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Have I told you lately that I love you? – a favourite love song
The other day, soon after sunrise, I went for a walk to the park and found myself singing “Have I told you lately that I love you.” So I thought maybe I should do that song next on my website. It is one of my old favourite love songs from a long, long time ago. I remember hearing my mother sing this song when I was about six years of age. I picture myself sitting in the sunshine playing with my dinky toys in the dirt as she was singing in the kitchen. As a teenager I remember hearing Jim Reeves singing this song, and now as an old man I think I like the Elvis Presley version the most. After my walk to the park, I checked the back yard to see if I could see any dead cats. The night before, I heard terrible sounds of cats fighting. Why are they fighting? I don’t know! So the next day I was searching all day to see who all sings this song, and I never even looked at the world news. Then that night my wife told me that someone tried to kill Donald Trump. What is wrong with people? Why can’t everybody just live in peace? Why can’t we all just be happy to be alive, and make the best of our lives? Lots of the famous people have grown up poor, and did their best to make something of their lives. So I think love is better than hatred, and hope you all enjoy living and loving!
- Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters
- Bobby Vinton
- Brook Benton
- Daniel and Majella O’Donnell
- Eddie Cochran
- Eddie Cochran – “live”
- Eddy Arnold
- Elizma Theron – boere meisie rockin’ the Free State
- Elvis Presley (take 1 and 7)
- Elvis Presley (take 2)
- Elvis Presley (take 6)
- Elvis Presley (take 13)
- Elvis Presley – with girls
- Elvis Presley and the girl from the movie – my favourite love song
- Floyd Cramer
- Foy Willing
- Gaither Vocal Band
- Gene Autry
- Gene Autry – pictures
- Geraldine – a rock version of this song
- Grand ladies of country music
- Hank Williams snr
- Hillbilly music
- Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius
- Jim Reeves – fireplace
- Jim Reeves – “live”
- Johnny Rodriguez
- Karaoke version
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- Karaoke version smash – another version – with the Jordanaires
- Line dance – Elizma Theron
- Lulu Belle and Scotty (Wiseman)
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- Marty Robbins – “live”
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- Michael Buble – with pictures
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- Sissy Spacek
- Slim Whitman
- Stonewall Jackson
- Tex Ritter
- Thelma and Jon
- Willie Nelson
- Rod Stewart – This is not the same song, even though it has the same title, but I enjoyed it. I also have other websites, and would like to invite you to visit my website: Country Gospel and Bible. Here is a bit of trivia, this song, “Have I told you lately that I love you” was written by Scott Wiseman who is featured on the list with his wife Lulu Belle. He wrote a lot of wonderful songs, and lots of them are my favourite love songs, sung by many different artists.
- Here is some more trivia
- In the 70’s I was on a temporary permit in South Africa, and a preacher from America heard me singing at somebody’s house, and invited me to come to America and sing in his church. My wife said: “You say you always go where you are invited, so let’s go.” So we sold everything and came on a trip to America. During that trip, I bought a book called: “Sing your heart out country boy.” So I have just taken the book off the bookshelf, and found what Scott said about this song. In 1944 he was in hospital in Chicago, and one afternoon his wife Lulu Belle came to visit him. Before she left she whispered to him: “Have I told you lately that I love you?” As he lay there in hospital bed thinking of his lovely wife, he thought that it would be a good title for a song, so he wrote it. Some friend took it to Gene Autry in Hollywood, and he recorded it. The money he got from all the recordings was enough for them to buy their retirement home in the hills of North Carolina. Isn’t that a wonderful love story?
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Love letters in the sand – a favourite love song
This song reminds me of when I was a kid. Every few years went on vacation to a nice warm climate by the sea. It was so exciting to see and hear the waves pounding, and to the smell the lovely sea-breeze. There is nothing quite the same as the “holiday spirit.” No more school, no more worries. We had pocket money every day to enjoy the sun, the surf, the sand and the soda pop pop! The pretty girls were everywhere. At the roller rink, I skated to the song: “Like a tiger” by the fabulous singer Fabian. There are so many things that still burn strongly in my memory from so many years ago. Stop and smell the roses on the way! Don’t worry, be happy! Forget the cares of the world. Just be free! It was so much fun being a kid.
