List of soft rock artists and songs

The following is a list of notable soft rock bands and artists and their most notable soft rock songs. This list should not include artists whose main style of music is anything other than soft rock, even if they have released one or more songs that fall under the "soft rock" genre. (Such songs can be added under Category:Soft rock songs.)

Artists which have released music of various different genres throughout their career including soft rock as one of their main styles, may be included together with their notable soft rock songs. Template:Dynamiclist

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Artist	Song(s)
10cc	"I'm Not in Love" "Marriage Bureau Rendezvous"

A

Artist	Song(s)
Ace	"How Long"
Bryan Adams	"Cloud Number Nine" "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" "I'll Always Be Right There" "Let's Make a Night to Remember" "Please Forgive Me"
Air Supply	"All Out of Love" "Even the Nights Are Better" "Here I Am" "Just as I Am" "Lonely Is the Night" "Lost in Love" "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" "The One That You Love"
The Alan Parsons Project	"Eye in the Sky" "Old and Wise" "Snake Eyes" "Time"
Alessi Brothers	"Oh Lori"
Ambrosia	"Biggest Part of Me" "How Much I Feel" "You're the Only Woman (You & I)"
America	"A Horse with No Name" "Daisy Jane" "I Need You" "Lonely People" "Sister Golden Hair" "Tin Man" "Today's the Day" "Ventura Highway" "You Can Do Magic"
Paul Anka	"(You're) Having My Baby"
The Association	"Along Comes Mary" "Cherish" "Everything That Touches You" "Never My Love" "Windy"
Atlanta Rhythm Section	"Imaginary Lover" "So into You"
The Autumn Defense	"Canyon Arrow" "Feel You Now"

B

Artist	Song(s)
Marty Balin	"Hearts"
Bee Gees	"Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself" "He's a Liar" "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" "How Deep Is Your Love" "I Started a Joke" "Lonely Days" "New York Mining Disaster 1941" "Run to Me" "To Love Somebody"
The Bells	"Stay Awhile"
Stephen Bishop	"It Might Be You" "On and On"
Colin Blunstone	"I Don't Believe in Miracles" "Say You Don't Mind"
James Blunt	"1973" "So Far Gone" "Stay the Night" "Superstar"
Michael Bolton	"How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" "How Can We Be Lovers?" "Time, Love and Tenderness"
Karla Bonoff	"Somebody's Eyes"
Debby Boone	"You Light Up My Life"
Boston	"Amanda" "More Than a Feeling"
Bread	"Baby I'm-a Want You" "Everything I Own" "The Guitar Man" "If" "Lost Without Your Love" "Make It with You"
Jackson Browne	"Fountain of Sorrow" "The Load-Out/Stay" "The Pretender" "Rock Me on the Water" "Tender Is the Night" "Doctor My Eyes"
Peabo Bryson	"Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" (with Roberta Flack)

C

Artist	Song(s)
Glen Campbell	"By the Time I Get to Phoenix" "Galveston" "Rhinestone Cowboy" "Southern Nights" "Wichita Lineman"
Jim Capaldi	"It's All Up to You" "That's Love"
Captain & Tennille	"Do That to Me One More Time" "Love Will Keep Us Together" "Muskrat Love"
Eric Carmen	"All by Myself" "Hungry Eyes" "Make Me Lose Control" "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" "She Did It"
Kim Carnes	"Bette Davis Eyes" "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer"
Richard Carpenter	"Calling Your Name Again" "Something in Your Eyes"
The Carpenters	"All of My Life" "(They Long to Be) Close to You" "For All We Know" "Goodbye to Love" "Hurting Each Other" "It's Going to Take Some Time" "Please Mr. Postman" "Rainy Days and Mondays" "Sing" "Superstar" "Top of the World" "Touch Me When We're Dancing" "We've Only Just Begun" "Yesterday Once More"
Felix Cavaliere	"Only a Lonely Heart Sees"
Chad & Jeremy	Before and After A Summer Song Willow Weep for Me
Harry Chapin	"A Better Place to Be" "Cat's in the Cradle" "Sniper" "Taxi" "W·O·L·D"
Chicago	"Baby, What a Big Surprise" "Brand New Love Affair, Part I & II" "Colour My World" "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" "Hard Habit to Break" "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" "If You Leave Me Now" "Make Me Smile" "Saturday in the Park" "Will You Still Love Me?" "You're the Inspiration"
Eric Clapton	"Anything for Your Love" "Everything Will Be Alright" "I Shot the Sheriff" "Lay Down Sally" "Promises" "Tears in Heaven" "Wonderful Tonight"
Classics IV	"Spooky" "Stormy" "Traces"
Climax	"Precious and Few"
Climax Blues Band	"Couldn't Get It Right" "I Love You"
Joe Cocker	"Up Where We Belong" (with Jennifer Warnes) "You Are So Beautiful"
Leonard Cohen	"Bird on the Wire" "Suzanne"
Marc Cohn	"Walking in Memphis" "Wild World"
Phil Collins	"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" "Another Day in Paradise" "Do You Remember" "In the Air Tonight" "One More Night" "Separate Lives"
Rita Coolidge	"All Time High" "We're All Alone" "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher"
Jim Croce	"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" "Time in a Bottle"
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	"Helpless" "Just a Song Before I Go" "Lady of the Island" "Our House" "Southern Cross"
Christopher Cross	"All Right" "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" "Never Be the Same" "Ride Like the Wind" "Sailing" "Think of Laura"
Burton Cummings	"You Saved My Soul"
Cymarron	"Rings"

