Favourite love songs by Tom Jones

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Admin

A lot of the favourite love songs by Tom Jones that I had on this page have been deleted from the internet. So we are left with a “skeleton staff!” When I was young I had his LP record of Delilah.

1. Green, green grass of home – my favourite love song by Tom Jones

Tom Jones sings some of my favourite love songs. I was away from home at college in Salisbury (Harare) when I first heard him sing: “Green, green grass of home.” That song captivated me then, and still does. It brings back all the memories of the old home town, the train station, the girl friend, the old Mama and old Papa, the old house, the old tree, that all tear at the old heart strings. I have heard other singers do that song, but to me Tom does it the best.

2. Detroit City

Recently on the radio I heard him sing “Detroit City,“ and he did it very well. It is interesting to see he is still singing. This is another one of my favourite love songs. I heard it originally by Bobby Bare.

3. She’s a Lady

According to folks on the radio, this was one of Tom Jones’ biggest sellers. I was shocked to discover just now that he has sold over 100 million recordings. I saw him on Larry King ‘live’ a few years back, and it was very interesting, but I can’t find it on the internet. He had a lot of trouble with the gossip magazines.

4. Say you’ll stay until tomorrow

Back in about 1980 I saw an ad on TV for this song and I bought the record for a friend.

I am sorry to hear that his wife has died.

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Slim Whitman – Favourite Love Songs

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Slim Whitman sings many of my favourite love songs. I love the way he has a yodel in his voice, and I also love that very high steel guitar sound.

1. White silver sands

2. Harbor lights

This song has a special meaning to me, and I love the beautiful video.

3. Blue bayou

I have often thought of this song, and longed to be by the sea. It is so tough to be “working till the sun don’t shine.” Slim Whitman sings all these songs so well.

4. Remember me, I’m the one who loves you

5. Red river valley

When I was a teenager, I loved this song so much, and longed to be in America.

6. Something beautiful to remember

7. Red sails in the sunset

8. Love letters in the sand

Another favourite love song that brings back so many memories.

9. I’m walking behind

I heard this one on the radio by Eddie Fisher.

10. I love you because

11. Anytime

I love the yodel in Slim Whitman’s voice.

12. In the misty moonlight

I used to love singing this favourite love song.

13. Blue eyes crying in the rain – One of my favourite love songs by Slim Whitman

One night we were driving in the rain on the Queen Elizabeth Way, between Burlington and Toronto (Canada), when I heard Slim Whitman on the radio singing, “In the twilight glow I see her, blue eyes crying in the rain.” I know Willie Nelson also sang that song, but I loved the Slim’s version. There is hope for the future in the song, “When we meet again up yonder, we’ll stroll hand in hand again.” I always associate that song with the Berlin wall, where families were separated.

14. Careless hands

15. Home on the range

16. Tumbling tumbleweeds

17. Paper roses

18. From a jack to a king

This was a hit when I was dating my first girl friend.

19. Rocking alone in an old rocking chair

Tears at my heart.

20. Weary and blue

I love all the old photos.

21. These are my mountains

22. Letter edged in black

Takes me back to my teenage years.

23. Down in the valley

I heard this song on a TV movie. An old western with Kirk Douglas. It had a haunting feel to it. Then he sings words I heard on the radio before that sounded so nice: “Roses love sunshine, violets love dew, angels in heaven know I love you.”

24. Galway bay

I lay in bed last night with this song on my heart.

25. Faded love

It is so sad too see love fade. Some people who used to love me, don’t want to know me anymore.

26. Think I’ll go somewhere and cry myself to sleep

27. Have I told you lately

I heard my mother sing this favourite love song when I was a little boy.

28. Hi Lili hi lo

I played in a band that used to do this song.

29. Mocking bird hill

Every song that Slim Whitman sings is beautiful.

