Songs About Falling In Love

This collection of "Falling In Love" songs is pretty straightforward, at first glance. However, it's part 1 of 2. The followup post will be "Heartbreak" songs. So get ready to smile here, but be prepared to frown later.  ~  JH

1)  Selena  ~  "I Could Fall In Love"

2)  Landon Pigg  ~  "Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop"

3)  Jason Castro  ~  "Let's Just Fall In Love Again"

4)  Kellie Pickler  ~  "Makin' Me Fall In Love Again"

5)  Céline Dion & Clive Griffin  ~  "When I Fall In Love"

6)  Earth, Wind, & Fire  ~  "Fall In Love With Me"

7)  Estelle ft. John Legend  ~  "Fall In Love"

8)  UB40  ~  "Can't Help Falling In Love"

9)  Alabama  ~  "How Do You Fall In Love"

10)  Eddie Money  ~  "Fall In Love Again"

11)  Brad Paisley  ~  "Two People Fell In Love"

12)  Peter Cetera & Amy Grant  ~  "Next Time I Fall"  (As many times as I've heard this song, I never knew Amy Grant was the female singer! Did you know that?)

13)  Alicia Keys  ~  "Fallin'"

14)  Lila McCann  ~  "I Wanna Fall In Love"

15)  Gloria Estefan  ~  "Falling In Love (Uh-Oh)"

16)  The Spinners  ~  "Could It Be I'm Falling In Love"

17)  Tyler Ward ft. Alex G.  ~  "Falling"

18)  The Kelly Family  ~  "Fell In Love With An Alien"

19)  Carlene Carter  ~  "I Fell In Love"

20)  Whitton  ~  "I Fell In Love"

"In" & "Out" Songs

ANOTHER "Opposites" music post? Really??? Yeah, really. And there's still more where these came from. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Milow  ~  "Little In The Middle"

2)  Air Supply  ~  "All Out Of Love"

3)  Stealers Wheel  ~  "Stuck In The Middle With You"

4)  Casey Abrams  ~  "Get Out"

5)  Alanis Morissette  ~  "Hand In My Pocket"

6)  Pixie Lott  ~  "Cry Me Out"

7)  Within Temptation  ~  "Shot In The Dark"

8)  Bonnie Tyler  ~  "Holding Out A Hero"

9)  Marc Cohn  ~  "Walking In Memphis"

10)  Fastball  ~  "Out Of My Head"

11)  Kina Grannis  ~  "In Your Arms"

12)  Creedence Clearwater Revival  ~  "Lookin' Out My Back Door"

13)  Genesis  ~  "In Too Deep"

14)  Gary Allan  ~  "Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain)"

15)  Nirvana  ~  "In Bloom"

16)  Oasis  ~  "Stop Crying Your Heart Out"

17)  Terry Jacks  ~  "Seasons In The Sun"  (Wow, that hairdo!)

18)  Stephen Speaks  ~  "Out Of My League"

19)  Kate Miller-Heidke  ~  "Caught In The Crowd"

20)  "Weird Al" Yankovic  ~  "Do I Creep You Out?"

Songs By Los Angeles-Born Artists

Okay, so I heard this Beck song on the radio the other week, and I wanted to post the music video of it, but couldn't figure out how to incorporate it into a music post. (I'd already included a song by Beck in my "Mononymous Male Singers" post a few weeks back.) So I looked him up on Wikipedia and found out he was born in Los Angeles, and quickly decided that there was my angle. I would do a post of songs by artists born in the city of Los Angeles. It's a lame idea, I'll admit, but it did the trick. So here you have it, a song by Beck and 14 other people who were born in Los Angeles.  Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Beck  ~  "Where It's At"  (He's got two turntables and a microphone...)

2)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  "Heaven Is A Place On Earth"  (Actually, it isn't...but that doesn't mean the song's not good)

3)  Natalie Cole  ~  "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)"  (I like her dad [Nat "King" Cole] a lot – I didn't know Natalie came out with this song)

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4)  David Crosby  ~  "Delta"  (Who needs Stills, Nash, or Young?)

