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February 13, 2003
ASCAP CELEBRATES VALENTINE'S DAY
WITH TOP LOVE SONGS LIST
In
anticipation of Valentine’s Day 2003 and
to celebrate the 89th anniversary of its founding,
ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers) has announced its most-performed
love songs of the 20th and 21st Centuries. The
list features the five most-performed ASCAP love
songs of each decade since 1910, including the
first years of the new millennium. Almost all
the listed songs are standards, many of them with
lyrics that have become part of the everyday speech
of generations of Americans, some of them recorded
by hundreds of artists. A copy of the list is
attached.
Commenting
on the list, ASCAP President & Chairman Marilyn
Bergman said, "Popular music has been dominated
by the love song ever since people began putting
lyrics and melodies together. ASCAP songwriters
have created America’s great love songs
from ‘You Made Me Love You’, ‘My
Funny Valentine’, and ‘As Time Goes
By’ to ‘Just the Way You Are’."
Established
on February 13,1914, ASCAP is the world’s
largest performing rights organization, with over
150, 000 composer, lyricist and music publisher
members. ASCAP’s repertory spans the entire
spectrum of music, from pop to symphonic, rock
to gospel, Latin to country, jazz to rhythm and
blues, to film, television and musical theatre.
ASCAP is the only performing rights organization
whose Board of Directors is made up solely of
writers and publishers, elected by the membership.
ASCAP’s
MOST PERFORMED-LOVE SONGS OF THE 21st CENTURY
(so far)
2000 - 2002
1. "Breathe"
Holly Lamar, Stephanie Bentley* (performed
by Faith Hill)
2. "Back
to One" Brian McKnight
(performed by Brian McKnight)
3. "I Knew
I Loved You" Darren Hayes,
Daniel Jones (performed by Savage Garden)
4. "The
Way You Love Me" Michael
Dulaney, Keith Follese (performed by Faith
Hill)
5 "Thank
You" Dido, Paulie Herman*
(performed by Dido)
*
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ASCAP’s
MOST PERFORMED-LOVE SONGS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Song tiles followed by names of
songwriters
1910s
1. "You
Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want
to Do It)" Joseph
McCarthy, James Monaco
2. "Oh,
You Beautiful Doll"
Nat Ayer, A. Seymour Brown
3. "Moonlight
Bay" Edward Madden,
Percy Wenrich
4. "Let
Me Call You Sweetheart"
Leo Friedman, Beth Slater Whitson
5. "Peg
o’ My Heart"
Alfred Bryan, Fred Fisher
1920s
1. "Tea
for Two" Irving Caesar,
Vincent Youmans
2. "It
Had to Be You" Isham
Jones, Gus Kahn
3. "Stardust"
Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish
4. "Someone
to Watch Over Me"
George & Ira Gershwin
5. "Baby
Face" Harry Akst,
Benny Davis
1930s
1. "As
Time Goes By" Herman
Hupfeld
2. "I
Got Rhythm" George
& Ira Gershwin
3. "Blue
Moon" Lorenz Hart,
Richard Rodgers
4. "Night
and Day" Cole Porter
5. "I
Only Have Eyes for You"
Al Dubin, Harry Warren
1940s
1. "That
Old Black Magic"
Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer
2. "Blueberry
Hill" Al Lewis, Vincent
Rose, Larry Stock
3. "Mona
Lisa" Raymond Evans
, Jay Livingston
4. "The
More I See You" Mack
Gordon, Harry Warren
5. "Since
I Fell For You" Buddy
Johnson
1950s
1. "Unchained
Melody" Alex North,
Hy Zaret
2. "Misty"
Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner
3. "I
Left My Heart In San Francisco"
George C. Cory Jr., Douglass Cross
4. "Love
Is a Many- Splendored Thing"
Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster
5. "Fly
Me to the Moon" Bart
Howard
1960s
1. "The
Look of Love" Burt
Bacharach, Hal David
2. "For
Once In My Life"
Ronald Miller, Orlando Murden
3. "Love
Theme from The Sandpiper (The Shadow of
Your Smile)" Johnny
Mandel, Paul Francis Webster
4. "My
Girl" Smokey Robinson,
Ronnie White
5. "(They
Long to Be) Close to You"
Burt Bacharach, Hal David
1970s
1. "The
Way We Were" Alan
& Marilyn Bergman, Marvin Hamlisch
2. "Feelings"
Morris Albert, Louis Gaste
3. "You
Are The Sunshine of My Life"
Stevie Wonder
4. "Just
The Way You Are"
Billy Joel
5. "You
Are So Beautiful"
Bruce Fisher, Billy Preston*
1980s
1. "Up
Where We Belong"
Jack Nitzche, Buffy Ste. Marie, Will Jennings
2. "Lady"
Lionel Richie
3. "Endless
Love" Lionel Richie
4. "I
Just Called to Say I Love You"
Stevie Wonder
5. "Hard
to Say I’m Sorry"
Peter Cetera, David Foster*
1990s
1. "I
Swear" Gary Baker,
Frank Myers
2. "How
Do I Live" Diane
Warren
3. "Because
You Loved Me" Diane
Warren
4. "Baby,
Baby" Amy Grant,
Brian Keith Thomas
5. "Unbreak
My Heart" Diane Warren
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