30. Send me the pillow

31. Gonna find me a blue bird

32. Stranger on the shore

33. River of no return

34. South of the border

35. Just out of reach

36. I’ll hold you in my heart

37. It keeps right on a hurting

38. Top of the world

39. Nobody’s darling but mine

40. Una Paloma blanca

41. You are my sunshine

42. Tennessee yodel polka

He is singing with Virginia Lee. She was very popular in Africa. She did a lot of country type records. Heart wrenching stuff.

43. Danny Boy

A few years ago I heard the second verse of this song for the first time. I think it was Elvis singing it. It really wrenched my heart, because I love my son so much.

44. Sunrise

One day as I was watching the sunrise, I thought of this song as I praised the Lord for another day.

45. Who at my door is standing

46. He

47. Beyond the sunset

He does this gospel song so nicely.

48. What’s this world coming to

49. Today is mine

50. I’ll never pass this way again

51. Under his wings

52. How great thou art

53. It is no secret

54. I’ll fly away

55. God be with you

13. Whispering hope

14. A satisfied mind

15. Each step I take

56. He reached down his hand

57. Suppertime – Slim and Byron

58. I’m a pilgrim

59. Walk with God

60. I’ll walk with God

61. What kind of God do you think that you are

62. An evening prayer

63. Die son skyn weer more (Sunrise)

64. Fluist’rende hoop (Whispering hope)

I also have a Gospel web site. If you want to check it out, go to:  http://countrygospelandbible.com/

 

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Jimmie Davis

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1. Jimmie Davis – You are my sunshine

I have sung many times at senior citizen homes, and one of the favorite love songs they always want is: “You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.” The chorus of the song is so nice, but unfortunately the verses are very sad. I guess Jimmie Davis wrote a lot of songs. I heard on the radio once that he gave Colonel Tom Parker the ‘Colonel’ title when he was governor of Louisiana.

2. With Dottie Rambo – Nobody’s darling  and  You are my sunshine

I seem to recall reading somewhere that Dottie Rambo was signed to Jimmie Davis’ record company in the old days.

3. There’s a new moon over my shoulder

4. Suppertime – Porter Wagoner show

5. The three rusty nails

Back in the 70′s I sang at a high school, and a student lent me a record of Jimmie Davis singing a song called: ‘The three nails.’ I call it ‘The three rusty nails.’ That song is so powerful. When I was learning to sing the song I would stand in the bathroom, because the acoustics were better there, and I would sing that song over and over again. The tears would be streaming down my cheeks, as I felt for Jesus suffering on the cross for my sins. No other song had ever done that to me. I remember recording that song on my first cassette tape, and someone told me once that he played that tape for another guy and he gave his heart to the Lord. When we first visited America, I saw that J.D.Sumner and and Stamps Quartet also had that song on one of their records.

6. I was there when it happened

7. Dear Jesus abide with me

8. I’ve got a mansion

9. I won’t have to cross Jordan alone

10. Someone to care

11. Lord I’m coming home

12. At the crossing

13. I’ve been changed

14. Do you ever think to pray

15. The three nails

Here is a “live” version of the song.

16. At Sundown

I had an LP of Jimmie Davis when I was in Africa where he sang a song, “At sundown, I’m going home, at sundown, no more to roam. Sweet voices are calling, calling me, and I’m going home at sundown.” About an old man who was going home for the last time. When we were in Canada the first time, we had a painting on the wall of Canadian geese flying at sunset across a field. At that time I was so homesick for Africa. I would stand in front of that painting and sing the Sundown song, and get so sad and blue. The heart is a strange thing. It is different from the mind. Even now while I am in Canada again, I long for Africa. I know there is lots of killing there, but my heart still longs for the good old days that I experienced when I was young.

