Rock Love Top Ten: Warm and Tender Love (#6)

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Not all the love songs on the rock side of this countdown of favorites with “love” in the title are rock, but what else could I call this? “Rock, punk, R&B, pop, and anything else that isn’t country”? Anyway, to cause a little controversy, here’s today’s gorgeous love song. #6: Warm and Tender Love - Percy Sledge Hey, both songs today are actually love songs! And what’s the controversy? Well, Percy Sledge recorded another song that had the word “love” in the title...and yet it’s not here! That’s right, folks, I prefer this over “When a Man Loves a Woman,” Sledge’s best-known song. Not that I don’t love that song (and could strangle M*ch**l B*lt*n for even thinking he could/should sing it), but this one....ooh. I think the former is more a display of just how incredible a vocalist Sledge was., while this one just oozes love from every note. “Warm and Tender Love” is on my 100 favorites list. Sledge was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. I haven’t checked, but he’d better be in the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. What. A. Voice. Warm and Tender Love Written by Bobby Robinson Recorded by Percy Sledge From Warm & Tender Soul, 1966 Darlin’ please say you’ll be mine: