This article is a listicle celebrating soft rock songs released in 1979, a year the author frames as the transition point between the sounds of the 1970s and 1980s. It highlights three tracks from that era that remain widely recognised by people who grew up in the decade.

The songs featured are Air Supply's "Lost In Love," the title track of their fifth studio album, written by Graham Russell and later re-recorded after an earlier release on the band's Life Support album; Anne Murray's "I Just Fall In Love Again," a No. 1 pop and country hit originally recorded by The Carpenters in 1977 before Murray's version appeared on her New Kind Of Feeling album; and Styx's "Babe," the band's only No. 1 single, written by Dennis DeYoung and featured on the Cornerstone album, which also earned Styx their sole Grammy nomination.