I also have a Gospel web site. If you want to check it out, go to:  http://countrygospelandbible.com/

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Porter Wagoner

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Highway headed south (Dolly Parton)

When we lived in North York, Toronto, I borrowed a record from the Library of Porter Wagoner singing: “On a highway headed south somewhere to Dixie, where the cotton blooms in the spring, and the snow don’t fly.” I fell instantly in love with that song. I was so tired of the cold weather in Canada, and longed to be in the southern states. So this is one of my favorite songs. I can’t find him on the net, so here is Dolly singing her song.

Porter Wagoner has A Satisfied Mind

I first heard this song by Cowboy Copas. I was visiting the Ogdens in Gwelo (now Gweru) in 1966, and they had an LP record of Cowboy Copas singing this song. Many years later I bought the LP of Porter singing it. There are many lessons in this song.

Life’s railroad

When I was a teenager, I remember Jim Reeves talking about Porter, but I never heard any of his songs on the radio in Rhodesia. Then when I went to South Africa, I saw some of his gospel records in a gospel bookstore and bought some of them. One of my favourite songs is still: “Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, our Lord is coming back to earth again. (Tell your children)

If Jesus came to your house

“What would you do, what would you do, if Jesus came to spend some time with you?” That song has a very powerful message. I sang that song hundreds of times in churches in Africa. When I sang that song, it was as if I could picture all the scenes in houses where we had lived.

Wait a little longer please Jesus

I had a record of this song, but I couldn’t find it by Porter, so here is Daniel O’Donnell.

Pastor’s absent on vacation

I sang this song in a church once, and the pastor got very angry with me, and I never sang it again. I have nothing against people taking vacations, but I just feel there should be a replacement.

Trouble in amen corner

I had a record of Jim Reeves singing this song, and it has a lot of truths. Some people criticized all my songs and my singing, so that is why I don’t sell my recordings any more. In fact I still can’t write songs anymore. Maybe soon I’ll get healed.

Rank Strangers

I had this song on a record.

Suppertime

I had a record of Jim Reeves singing this song too, so I’ll add it in here.

Canaan’s Land

I had three LP records of his Gospel songs, so I am loading this one on too.

I also have a Gospel web site. If you want to check it out, go to:  http://countrygospelandbible.com/

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Old Love Songs

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Old Love Songs

On the am 740 radio in Toronto, Canada, I have heard a guy sing so beautifully. I had never heard of him before. His name is Keith Berry, from Ontario, Canada. I think they said he has passed away now, but his son is handling his music. He has such a nice mellow voice, and such nice soothing music. One of the songs I have heard is about the old lamplighter, and another song about a woman telling a little seagull to look after husband going out to sea. His voice is one of the richest voices I have ever heard. Unfortunately I have not found him on the Internet. So here are the Browns doing the honors.

Blue Spanish Eyes

About twenty years ago I heard Al Martino for the first time. He was singing: I love you because. I had heard that song by Jim Reeves and Elvis Presley when I was young, but I really love the way Al Martino does it. I love that high harmony that those ladies sing. That is so special. I also love his version of Blue Spanish Eyes. It is sad to hear he passed away recently.

Houston

Dean Martin is a real smooth singer. I guess his most famous song is: Ev’rybody loves somebody sometimes. He seems such a laid back easy going kind of a person. One of his trademarks is that he is supposed to be half drunk all the time. I heard recently that he actually had apple juice in his glass when he performed with Frank Sinatra. I wasn’t in America when his TV show was on, but I have seen Regis advertising the sale of them on TV, and they look very entertaining. All the famous old-timer’s on one show.

Wayward wind

This song by Frank Ifield was a big hit when I was a kid. Our city had a train station that once boasted the longest train station in the world, or something like that. Bulawayo, Rhodesia. We often traveled with the train, and it always felt so exciting.

Harbor lights

Years ago I sang and played with an old timers band, and this is one of the songs they did. I like the power point of Marty Robbins, so I have put this version in.

Jamaica Farewell

I heard this song originally by Harry Belafonte, but I like the power point presentation by Marty Robbins. This is one of my favorite love songs when I play the keyboard, with the fancy beats.