D

Artist	Song(s)
Mac Davis	"Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me" "I Never Made Love (Till I Made It with You)" "One Hell of a Woman" "Stop and Smell the Roses"
Paul Davis	"Cool Night" "I Go Crazy"
Chris de Burgh	"A Spaceman Came Travelling" "Don't Pay the Ferryman" "The Lady in Red" "Missing You"
John Denver	"Annie's Song" "How Can I Leave You Again" "I'm Sorry" "Me and My Uncle" "Rocky Mountain High" "Sunshine on My Shoulders"
Dennis DeYoung	"Call Me" "Desert Moon"
Neil Diamond	"America" "Cracklin' Rosie" "Forever in Blue Jeans" "I Am... I Said" "Love on the Rocks" "Shilo" "Solitary Man" "Song Sung Blue" "Sweet Caroline"
The Doobie Brothers	"Another Park, Another Sunday" "Black Water" "The Doctor" "It Keeps You Runnin'" "Listen to the Music" "Minute by Minute" "Takin' It to the Streets" "What a Fool Believes"
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show	"A Little Bit More" "Sexy Eyes" "Sharing the Night Together" "The Cover of Rolling Stone" "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman"
Robbie Dupree	"Steal Away"

E

Artist	Song(s)
Eagles	"Best of My Love" "Busy Being Fabulous" "Desperado" "Doolin–Dalton" "Hotel California" "I Can't Tell You Why" "The Long Run" "Love Will Keep Us Alive" "Most of Us Are Sad" "New Kid in Town" "One of These Nights" "Peaceful Easy Feeling" "Take It Easy" "Take It to the Limit" "Tequila Sunrise"
Walter Egan	"Magnet and Steel"
England Dan & John Ford Coley	"I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" "It's Sad to Belong" "Love Is the Answer" "Nights Are Forever Without You" "We'll Never Have to Say Goodbye Again" "What's Forever For"
Exile	"Kiss You All Over"

F

Artist	Song(s)
Donald Fagen	"I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)" "Ruby Baby" "Snowbound"
José Feliciano	"Light My Fire"
Jay Ferguson	"Shakedown Cruise"
Firefall	"Just Remember I Love You" "You Are the Woman"
Roberta Flack	"Feel Like Makin' Love"
Fleetwood Mac	"Big Love" "Don't Stop" "Dreams" "Gypsy" "Little Lies" "Rhiannon" "Say You Love Me" "Sentimental Lady"
Dan Fogelberg	"Believe in Me" "Hard to Say" "Leader of the Band" "Longer" "Make Love Stay" "Part of the Plan" "Run for the Roses" "Same Old Lang Syne"
Steve Forbert	"Romeo's Tune"
Foreigner	"Cold as Ice" "I Don't Want to Live Without You" "I Want to Know What Love Is" "Waiting for a Girl Like You"
Peter Frampton	"Baby, I Love Your Way" "Do You Feel Like We Do" "I'm in You" "Show Me the Way"
Franke and the Knockouts
Glenn Frey	"The One You Love"