I heard “Love letters in the sand” by Pat Boone, and have a number of versions of him singing this song, where people have added beautiful pictures and videos. This is definitely one of my favourite love songs. So many people love to sing this song, so I have added many other singers, and have tried to do them alphabetically. I hope it makes you happy. This song makes me happy.
- Andy Williams
- Bert Farroach – lapsteel
- Best of the British Dance Bands
- Bill Haley
- Billie Jo Spears – nice photos
- Billy Vaughn
- Bobby Bare
- Cicci Guitar Condor
- Daniel O’Donnell
- Das Ballroom Sundikat – orchestra
- Douglas Kratz – guitar
- Ed Palermo
- Ellert Nordmark – electric guitar
- First recording – Majestic Dance Orchestra – Helen Rowland 1931
- Foster and Allen
- Frank Chacksfield and orchestra
- Gene Austin 1931 – (extra verse)
- Grace Saren
- Isaac Callender and Louise Steinway
- Jean Rose Palacio
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Jerry Wicentowski – extra verses
- Kay Das – Steel guitar
- Kevin Garrigan
- Lagaringer – singing with Ukulele
- Lee Morse – lyrics below
- Lennon Sisters
- Leon Redbone – extra verse
- LeRoy van Dyke
- Lettermen
- Louis Robinson and Duck Adkins
- Mac Wiseman 1955 – (with extra verse)
- Marie Osmond
- Mike Reed – Hammond organ
- Nat King Cole
- Nita Talley
- Pat Boone – smiling
- Pat Boone – nice pictures and lyrics
- Pat Boone – Beautiful picture of beach and palm trees, with lyrics
- Pat Boone – Waves washing onto the beach with surfers and lyrics
- Pat Boone – With heart in the sand and pictures
- Pat Boone – Beautiful pictures of the sea, and big lyrics
- Patsy Cline – Pictures of Patsy
- Patsy Cline – record cover
- Ray Conniff and orchestra
- Red Steagall
- Rick Curtis – Guitar instrumental
- Ruth Etting 1931 – (extra verse)
- Slim Whitman
- Sonny James
- Victor Wood
- Vikingarna
- Vince Hill
- We went to a Pat Boone show where he explained that he needed a song for the flip-side of the record he had planned to make, and randomly chose “Love letters in the sand” and it turned out to be one of his biggest hits! I also have a gospel web site where I feature Mr. Pat Boone, if you would like to check it out. It is called countrygospelandbible.
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My mother sang her favourite love songs and also gospel songs
When I was a little boy growing up in Salisbury, Rhodesia, I remember my mother singing lots of her favourite love songs while she was busy in the kitchen, and I heard them while I was outside playing with my toys. Songs like: When it’s Springtime in the Rockies, A kiss is still a kiss as time goes by, I’m an old cowhand from the Rio Grande, On the Isle of Capri, Down Mexico way, Be a little forgiving take me back in your heart, I’ll be loving you always, Don’t sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me, and many, many more.
Then she got saved, and sang songs like: The lily of the valley, I tried the broken cisterns Lord, and Happy day that fixed my choice, etc. Then she wanted to get filled with the Holy Spirit, and as the preacher was on his way to pray for her, my brother and I were naughty, and she spanked us, and ended up in a very bad mood. When Pastor Price prayed for her she went into some kind of dream where she was in the sea, and the waves were coming over her. Then she felt she had drowned. (When she was young her daddy drowned in Illovo Beach, South Africa, while saving a girl from drowning).
Then it seemed like, far away someone was speaking in tongues. That person just kept on and on speaking in tongues for a long time. Then she got curious as to who was doing that. When she woke up, she found it was herself speaking in tongues, and she was lying on the floor! The pastor said she had a mighty baptism in the Holy Ghost.
Many years later when we were having house meetings in Bulawayo, every now and then she would speak in tongues, and expect someone to do the interpretation. But there was no interpretation. When I was a teenager I remember going with my mother to a ‘Keswick’ meeting somewhere outside of Bulawayo. There were about a hundred people there from all different churches. Then during prayer time, mother started speaking in tongues! I thought: “No mother, don’t do that here! These people don’t believe in that sort of thing!”