Cruising down the river

I have just found this song, so I must add it on here. It brings back memories of Uvongo (in Natal) where we used to go on holiday. Above the falls, people would be cruising in their boats.

A LOT OF THE SONGS I HAD LISTED HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE NET.

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Gospel Songs

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Down the sawdust trail

I had a record of Jimmy Swaggart singing this song. When I first went into the ministry as a gospel singer, I went to one of Arthur Nipper’s meetings in South Africa, and bought twelve LP records of Jimmy Swaggart. Those records were such a blessing to me. The song talks about finding Jesus there. I received Jesus as my Saviour when I was about eight years of age, and I knelt down in front of the pulpit.

Please search the book again

I had an LP record of this song that bought when we first visited America, and the Holy Spirit used this song to speak very strongly to my heart.

I saw a man

I first heard this song on a Johnny Cash gospel record, and it was a great blessing to me. When I sang this song myself, I felt a very holy feeling. Later I had a record of Jimmy Swaggart singing it too, and he did it very nicely.

No one ever cared for me like Jesus

I read a book many years ago about a witch in England who wanted to destroy an evangelist’s meeting. Just before he was to speak, someone sang this song, and God used this song to speak to her heart. Satan’s kingdom works with hatred, but God’s kingdom works with love. She gave her heart to the Lord.

Gospel song of the 12 men

We heard a lady sing this song at a church in Nashville in 1976. She said her Daddy wrote it. I swopped her my record for hers, and it was a fantastic record, but I can’t remember her name. This is a fantastic song about how the disciples gave their lives for Christ until death.

A LOT OF THE SONGS I HAD LISTED HAVE BEEN TAKEN OFF THE NET. THAT IS VERY SAD.

I also have a Gospel web site. If you want to check it out, go to:  http://countrygospelandbible.com/

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Miracles

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1. Song – I believe in miracles

When I was young, growing up in Salisbury, Rhodesia, Africa, I used to hear people testify of how great and wonderful things had happened in the old days. It seemed like so many wonderful things happened somewhere else a long time ago. I used to wonder how come we don’t see any of these things today?

In the Bible there were so many fantastic stories of healings and miracles, but that was a long time ago. People like Elijah and Elisha fascinated me. They seemed to be able to do so many incredible things. We know that Jesus did a lot of incredible things, but we seem to put Jesus in different category from everyone else because He was the Son of God.

However, in the Book of Acts, we read of Peter, Paul and Philip having incredible experiences of healings and miracles, and they were just ordinary people like you and me. So there is hope for us too. When I traveled around South Africa, I started meeting people who had been supernaturally healed, and that aroused my faith that these things are for today as well.

2. Rise and be healed

I had a whole bunch of stories here in this section, but I have taken them out because I have written a book about them. The book will soon be available on Amazon Kindle called: “How to get healed 2.”

3. Oral Roberts – boy healed

Oral Roberts has has so many incredible miracles. I have read some of his stories and books.

4. Angel stories by Joan Anderson

Recently I read a book by Joan Anderson, of incredible stories of how God has helped people.

Many years ago we had some incredible miracles where God would fill up our gas tank. Many times people think I am lying to them, because the things seem so far out. Maybe one day I will share some more things with you on this page.

I also have a Gospel web site. If you want to check it out, go to:  http://countrygospelandbible.com/

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Healing songs

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1. Healing song – Touching Jesus

The other day I gave a lady a ride in the taxi, and she told me how she was in a car accident, and had two of her spinal vertebrae damaged. She said there is no hope of her getting well again. I tried to encourage her by telling her how my spine got healed, and how Jesus said that with God all things are possible. So I feel I must add in this page here.

2. There is healing (in the Name of Jesus)

This is the song I wrote after my cracked spine was healed.

3. The Healer is here

I just loaded this song on the YouTube today. Hope you like it.