G

Artist	Song(s)
Gallery	"I Believe in Music" "Nice to Be with You"
David Gates	"The Goodbye Girl"
Genesis	"Follow You Follow Me" "Hold on My Heart" "In Too Deep" "Man on the Corner" "Never a Time" "Taking It All Too Hard" "Throwing It All Away" "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight"
Andy Gibb	"I Just Want to Be Your Everything"
Andrew Gold	"Lonely Boy" "Never Let Her Slip Away" "Thank You for Being a Friend"
Dobie Gray	"Drift Away"
Henry Gross	"Shannon"
Adrian Gurvitz	"Classic"

H

Artist	Song(s)
Hall & Oates	"I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" "Kiss on My List" "One on One" "Rich Girl" "Sara Smile" "She's Gone" "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds	"Fallin' in Love"
Albert Hammond	"99 Miles From L.A." "The Free Electric Band" "I'm a Train" "It Never Rains in Southern California" "When I'm Gone"
Don Henley	"Not Enough Love in the World" "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" "The End of the Innocence" "The Heart of the Matter"
Bertie Higgins	"Key Largo"
Dan Hill	"All I See Is Your Face" "Sometimes When We Touch"
The Hollies	"He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" "The Air That I Breathe" "Sandy"
Rupert Holmes	"Escape" "Him" "Terminal"

I

Artist	Song(s)
Janis Ian	"At Seventeen"

J

Artist	Song(s)
Terry Jacks	"Seasons in the Sun"
Jefferson Starship	"Miracles" "With Your Love"
Billy Joel	"Allentown" "And So It Goes" "An Innocent Man" "Goodnight Saigon" "Honesty" "Just the Way You Are" "Leave a Tender Moment Alone" "My Life" "New York State of Mind" "Piano Man" "She's Got a Way" "She's Always a Woman" "This Night"
Elton John	"All Quiet on the Western Front" "Believe" "Bennie and the Jets" "Blue Eyes" "Border Song" "Burn Down the Mission" "Candle in the Wind" "Daniel" "Dear God" "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" "Levon" "Little Jeannie" "Nikita" "Rocket Man" "Sacrifice" "Skyline Pigeon" "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" "Tiny Dancer" "You Gotta Love Someone" "Your Song"
Robert John	"Sad Eyes"
Sammy Johns	"Chevy Van"
Michael Johnson	"Bluer Than Blue" "I'll Always Love You" "This Night Won't Last Forever"
Rickie Lee Jones	"Chuck E.'s In Love"
Journey	"Faithfully" "Lights" "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" "Open Arms"

K

Artist	Song(s)
Joshua Kadison	"Beautiful in My Eyes" "Jessie"
Kalapana	"The Hurt" "Naturally"
Kansas	"All I Wanted" "Dust in the Wind"
Carole King	"I Feel the Earth Move" "It's Too Late" "So Far Away"
Fred Knoblock	"Why Not Me"

L

Artist	Song(s)
Nicolette Larson	"Lotta Love"
Little River Band	"Cool Change" "Help Is on Its Way" "Lonesome Loser" "Reminiscing" "Take It Easy on Me"
Lobo	"Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend" "I'd Love You to Want Me" "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" "Where Were You When I Was Falling In Love"
Dave Loggins	"Please Come to Boston"
Kenny Loggins	"Danny's Song" "Don't Fight It" "For the First Time" "Heart to Heart" "Keep the Fire" "This Is It" "Whenever I Call You Friend"
Loggins and Messina	"Watching the River Run"
Looking Glass	"Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)"

