ASCAP Celebrates Valentine's Day with Top Love Songs List.Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 13, 2003 In anticipation of Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. 2003 and to celebrate the 89th anniversary of its founding, ASCAP ASCAP abbr. American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a non-profit performance rights organisation that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating ) 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 lyrics npl [of song] → paroles fpl lyrics lyric npl [of song] → Text m 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 Marilyn can refer to:
Established on February February: see month. 13,1914, ASCAP is the world's largest performing rights Performing rights are the right to perform music in public. It is part of copyright law and demands payment to the music’s composer/lyricist and publisher (with the royalties generally split 50/50 between the two) when a business uses music in a public performance. organization, with over 150,000 composer, lyricist lyr·i·cist n. A writer of song lyrics. Also called lyrist. Noun 1. lyricist - a person who writes the words for songs lyrist and music publisher members. ASCAP's repertory REPERTORY. This word is nearly synonymous with inventory, and is so called because its contents are arranged in such order as to be easily found. Clef des Lois Rom. h.t.; Merl. Repertoire, h.t. 2. spans the entire spectrum of music, from pop to symphonic sym·phon·ic adj. 1. Relating to or having the character or form of a symphony. 2. Harmonious in sound. Adj. 1. , rock to gospel, Latin Lat·in n. 1. a. The Indo-European language of the ancient Latins and Romans and the most important cultural language of western Europe until the end of the 17th century. b. to country, jazz to rhythm and blues rhythm and blues (R&B) Any of several closely related musical styles developed by African American artists. The various styles were based on a mingling of European influences with jazz rhythms and tonal inflections, particularly syncopation and the flatted blues chords. , 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
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1. "Breathe" Holly Lamar, Stephanie Bentley (a) (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 (a) (performed by Dido)
(a) share not licensed by ASCAP
ASCAP's MOST PERFORMED-LOVE SONGS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Song tiles followed by names of songwriters
1910s
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 (a)
1980s
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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 (a)
1990s
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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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