April Love: Pat Boone
From the 1957 movie of the same name.
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From the 1957 movie of the same name.
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April 10, 2010 at 11:58 am
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April 11, 2010 at 5:28 am
Ah!!
Pat Boone – My pet hate.
Especially now he’s turned into an ultra right-winger.
But then again, he always was a richard cranium
April 11, 2010 at 10:06 am
Pete,
I’m not a fan either-always found him too syrupy, too sweet, but the theme was April. There was no way I could escape before posting this song.
April 11, 2010 at 5:49 am
April Love”,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.
April 11, 2010 at 10:01 am
sblake,
I had totally forgotten what this movie was about, and I had no idea it was considered a milder version of Rebel Without a Cause. That gave me a laugh-thinking about Pat Boone and Marlon or James. Just picturing Pat on his motorcycle (or is that moped?) is a hoot!
April 14, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Gosh, sblake,
I just went to the trouble of finding you on this huge Worldwide Web and leaving you a note on your own blog, cuz I thought you were “lost” to this one. At least when I looked a few minutes ago, you still had the old blog’s link on your own blog’s sidebar. Ignore my note/comment to c’mon over here and please update your sidebar so your own readers will be able to find this one, please.
Good to read you here. [Back to this month’s travels…just got back from Oregon last night.]
April 14, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Rick,
So how was the trip?