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Inter-office MEMO So Valentine's Day falls on the 14th of February this year, huh, guys? Yea, it's a surprise every time, isn't it? There you are, minding your own business, transitioning nicely from the Super Bowl to March Madness when, bam!, chocolates and fowers are due. Luckily, we here at the Worldwide Headquarters of Louisville Magazine have you taken care of. No, you can get your own fowers and chocolate. We're here to set the mood, baby, to dial up the romance a few notches. (Cue Barry White.) Light the candles and adjust the volume: We hereby give you Lou Mag's mixtape of love songs. Don't play these all in one sitting now; no telling what that would lead to. Kane Webb Editor "Girl" — The Beatles "Let It Be Me" — The Everly Brothers ("now and forever") "Tupelo Honey" — Van Morrison "You Are So Beautiful" — Joe Cocker "Right in Time" — Lucinda Williams "Love Hurts" — Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris ("love is like a stove") "Since I Fell for You" — Lenny Welch "When a Man Loves a Woman" — Percy Sledge "I Threw It All Away" — Bob Dylan Jack Welch Senior editor "The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side" — The Magnetic Fields "I've Just Seen a Face" — The Beatles "Let's Elope Baby" — Janis Martin "Snap Your Fingers" — Joe Henderson "The Idea of Growing Old" — The Features "The Letter" — The Box Tops "Shotgun Wedding" — Caitlin Rose. Not sure the love endures, but such a catchy tune. Anne Marshall Senior writer "Fell in Love With a Girl" — The White Stripes "Sexual Healing" — Marvin Gaye. Which really could be the entire mix. "I'll Make Love to You" — Boyz II Men. Because that's where babies come from. "Pony" — Ginuwine That one Bryan Adams song from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves "Thank You Too!" — My Morning Jacket Some old-school Usher/Dru Hill/R. Kelly "I Got You" — Jack Johnson "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from The Lion King. Simba and Nala getting busy! "Doin' It" — LL Cool J NOT "Kim" — Eminem Josh Moss Managing editor 8 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 2.14 "Edelweiss" — Rodgers and Hammerstein, as sung by Captain Georg Ludwig von Trapp. The sound of this music is love. "1+1" — Beyoncé. A stripped-down, vulnerable exclamation of love. "Irene" — Beach House. "It's a strange paradise" indeed. "Forever Mine" — The O'Jays. Classic R&B; ballad. "Song for Zula" — Phosphorescent. A folksy-modern take on love's dark capacity. "Steal Your Love" — Lucinda Williams. She brings her raspy voice close to a whisper in this intimate country-rock tune. "Heaven Ain't Hard 2 Find" — 2Pac. True thug passion. "Sweet Thing" — Van Morrison. Nostalgia. Mary Chellis Austin Associate editor "Someone To Watch Over Me" — Ella Fitzgerald "Puppy Love" — Donny Osmond. Yes, I thought Donny was singing just to me. "ABC" — The Jackson 5. Can you have a crush on a song? "Hold Me Now" — Thompson Twins. The hubby's and my song while dating. "Crazy in Love" — Beyoncé and Jay Z. How could I not include a Jay Z song? "Video Games" — Lana Del Ray. Didn't know it was a love song? "Now you do." "Unchained Melody" — The Righteous Brothers Stacey Hallahan Advertising director "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" — Loretta Lynn. Is too a love song! "Jackson" — Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash "Stand by Your Man" — Tammy Wynette "I Will Always Love You" — Dolly Parton "Makin' Plans" — Miranda Lambert "Home" — Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros "Long Hot Summer" — Keith Urban. Listened to it over and over while my husband was deployed. Elizabeth Myers Editor, Louisville.com "Open the Door" — Betty Carter "The Shadow of Your Smile" — Carmen McRae "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" — The Peddlers "Never Could You Be" — The Impressions "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know (Live)" — Donny Hathaway "The Jealous Kind" — Ray Charles Suki Anderson Art director "Anna Begins" — Counting Crows "You and I" — Lady Gaga "Baby, I Love Your Way" — Peter Frampton "You Make Me Wanna…" — Usher "Into the Mystic" — Van Morrison "In Your Eyes" — Peter Gabriel "Wicked Game"— Chris Isaak "Iris" — The Goo Goo Dolls "To Be With You" — Mr. Big I did grow up in the '90s, after all. Mandy Wood Advertising account executive "At Last" — Etta James "Crazy For You" — Madonna "Leather and Lace" — Stevie Nicks and Don Henley "Let's Get It On" — Marvin Gaye "Islands in the Stream" — Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton "I Won't Give Up" — Jason Mraz "Everlasting Love" — Carl Carlton Anything Elvis Emily Douglas Advertising account executive "Could It Be Magic" — Barry Manilow. Nobody overdoes sappy quite like Barry. "Unchained Melody" — the version by Heart's Ann Wilson "Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground" — Willie Nelson. Tears come off his guitar strings. "Song for a Winter's Night" — Gordon Lightfoot's original, not the Sarah McLachlan cover. "Sweet Child O' Mine" — Guns N' Roses. "Now and then when I see her face / She takes me away to that special place." Why, that's Manilow-esque. "When I Dream" — Crystal Gayle. You can get drunk on her voice. Kane Webb Editor