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5)  Zooey Deschanel  ~  "Don't Look Back"  (Technically, the song is by She & Him, but the "She" is Zooey)

6)  Leif Garrett  ~  "When I Think Of You"  (Apparently, this fella was quite the heartthrob in his day...whatever)

7)  Josh Groban  ~  "You Are Loved (Don't Give Up)"  (Is there any song this guy can't sing well?)

8)  Etta James  ~  "Something's Got A Hold On Me"  (She was a sassy somebody in her youth...and in her old age, actually)

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9)  Katharine McPhee  ~  "Say Goodbye"  (It's so hard to say goodbye, though...)

10)  Liza Minnelli  ~  "New York, New York"  (A native Angeleno singing a song about New York...makes perfect sense)

11)  Keb' Mo' ft. Bonnie Raitt & Jackson Browne  ~  "Just Like You"  (One of the most important songs I've heard in quite a while)

12)  Randy Newman  ~  "You've Got A Friend In Me"  (Anyone who's ever seen Toy Story once – or a thousand times – will recognize Newman's distinctive singing voice...and this song, too)

13)  Elliott Yamin  ~  "Wait For You"  (Good song – I'd sort of forgotten about this one, but I like it)

14)  Gwyneth Paltrow  ~  "Country Strong"  (Country strong, but Los Angeles-bred)

15)  Emily Osment  ~  "You Are The Only One"  (Pretty generic teen-pop-crap by the sister of that creepy kid from The Sixth Sense movie)

"First" & "Last" Songs

More "Opposites" songs to distract you from this dreary Thursday. Some really good songs here. Take a listen.  ~  JH

1)  Barry White  ~  "You Are The First, The Last, My Everything"

2)  David Guetta ft. Taped Rai  ~  "Just One Last Time"

3)  Kylie  Minogue  ~  "Love At First Sight"

4)  Creed  ~  "One Last Breath"

5)  Roberta Flack  ~  "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"

6)  Michael Bublé  ~  "Save The Last Dance For Me"

7)  Lifehouse  ~  "First Time"

8)  Vanessa Williams  ~  "Save The Best For Last"

9)  Sade  ~  "Never As Good As The First Time"

10)  Electric Light Orchestra  ~  "Last Train To London"

11)  SOKO  ~  "First Love Never Die"

12)  Keane  ~  "This Is The Last Time"

13)  Fiona Apple  ~  "The First Taste"

14)  Céline Dion  ~  "The Last To Know"

15)  Foreigner  ~  "Feels Like The First Time"

16)  Etta James  ~  "At Last"

17)  Surface  ~  "The First Time"

18)  Steel Magnolia  ~  "Last Night Again"

19)  The Kelly Family  ~  "The First Time"

20)  Jeff Buckley  ~  "Last Goodbye"

A Song For Each Month Of The Year

Not much preamble necessary here. It is exactly what it sounds like it is. Please enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Same Old Story  ~  "The Norm In January"

2)  Josh Groban  ~  "February Song"

3)  Jane Monheit  ~  "Rivers Of March"  (Monheit's my personal favorite among all the jazz singers I've ever heard)

4)  Rufus Wainwright  ~  "April Fools"

5)  Blue Rodeo  ~  "5 Days In May"

6)  Lucy Schwartz  ~  "June"  (One of the best singers in pop music today that nobody other than me has ever heard of...wow, that sounded kinda hipster...sorry!)

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7)  Amy MacDonald  ~  "4th Of July"

8)  Abandon All Ships  ~  "August"

9)  Earth, Wind, & Fire  ~  "September"  (How have I blogged this long and never put an EW&F song in the mix?)

10)  Jet Tangerine  ~  "Something About October"

11)  Miranda Lee Richards  ~  "Early November"

12)  Taylor Swift  ~  "Back To December"