This song was written for the Drifters by the prolific songwriting team of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman.

THE FOUR ACES lyrics - Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
(Words by Paul Frances Webster and Music by Sammy Fain)
Love is a many splendored thing
It’s the April rose
That only grows in the early spring
Love is nature’s way of giving
A reason to be living
The golden crown that makes a man a king
Once on a [...]

There’s a yellow rose in Texas, that I am going to see,
Nobody else could miss her, not half as much as me.
She cried so when I left her, it like to broke my heart
And if I ever find her, we nevermore will part.
She’s the sweetest little rosebud,
That Texas ever knew
Her eyes are bright as diamonds,
They [...]

In 1954, Bill Haley and His Comets recorded “Rock Around the Clock”. It was re-released later in 1955, in conjunction with the film Blackboard Jungle. The song rose to the top of the Billboard musical charts that summer and stayed there for eight weeks, the first rock and roll record to do so.

One, two, [...]

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