After the meeting, when we were outside, I remember seeing Pastor Bob Beatty speaking to my mother. He was a missionary from America. She told me later that he was asking her what languages she spoke, etc. Apparently she was speaking in some African language that he had learnt, to minister to a particular tribe in Rhodesia. Some years later, in the early 70’s, I remember Bob Beatty inviting me to sing at a mission station somewhere near Gwelo.
In the late 70’s I remember Pastor Marks inviting me to sing at his church outside of Que Que. I remember the church building being next to the main road between Bulawayo and Salisbury. There were banana palms behind the church, and the pastor’s house behind the banana palms. Before going to that church, the Holy Spirit impressed upon me the words of the Apostle Paul in the Bible. “Let him that speaketh in tongues, pray that he might interpret.” (1 Corinthians 14:13). Then I realized that my mother should have asked the Lord for the interpretations when she spoke in tongues. She had the anointing on her, so it was her responsibility to do the interpretations as well, and not expect someone else to do it.
In one of the meetings, I invited people to come forward for healing. I seem to recall there were six people. The last person I prayed for was a woman. I laid my hands on her shoulders and prayed for her. Then she started speaking in tongues. So I said to her: “Now, give the interpretation.” There was a bit of a silence. Then she said: “The Lord has forgiven your sins.”
Straight after that I gave an invitation for people to received Jesus Christ as their Saviour, and about twelve people came forward.
The next morning, my wife and I were sitting in their living room talking to Pastor Marks, when the phone rang. We heard half the conversation. Apparently some woman who was in the service the night before, was asking Pastor Marks what languages the other woman spoke when I prayed for her. He explained that she spoke English and a bit of the local African language, then he asked her why she was inquiring. She said that last night the woman spoke in Hellenic, and with her being Greek, she understood what she was saying. So he asked her what she had said, and she replied that she spoke in Hellenic, then she said the same thing over again in English!
So Pastor Marks explained to her what happened on the day of Pentecost, how the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke in various languages the people knew, who had come to Jerusalem from all different parts of the world. (Acts chapter 2, in the Bible).
Many times since then, the devil has attacked me, telling me that my sins are not forgiven. Beloved, the devil is a liar. Keep serving God, as best as you know how, and we’ll meet again on the streets of gold, in a land where we’ll never grow old!
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Favourite love songs by Trini Lopez
When I was a teenager I loved listening to a record by Trini Lopez as he sang favourite love songs to a “live”audience. With a “live” audience, I knew that what I was listening to was the “real thing!” I longed to be able to be like him, and sang some of the same songs.
- A taste of Honey
- America “live” 1963
- And we were lovers
- Are you sincere?
- Around the world
- Baby, the rain must fall
- Beautiful brown eyes
- Blowing in the wind
- Blue velvet
- Bye Bye Blackbird (recorded “live” at PJ’s 1963)
- Bye Bye Love (recorded “live”)
- Chantilly Lace
- Cotton fields
- Crazy arms
- Devil woman
- Don’t let the sun catch you crying
- Don’t let your sweet love die
- Don’t think twice
- Down by the riverside
- Fever
- Fly like an eagle – official music video
- Fly me to the moon
- Four strong winds
- Gentle on my mind
- Gonna get along without Ya now
- Gotta travel on, Marianne, Down by the riverside, When the saints, Volare (recorded “live” at PJ’s)
- Green, green – My favourite love song by Trini Lopez – (recorded live at PJ’s 1963)
- Green, green grass of home
- Greenback dollar
- Hello Dolly
- I got a woman
- I will wait for you
- If
- If I had a hammer “live” with Andre Rieu
- If you want to be happy (recorded “live”)
- I’m coming home, Cindy
- I’m grateful
- I wanna be free
- Kansas City (recorded “live” at PJ’s)
- Kansas City “Live “ video , black and white
- Leaving on a jet plane
- Lemon tree
- Let’s think about living
- “Live” at Cal State – 1 hour
- “LIVE” at PJ’s 1963
- “LIVE” in Australia 1968 – 56 minutes
- “LIVE” Medley of songs – Netherlands
- Lonely weekends
- Love letters
- Master Jack
- Marianne
- Michael rowed the boat ashore
- Moon River
- Oh, lonesome me (recorded “live” at PJ’s 1963)
- Once a day
- Only in my dreams
- Our day will come
- People
- Personality
- Pretty eyes
- Rambling man
- Return to me
- Scarlet ribbons
- Side by side
- Sinner man
- Smile
- Strangers in the night
- Sunshine Superman and Cry like a baby
- Tammy
- The Bramble bush
- The letter
- The lonesome road
- The 32nd of May
- There’s a kind of hush
- Trini Lopez and Sha Na Na
- Trini Lopez and the Everly Brothers – medley
- This land is your land (Recorded “live”)
- This little girl of mine (“live” recording)
- This train
- Unchain my heart
- Walk right in
- We’ll sing in the sunshine
- What’d I say (recorded “live” at PJ’s 1963)
- When the saints come marching in
- Where can my baby be?
