I was thinking, wistfully, about London the other day. I don't know why, and my iPod shuffle, which is uncannily in tune with my psyche, served up the perfect compliment to my mood: Vera Lynn singing "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square". The song premiered on the London stage in 1940's NEW FACES. It is an unabashedly romantic tale of two people falling in love in Mayfair. There may be more romantic songs out there, but the age of the recording, coupled with the simple imagery and the sound of Vera Lynn's pure soaring voice singing "I know 'cos I was there" - well it gets me every time.

I think Ravel's Bolero is very sexy music, boring, but sexy.

I have to say that my choice for most romantic song comes from the musical version of Faust. The song, "Feels Like Home", was how I first told my boyfriend I loved him. This may sound really sappy and dorky, but we were on the roof of my apartment building one night, and I just started singing it to him...because I was too chicken to just outright tell him how I felt! "A window breaks down a long dark street, and a siren wails in the night. But I'm alright 'cause I have you here with me, and I can almost see through the dark, there's light. If you knew how much this moment means to me, and how long, I've waited for your touch. If you knew how happy you are making me, I never thought I'd love anyone so much."

I feel like I have a favorite love song from every Broadway show, but if I had to pick just one, I guess it would be "Last Night of the World" from MISS SAIGON. One of my favorite memories is of my high school voice teacher playing it for me and telling me how it was the PERFECT love song. He loved it so much, he filled a cassette tape with the song recorded over and over to fill the whole tape. I remember thinking it was kinda silly at the time, but that song really is so beautiful and the saxophone solo in the middle gets me every time!

"I Only Have Eyes For You". One of the best songs ever!!!

The first one that comes to my mind is "Love Song" from Pippin. I don't know how it holds up these days, but when I was in high school, that was my JAM.

"If I Loved You", from CAROUSEL, is written as a duet, and the drama of these two people denying what they are feeling is what makes it a great song. As a solo number it's just the loneliest thing you can imagine, and just as great. Runners-up: "Her Face", from CARNIVAL, "Never Will I Marry", from GREENWILLOW.

This is an easy one! It's my favorite song of all time It's BILL from SHOWBOAT...gets me every time. So simple and honest. The melody tugs at your heart and the lyric " I love him because he's ...I don't know. Because he's just my Bill." We don't know why we love who we love ...we just do (take that GEORGE BUSH)

"Maria" from WEST SIDE STORY

"I'll Be Loving You Always" by Irving Berlin, is my favorite romantic song. I actually sang it to my late husband, Ranald MacDougall, when I proposed to him.

I think the most romantic Broadway Love Song ever written is "Unworthy of Your Love" by Sondheim (ASSASSINS). This is a great song. I'm not sure how romantic it could be considered, but it proves that everyone has someone who loves them...

I'd have to say my favorite romantic Broadway song, off the top of my head, is 'Some Girls' from Once on This Island. It's a song of love and adoration that comes from the heart while the character is in the circumstance of the confines of tradition and class. 'Daniel' realizes/discovers his love for 'Ti Moune' in how different she is from other women and for being the unique and the simple person she is, meanwhile he is destined to marry someone of his own class that has been arranged since birth. I find it so romantic that in he can sing this love song to her at the same time acknowledging he will not be able to be with her.

"If I Loved You" -- hands down. Because it's like the dance you do before you admit how much you love someone.

My favorite romantic song was written by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh and it's called it "It Amazes Me." It's just a perspective of how you come into this world one way, and how somebody can love you so much that you change the perspective of yourself.

We just can't choose one. Our favorites are: "It Only Takes a Moment" from Hello Dolly!, "What More Can I Say" from Falsettos, and "I Have Dreamed" from The King and I.

For someone who sings gorgeous love songs every day of my life, that's a Sophie's Choice kind of question. But at this moment I would answer with "How Deep Is the Ocean" by Irving Berlin, written in 1933 for the Broadway show AS THOUSANDS CHEER. The words and the music are so perfect for each other that they themselves are like two great lovers in the sublime way that they connect. The lyric expresses exactly how I feel when I am with someone I love with all my heart. What makes the song pure genius is that Berlin expresses the deepest love through only questions. Romance is heightened by anticipation, and here, each question makes the listener find each answer. As a side note, I'd like to ask all singers reading this to please resist the temptation to do this song as a crazy upbeat number. It takes all the heart and soul out of it and I want to call the "lyric police" whenever I hear this. When I recorded this classic on my first CD with Mike Renzi at the piano, I had a fantasy that the beauty of the song would touch people so much that it would miraculously become a hit single played on every radio station. It might have happened if we lived in a world where each day was Valentine's Day.

