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The Love You Save, 1966
Written by Joe Tex
A funky, joyful paean to the woman who turned the narrator's life around with her love ("Because you came along and showed me I was wrong / Now that I think that I can carry on"). It's a common sentiment in song, but Joe Tex sells it with a preacher's fire and rascal's grin, backed by a rousing horn section. The real hook, though, is the delightful chorus, which compares her to sugar, to sugar's detriment: "You know that you so sweet / You make sugar taste just like salt." It's a catchy Southern soul version of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, where his love is nicer than a summer's day.
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