Top 10 Best Love Song Duets

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Love Song Duets: Two Voices, Celebrating Love

Some of the most romantic songs recorded have been duets, chances for people who, romantically involved or not, enjoy performing together enough to create a love song that touches couples for decades to come. These songs create the perfect mood for weddings, anniversaries, or even a karaoke date.

It could take you forever to wade through cheesy and badly-sung duets to create the perfect love song play list. To save you the time, and the musical pain, I've compiled here the ten best love song duets (in reverse order) from the last forty years. You'll find the lyrics, music videos, and a place to sample and purchase each of them included here. Please vote for your favorite love song duet in my poll, as well.

If you're looking for winter-themed love duets this holiday season, try Baby It's Cold Outside and I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm. If the one you love best isn't listed here, drop me a note in the guestbook at the bottom and I'll check it out. You never know if I'll bump it up on my list!

House of Love - Amy Grant and Vince Gill 

More Country Voices Demonstrating Their Love

While Amy Grant and Vince Gill didn't last as long as Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have, their romance did give us House of Love, a lovely duet about rekindling a lost love.

CHORUS
Well, I bet you any amount of money
He'll be coming back to you
Ooh, I know there ain't no doubt about it
Sometimes life is funny
You think you're in your darkest hour
When the lights are coming on in the house of love

Ooh, house of love

You've been up all night thinking it was over
He's been out of sight at least for the moment
But when something this strong, ooh, gets a hold on you
The odds are ninety-nine to one it's got a hold on him too

CHORUS
When the lights are coming on in the house of love

Now when the house is dark and you're all alone inside
You've gotta listen to your heart and put away your foolish pride
Though the storm is breaking and thunder shakes the walls
Love with a firm foundation ain't never, never, never gonna fall

CHORUS

Though the storm is breaking
And thunder shakes the walls
Love with a firm foundation
Ain't never, never, never gonna fall

CHORUS X 2
Oooh, yeah
Ooh, I know there ain't no doubt about it
Sometimes life is funny
You think you're in your darkest hour
When the lights are coming on in the house of love

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Cruisin' - Huey Lewis and Gwyneth Paltrow 

A Love Song Duet and Road Trip Song, All in One!

Cruisin' came from "Infamous", a film where Gwyneth Paltrow was meant to be Huey Lewis's daughter, but Smokey Robinson's lyrics belie that idea. This is a love song, pure and simple, and fun to boot.

Baby let's cruise away from here
Don't be confused, the way is clear
And if you want it you got it forever
This is not a one night stand, baby, yeah so

CHORUS
Let the music take your mind, ooh
Just release and you will find
You're gonna fly away
Glad you're goin' my way
I love it when we're cruisin' together
The music is played for love,
Cruisin' is made for love
I love it when we're cruisin' together

Baby tonight belongs to us
Everything's right, do what you must
& inch by inch we get closer & closer
To every little part of each other ooh baby, yeah So

CHORUS

Cruise with me baby
Cruise

Baby let's cruise
Let's flow, let's glide
Ooooh let's open up, & go inside
& if you want it you got it forever
I can just stay there inside you
& love you baby,

CHORUS
I love it, I love it, I love it
You're gonna fly away
Yeah, glad you're going my way
I love it when we're cruisin' together
(The music is played for love)
It's love music
(Cruisin' is made for love)

Gweneth Paltrow & Huey Lewis - Cruisin

Gweneth Paltrow & Huey Lewis - Cruisin

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It's Your Love - Tim McGraw and Faith Hill 

A Country Duet of Real Love

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw had a huge hit with It's Your Love in the midst of their own love and gave us another lovely duet with which to celebrate our own, and the truth of the lyrics for which are proven by their own enduring marriage.

Dancin' in the dark
Middle of the night
Takin' your heart
And holdin' it tight

Emotional touch
Touchin' my skin
And askin' you to do
What you've been doin' all over again

BRIDGE
Oh, it's a beautiful thing
Don't think I can keep it all in
I just gotta let you know
What it is that won't let me go

CHORUS
It's your love
It just does somethin' to me
It sends a shock right through me
I can't get enough
And if you wonder
About the spell I'm under
It's your love

Better than I was
More than I am
And all of this happened
By takin' your hand

And who I am now
Is who I wanted to be
And now that we're together
I'm stronger than ever
I'm happy and free

BRIDGE

CHORUS
Oh, baby

BRIDGE

CHORUS
It's your love
It's your love

Tim And Faith

pictures of Tim and Faith. Tim and Faith singing It's Your Love

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Which Love Song Duet Is Your Favorite? 

