs like that, they just don't seem to exist anymore. Vance talks about the song: "It's a fantastic sentiment: This magic moment, while your lips are close to mine, will last forever, forever 'til the end of time. Kenny Vance, who was a member of the group, has continued to perform the song and included it on the soundtrack to the 2000 movie Looking For An Echo, where he was the music supervisor. In fact, the song’s universality has turned it into an almost nondenominational and humanist hymn, blessed with an equivocal outlook that can magically give succor to all forms of love.Jay & the Americans hit #6 in the US with their 1969 recording of the song. Combining the fatalism of lines like ‘what good would living do me’ with the use of God in the title was risky business back in the mid-’60s. ![]() Once that miasmic mix of harpsichords and celestial brass clears, and that opening caveat is laid bare, we’re left with a heartbreakingly tender song of yearning, of devotion and of fidelity. The uncertainty of the first line (‘I may not always love you’) is a classic pop curveball, which works with the swooping transition from intro to verse. Three years later, Wilson and the Boys would surpass the master with a song that lifted the notion of the sophisticated love song clean into the heavens. In 1963, Brian Wilson was so obsessed with Phil Spector’s orchestral vision for the Ronettes’ ‘Be My Baby’ that he reportedly took to listening to it 100 times a day. Lovers near and far, here is our definitive ranking of the greatest love songs of all time. Whatever the occasion, there’s a love song out there for you. So we thought we’d do you a favour and cut through the noise, and round up the very best love songs of all time, from old school classics to Beyoncé belters. People have been writing those things since the Dark Ages, and they’re still releasing them every damn day in 2023. ![]() The kind of song that has you missing an ex you don’t even have.īut the love song genre is, as we all know, an incredibly saturated market. True love songs are the kinds of bangers that have you belting falsetto in the shower, dancing in the kitchen, and accidentally singing out loud in public. Whether you're a keen singer, newly in lurrve or totally heartbroken, there’s nothing like a good love song (though if it’s the latter, our list of the best breakup songs might be a better antidote for your heartache). ![]()
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