HAPPY FREAKING VALENTINE'S DAY!!

While I am firmly in the camp that Valentine's Day is a fabricated holiday designed to increase flower, candy, and jewelry sales (of items like dazzling diamond earrings or shimmering diamond bracelets at IW Marks, 3841 Bellaire Blvd or 2623 Town Center Blvd in Sugar Land), I am here to help the people. Just one month ago, our listeners helped compile a list of the top "deal closing" songs. (Naturally, this occurred on Sade's birthday ... Sade being the matron saint of all things boot knockin'.) Now for the first time publicly, after input from many experts in this field, I give you the top 40 songs from the few hundred we received from our listeners on that fateful day. And they are ....

No Ordinary Love - Sade
My, My, My - Johnny Gill
Superstar - Luther Vandross
Change the World - Eric Clapton
Can You Stand the Rain - New Edition
I'd Die Without You - PM Dawn
Kiss From a Rose - Seal
The Sweetest Taboo - Sade
Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
Caught Up in the Rapture - Anita Baker
The One I Love - David Gray
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band
Smooth Operator - Sade
Reunion - Maxwell
Crazy Love - Van Morrison
Comfortably Numb - Roger Waters (Departed version)
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
Love of a Lifetime - FireHouse
Oh Girl - Chi-Lites
Purple Rain - Prince
Here Without You - 3 Doors Down
Love Serenade - Barry White
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
Fumbling Towards Ecstacy - Sarah McLachlan
Like Lovers Do - Heather Nova
A House Is Not a Home - Luther Vandross
The Suite Theme - Maxwell
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
More Than I Can Say - Leo Sayer
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Comforter - Shai
Un-Break My Heart - Toni Braxton
With or Without Me - U2
Patience - Guns N' Roses
Colorblind - Counting Crows
Set Adrfit On Memory Bliss - PM Dawn
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
Any Time, Any Place - Janet Jackson

If any of you would like to download the songs on here to your iPod, I was kind enough to create an iMix of this playlist. Open your iTunes software and click here. (If that doesn't work, go to the iMix home page on iTunes and search on "1560 The Game - Deal Closers".

ALSO, if you're looking for something to buy that lovely lady in your life, I give you the purchasing advice of Youtube legend and consummate ladies man, Kige Ramsey ....




Roses, dinner, spa, and diamond ring. Got it. You the man, Kige.

I've now done all I can do. If you don't score on Valentine's Day now, you have no one but yourself to blame. (Unless you're name is Roger Clemens, in which case you can blame the Hendricks brothers. Seemed to work well yesterday.)