Here are some beautiful 80s love songs I selected them for you, so you can use them to refresh your marriage again. You and I know that it takes nurturing your relationship daily to make it work well.
Nurturing your marriage doesn’t mean breaking the bank or traveling to the moon because you want a happy relationship. There are little things you can do daily to have a great relationship with your partner.
In Happy Marriage Builder, we have talked about many ways to make your marriage better, including how to write love letters, go on romantic dates, and send love poems. This post is about another special way to boost your marriage.
This is about using love songs for the same purpose, not just love songs, but 80s love songs. If you are 40 years and above, you’ll know how songs from the 80’s are bomb.
The selected 80s love songs will not only help you refresh your marriage, it will also rejuvenate you and make you younger. Drop whatever you are doing right now and at least bask in the euphoria of the love songs, so you can laugh the world and its stress away.
80s Love Songs To Refresh Your Marriage:
Best 80s Love Songs:
I want to start from the best to the greatest heats from the 80s. I see the excitement on your face. If you love old vibes, then you’ll be smiling as wait for the selection list of these 80s love songs.
You can choose to send it to your partner or anyone once in a day or twice in a month. However, be sure that the receiver is a fan of old songs like you, that’s when the songs will make good meaning to them.
Below are a few of them.
1. You Are The Love Of My Life:
this love song was done by George Benson in 1985, and he featured Roberta Flack. It was one of his greatest hits.
2. Endless Love.
This Love song was sung by two people I love so much, Lionel Richie and Diana Ross in 1981. A movie titled “Endless Love” was also released and it featured this song.
3. Inside Out:
This beautiful song was done in 1982 by an American group called The Odyssey. It came from their album “Happy Together.” That was the group’s second-highest hit song. You will love it.
4. Time After Time:
A song by an American singer called Cyndi Luper. This 80s love song was written in 1983, and it was co-written with another singer called Rob Human.
The inspiration for the song after both of them were going through the same situation. The song became popular as one of the best 80s love songs.
5. Hello:
You can guess who did this song. It was very popular then and even now, it still makes an impact when heard. The singer is Lionel Richie and was born in 1984. Richie wrote that song for his first album and later decided to leave it off.
It was Richie’s wife Brenda that saw the lyrics of the song and asked him to include it on his second album. Thanks, he did, because that song touched many lives.
6. Saving All My Love For You:
This is a hit track back the famous singer Late Whitney Houston. The song was released in 1985 as a single from her debut album. That was Whitney’s breakout song. It became number 1 on the list of “Hot 100” the same year.
7. Say You Say Me:
You can’t talk of 80s love songs and forget to mention this great hit by Lionel Richie. He launched a very successful solo in 1982 and since then he has become unstoppable. The song Say You Say Me Was released in 1986.
8. Power Of Love:
You know that? That’s one of my best 80s love songs. Done by Jennifer Rush in 1985. Power of Song sold millions of copies after it was released and was the first-selling singles, ever by a woman.
9. I Wanna Know What Love Is:
Do you want to know what love is? Then let Foreigner show. Foreigner is a British American rock band. I wanna know what love was in 1984.
The song was written by Mick Jones. Mick is a member of the powerful rock group The Foreigner. The song also featured backing from the New Jersey Choir.
Sad 80s Love Songs:
9. Careless Whisper:
This song was done by Michael and Andrew Ridgeley and produced by Michael in 1984. This is a heart-wrenching ballad that is filled with saxophone melodies and some soulful vocals that will amaze any listener.
The song is all about love and betrayal. Michael did this song to reflect his lover’s infidelity and the pain it caused him. The song captures the essence of 1980s sad love songs and romanticism.
10. All Out Of Love:
Song by Air Supply, a British/ Australian soft rock duo in 1978, but for 1980. The song got to number 2 in the USA and 11 in the UK. All Out of Love deals with the miserable love of the singer who felt lost without love and the object of his affection.
11. Alone – Heart:
This is a classic ballad of the 80s with good instrumentation. The lyrics of the song convey the extent of loneliness and it is speaking to anyone who has experienced a failed relationship or heartache. Delivered by Ann Wilson in 1987.
12. What’s Love Got To Do With It:
This beautiful song was done by Tina Turner and it captures the picture of uncertainty and confusion. It also conveyed the feelings of anger and complicated feelings of love. Released in 1984.
13. Where Do Broken Hearts Go?
This is one of the 80s love songs I love so much and I know you love it too. The song is a question song, asking where the broken hearts will go. It was released in 1988 as Whitney’s fourth single.
If you have ever suffered a broken heart, then listen to that song to know where your heart will go when it is broken.
14. How Am I Suppose To Live Without You:
This song was co-written in 1982 by Michael Bolton and Doug James. The track was originally recorded by a singer called Laura Branigan in the year 1983 and it charted number one in the US and Canada. Micheal also recorded it later and it topped the US Hot 100 Billboard. It also became a worldwide hit.
15. Heartbreaker:
This is a studio album released by Arista Record and performed by American singer Dionne Warwick during the spring of 1982. This album sold an estimated 3 million copies all over the world and became Warwick’s highest-charting album.
16. Lonely Is The Night:
You can hear the sound of regrets and sadness from the lyrics of one of the super 80s love songs by Air Supply. This song was released in 1986. The singer sent his love away thinking he could live without her. Now he wants to let her know how lonely it is without her.
17. On My Own:
A beautiful song by Patti LaBelle and MacDonald, and it is one of the hit mid-80s love longs. This song was written by singer Burt Bacharach and the then wife, and originally recorded by Dionne Warwick in 1985.
Patti LaBelle and Michael were later released in 1986.
This was based on a romantic relationship that reached its end and both parties went separate ways with the occasional option to come back together again one day.
