I was born two years after you, which didn’t prevent me from being “an absolute slut with that music.”
And going back even further, some of the world’s greatest love songs were written by opera or operetta composers, especially Puccini and Lehar.
How about Jim Croce?
From *Time in a Bottle:
If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I’d like to do
Is to save every day
Til’ eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I’d save every day like a treasure and then
Again, I would spend them with you…
*
Beautiful song. Or *I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song
Well, I know it’s kind of late
I hope I didn’t wake you
But what I got to say can’t wait
I know you’d understand
Ev’ry time I tried to tell you
The words just came out wrong
So I’ll have to say I love you in a song
*
Of course, most of his other songs are about breakups and bitterness, but he had a few very sweet gems mixed in there.