Trends : LOVE STORIES: : THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY : ‘I’ve Got a Crush on You’

From true love to stabbed-in-the-back love, from quick love to love that just won’t die, View writers have chronicled looks at love in the ‘80s for Valentine’s Day eve. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent, and the guilty, but all are true . . . even if love sometimes isn’t.

Play it again, Sandi. That was how it all began 28 years ago for a Sherman Oaks couple. Sandi Bumgarner was a singer and Charlie Shoemake was at the time a pianist, who strolled over during a rehearsal for a Palladium dance band performance to listen to her have a try on the piano at “Moonlight Sonata.”

“If there was ever love at first sight, that was it,” he recalled.

After that came your basic cheap date. Charlie invited Sandi to Los Angeles City College--to shoot a few baskets.

Four months afterwards they were wed. And they are still very much in love.

“If you love and care for the other person, and want to make him happy, and if he loves you and wants to make you happy, then it works,” the wife said.

Nowadays, having reared a son along the way, they are both involved with jazz, he as a vibes player and she still as a singer.

“She still looks great, and her voice still knocks me out,” the husband said.

And her fingers can still tickle the ivories, sonatas included, by the light of the silvery moon, or any other time.