M

Artist	Song(s)
Mary MacGregor	"Torn Between Two Lovers" "Wedding Song (There Is Love)"
The Magic Lanterns
The Mamas & the Papas	"Dedicated to the One I Love"
Melissa Manchester	"Midnight Blue" "You Should Hear How She Talks About You"
Barry Manilow	"Can't Smile Without You" "Could It Be Magic" "Even Now" "I Made It Through the Rain" "I Write the Songs" "Looks Like We Made It" "Mandy" "Read 'Em and Weep" "Somewhere Down the Road" "The Old Songs" "This One's for You" "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again" "Weekend in New England" "When I Wanted You"
The Marbles	"Only One Woman"
Benny Mardones	"Into the Night"
Richard Marx	"Hazard" "Hold On to the Nights" "Now and Forever" "Right Here Waiting"
Dave Mason	"Let It Go, Let It Flow" "We Just Disagree"
Iain Matthews	"Shake It" "Woodstock"
John Mayer	"Gravity" "Paper Doll" "Who You Love" (with Katy Perry) "Your Body Is a Wonderland"
Paul McCartney	"The Girl Is Mine" (with Michael Jackson) "Maybe I'm Amazed" "No More Lonely Nights"
Sarah McLachlan	"Angel" "Building a Mystery" "Possession" "Sweet Surrender"
Michael McDonald	"I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)" "On My Own" "Sweet Freedom"
Don McLean	"American Pie" "And I Love You So" "Crying" "Vincent"
Michael Learns to Rock	"The Actor" "Paint My Love" "Sleeping Child" "Someday" "Take Me to Your Heart"
Mike + The Mechanics	"The Living Years" "Over My Shoulder" "Taken In"
Ronnie Milsap	"Any Day Now" "He Got You" "Stranger in My House"
Joni Mitchell	"Carey" "Free Man in Paris"
Van Morrison	"Brown Eyed Girl" "Crazy Love" "Into the Mystic" "Tupelo Honey"
Maria Muldaur	"Midnight at the Oasis"
Michael Martin Murphey	"What's Forever For" "Wildfire"
Anne Murray	"Bidin' My Time" "Hard as I Try" "I Just Fall in Love Again" "It Only Hurts for a Little While" "Just Another Woman in Love" "Snowbird" "You Needed Me"

N

Artist	Song(s)
Randy Newman	"Sail Away"
Olivia Newton-John	"Can I Trust Your Arms" "Have You Never Been Mellow" "Hopelessly Devoted to You" "I Honestly Love You" "Magic" "Summertime Blues" "The Way You Look Tonight"
Stevie Nicks	"Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You?" "Rooms on Fire" "Whenever I Call You Friend"
Harry Nilsson	"Everybody's Talkin'" "Without You"
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (as The Dirt Band)	"An American Dream"
Kenny Nolan	"I Like Dreamin'"
Chris Norman	"Broken Heroes" "Midnight Lady" "No Arms Can Ever Hold You" "Some Hearts Are Diamonds" "Stumblin' In"

O

Artist	Song(s)
Gilbert O'Sullivan	"Alone Again (Naturally)" "Clair" "Get Down"
Orleans	"Dance with Me" "Love Takes Time" "Still the One"

P

Artist	Song(s)
Pablo Cruise	"A Place in the Sun" "Cool Love" "Love Will Find a Way" "Whatcha Gonna Do"
David Pack	"I Just Can't Let Go" "That Girl is Gone"
Martin Page	"In the House of Stone and Light" "Put on Your Red Dress"
Steve Perry	"Foolish Heart" "Missing You"
Jim Photoglo	"Fool in Love with You" "We Were Meant to Be Lovers"
Pilot	"January" "Magic"
Player	"Baby Come Back"
Poco	"Crazy Love" "Heart of the Night"
Pure Prairie League	"Amie" "Let Me Love You Tonight"

R

Artist	Song(s)
Gerry Rafferty	"Baker Street" "Home and Dry" "Night Owl" "Right Down the Line"
Chris Rea	"Ace of Hearts" "Auberge" "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" "The Road to Hell" "Winning" "Wired to the Moon"
Helen Reddy	"Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" "I Am Woman" "I Can't Hear You No More"
REO Speedwagon	"Can't Fight This Feeling" "Keep On Loving You" "Take It on the Run" "Time for Me to Fly"
Lionel Richie	"All Night Long (All Night)" "Endless Love" (with Diana Ross) "Hello" "Say You, Say Me" "You Are"
Linda Ronstadt	"Don't Know Much" (with Aaron Neville) "Hurt So Bad" "Ooh Baby Baby" "When Will I Be Loved" "You're No Good"
Todd Rundgren	"Can We Still Be Friends" "A Dream Goes On Forever" "Hello It's Me" "I Saw the Light" "Take It All"

