Love Songs Change, But They Also Stay the Same

Of all the genres of music, love songs seem to befelt in centuries past: desire, joy, disappointment,
the most prevalent. Singers like Whitney Houston,yearning, fulfillment.� Throughout history love
Mariah Carey, Celine Deon and Kenny Rogers havesongs have changed to suit the tenor of the times.
popularized this type of music and never seem to tireFor instance, in the Gay Nineties & Tin Pan Ally,
of expressing their feelings about romance, falling insongwriters, and particularly American popular
love for the first time, falling in love for good orsongwriters, came into their own. It was an era of
breaking up with someone they loved. Even rebelliousletting loose and innocent flirtation. Novelty love
punk rockers and rappers feel the need to addresssongs like "Jeepers, Creepers!" and "A Hot Time In
these topics in song and sometimes it seems as ifThe Old Town Tonight" were wildly popular. The
there isn�t a singer alive who hasn�t1930�s and 40�s represented the
experimented with the genre at some point in his orgolden age of American musical theater and saw love
her career. So just how far back can we trace lovesongs from Broadway shows written by the likes of
songs? When Pharoah Rameses wanted to tell aRodgers & Hart and Jerome Kern take off. The
beautiful, bronze-skinned Egyptian lady that he found1950�s was the decade of love songs from
her desirable, did he have a court musician singFrank Sinatra, while the 1960�s saw the rise
something that sounded like "Love Me Tender"?of love songs targeted at teens. In the
�In a way, he did,� says recording1970�s the teens grew up. By the time
artist Robin Frederick. According to Frederick,Barry White charted with "Can't Get Enough Of Your
3500-year-old Egyptian love poems from pieces ofLove, Babe" in 1974, love songs exhibited a
papyrus and pottery fragments have beensophisticated, sensual appreciation of romance sung
recovered that are filled with the language andfrom an adult perspective. Then came along disco
sentiments we hear in today's pop songs.and tastes changed again. Today�s eclectic
�Though they are thousands of yearsmix of love songs offers something for everyone.
old,� she says, �the earliest loveWhatever you�re going though on the
songs sound so contemporary, so honest, so urgent,romantic front, you�re sure to find a singer
they might have been written yesterday. They arewho expresses it in the style you like best.
proof that human emotions have not changed. WhenTo download Love Songs for free visit our site.
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