4. Rise and be healed song

5. The healer – Mitchell Britt

6. Healing stream – The Isaacs

7. God is a good God – Richard Roberts

I also have a Gospel web site. If you want to check it out, go to:  http://countrygospelandbible.com/

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Popular Love Songs

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Save the last dance for me

One popular song when I was a teenager went like this: “You can dance, every dance with the guy who gives you the eye, and let him hold you tight … but save the last dance for me.” That song became so real to me when I was playing guitar and singing at my girlfriend’s party. She was dancing with another guy, and I got so jealous. I packed my equipment and went home. Recently I have heard that love song revived by Michael Buble, and he does it very nicely.

Chains

When I was a young singer, the Beatles were very popular, but I didn’t feel I could play and sing like four people. However, one day I was singing at a girl’s junior school to help raise funds for their swimming pool, and I sang the song called: Chains of Love, that I had heard the Beatles sing. All the girls started screaming. Years later I realized I should have done more Beatles songs, it may have helped make me more popular. However I was into country and western songs, and didn’t like all the yeah, yeah, yeah. Later on I really enjoyed some of their love songs like: Just 17, and Paperback Writer.

Forever young

Many years ago I saw a Rod Stewart video on the TV in South Africa where he sang this song to his son. It felt very special to me. I love my own son so much, and it is so good to see a good relationship between a dad and his son. Today we are so fortunate to have you tube. One line keeps coming back to my mind that goes something like this, “But whatever road you choose, I’m right behind you win or lose.” Those words mean a lot to me. I wish my parents had felt like that about me. It seems like whichever road I chose was always the wrong road in their mind, and they weren’t behind me.

Wind beneath my wings

Many years ago I worked at a high school in downtown Johannesburg, and in the one canteen they had a dukebox. One song that was very popular with the kids was Bette Midler singing: “You’re the wind beneath my wings.” That is a very beautiful love song. On the flipside was: Under the Boardwalk. I had heard that song before by the Rolling Stones, but I loved Bettie’s version of it. “From the park you hear the happy sounds of the carousel; you can almost taste the hot dogs and the french fries they sell.” When I heard those words, it made me want to go back to America. Songs have a big effect on me. Here is Celine Dion singing it.

Blue Bayou

In the other canteen at the school I heard Blue Bayou by Linda Ronstadt. That song was so beautiful too. “To see the sunrise through sleepy eyes, how happy I’d be.” It made me long to be by the sea again. Another line says: “Saving nickels, saving dimes, working till the sun don’t shine.” That is so real too. I wish I could just win the lottery and move down to the beach! I guess that is everybody’s dream.

Take a chance on me

Back in the 80′s I saw the ABBA girls singing on TV in South Africa, “Take a chance on me.” That was very nice. They both look so attractive when they sing that song.

Special angel

This was a popular song when I was young, but it now has a very special meaning to me. My wife used to sing this song to our son when he was a baby, and he would smile up at her with so much love. There was so much love between them. I think that is the greatest love. My wife had about seven miscarriages, then one time in Arkansas, Sister Gwen Shaw of the End Time Handmaidens prophesied over her and said that in a year’s time she would have a baby boy. Amazing. Here is Bobby Vinton singing it.

Something Stupid – a popular song by Frank (Jnr) and Nancy Sinatra

I have heard this song on the radio and a few times in the supermarket recently, so I feel I must include it. They sing so nice together.

SOME OF THE SONGS I LISTED HAVE BEEN TAKEN OFF THE NET. PITY.

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Favourite Love Songs by Cliff Richard

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Traveling Light

This was the first love song I ever heard Cliff Richard sing and it became a favourite. I remember we were on holiday in Margate when I heard it. It is about a guy going to see his girlfriend, but he is traveling so fast and light that he isn’t even carrying a comb or a toothbrush. His singing and music was so good. I think he appeared when Elvis went to the army, because it felt like he replaced Elvis. He had so many hits, that I have lost count.

