What Love Is, According To These Songs: Vol. 1

Just in time for Valentine's Day, we begin a three-part series featuring songs about what "Love Is." A wide variety of definitions are offered within – some good, some bad, and some downright weird. But all thoroughly enjoyable!  ~  JH

1)  Pat Benatar  ~  “Love Is A Battlefield”

2)  Johnny Mathis  ~  “Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing”

3)  Chrisette Michele  ~  “Love Is You”

4)  The Darkness  ~  “Love Is Only A Feeling”

5)  Frozen Cast  ~  “Love Is An Open Door”

6)  Steven Tyler  ~  “Love Is Your Name”

7)  Dolly Parton  ~  “Love Is Like A Butterfly”

8)  Christopher Cross  ~  “Love Is Love (In Any Language)”

9)  LeAnn Rimes  ~  “Love Is An Army”

10)  Muse  ~  “Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)”

11)  k.d. lang  ~  “Love Is Everything”

12)  The Hollies  ~  “Love Is The Thing”

13)  Sophie Ellis-Bextor  ~  “Love Is A Camera”

14)  Phil Vassar  ~  “Love Is A Beautiful Thing”

15)  Rod Stewart  ~  “Love Is”

16)  Girls Aloud  ~  “Love Is The Key”

17)  Styx  ~  “Love Is The Ritual”

18)  Katie Melua  ~  “Love Is A Silent Thief”

19)  DC Talk  ~  “Luv Is A Verb”

20)  Sheryl Crow  ~  “Love Is A Good Thing”

21)  Lou Rawls  ~  “Love Is A Hurtin’ Thing”

22)  Linda Ronstadt  ~  “Love Is A Rose”

23)  Aloe Blacc  ~  “Love Is The Answer”

24)  Mickey & Sylvia  ~  “Love Is Strange”

25)  Arctic Monkeys  ~  “Love Is A Laserquest”  (Wait…WHAT?)

Popular Songs Of 1978, Vol. 4

Let's go ahead and wrap up this series today. Part 4 of 4 of the most Popular Songs Of 1978. It's been real, it's been fun...it's been real fun! And now it's your turn...to enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Wings  ~  “With A Little Luck”

2)  Pablo Cruise  ~  “Love Will Find A Way”

3)  Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams  ~  “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late”

4)  Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band  ~  “Still The Same”

5)  Robert Palmer  ~  “Every Kinda People”

6)  Jefferson Starship  ~  “Count On Me”

7)  Elton John  ~  “Part-Time Love”

8)  Linda Ronstadt  ~  “It’s So Easy”

9)  Black Sabbath  ~  “Never Say Die”

10)  Boney M.  ~  “Rasputin”

11)  Heatwave  ~  “Always And Forever”

12)  The Who  ~  “Who Are You?”

13)  Player  ~  “Baby Come Back”

14)  The Police  ~  “Can’t Stand Losing You”

15)  Foreigner  ~  “Double Vision”

16)  Grease Cast ft. John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John  ~  “Summer Nights”

17)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “Beast Of Burden”

18)  Barry Manilow  ~  “Can’t Smile Without You”

19)  UFO  ~  Only You Can Rock Me”

20)  Chris Rea  ~  “Fool If You Think It’s Over”

21)  Electric Light Orchestra  ~  “Sweet Talkin’ Woman”

22)  Bee Gees  ~  “Stayin’ Alive”

23)  Exile  ~  “Kiss You All Over”

24)  Eddie Money  ~  “Baby, Hold On”

25)  Rainbow  ~  “L.A. Connection”

Popular Songs Of 1978, Vol. 3

More of the best, or at least most Popular Songs Of 1978 – incidentally the year that I was born – coming your way right now. It's groovy, baby!  ~  JH

1)  Commodores  ~  “Three Times A Lady”

2)  Dire Straits  ~  “Sultans Of Swing”

3)  Johnny Paycheck  ~  “Take This Job And Shove It”

4)  Frankie Valli  ~  “Grease”

5)  Chaka Khan  ~  “I’m Every Woman”

6)  Kenny Rogers  ~  “The Gambler”

7)  Paul Davis  ~  “I Go Crazy”

8)  Olivia Newton-John  ~  “Hopelessly Devoted To You”

9)  Bob Welch  ~  “Sentimental Lady”

10)  Journey  ~  “Wheel In The Sky”

11)  Rita Coolidge  ~  “We’re All Alone”

12)  Kenny Loggins  ~  “Whenever I Call You ‘Friend’”

13)  Eruption  ~  “I Can’t Stand The Rain”

14)  REO Speedwagon  ~  “Roll With The Changes”

15)  John Paul Young  ~  “Love Is In The Air”

16)  Van Halen  ~  “You Really Got Me”

17)  The B-52’s  ~  “Rock Lobster”

18)  Jimmy Cliff  ~  “Many Rivers To Cross”

19)  Gerry Rafferty  ~  “Baker Street”

20)  Yvonne Elliman  ~  “If I Can’t Have You”

21)  Ronnie Milsap  ~  “Let’s Take The Long Way Around The World”

22)  Samantha Sang ft. Barry Gibb  ~  “Emotion”

23)  Carly Simon  ~  “You Belong To Me”

24)  The Cars  ~  “Just What I Needed”

25)  The O’Jays  ~  “Use Ta Be My Girl”

Popular Songs Of 1978, Vol. 2

Continuing with the Popular Songs Of 1978, here's part 2 of 4. Plenty of great tunes to be heard here. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “Miss You”

2)  Andy Gibb  ~  “Shadow Dancin’”

3)  Patti Smith Group  ~  “Because The Night”

4)  Barry Manilow  ~  “Copacabana”

5)  Little River Band  ~  “Reminiscing”

6)  ABBA  ~  “Take A Chance On Me”

7)  The Police  ~  “Roxanne”

8)  Jackson Browne  ~  “Running On Empty”

9)  Alicia Bridges  ~  “I Love The Nightlife”

10)  Randy VanWarmer  ~  “Just When I Needed You Most”

11)  The Trammps  ~  “Disco Inferno”

12)  Barbara Mandrell  ~  “Sleepin’ Single In A Double Bed”

13)  Nick Gilder  ~  “Hot Child In The City”

14)  A Taste Of Honey  ~  “Boogie Oogie Oogie”

15)  Randy Newman  ~  “Short People”

16)  Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings  ~  “Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys”

17)  Meat Loaf ft. Ellen Foley  ~  “Paradise By The Dashboard Light”

18)  Rod Stewart  ~  “You’re In My Heart”

19)  Bonnie Tyler  ~  “It’s A Heartache”

20)  Warren Zevon  ~  “Werewolves Of London”

21)  Carpenters  ~  “Sweet, Sweet Smile”

22)  Queen  ~  “Fat Bottomed Girls”

23)  Tavares  ~  “More Than A Woman”

24)  Genesis  ~  “Follow You, Follow Me”

25)  Alice Cooper  ~  “How You Gonna See Me Now”