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Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John and Kiki Dee 

Another Celebratory Love Song Duet

While you may find it difficult to conceive of Elton John singing a love song to a woman named Kiki, Don't Go Breaking My Heart is all about holding on to your love through thick and thin. We've finally made it to the 1970s, too. I promise, it's better than it looks.

Don't go breaking my heart
I couldn't if I tried
Honey, if I get restless...
Baby, you're not that kind

Don't go breaking my heart
You take the weight off me
Honey, when you knock on my door
I gave you my key

Nobody knows it
When I was down
I was your clown
Nobody knows it
Right from the start
I gave you my heart
I gave you my heart

So don't go breaking my heart
I wont go breaking your heart
Don't go breaking my heart

And nobody told us
`Cause nobody showed us
And now it's up to us babe
I think we can make it

Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart

1976 Stereo 16mm

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You've Got a Friend - Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway 

Another Roberta Flack Duet to Show the Love

While not strictly a love song, when performed as a duet Carole King's You've Got a Friend is a moving song of love through adversity. Read the lyrics and see if you agree that this is a romantic song. Unfortunately, the video with Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway's moving version got nuked, so I've changed it to one with four fantastic voices, instead. It's not as romantic, but it's still a beautiful song.

When you're down and troubled
And you need a helping hand,
And nothing, whoa nothing is going right.
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon I will be there
To brighten up even your darkest nights.

CHORUS
You just call out my name,
And you know wherever I am
I'll come running, oh yeah baby
To see you again.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall,
All you got to do is call
And I'll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You've got a friend.

If the sky above you
Should turn dark and full of clouds
And that old north wind should begin to blow
Keep your head together and call my name out loud now
And soon I'll be knocking upon your door.

CHORUS

Hey, ain't it good to know that you've got a friend?
People can be so cold.
They'll hurt you and desert you.
Well they'll take your soul if you let them.
Oh yeah, but don't you let them.

CHORUS
Ain't it good to know you've got a friend.
Ain't it good to know you've got a friend.
You've got a friend.

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Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terell 

You Can't List Love Songs without Marvin Gaye

Not all love songs have to be slow and sappy, as Marvin Gaye demonstrated with this beauty of a duet with Tammi Terell. As they sang:

Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain't nothing like the real thing
Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain't nothing like the real thing

I got your picture hangin' on the wall
It can't see or come to me when I call your name
I realize it's just a picture in a frame

I read your letters when you're not near
But they don't move me
And they don't groove me like when I hear
Your sweet voice whispering in my ear

Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain't nothing like the real thing

I play the game, a fantasy
I pretend but I'm not in reality
I need the shelter of your arms to comfort me

No other sound is quite the same as your name
No touch can do half as much to make me feel better
So let's stay together

I got some memories to look back on
And though they help me when you phone
I'm well aware nothing can take the place of being there

So glad we got the real thing, baby
So glad we got the real thing
Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain't nothing like the real thing
Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain't nothing like the real thing

Aint Nothing Like The Real Thing-Marvin gaye&Tammi terrell

Aint Nothing Like The Real Thing-Marvin gaye&Tammi terrell

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Sample All of the Love Song Duets 

Try Out the Top 10 Best Duet Love Songs

I'll also add any others nominated by visitors, so that you can make up your own mind.

Tonight, I Celebrate My Love - Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack 

What More Romantic Love Song Could Two People Sing?

As a wedding, anniversary, or Valentine's Day song, you can hardly beat Tonight, I Celebrate My Love - it's time-specific: tonight! It's tough to take a guy named Peabo seriously, but this is, indeed, a seriously romantic duet.

