Rock Flashback: Heart Songs For Valentine’s Day
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Valentine’s Day sent us scurrying to the reference books in search of chart singles containing the word “heart.” Here’s our special report.
The word “heart” frequently occurs in the form of “heartbreak” or “heartache,” which might tell you something about love. We count at least 14 songs with titles starting with those words. There are five different songs titled “Heartbreaker,” six if we include the Rolling Stones hit “Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker),” which no one calls “Doo Doo Doo Doo” for fear of sounding like an idiot. The two biggest are the 1983 hit by Dionne Warwick and the 1980 debut single by Pat Benatar.
Spinning over my head
Drownin' me in your promises
Better left unsaid
You're the right kind of sinner
If you’re not breaking hearts, you may be encountering hard hearts uninterested in love. We count at least four different songs titled “Hearts of Stone” (and none of them is this, the magnificent Bruce Springsteen song recorded by Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes) and three called “Heart of Stone,” the most famous one by the Stones.
Some hearts are hotter for love. We found four different songs called “Hearts on Fire,” although one has an apostrophe: “Heart’s on Fire.” The biggest on-fire song was the 1981 hit by Randy Meisner.
If you pledge yourself to someone heart and soul, you should know that there are at least three different songs with that title. The first was a doo-wop classic by the Cleftones that was a hit in 1961; Huey Lewis and the News made the top 10 with their “Heart and Soul” 22 years later; four years after that, an entirely different “Heart and Soul” was a Top-10 hit for the group T’Pau.
The shadow of a lover goes dancing by
Looking for a little bit of love to grow, so
Give me love, give me heart and soul
You never let me cross to the other side now
Other heart songs we like: “Heart of Gold” by Neil Young, “Heart of the Night” by Poco, and “Heartbroken Bopper” by the Guess Who.
He can’t find work since the band left town
He can’t get up 'cause he can’t get down
He’s a heartbroken bopper
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Honorable mention: anything by the band Heart. If we missed any good heart songs, please tell us in the comments.
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