It has been estimated that more than 100 million love songs have been recorded, and the variety is staggering. Some 400 years later, 12th-century European troubadours spread their songs of longing, an early indication that pleasure and pain are natural bedfellows in a love song. In his 2015 book Love Songs: The Hidden History, Ted Gioia explained how love ballads emerged in the 8th-century tunes of medieval Arab female slaves in Spain. Their song “What Can You Say In A Love Song?” contained the lines What can you say in a love song?įinding anything new to say about this many-splendored thing prompted an amusing song in Ira Gershwin, Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen’s 1934 Broadway musical Life Begins at 8:40. Listen to the best love songs on Spotify.
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