I think the most romantic Broadway love song is......."How Could I Ever Know" because of the lyrics. The notion that a person who is no longer in this world could contact their true love to tell them they are the one they were born to love, is extremely moving to me.

If I Loved You -- because it's written in future tense, full of denial, and sung by two stubborn people who, in the course of the song, actually fall in love .... resistance gone. =) R&H .... masters.

I always get a little teary-eyed when I hear the ending of "Yours, Yours, Yours" from 1776. It's that duet harmony, coupled with those simple, simple words that mean so much more when sung by John and Abigail: Till then, till then... I am... As I ever was and ever shall be... Yours...yours...yours...yours...yours. And even though it's more heartbreaking than romantic, I truly love "You and I" from CHESS. So bittersweet. Have a swell Valentine's Day---

"Sit On My Face and Tell Me That You Love Me"

My favorite broadway love song, "How Could I Ever Know," from THE SECRET GARDEN. (I was fortunate enough to sing this in the National Tour every night when I played the role of Lily.) Why? The idea of being able to reach someone from beyond the grave and comfort them in a time of crisis, mixed in with the notion that great love never dies and has a tangible presence...mmm.

This one has a personal history for me. I actually sang it to my the first serious girlfriend I ever had. The most romantic love song that jumped into my head when I read this question is "Fallin'," by Marvin Hamlisch, from the musical THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG. Why? The song is a confession of love from someone who has a real fear of intimacy and vulnerability, but is finally ready to take a chance with someone and risk being hurt. To me, that is the essence of falling in love and allowing yourself to be in love with someone -- that feeling of someone bringing you such utter joy that you are willing to confront whatever fears you have about life and love to be with him or her.

Growing up with LES MIS, I have to say the most romantic Broadway love song ever is "On My Own." I know this is probably not an original response, but I love it! So tragic!!

How to Handle a Woman" from CAMELOT is my all time favorite. It's exactly how my sweetie treats me.

That is easy for me. "Near To You" from DAMN YANKEES! I was living in NYC hosting a talk show on Lifetime, when Jerry Lewis was doing the lead...and went in and caught the second act every night. Perhaps it was a combination of the staging and the beautiful harmony, but the words were so good as well. Put it all together...it spells romantic to me!

My favorite love song is MY FOOLISH HEART. It's just the most perfect of lyric and melody and every word rings true to the way falling in love happens.

On Monday I had my first rehearsal for THE MOST HAPPY FELLA at City Opera. At the read through we came to "Warm All Over", which I always knew was a beautiful song, but when Lisa Vroman sang it I thought that is one of the most romantic and sexy songs I've ever heard. So there you have it, Happy Valentines Day to you and whomever you spend it with!

I guess my all time favorite would have to be "My Funny Valentine". I just think it is a perfect song, and a realistic version of love, that is to say, its about someone totally not perfect, but she adores him anyway.

The most romantic Broadway song ever written has to be "They Can't Take That Away from Me." It captures that bittersweet beauty and transitive nature of love. You never know just how long it will last and how precious that time is. I loved the song when Fred Astaire sang it in SHALL WE DANCE," when Harry Groener sang it in CRAZY FOR YOU and when Fayard Nicholas, in his last screen performance, sang it in the last moments of my film "Broadway: The Golden Age." It is about so much more than even romance - it is about life. And the song never dates, for the Ira Gershwin lyrics are timeless.

Favorite #1. "Soon It's Gonna Rain" from THE FANTASTICKS The show is really Off-Broadway, so I'll include my other favorite. Favorite #2. "Sweet Time" from RAISIN. It's a love song about trying to continue to love...what made love possible in the first place, and how to keep going. It also has such a great bluesy-jazz urban sound to it.