I heard this song on a country radio show quite sometime before the film Armageddon came out.
The band I was in even considered getting hold of a copy to cover it. We were on our way to a gig when we heard it.
It was a girl singing, it was FABULOUS, a most amazing song... hats off to Diane Warren, what a songwriter (look her up, she wrote everything you've ever heard of :D)
Alas I can't find the version that sold me on the song, or even remember who it was, so here's the big version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkK8g6FMEXE
Actually, now you got me started on Aerosmith...
From 1975... WOW, one of my all time favourite songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RldHoxQR5sAnd then from Pump in 1989, written with Desmond Childs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pQwtu9UWrQI saw them do it live back god knows when, and Tyler does the first verse and build acappella and then the band kicks in and "oh my goodness"
Edit: WOWOWW! here's the gig!! The most amazing gig I ever saw... (Really low quality - it is an audience member in 1999)
This is near the end of the gig, What it takes starts around 12.30 on this clip (part 7), and then goes on into the next edit (part 8 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcTMY5L9D2shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Zmqhb47Fc
Possibly the greatest music video to boot...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo
^ Oh yes, the missus would be agreeing about Total Eclipse. (I won't show it to her cos she'd want me to post some sort of T'Pau thing too... can't really bring myself to... I'll leave it to some who's more of a fan than I am :D)
A few of my favourites.
The Pretenders - "I'll Stand By You"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoZKgyM98aMMaria McKee - "Show Me Heaven" (from the Tom Cruise film "Days of Thunder")
Shakespears Sister - "Stay"
Concrete Blonde - "Joey"
Guess this counts(?)
Anyhow, I always turn the radio up a touch when someone plays it. 8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AJ4mRPX1SQ
Generally don't like power ballads - however ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWTD7Y24oY8
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles has got to be one of the go to power ballads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkXNEmtf9tk
Quote from: T.C. Elliott on April 16, 2017, 06:08:28 PMBlack Velvet - Alannah Myles has got to be one of the go to power ballads.
yes, good one
When it comes to power ballads it is quite difficult to ignore Journey. So I will - and put forward a Steve Perry solo track instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkd0ThthGIg
Don't know if you'd call this a "power ballad" but this is probably my favourite of Gary's Aeolian mode "weepies"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeKQY7KN_DsHang on a minute... maybe it's THIS one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxJ2bEZApXE
Here's another great one! "When I Look Into Your Eyes" by Firehouse...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxJBN_AHfas
There is a bit of a story to this. I was in Bali a few years back and we used to go to a local-run restaurant just outside Nusa Dua. This came on their music system very often and now reminds me of that time.