18. Still Loving You:
This song is a powerful ballad produced by a hard rock, German band called the Scorpions. It was released in 1984 as their second single from their studio album titled ” Love at First Sting. You’ll love it.
19. Didn’t We Almost Had It All:
Didn’t We Almost Had It All was produced in 1987. The song was written by Will Jennings, and Michael Masser, and produced by Masser. It became Whitney Houston’s best chart-topper. It was Number #1 on the American Billboard Hot 100 for 5 consecutive times.
20 Promise Me:
Promise Me was done by all female music singers from New York City called The Cover Girls. The group which comprised 3 female singers was formed by Music producer Andy “Panda.
They released their first album “Show” in 1986 and Promise Me was released in 1988.
80s Love Songs By Female Artists:
21 La Isla Bonita:
This song was a hit. I loved it so much and I enjoyed singing with the singer those days even though I was not sure what the wordings were. It was only a few years ago I understood what the singer was saying. I forgave myself because I was only a kid.
This is a 1986 Latin and Pop song by Madonna. The song achieved popularity all around the world. Thanks to Madonna for that beautiful song.
22. Greatest Love Of All:
23. You Touched My Life:
This is yet one of my favorite 80s love songs. It was written by Gwen Guthrie and also performed by her. This beautiful song was produced in 1986. I don’t know about you, but I love the song so much. Gwen died in her 40s of uterine Cancer. But, her song is still living in so many people’s hearts.
24. Giving You The Best That I Got:
Done by another great R&B Female singer Anita Baker. It was released in 1988 and was written by Anita, Skip Scarborough, and Randy Holland. I enjoy her songs so much because she is one of those rare voices anyone will like to hear over and over again.
25. Sweet Love:
This is another beautiful song from Anita Baker. Released in 1986 it became Anita’s hit song. Charted number 2 in US Billboard R&B, and 3 in US. Billboard of Adult Contemporary chart. Oh! What a song “Sweet Love.”
80s Love Songs For Wedding:
26. Saving All My Love For You:
This song was written by Gerry Goffin and Michael Masser, and originally recorded by Billy Davis Jr and McCoo in 1978. In 1985, Whitney Houston recorded it too, for her self-titled debut album.
Whitney’s version of Saving All My Love For You became well-loved by the whole world. People loved it more because of her vocal performance.
27. Endless Love:
Another beautiful song was written by Lionel Richie and was originally recorded as a duet between Lionel and Diana Ross. The song was also covered by Luther Vandross Mariah Carey and a few others. Recorded in 1981.
28. Baby Come To Me:
Patti Austin And James Ingrams performed this Sunday song in 1981. The song became a hit after it was used on the Soap Opera General Hospital for a romantic scene. In February 1983 it became the number 1 Hit in the US.
29. Have I Told You Lately:
Have I told you lately was written and produced in 1989 by Sir Van Morrison an Irish Singer and songwriter. It is a romantic song (ballad) that is often played at weddings. However, the song was originally written as a prayer.
30. Say You Say Me:
Say You Say Me is one of the greatest Hits of 80s love songs. It was precisely released in 1985 by Lionel Richie. The song picked #1 on the Hot 100, AC, and R&B, charts. You can see this song in his album “Can’t Slow Down.”
80s Love Songs Rock:
31. Right Here Waiting:
Right Here Waiting was done by Richard Marx, an American singer and songwriter on June 29, 1989. It was released as the second single from his second album (Repeat Offender). It was a global hit.
32. Waiting For A Girl Like You:
The song was released in 1981 by a British American rock band The Foreigner. It was released as the second song from the fourth album and was co-written with Mick Jones and Lou Grammy. It was a powerful ballad.
33. Keep On Loving You:
Keep on Loving You was written as a rock ballad by Kelvin Cronin and it was performed by an American rock band called REO Speedwagon. This song was first on their album Hi Infidelity in 1980 and it was their first singles. It broke the top 50 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
34. Is This Love:
The song was produced by The British Rock band Whitesnake in 1987 as a second single. This single was a hit for the group and it reached number 9 in the UK Singles chart.
35. Eternal Frame:
Do you remember this hit by an American pop-rock group called the Bangles? The Great Ballad was written by Susanna Hoff, their group member. It was released in 1989 and it became number 1 hit in 9 Countries, including the United Kingdom, Sweden, the United States, etc.
Classic 80s Love Songs:
36. Baby Can I Hold You Tonight:
I can’t forget to add this beautiful song by American contemporary folk artist Tracy Chapman to my list of 80s love songs. It was released in October 1988 and it reached the top fifty in the United States of America.
37. Lost In Your Eyes:
Released in 1989 by REO Speedwagon and ranked 42 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. On March 4, the hit ballad rose to number 1 and remained there for 3 weeks. It also became the most successful single.
38. Every Breath You Take:
This is a song by the British rock band called The Police and it’s from their album Synchronicity. It was written in 1983 by Sting. This single was the biggest Canadian and U.S. hit of 1983. The song also got to the top 10 in many countries.
39. Time In A Bottle:
Done by Jim Croce in 1972, but it gained popularity in the 1980s. Even though it was originally released in the 70s, it became more popular in the 80s. This beautiful song evoked a sense of timeless longing and love.
40. True By Spandau Ballet.
The song is a romantic ballad that is characterized by its smooth heartfelt lyrics and melody. Released in 1983. With its soulful vocals and lush instruments, this song became a great hit.
Conclusion:
I hope you enjoyed this blog post titled 80s Love Songs. The songs listed in this post can boost your marriage and make you happy again. From soulful ballads to upbeat tunes, these songs have the power to reignite passion and strengthen bonds in marriage.
Whether reliving cherished memories or creating new ones, the magic of these melodies transcends time, offering a soundtrack for love that knows no bounds.