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The Greatest Valentine's Day songs of All Time: 2007



The greatest love songs of all timeWhether it's breaking up or getting together, Valentine's Day is full of the melodies which make a person's heart soar or sink, and you've let us know. We've posted complete audio and playlists for Mark Wheat's fifty greatest love songs of all time and Danny Sigelman's greatest break-up songs. (All audio is 128k mp3).
Mark Wheat talks love songs on Midday

Greatest Love Songs

Hour 1 - Listen
Rufus Wainwright - "My Funny Valentine"
The Ashtray Hearts - "Valentine"
Billy Bragg - "The Fourteenth Of February"
Sam Cooke - "Cupid"
Etta James - "At Last"
The Righteous Brothers - "Unchained Melody"
The Jayhawks - "All The Right Reasons"
Bright Eyes - "First Day Of My Life"
Cat Power - "Where Is My Love"
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - "Somewhere Over The Rainbow / What A Wonderful World"
Mario Lanza - "If I loved you"

Hour 2 - Listen
M. Ward - "Let My Love Open The Door"
Van Morrison - "Tupelo Honey"
Ben Folds - "The Luckiest"
Roberta Flack - "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
Magnetic Fields - "The Book of Love"
Nina Simone - "I Want a Little Sugar in my Bowl"
Mason Jennings - "Ballad for my One True Love"
Unrest - "Make Out Club"
Iron & Wine - "Such Great Heights"
Elvis Presley - "Can't Help Falling In Love"

Hour 3 - Listen
Horace Faith - "Black Pearl"
Ray LaMontagne - "Shelter"
Bob Dylan - "Shelter From The Storm"
Otis Redding - "Try a Little Tenderness"
Semisonic - "Secret Smile"
The White Stripes - "We're Going to Be Friends"
Beach Boys - "God Only Knows"
Talking Heads - "This Must Be The Place Naive Melody"
Death Cab For Cutie - "I Will Follow You into the Dark"
Leonard Cohen - "Dance Me To The End Of Love"
Billie Holiday - "How Deep Is The Ocean"
Al Green - "Let's Stay Together"

Hour 4 - Listen
The Flaming Lips - "Do You Realize"
Guillemots - "Made Up Lovesong #43"
The Pogues w/ Kirsty MacColl - "Fairytale Of New York"
Prince - "Nothing Compares 2 U"
Pixies - "La La Love You"
Neutral Milk Hotel - "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
Big Star - "Thirteen"
Spoon - "I Summon You"
Percy Sledge - "When A Man Loves A Woman"
Nick Cave - "Into My Arms"
John Lennon - "Woman"
DeVotchKa - "Queen of the Surface Streets"

Hour 5 - Listen
Sarah Vaughan - "The Nearness of You"
Feist - "Secret Heart"
The Shins - "Kissing The Lipless"
The Wedding Present - "Perfect Blue"
Paul Westerberg - "First Glimmer"
Neil Young - "Harvest Moon"
Wilco - "Jesus, Etc."
Johnny Cash - "I Walk The Line"
Looper - "impossible things #2"
Alexi Murdoch - "Love You More"
Serge Gainsbourg - "je taime... moi non plus"
Barry White - "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe"
The Cure - "Let's Go To Bed"
Greatest Break-up Songs

Hour 1 - Listen
Led Zeppelin - "Heartbreaker"
Jeff Buckley - "Last Goodbye"
Buzzcocks - "Ever Fallen In Love With Someone(You Shouldn't of Fallen in Love With)"
Peter Bjorn and John - "Let's Call it Off"
PJ Harvey - "Rid of Me"
Atmosphere - "Say Hey There"
Dawn Penn - "You Don't Love Me(No, No, No)"
Lucinda Williams - "Abandoned"
Them - "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
Stone Ponies - "Different Drum"
Etta James - "I'd Rather Go Blind"
Billy Bragg - "The Price I Pay"
Blur - "To the End"
Sonic Youth - "Superstar"
Tegan and Sarah - "Where Does the Good Go?"

Hour 2 - Listen
Janis Joplin - "Piece of My Heart"
The Seeds - "Can't Seem to Make You Mine"
Sebadoh - "Soul and Fire"
Clem Snide - "End of Love"
Brandi Carlile - "What Can I Say?"
Damien Rice - "Cheers Darlin'"
Pulp - "Do You Remember the First Time?"
Blondie - "One Way or Another"
Bee Gees - "To Love Somebody"
The Faces - "(I Know) I'm Losing You"
Imogean Heap - "Hide and Seek"
Feist - "Let It Die"
Jeremy Messersmith - "Novacain"
Coldplay - "Fix you"
Her Space Holiday - "The Luxury of Loneliness"

Hour 3 - Listen
Sugar - "If I Can't Change Your Mind"
Tori Amos - "Tear in Your Hand"
Patsy Cline - "She's Got You"
George Jones - "Why Baby Why?"
The Clash - "Train in Vain"
Joanna Newsom - "Peach, Plum, Pear"
Magnolia Electric Co. - "I Can Not Have Seen the Light"
Ron Sexsmith - "I'll Keep it In Mind"
Bob Dylan - "Idiot Wind"
Replacements - "Answering Machine"
The Cure - "Pictures of You"
Ben Folds - "In Between Days"
Johnny Cash - "I Don't Think I Could Take You Back Again"
Wilco - "At Least That's What you Said"


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