April Love (song)

"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.

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*imdb title|0050135|April Love