Description
Only Love 1980–1984 is a carefully curated CD collecting eighteen of the era’s most enduring romantic hits, drawing from soft rock, soul, and R&B. The tracklist moves fluidly from the arena-ready tenderness of REO Speedwagon’s ‘Keep On Loving You’ and Foreigner’s yearning ‘Waiting For A Girl Like You’ to the warm, sensual groove of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Sexual Healing’ and the intimate duet of ‘Baby Come To Me’ by Patti Austin with James Ingram. Alongside these centrepieces sit deep-catalogue gems from Smokey Robinson, Ambrosia, Larry Graham, and Linda Ronstadt, making this CD a remarkably complete portrait of how pop music sounded when love songs ruled the radio. A rewarding listen for fans of the period and an excellent introduction for those discovering early-80s adult contemporary for the first time…
- Keep On Loving You – REO Speedwagon
- Waiting For A Girl Like You – Foreigner
- Do That To Me One More Time – The Captain and Tennille
- Real Love – The Doobie Brothers
- Cruisin’ – Smokey Robinson
- Edge Of Seventeen – Stevie Nicks
- Drive – The Cars
- One In A Million You – Larry Graham
- Biggest Part Of Me – Ambrosia
- Hurt So Bad – Linda Rondstadt
- Crying – Don McLean
- Baby Come To Me – Patty Austin (A Duet With James Ingram)
- Sexual Healing – Marvin Gaye
- Only The Lonely – The Motels
- Him – Rupert Holmes
- Personally – Karla Bonoff
- All Out Of Love – Air Supply
- The Sweetest Thing (I’ve Ever Known) – Juice Newton
- Sailing – Christopher Cross
