A musical look at the 70s shows no lack of romantic love songs and ballads. Countless different musicians have won the hearts of many lovers. The 70s playlist includes many German artists and many international singers who provided romantic moments in the seventies. If you had a long hairstyle, beard, sideburns, and bell-bottoms at that time, you could almost be sure to meet a nice girl.
With the help of the right music, the ice was also quickly broken.
Love songs like “Your Song” by Elton John, “She’s the One” by Bruce Springsteen or “Ich weiß was ich will” by Udo Jürgens shaped a whole generation and are still popular today for romantic hours and Wedding celebrations uses.
Our list of the greatest love songs from the 70s includes, in addition to the musicians already mentioned, The Rolling Stones, Marianne Rosenberg, Peter Maffay, Stevie Wonder, John Lennon, and many other stars.
The following tracklist includes 80 love songs, carefully selected to show which songs were heard by couples in love in the 70s.
(At the end of the article, we have created a Spotify playlist for you with all the songs listed here.)
80 love songs from the ’70s:
Each song is linked to the corresponding music video via the title.
№: | Listen: | Performer: | |
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1. | You Are So Beautiful | Joe Cocker | |
2. | Beast of Burden | The Rolling Stones | |
3. | Your Song | Elton John | |
4. | Will you go with me | Daliah Lavi | |
5. | First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | Roberta Flack | |
6. | Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe | Barry White | |
7. | I know what I want | Udo Jürgens | |
8. | Knowing Me, Knowing You | ABBA | |
9. | I’ll Be There | Jackson 5 | |
10. | Only love lets us live | Mary Roos | |
11. | She’s the One | Bruce Springsteen | |
12. | He belongs to me | Marianne Rosenberg | |
13. | Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word | Elton John | |
14. | Nobody Does It Better | Carly Simon | |
15. | That’s the Way of the World | Earth, Wind and Fire | |
16. | No man can be that beautiful | Gitte | |
17. | Anita | Costa Cordalis | |
18. | September | Earth, Wind & Fire | |
19. | Wild Horses | Rolling Stones | |
20. | The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | Roberta Flack | |
21. | And it was summer | Peter Maffay | |
22. | The Goodbye Girl | David Gates | |
23. | You Are The Sunshine Of My Life | Stevie Wonder | |
24. | I’m Not in Love | 10cc | |
25. | Love | John Lennon | |
26. | Let’s Stay Together | Al Green | |
27. | Annabelle | Reinhard Mey | |
28. | Telephone Line | Electric Light Orchestra | |
29. | She’s the One | The Ramones | |
30. | Zusammenleben | Milva | |
31. | Sentimental Lady | Bob Welch | |
32. | Love to Love You Baby | Donna Summer | |
33. | You Make Loving Fun | Fleetwood Mac | |
34. | Ein Bett im Kornfeld | Jürgen Drews | |
35. | Isabell setz dich auf mein Bärenfell | Muck | — |
36. | Killing Me Softly with His Song | Roberta Flack | |
37. | Wonderful Tonight | Eric Clapton | |
38. | Maybe I’m Amazed | Paul McCartney | |
39. | ti amo | Howard Carpendale | |
40. | Without You | Harry Nilsson | |
41. | Thinking of You | Sister Sledge | |
42. | Ich trink auf dein Wohl Marie | Frank Zander | |
43. | More Than A Woman | Barry Alan Crompton Gibb | |
44. | Schach Matt | Roland Kaiser | |
45. | Baby I Love Your Way | Peter Frampton | |
46. | Geh zu ihr | Puhdys | |
47. | Mädchen aus Ostberlin | Udo Lindenberg | |
48. | Love Bit Me | Maxine Nightingale | — |
49. | Yvetta | Jiří Korn | |
50. | Be My Wife | David Bowie | |
51. | Let’s Stay Together | Al Green | |
52. | And I Love You So | Don McLean | |
53. | Wie ein Stern | Frank Schoebel | |
54. | I Don’t Wanna Lose You | Candidate | — |
55. | Then Came You | Dionne Warwick and The Spinners | |
56. | A new love is like a new life | Jürgen Marcus | |
57. | Lovely Day | Bill Withers | |
58. | As the devil wants it | Karel God | |
59. | A little happiness | Adamo | |
60. | When You’re in Love With a Beautiful Woman | Dr. Hook | |
61. | Somewhere | Tom Waits | |
62. | I’ll survive | Dunja Rajter | |
63. | Because the Night | Patti Smith | |
64. | Tears do not lie | Michael Holm | |
65. | Love You More | Buzzcocks | |
66. | Lovin’ You | Minnie Riperton | |
67. | Hold on to your love | Ton Steine Scherben | |
68. | In the meadow | Veronika Fischer | |
69. | You Light Up My Life | Debby Boone | |
70. | What is Life | George Harrison | |
71. | And yet I love you both | Andrea Jürgens | |
72. | There is a train going nowhere | Christian Anders | |
73. | Hopelessly Devoted To You (From “Grease” Soundtrack) | Olivia Newton-John | |
74. | Nobody loves you like me | Manfred Krug | |
75. | If I Had Words | Scott Fitzgerald / Yvonne Keely | |
76. | Perfect Day | Lou Reed | |
77. | I Can See Clearly Now | Johnny Nash | |
78. | Wonderful Tonight | Eric Clapton | |
79. | When Will I Be Loved | Linda Ronstadt | |
80. | Come under my blanket | Gunter Gabriel |