The 10 Best Love Songs of the 60s

Recently, we started selecting the best love songs of the past 50 years. Each week, we present one song per year on the blog. Last week, we completes the first decade, the 60s. Next week we’ll continue with the best love songs of the 70s. Here’s a look back at the 10 best love songs of the 60s (the links will take you to the videos).

1960: Roy Orbison – Only The Lonely
1961: Elvis Presley – Are You Lonesome Tonight
1962: Ray Charles – I Can’t Stop Loving You
1963: Cliff Richared – Rote Lippen (Lucky Lips)
1964: Dean Martin – Everybody Loves Somebody Sometimes
1965: Tom Jones – It’s Not Unusual
1966: The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations
1967: The Beatles – All you need is Love
1968: Love Affair – Everlasting Love
1969: Peter Sarstedt – Where do you go to my Lovely?

If your favourite love song is not on the list, tell us in the comments which love song you consider the best love song of the 60s.

Summer Love Quote

This summer love quote is a month late, but if you replace “June” with “July”, it still works perfectly. Summer is a time for romance…

“If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.”

- Bern Williams

Between Passion and Madness – a Fine Line

The line between passion and madness can be quite fine, and easily crossed. The romantic poets knew this and the following video illustrates it. Well, not the video but the different reactions to the video. But first, see for yourself what you think of this little love story:

A friend sent me the link to this video saying: “it will touch you – sooo beautiful!” To her, it was heartwarmingly romantic.

My first thought wasn’t of passion, but rather of madness. Read more

4 Totally Unrealistic Romantic Phantasies from Totally Unrealistic Romantic Comedies

Maybe you’ve read about the study that “proves” romantic comedies harm real romances, because they encourage unrealistic expectations. On the one hand, that’s true. On the other hand, we didn’t need a study to tell us that romantic comedies are pretty unrealistic. But admittedly, some romantic comedies do prompt unrealistic romantic phantasies. For instance?

- Wouldn’t it be totally romantic to have accident-induced amnesia, so your boyfriend has to make you fall in love with him again every day, like in 50 First Dates?

- Wouldn’t it be totally romantic to fall in love with the auditor checking your bookkeeping due to tax evasion, like in Stranger than Fiction? Read more