- Windy
- Yes you do
- Yesterday
- You are my sunshine
- You are my sunshine (beginner line dance)
- You are my sunshine (beginner line dance) Korea
- You are my sunshine (line dance beginner level)
- You know
- You talk too much
- You’ll never know
- Your ever changing mind Lots of these favourite love songs bring back so many memories as Trini Lopez sings them. Be happy.
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Favourite love songs by Janey Kirk
I came across Janey Kirk the other day, and she sings a lot of my favourite love songs. She is sometimes joined by her daughter Carla and other people in her performances. She seems to be a vibrant personality, and I hope you enjoy these selections.
- Am I that easy to forget
- Country Roads – with Carla
- Don’t break the heart that loves you
- Don’t forget to remember me
- Don’t play that song again
- Heartaches by the number
- I can’t help it if I’m still in love with you – Favourite love song by Janey Kirk
- I really don’t want to know
- If you love me let me know – with Carla
- I’ll never fall in love again
- I’ll never find another you
- It keeps right on a hurting
- Jealous heart
- Let me be there
- Let your love flow – with Carla
- Little arrows – with Leapy Lee – I remember this favourite love song being at the top of the hit parade in Rhodesia back in the 60’s.
- Make the world go away – with Rose Marie
- Mocking bird hill
- Mona Lisa
- Mother of mine – with Carla
- One day at a time – with Lena Martell
- Remember you’re mine
- Rose of San Antone
- Scotland forever
- Sea of heartbreak
- Send me the pillow – This is still one of my favourite love songs.
- Silver threads among the gold
- Suspicious minds
- Teach your children – with Carla
- Where the boys are
- You win again
I hope you have enjoyed some of these favourite love songs by Janey Kirk, and for those in her country, I hope you are still enjoying attending her performances.
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Van Haat tot Liefde – Handelinge 9
Hierdie strokiesprent is van die Bybel af, hoe Jesus ‘n man se lewe verander het. Hy kan dit ook vir u doen. As die prente nie hier opkom nie, u kan dit hier vind: https://countrygospelandbible.com/
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From hatred to love – Acts chapter 9
Many years later just before he was killed he wrote:
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Mary Duff – Favourite love songs
Mary Duff sings some of my favourite love songs from a long time ago. There are others that I have never heard before. I hope you enjoy them!
- Beautiful Meath
- Can I sleep in your arms
- Country roads take me home There is something about this favourite love song that just tugs at the heart.
- Dear God
- Fields of Athenry
- Going home
- Heartaches by the number – My favourite love song by Mary Duff I used to sing this song a lot when I was young.
- How great Thou art To me this is one of the holiest worship songs ever. It is important to love God first, then your neighbour too!
- I’ll be your San Antone rose
- Jealous heart I used to play this favourite love song in my taxi, and one woman cried and said it is so true. I took her from a woman’s shelter to another city.
- Just loving you
- Lipstick on your collar
- Making believe
- My boy Lollipop
- Nearer my God to Thee
- One bird on the wing
- Patsy Cline songs – Sweet dreams about you, Faded love, Walking after midnight, I fall to pieces, Rich man’s gold, Crazy.
- Power of love
- Red is the rose
- She broke her promise
- Silver and gold
- There is a place
- Till I waltz again with you
- Till the white rose blooms again
- Turn back the years
- Voice of an angel
- When Irish eyes are smiling My grandmother always used to sing this song.
- Where would that leave me
- Whispering hope – with Daniel O’Donnell
- Will You walk with me
- Working man
- Yellow roses
- You are so far away I hope you like these favourite love songs by Mary Duff. Love is better than hate. Please forgive all your enemies, and love them instead! I also have a gospel website if you would like to check it out: countrygospelandbible.com
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