"Love Letters in the Sand" is a popular

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 song

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 first published in 1931

1931 in music

-Events:*May 21 - RCA Victor's first commercially issued 33⅓ rpm record, "Salon Suite, No. 1" by The Victor Salon Orchestra, directed by Nathaniel Shilkret, was recorded*Roy Rogers' musical career begins*Mary Garden retires from the Chicago Opera...

. The music was written by J. Fred Coots

J. Fred Coots

John Frederick Coots was an American songwriter. He wrote over 700 songs.He is most famous for the song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", a song that became one of the biggest best sellers in American music history....

 and the lyrics by Nick Kenny

Nick Kenny (poet)

Nicholas Aloysius Kenny was a syndicated newspaper columnist, a song lyricist and a poet who wrote light verse in the Edgar Guest tradition.-Biography:...

 and Charles Kenny

Charles Kenny

Charles Francis Kenny was an American composer, author, and violinist. His hit songs include "There's A Gold Mine In The Sky" and "Love Letters in the Sand", and "Laughing at Life" and "Because It's Your Birthday Today" which he wrote with his brother Nick Kenny. The birthday song was made popular...

. The song was "inspired" by an 1881 composition, "The Spanish Cavalier". Ted Black's orchestra had the first major hit.

Pat Boone

Pat Boone

Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an American singer, actor and writer who has been a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He covered black artists' songs and sold more copies than his black counterparts...

's cover 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

Record chart

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. The song was used in Boone's film "Bernardine

Bernardine (film)

Bernardine is a 1957 film directed by Henry Levin and starring Pat Boone, Terry Moore, Dean Jagger, Dick Sargent, and Janet Gaynor. The 1952 play upon which the movie is based was written by Mary Coyle Chase, the Denver playwright who also wrote the smash hit Broadway play Harvey...

". Boone also did the whistling in the instrumental portion of the song as well. The song originally did have a short instrumental introduction, however, most versions begin with Boone's voice.

The English

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 singer, Vince Hill

Vince Hill

Vince Hill is an English traditional pop music singer, songwriter and record producer.-Biography:...

, reached #23 in the UK Singles Chart

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 in 1967, with his cover version

Cover version

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of the track.