Love Letters - By Ketty Lester

[sauquoit13456]

On this date in 1962 {Feb. 24th} "Love Letters" entered Billboard's Top 100 chart; evenually it peaked at #5 and spent 14 weeks in the Top 100...

Ranked 34th on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 Singles of 1962 chart...

Nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Original Song"; lost to "It Might As Well Be Spring"

Reached #2 on Billboard's R&B chart & #4 on the U.K. Singles chart...

Charted versions; Dick Haynes {#11 in 1945}, Alison Moyet {#4 in U.K.}, and Elvis Presley {#19 in 1966 & #4 in U.K.}

[PathfivePentadaktyl0]

Awesome song! I love it!!!

[010bobby]

which Lumberton? Lumberton Oregon or Lumberton North Carolina?

[scrabtree1]

@010bobby it's from the movie Blue Velvet by David Lynch. A fictitious Lumberton, based in part on Lynch's hometown of Spokane WA.

[RagedContinuum]

@scrabtree1

He shot the movie down the road from lumberton NC, in wilmington. He had to shoot a scene or two in Lumberton NC in order to use the name, according to wikipedia. But yeah it's a fictional town - there's no bay in wilmington, and all the main actors had midwestern accents

[RagedContinuum]

@RagedContinuum bay in lumberton oops

[fran9860]

You want me to pour the beer Frank. No, I want you to fuck it; shit yes, pour the fucken beer!

[Jupiter2able]

Awesome song!

[tpqadw]

Easily in my Top5 films of all time. The genius David Lynch got some ideas for Twin Peaks while making this. Angelo Badalamenti providing such great music to accompany both.

[bettysangria]

<3

[staff50ord]

One of the very few songs in which somebody does it better than Elvis, and his version is also damn good.

[mariyadfwjfgej]

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[azzbo51]

Soul doesn't get any better than this....my all time favourite song

[effyleven]

Ketty Lester's is the best "Love Letters" ever!!

Interestingly, it was conceived as a swing number in 4/4. It was not conceived with the lilt of country waltz (3/4) at all.

[fran9860]

INCREDIBLE VOICE, INCREDIBLE TALENT!

[mtfitch1i1]

beautiful! thanks connie! i wouldn't have imagined it better!

[cerzule]

This song seems so sinister when played over these clips from Lynch's beautifully disturbing film. Love it!

[LeshaAnn]

@cerzule I'd forgotten that this song was actually IN the movie, when Jeffrey finds the bodies of Don & Detective Gordon....

[hollandgroupc2008]

check out Elvis' version

[bon1042]

Elvis' is good but Ketty is the best version. (and I was consumed by Elvis at 13 in spring and summer of 1956 !)

[blindingtorment]

gorgeous! love it.

[rawdenashitey]

love the song

and gr8 movie as well

[claygoddessz]

I love this one JQ.