S

Artist	Song(s)
Sad Café	"Every Day Hurts"
Leo Sayer	"I Can't Stop Loving You (Though I Try)" "More Than I Can Say" "Oh Girl" "Orchard Road" "Raining in My Heart" "When I Need You"
Boz Scaggs	"Lido Shuffle" "Look What You've Done to Me" "Lowdown" "We're All Alone"
Joey Scarbury	"Believe It or Not"
Seals and Crofts	"Diamond Girl" "Get Closer" "Summer Breeze"
Bob Seger	"Against the Wind" "Night Moves" "Still the Same"
Simon & Garfunkel	"Bridge over Troubled Water"
Carly Simon	"Anticipation" "Mockingbird" (with James Taylor) "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" "We Have No Secrets" "You Belong to Me" "You're So Vain"
Paul Simon	"Slip Slidin' Away"
Skylark	"Wildflower"
Rex Smith	"You Take My Breath Away"
Smokie	"Don't Play Your Rock 'n' Roll to Me" "If You Think You Know How to Love Me" "Living Next Door to Alice"
Sneaker	"More Than Just the Two of Us"
J. D. Souther	"You're Only Lonely"
Starbuck	"Moonlight Feels Right"
Starland Vocal Band	"Afternoon Delight"
Starship	"Sara" "Set the Night to Music"
Stealers Wheel	"Stuck in the Middle with You"
Steely Dan	"Do It Again" "Hey Nineteen" "Peg" "Rikki Don't Lose That Number"
Cat Stevens	"Father and Son" "Mona Bone Jakon" "Moonshadow" "Peace Train" "Wild World"
Al Stewart	"Time Passages" "Year of the Cat"
John Stewart	"Lost Her in the Sun" "Midnight Wind"
Rod Stewart	"Downtown Train" "Have I Told You Lately" "I Don't Want to Talk About It" "I Was Only Joking" "Maggie May" "Mandolin Wind" "Pretty Flamingo" "Reason to Believe" "Sailing" "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)"
Sting	"Desert Rose" "They Dance Alone"
Curtis Stigers	"I Wonder Why" "You're All That Matters to Me"
Styx	"Babe" "The Best of Times" "Boat on the River" "Don't Let It End" "Fooling Yourself" "Show Me the Way"

T

Artist	Song(s)
James Taylor	"Carolina in My Mind" "Country Road" "Fire and Rain" "Handy Man" "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" "Shower the People" "Sweet Baby James" "You've Got a Friend" "Your Smiling Face"
B. J. Thomas	"(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" "Everybody's Out of Town" "I Just Can't Help Believing" "No Love at All" "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" "Rock and Roll Lullaby"
Three Dog Night
Toby Beau	"My Angel Baby
Toto	"99" "Africa" "Georgy Porgy" "I'll Be over You" "I Won't Hold You Back" "Rosanna"
Bonnie Tyler	"Believe in Me" "Bitterblue" "Fools Lullaby" "It's a Heartache" "Love Is the Knife" "This Is Gonna Hurt" "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

V

Artist	Song(s)
Gino Vannelli	"Hurts to Be in Love" "I Just Wanna Stop" "Living Inside Myself"
Randy VanWarmer	"Just When I Needed You Most"

W

Artist	Song(s)
John Waite	"Missing You"
Bob Welch	"Sentimental Lady"
Snowy White	"Bird of Paradise"
The Williams Brothers	"Can't Cry Hard Enough"
Paul Williams	"An Old Fashioned Love Song" "I Won't Last a Day Without You"
Wings	"Band on the Run" "Bluebird" "Cook of the House" "Country Dreamer" "I'm Carrying" "Let 'Em In" "Listen to What the Man Said" "Live and Let Die" "London Town" "Maybe I'm Amazed" "Mrs Vandebilt" "Must Do Something About It" "Silly Love Songs" "With a Little Luck"
Steve Winwood	"Higher Love" "Valerie" "While You See a Chance"
Gary Wright	"Dream Weaver"

Y

Artist	Song(s)
Neil Young	"A Man Needs a Maid" "Heart of Gold"

See also

• Soft rock
• List of soft rock songs
• Folk rock
• Adult contemporary music
• Pop rock