The love ballad has been around forever. Since the dawn of time, the number one topic of almost every story had to deal with love - either love lost or love reunited, and so on. Even today, the love ballad continues in the form of rap, hip hop, rock and roll, punk rock and many other genres. Every song you listen to on the radio is usually some sort of love song or love ballad.

But how did it all start?

Well, a ballad has been around for ages. It is simply a rhyming poem, usually in ABAB format (pairs of every other line rhyme) and has a refrain or chorus of some sort that repeats predictably between each group of lines. Love ballads have made their way through Egyptian times, to Greek and Roman times, Medieval courts and today into the diverse world of music we know of. It is an age old topic that never seems to get old, because the one constant thing about people is that they strive to be in relationships and to fill that other half.