Tonight, I celebrate my love for you
It seems like the natural thing to do
Tonight no one's gonna find us
We'll leave the world behind us
When I make love to you
Tonight
And I hope that deep inside you feel it too

Tonight, our spirits will be climbing
To a sky lit with diamonds
When I make love to you
Tonight

CHORUS
Tonight I celebrate my love for you
And that midnight sun
Is gonna come shining through
Tonight, there'll be no distance between us
What I want most to do
Is to make love to you
Tonight

Tonight, I celebrate my love for you
And soon this old world will feel brand new
Tonight we will both discover
How friends turn into lovers
When I make love to you

CHORUS
Tonight, I celebrate my love for you
Tonight, I celebrate my love for you

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Islands in the Stream - Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers 

Love and Friendship, Country Style

I promise that not all of these love song duets came out in the 1980s, but here's yet another that did. Islands in the Stream was a huge country-crossover hit for Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, and one that people still love. As for the lyrics:

Baby when I met you there was peace on earth
I set out to get you with a fine tooth comb
I was soft inside, there was something going on

You do something to me that i can't explain
Hold me closer and i feel no pain
Every beat of my heart, we got something goin' on

Tender love is blind, it requires a dedication
Honest love, we feel, needs no conversation
And we ride it together, uh huh,
Making love with each other uh huh

CHORUS
Islands in the stream, that is what we are.
No one in between, how can we be wrong?
Sail away with me to another world
and we rely on each other, uh huh
from one lover to another, uh huh

I can't live without you if the love was gone
Everything is nothin' if you've got no one,
And you just walk in the the night
Slowly losing sight of the real thing.

But that won't happen to us and we've got no doubt
Too deep in love and we've got no way out
And the message is clear
This could be the year for the real thing

No more will you cry
Baby, I will hurt you never
We start and end as one in love forever
We can ride it together, uh huh
Makin' love with each other, uh huh

CHORUS
(Sail away)
(Ohhhhh, sail away with me)

CHORUS X 2

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sung by Kenny Rodgers and Dolly Parton,

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(Just) You and I - Eddie Rabbit and Crystal Gayle 

Remember the Love, Remember the Hair

Who else remembers Crystal Gayle's hair down to her ankles? Whatever the fashion statements, You and I remains a beautiful love song, sung in duet with the then-fashionable Eddie Rabbit. And the lyrics?

Just you and I,
Sharing our love together.
And I know in time,
We'll build the dreams we treasure.
We'll be all right, just you and I.

Just you and I (Just you and I)
Sharing our love together
And I know in time, (And I know in time,)
We'll build the dreams we treasure.

We'll be all right,
Just you and I.

Chorus:
And I remember our first embrace,
That smile that was on your face,
The promises that we made.
And now, your love is my reward,
And I love you even more,
Than I ever did before.

Just you and I (Just you and I)
We can entrust each other,
With you in my life, (With you in my life,)
They'll never be another.

We'll be all right,
Just you and I.

Chorus

We made it you and I.

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Endless Love - Diana Ross and Lionel Ritchie 

The Most-Loved Love Song Ever

Any quest for love song duets must start with Endless Love. It's named as the best love song and wedding song on nearly every site I researched in building this list. Here are the lyrics, although they don't do justice to the romance of the song:

My love
There's only you in my life
The only thing that's right

My first love
You're every breath that I take
You're every step I make

And I, I want to share
All my love with you
No one else will do
And your eyes
They tell me how much you care
Oh, yes you will always be
My endless love

Two hearts, two hearts that beat as one
Our lives had just begun
Forever, I'll hold you close in my arms
I can't resist your charms

And love, I'll be a fool for you
I'm sure
You know I don't mind
You know I don't mind

'Cause you, you mean the world to me
Oh, I know, I know I found in you
My endless love

Oh, and love, I'll be that fool for you
I'm sure
You know I don't mind
You know I don't mind

And yes, you'll be the only one
'Cause no one can't deny
This love I have inside
And I'll give it all to you
My love
My endless love

EndLess Love - Diana Ross e Lionel Richie

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Have I Missed Your Favorite Love Song Duet? 

Which Love Song Moves You the Most?

Are you a fan of Endless Love or Don't Go Breaking My Heart, or am I completely off the mark with these selections? Please share your favorite love song duets, your comments, and anything else you'd like to add. Don't forget to vote in the poll, above, too!

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