To Love a Child

Infobox Single
Name = To Love a Child


Artist = Frank Sinatra
from Album =
A-side = To Love a Child
B-side = That's What God Looks Like to Me
Released = 1982
Format = 45"
Recorded = Reprise Records, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
December 5, 1981
Genre = Swing
Length = 3:21
Label = Reprise
(US, 45")
Writer = Hal David, Joe Raposo
Producer =
Last single = "Here's to the Band"
(1982)
This single = "To Love a Child"
(1982)
Next single = "Teach Me Tonight"
(1984)

"To Love a Child" is a 1982 popular song composed by Joe Raposo with lyrics by Hal David. It was released as a single by Frank Sinatra. [cite web | url=http://www.songsbysinatra.com/records/singles.html#Reprise Songs | title=By Sinatra: Records - Singles Page | publisher=Songs by Sinatra | date=2000-07-31 | accessdate=2008-03-17] "To Love a Child" was arranged by Don Costa, and featured Costa's daughter, Nikka Costa. [cite web | url=http://www.steve-albin.com/Artists/Sinatra/ | title= Frank Sinatra Discography: The Reprise Years | publisher=Steve Albin | date=2004-11-10 | accessdate=2008-03-17]

"To Love a Child" was the theme song for the Foster Grandparents program intiated by Nancy Reagan in 1982, and was performed by Reagan and Sinatra at the program's White House launch. All profits from the song and Nancy Reagan's book about the program went to the Foster Grandparents program. [cite news | url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,923056,00.html | title=By E. Graydon Carter | author=E. Graydon Carter | publisher="Time" | date=1982-11-01 | accessdate=2008-03-17]

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