D in ‘luv’

Cliff Richard recorded this song when I was in high school, and it felt so topical, even though I had never had a girl friend up until that time. To me, this video is done really well. I “take my hat off to him” on this one! It looks like he did it about 10 years after the hit recording, but it illustrates the kind of clothing worn during the rock and roll era. The acting is done so well. “Thanks for the memories Cliff.”

Living Doll

I had a friend down the street by the name of Margaret Waters, and I think this was her favorite love song, because I remember her playing it at her birthday party.

Apron strings

When I first started singing in public, this was one of my favourite love songs, and the very first song I ever sang in a public place. My brother told me that a local hotel was having a talent contest, and everyone who entered would get a crate of cokes. So I entered. I was still at school, and that was the first thing I ever earned – a crate of cokes. I’m still hooked on coke! I didn’t win, but it was a good experience. I still remember that the master of ceremonies was Eddie Eksteen, with his band ‘The Bats.’ Years later I saw them on TV in South Africa.

Move it

Our neighbours had an LP of Cliff and the Shadows ‘live’ which was a very exciting record. The only song I can remember is Move It. Later someone lent my brother an extended play record of the Shadows ‘live’ at the Colosseum in Johannesburg. That record was so fantastic for me. Those guys played so well. When I first tried to play the guitar, I thought you just bang on it and a nice tune would come out, like The Shadows. It was very disappointing.

Please don’t tease

When I first heard the song: Please don’t tease me, I thought it was the greatest song I had heard up until that time. I loved the way that when Cliff finished his line, that the lead guitar came straight in. I was like Cliff Richard and Hank Marvin were both lead. When I was a kid, Cliff Richard and the Shadows came to Bulawayo, but we weren’t allowed to go to shows, and we didn’t have any money anyway. But I remember climbing up a fire escape at the back of a record shop, and looked in at Cliff signing records in the shop.

Many years later in South Africa, Cliff Richard shook my hand, and that was such a big thrill for me. My manager heard that he was going to sing at an Anglican Church in Durban. I was so excited. I sat in the front row. I like to be near the action! One problem was that I had never been in an Anglican church before. Being in the front row, I couldn’t see what everyone else was doing behind me. I would hear a bit of noise, and look back to see everyone was standing, so I stood. Then I would hear a noise, and look back, and everyone was sitting, with me being the only one standing. I felt such a fool and quickly sat down. Then I would hear a noise, and when I looked back everyone was kneeling, so I quickly knelt down. Then I thought I heard a noise, and peeped back to see everyone was sitting. I made such a fool of myself that day. My wife tells me now that when I go to a church I have never been in before, I must sit in the back row. I have some problems doing that too, but those are other stories. Much to my disappointment, Cliff only sang a couple of songs, but he stood at the door after the service and shook everyone’s hand. So that was a big thrill for me.

Lucky lips

The other year I heard this song on the radio again, and sang it at an old age home for the people. It is still one of my favourite love songs. As a kid I used to think how lucky he was to have lucky lips, and have all the girls swooning over him.

When the girl in your arms – My favorite love song by Cliff Richard

Last night as I lay in bed I had a song running through my head, and found it was this one. It is so beautiful. Many years ago we were sitting round the fire in our yard in Germiston, and my brother-in-law requested for me to sing this song.

He is still singing.

I saw this show on TV in Canada, and it was fantastic. This is the last song, where he sings the Lord’s prayer to the tune of Auld Lang Syne. Such a big crowd. It must be strange to be so popular.

On the You Tube I read one of the comments on one of Cliff’s songs, where the writer says: “This guy has sold over a hundred million records, and I have never even heard of him before.” I remember when we were on a bus in Israel in 1979, they had his songs playing over their speakers.

I also have a Gospel web site. If you want to check it out, go to:  http://countrygospelandbible.com/

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