Gino Vannelli found a hit with 'I Just Wanna Stop' thanks to his two brothers, and it became his first highest-charting single of his career.

Soft rock ballads usually get a bad rap for their overly sentimental tone and sappy lyrics. But a handful of tracks from the ...

Released in 1977, Paul Davis' "I Go Crazy" quietly became one of the biggest soft rock success stories of the decade. The heartfelt ballad spent an extraordinary 40 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, one ...

From Karen Carpenter to Celine Dion, these soft rock singers are known for beautiful voices that helped produce some of the ...

In 1984, Lionel Richie scored one of the biggest hits of his career. We’re obviously talking about the classic ballad Hello, which reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and stayed ...

No baby boomer out there could have missed these classic rock ballads that dropped in 1971, considering how much love they got on radio.

In May 1977, fresh on the heels of his massive hit 1976 album Frampton Comes Alive, Peter Frampton released I’m in You. The title track, a soft rock ballad, hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 on July ...

These soft rock songs from 1972 had people in their feelings back then, and they still get a reaction out of listeners today.

The Poppy Family’s 1970 soft rock classic “Which Way You Goin’ Billy?” remains an unforgettable hit more than five decades later.

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...