Maybe there was a better era for love songs. But it certainly didn't feel that way. Everything about the 1980s and its music was big. The blockbuster pop album became a regular thing. Various genres ...

These tear-jerker songs from the 1980s might bring up some (good or bad) memories for anyone who was a young adult during that decade.

This might be the most nostalgic of all nostalgic love songs from the 1980s out there. How could I possibly leave off this sultry, saxophone-led tune from one of the greatest talents of that decade?

“Shake Sugaree,” a song written and recorded by Elizabeth Cotten in the 1960s, plays over the opening scenes of A Love Song. Cotten was a guitar prodigy who quit playing when she got married and was ...