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UNREQUITED LOVE SONGS

 

How about the "other" love song. Not about breakups or lost loves, but the love that is not returned.

 

My first choice would be a beautiful love song that most people may not think of as unrequited. 

 

"Cherish" - The Association

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCfKvuh_uq8

 

Cherish is the word I use to describe
All the feeling that I have hiding here for you inside
You don't know how many times I've wished that I had told you
You don't know how many times I've wished that I could hold you
You don't know how many times I've wished that I could mold you
Into someone who could cherish me as much as I cherish you

        

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Where Is The Love: Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway

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Jessie’s girl, Rick Springfield

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Two Princes - The Spin Doctors

 

A little open ended, but always struck me as unrequited.

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Won't Find Better Than Me:  Kit Kats

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Eddie My Love:  Teen Queens

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Hey baby, Buckinghams

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I Can’t Get Next To You: Temptations

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Bobby’s Girl:  Marcie Blane

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Sunday will never be the same, Spanky& Our Gang

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Nights In White Satin - Moody Blues

 

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” - Jimi Hendrix
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This old heart of mine (Is weak for you)

Isley Brothers

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Don't Play That Song (You Lied):  Ben E. King

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Maybe:  The Chantels

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Expressway to your heart, Soul Survivors

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have Soul Survivors

Expressway🚗🚙🚐🚌🚒🚑🚓 to your heart ♥️

on 45!  🎶  need to find it 🔎...

dust it off....& play 🎵this gem‼️

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A classic unrequited love song. Gotta

love the 60’s 🎼💜

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Yep @BeatleloverKT . I would be replying to almost every post because I like so many. 🐱

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Oh yes @Therapist4u !  Had to go find it. I have listened to most all of these others listed recently, but haven't run across that one in a while. Thanks. 

 

1967 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA1xQaOCuZM 

 

I found this from a 2011 performance (Wow!). - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0jO0ki02Tw 

 

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Hi @Vexed! 💐

Thank you kindly for your response!

I also have listened to most all of these others listed recently....& for some reason that song brought back memories that the others hadn’t ...but maybe because they were so familiar...whereas Expressway....never got much airplay or known by hardly anyone.... unlike others.

How many 45s do you have? 🤔

Take care   ☮️ ~Allen 🌈

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Thanks and you're welcome @Therapist4u . I don't have many 45's left due to moving (lost items) and other assorted life's little "get-in-the-ways". I have one of those little cases left, hand stretch of lp's and about 10 eight tracks (can still play them). I have packed them for their safety and now am too old to dig them out. 😊 Have a few cassettes and cd's. Haven't been able to afford much in a long while. Thank goodness for the internet to find old favorites and discover new ones. Also information I never knew about groups back then.

I know what you mean about ones not getting much airplay. I always hated great songs that didn't get the appreciation. And others that got too much (probably for kickback). 🎧 

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"My Eyes Adored You" - Frankie Valli

 

My eyes adored you though I never laid a hand on you
My eyes adored you like a million miles away from me
You couldn't see how I adored you
So close, so close and yet so far

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"Temptation Eyes" - Grass Roots

 

She's got something that moves my soul
And she knows I'd love to love her
But she lets me down every time
Can't make her mine she's no-one's lover

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The Love I Saw In You Was Just a Mirage:  Smokey Robinson & The Miracles  (Seldom heard song; clever, sad lyrics)

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The end of the world, Skeeter Davis

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Goin' Out Of My Head:  Little Anthony & The Imperials  (I see you each morning/But you just walk past me/You don't even know that I exist)

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Black is black, Los Bravos

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Live again, Irma Thomas

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You Can Have Her:  Roy Hamilton  (She didn't love me anyway/She only wanted someone to play with/But all I wanted was a love to stay)

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Midnight Confessions-Grass Roots

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Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison

 

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” - Jimi Hendrix
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