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| artist = [[Pat Boone]]
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| B-side = [[When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano]]
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| released = {{Start date|1957|10}}
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| Genre = [[Pop music|Pop]]
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| Label = [[Dot Records|Dot]]
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| Writer = [[Sammy Fain]]<br />[[Paul Francis Webster]]
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"'''April Love'''" is a [[popular music|popular]] [[song]] with music by [[Sammy Fain]] and [[lyrics]] by [[Paul Francis Webster]]. It was written as the [[theme song]] for a 1957 [[April Love (film)|film of the same name]] starring [[Pat Boone]] and [[Shirley Jones]] and directed by [[Henry Levin (film director)|Henry Levin]].
"'''April Love'''" is a [[popular music|popular]] [[song]] with music by [[Sammy Fain]] and [[lyrics]] by [[Paul Francis Webster]]. It was written as the [[theme song]] for a 1957 [[April Love (film)|film of the same name]] starring [[Pat Boone]] and [[Shirley Jones]] and directed by [[Henry Levin (film director)|Henry Levin]].

Revision as of 06:20, 3 August 2018

"April Love"
Single by Pat Boone
B-side"When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano"
ReleasedOctober 1957 (1957-10)
GenrePop
Length2:39
LabelDot
Songwriter(s)Sammy Fain
Paul Francis Webster
Pat Boone singles chronology
"Remember You're Mine"
(1957) 		"April Love"
(1957) 		"A Wonderful Time Up There"
(1958)

"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.

Helped by the release of the film, "April Love" became a number-one hit in the United States for Pat Boone,[1] and spent twenty-six weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 charts (it spent 6 weeks at number 1). In 1958, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song but lost out to “All the Way”.[2]

Other recordings

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (8th ed.). New York: Billboard Books. p. 75. ISBN 0-8230-7499-4.
  2. ^ "Pat Boone - April Love". lovvin.com. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  3. ^ "Discogs.com". Discogs.com. Retrieved December 13, 2017.

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