Love Letters (song)
| Love letters | |
|---|---|
| publication | 1945 |
| length | 3:05 |
| Genre (s) | Film music |
| text | Edward Heyman |
| music | Victor Young |
| Label | Paramount Picture |
| Award (s) | Nomination for an Oscar in 1946 |
| album | Love letters (film) |
| Cover versions | |
| 1945 | Dick Haymes |
| 1962 | Ketty Lester |
| 1966 | Elvis Presley |
| 1987 | Alison Moyet |
Love Letters is a song from the soundtrack of the film Love Letters .
Origin background
The instrumental piece was composed by Victor Young and appeared in 1945 as part of the film music. The play was nominated for an Oscar in 1946. Edward Heyman wrote the text for the piece.
Music genre
The stanzas of the song are in D major , the refrain in G major . The song form is in ABAC and consists only of a simple melody consisting of a few individual notes in ascending order. The text only consists of a verse and a chorus. In terms of text, the topic of love letters is taken up.
Cover versions
Versions of the piece with vocals have been published by numerous artists, the best known being the versions by Dick Haymes (1946), Ketty Lester (1962), Elvis Presley (1966) and Alison Moyet (1987). Dick Haymes' version for Decca Records became a hit in the United States. The version by Ketty Lester reached number 6 on the then US charts in 1962 and sold millions of copies in 1962. This version was used in 1986 by David Lynch for his film Blue Velvet , in 2012 by Andrew Dominik for the crime film Killing Them Softly and in 2014 in Tatort "Am Ende des Flurs", produced and first broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk on May 4, 2014. Alison Moyets Version reached # 4 in the UK UK Top 40 in 1987 .
More cover versions
- 1957: Nat King Cole (Album: Love Is the Thing )
- 1957: Jimmy Knepper (Album: A Swinging Introduction to Jimmy Knepper )
- 1958: Maureen O'Hara (Album: Love Letters from Maureen O'Hara )
- 1961: Jack Jones (Album: Lollipops and Roses )
- 1962: Shelley Fabares (Album: Shelley! )
- 1964: Stanley Turrentine (Album: Hustlin ' )
- 1964: Andy Williams ( The Academy Award-Winning " Call Me Irresponsible " and Other Hit Songs from the Movies )
- 1964: Julie Rogers (Album: Julie Rogers )
- 1965: Cilla Black (Album: Cilla )
- 1965: Sandie Shaw (Album: Sandie )
- 1965: Earl Grant (Album: Spotlight on Earl Grant )
- 1965: Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs (single)
- 1966: The Lettermen (Album: A New Song for Young Love )
- 1967: Don Patterson (album Soul Happening! )
- 1968: Sergio Franchi (Album: I'm a Fool to Want You )
- 1969: Engelbert Humperdinck (Album: Engelbert Humperdinck )
- 1975: Fox (Album: Fox )
- 1977: Frankie Miller (Album: Full House )
- 1978: Teresa Carpio & George Lam (Album: Teresa Carpio & Lam )
- 1983: Modern Romance (Album: Party Tonight )
- 1983: Joe Walsh (Album: You Bought It - You Name It )
- 1984: Miki Matsubara (Album: Blue Eyes )
- 1987: Steve Jones (Album: Mercy )
- 1990: Eddie Harris (Album: There Was a Time [Echo of Harlem] )
- 1992: Sinéad O'Connor (Album: Am I Not Your Girl? )
- 1993: Elton John & Bonnie Raitt (Album: Duets )
- 1997: Ruth Brown (Album: R + B = Ruth Brown )
- 2001: Etta James (Album: Blue Gardenia )
- 2001: Diana Krall (Album: The Look of Love )
- 2008: Jason Donovan (Album: Let It Be Me )
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Marvin E. Paymer, Don E. Post: Sentimental Journey: Intimate Portraits of America's Great Popular Songs, 1920-1945 . Noble House Publishers, 1999, ISBN 978-1-881907-09-1 , pp. 484 .
- ↑ Blue Velvet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Killing Them Softly in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Alison Moyet on Chartarchive.org. Retrieved January 1, 2014 .