"Love Letters in the Sand"

"Love Letters in the Sand"
sang by Pat Boone (1957)

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

"Love Letters in the Sand"
Album (1957)

Pat Boone
sings song (1957)

Bernardine
Movie Poster (1957)

Preface: For Song #27, I've selected "Love Letters in the Sand" sang by Pat Boone (1957). This popular song was first published in 1931. The music was written by J. Fred Coots & the lyrics by Nick Kenny and Charles Kenny. Ted Black and His Orchestra, with vocalist Tom Brown, had the first major hit recording of the song in 1931. Pat Boone's version became a major hit in June and July 1957, spending 5 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top 100, with 34 weeks in total on the chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 2 song for 1957. The song was used in Boone's 1957 film Bernardine. Boone did the whistling in the instrumental portion of the song as well. (Lyrics).

On a day like today
We passed the time away
Writing love letters in the sand

How you laughed when I cried
Each time I saw the tide
Take our love letters from the sand

You made a vow that
you would ever be true
But somehow that vow
meant nothing to you

Now my broken heart aches
With every wave that breaks
Over love letters in the sand

Now my broken heart aches
With every wave that breaks
Over love letters in the sand