For Valentine's Day (14th)
Yes, I know that Valentine's day is a superficial holiday made up by the greeting card and candy companies, florists and jewelers. However, I like to use Valentine's day as the opportunity to do a little nicety for certain special friends. It may be something as simple as a personally-designed and crafted card or it might be little something else that I created myself.
In a previous year, it was a CD. I went through my music library and gathered up some of my favorite songs all having to do with love ...actually, those songs containing the word "love" in the title. The music bridges several decades, and covers several genres including jazz, rock, blues, R&B and pop.
In celebration of Valentine's Day, I'm featuring the tracks from that CD.
In celebration of Valentine's Day, I'm featuring the tracks from that CD.
The following links [to these tracks] are temporary, since the [web] space needed to contain them is being borrowed from the usual playlist featured on my "Music Page". The tracks themselves will only be available for the week or so coinciding with the date of this post. After that time, my music page will revert to its usual content. (I'm not making these tracks a part of my [music page's] normal playlist since they're only relevant to this post.)
 | Save Your Love For Me - Al Jarreau |
| Where Is Love - Irene Kral |
| At Last (My Love Has Come Along) - Etta James |
| My One And Only Love - Sting |
| Love Song - Elton John |
| If Only You Knew (How Much I Love You) - Patti LaBelle |
| All Is Fair In Love - Carmen McRae / Cal Tjader |
| Sweet Love - Anita Baker |
| Old Love - Eric Clapton |
| I'm Not In Love - Dee Dee Sharp |
| I've Been Loving You Too Long - Otis Redding |
| I'm In Love - Aretha Franklin |
| And You My Love - Chris Rea |
| Love For Sale - Mel Tormé |
| If You Love Me - Van Morrison / B. B. King |
| Love She Can Count On - Smokey Robinson / Miracles |
| Love Hangover - Diana Ross |
| (Note: These tracks are all in .wma format so you'll need the "Microsoft Media Player" to access them.) | |
Quote of the Week: "One cannot find love by searching for it. It comes to us unbidden when we give it to others."
posted by gieau_sf (9:45:00 AM)
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I want to apologize for the sound quality of some of the tracks. You see, after compiling the playlist and testing everything out, I found that when ripping tracks from a CD to wma format (with Windows Media Player), you have to work from a pristine, commercial CD. The quality suffers when ripping from a CD that you burned, using other software (Toast), on another platform (Mac).
The CD mentioned in the above post sounds great and made a nice gift, however I don't have the original CD source material for many of the tracks since many of them were digitized from analog ...and I don't have a mp3 to wma converter :(
So why don't I just use the mp3 files? Because of capacity. I only have so much space to use for this playlist and wma files are half the size of mp3 files with the same sound quality (64 kbps vs 128 kbps).
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If I could speak in any
language in heaven or
on earth but didn't love
others, I would only be
making meaningless noise
like a loud gong or a
clanging cymbal. If I
had the gift of prophecy,
and if I knew all the
mysteries of the future
and knew everything
about everything, but
didn't love others, what
good would I be? And
if I had the gift of faith
so that I could speak
to a mountain and make
it move, without love
I would be no good to
anybody. If I gave
everything I have to
the poor and even
sacrificed my body,
I could boast about it;
but if I didn't love others,
I would be of no value
whatsoever. Love is
patient and kind. Love
is not jealous or boastful
or proud or rude. Love
does not demand its
own way. Love is not
irritable, and it keeps
no record of when it
has been wronged.
It is never glad about
injustice but rejoices
whenever the truth
wins out. Love never
gives up, never loses
faith, is always hopeful,
and endures through
every circumstance.
May You Always
Experience This
Kind Of Love,
Dr. Howdy
Great list. I've been feeling kinda crappy lately, so this is lifting my spirits. Thanks.
Sound quality comes across pretty good over my mac.
Schaumi,
Sorry to hear your spirits were down. I'm glad the "tunes" helped. Sounds like time for a glass of wine and one of those "foot rubs" :-) Hope you're feeling better.
Thanks for the feedback on the sound quality. Seems it's only a few tracks that were affected.
Thanks for the link on your blog! I've gotten a spike in traffic from you. You are awesome!
-Jason Rohrblogger
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