A good friend and wife celebrated 50 years as a “team” yesterday (Saturday, July 30, 2016); he blogged about it on Friday; as comments I posted links to YouTubes of songs by my fave artist, Richie Furay, “Forever With You” (from his 2006 Heartbeat Of Love” CD) and “Still Fine” (from his latest CD, “Hand In Hand”)

We all have fave songs that fit the love song moniker. I even checked if I created such a list on YouTube or in my iTunes; not yet.

For the married readers, it might include your wedding song. Shelly and I chose Elton John's “Your Song.” If I had the music, it might have been a great Richie Furay song unfamiliar to our wedding band, which we found performing at a Purim Parade back when Main Street in Kew Gardens featured such fare. Richie recorded “Believe Me” on his first of two LPs with the Souther Hillman Furay Band that David Geffen induced the three principals for form as a supergroup in the vein of Crosby Stills & Nash (& Young?); the talent was there. Interestingly, 16 years later I learned Richie had recorded an unreleased version with Poco released as part of The Forgotten Trail compilation) which remain a great way to check out Poco's four Epic (record label) era formations).

On the way to and from our first date at The Bottom Line to see the pre-Broadway version of “Leader of The Park, I played a cassette tape of love songs I pulled together off various LPs (that I still own). The cassette reflected my rock & roll musical taste, a mix of ballads, rockers and everything in between.

It certainly included more than a few Richie tunes from his Buffalo Springfield (“Kind Woman” “Do I Have To Come Right Out And Say It” - Richie sang it but Neil Young wrote it), Poco (“Make Me A Smile” “You Are The One” “Just For Me and You”) , SHF ( “Believe Me” “On The Line”) and solo “Mighty Maker” “You're The One I Love” “It's Your Love”) offerings.

Other faves included The Beach Boys (“Wouldn't It Be Nice” “Darlin'” “God Only Knows”), The Turtles (“Happy Together” – still have the 45), Derek and The Dominos (“Keep On Growin'”), Eric Clapton solo (“Let It Grow”), Elton John (“Amoorena” “Your Song”), The Beatles (“All My Loving” “Eight Days A Week”), Badfinger (“No Matter What” “Day After Day”), Neil Young (“When You Dance”), Moody Blues (the acoustic interlude in “Question” “It's Up To You” “The Story In Your Eyes”), New Riders of the Purple Sage (“Sweet Lovin' One”) (former Byrd) Roger McGuinn (“Together”), current Stones and former Faces Ron Wood (“Act Together” “Mystifies Me” “I Got Lost When I Found You”), Loggins & Messina (“Thinking of You” “Nobody But You”), Jefferson Airplane (“Today”), Jefferson Starship (“Miracles”), Dave Mason (“Every Woman”), Traffic (“Empty Pages”), JD Souther (Banging My Head Against The Moon” “Your Turn Now”), Emerson Lake & Palmer (“From The Beginning”) and Peter Frampton (“Show Me The Way” “All I Want To Be (is By Your Side)” “Baby I Love Your Way” (studio recording from Frampton LP)).

I included some clear rockers Bad Company's “Can't Get Enough,” Frampton's “Something's Happening” and Nowhere's Too Far For My Baby,” Ron Wood's “I Can Say She's Allright”, SHF's “Fallin' In Love,” Poco's “A Good Feelin' To Know” and “And Settlin' Down,” Derek & The Dominos' “Anyday,” and the Stones' “Happy.”

I know the two I offered up Friday belong on an updated list as does Richie's “Heartbeat of Love” and I did not own at the time I created the cassette, “Follow You Follow Me” by Genesis.

So share a fave or two (and include a link to the) song.