VH1 Selections from 100 Greatest Love Songs

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Summary: Great source of material and ideas!
Review: This is a terrific source for selecting your next "love song" to sing, or play on the guitar or piano.

My daughter is a 15 year old singer. There are many songs here that she may not have considered singing because she had never heard of them, as they date from before she was born. This helps broaden her selection base. The book includes recent songs also.

There are 100 hits that range from 1965, The Righteous Brothers "Unchained Melody" to several from 2001 like Alicia Keys, "Fallin'" and Sade's ""By Your Side". And lots in-between from the cutesy 1970 Partridge Family hit "I think I Love You" to the rockin' Cheap Trick "I Want You to Want Me" number to the classic Roberta Flack, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face".

The book includes songs from female artists like Madonna, Shania Twain, and Toni Braxton, male artists like Barry Manilow, Peter Frampton and Andy Gibb, and groups like the Bangles, Guns N' Roses and Poison. There are also several duets with artists including Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", Sonny & Cher's, " I Got You Babe" and Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes,"The Time of My Life".

The price is very reasonable too. For around $4.95 a pop I can purchase sheet music that I print myself over the web or buy at the store. Or for the price of 5 songs I can purchase this bound book with 100 songs!

The book is thick and oversized. If you need to copy a song from the book you will want to use legal size paper.

VH1's "100 Greatest Love Songs" lists the year of each song which makes it interesting. What were you doing in 1998 when the Goo Goo Dolls "Iris" was a hit. Do you recall one of the top hits of 1984? (Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time") The book also ranks the songs from 1-100 with Whitney Houston's 1982, "I Will Always Love You" claiming the top spot and Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" at 100.

Hopefully in the future they will have another book and my daughter, Jessica will be in it with a top song!

Lots of good songs for your $!