April Love (song): Difference between revisions
m Delink dates (WP:MOSUNLINKDATES) using AWB |
|||
| Line 10: | Line 10: | ||
| before = "[[You Send Me]]" by [[Sam Cooke]] |
| before = "[[You Send Me]]" by [[Sam Cooke]] |
||
| title = [[Billboard Hot 100|Billboard Top 100]] [[List of number-one hits (United States)|number one single]]<br>"April Love" by [[Pat Boone]] |
| title = [[Billboard Hot 100|Billboard Top 100]] [[List of number-one hits (United States)|number one single]]<br>"April Love" by [[Pat Boone]] |
||
| years = |
| years = December 30, 1957 (1 week) |
||
| after = "[[At the Hop]]" by [[Danny and the Juniors]] |
| after = "[[At the Hop]]" by [[Danny and the Juniors]] |
||
}} |
}} |
||
| Line 18: | Line 18: | ||
*{{imdb title|0050135|April Love}} |
*{{imdb title|0050135|April Love}} |
||
{{DEFAULTSORT:April Love (Song)}} |
|||
[[Category:1957 singles]] |
[[Category:1957 singles]] |
||
[[Category:Number-one singles in the United States]] |
[[Category:Number-one singles in the United States]] |
||
| Line 23: | Line 24: | ||
[[Category:Billboard Top 100 number-one singles]] |
[[Category:Billboard Top 100 number-one singles]] |
||
[[Category:Pat Boone songs]] |
[[Category:Pat Boone songs]] |
||
{{1950s-pop-song-stub}} |
{{1950s-pop-song-stub}} |
||
Revision as of 04:55, 29 November 2009
 |
"April Love" is a popular song with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. It was written as the theme song for a 1957 film of the same name starring Pat Boone and Shirley Jones and directed by Henry Levin.
In the film, the Pat Boone character, Nick Conover, leaves Chicago after being put on probation for stealing a car. Living and working on the Kentucky farm of his uncle Jed Bruce and his aunt Henrietta, he falls in love with a neighbour's daughter, played by Shirley Jones. In the same way that Boone is often criticised for singing watered-down versions of rhythm and blues songs, the film April Love can be seen as a milder version of James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause (1955) or Marlon Brando's The Wild One (1955).
Helped by the release of the film, "April Love" became a #1 hit in the US for Pat Boone in December 1957. In 1958 it was nominated for a Best Music, Original Song Oscar.
External links
- April Love at IMDb
 | This 1950s pop song-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |