Australian singles charts:
April Love entered the Kent charts on 7 December 1957 and peaked at #1. The song was #4 on the Top 100 of 1958.
Album:
The song is on the 1959 album Pat Boone Sings (not released in Australia).
Songwriters:
Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster
Record label of Australian release:
London
Wikipedia:
The music for the song April Love was composed by Sammy Fain and lyrics were by Paul Francis Webster. It was written as the theme song for a 1957 film of the same name. Helped by the release of the film, April Love became a #1 hit in the United States for Pat Boone, and in 1958 was nominated for an Oscar for Best Music, Original Song.
The film is based on the novel Phantom Filly by George Agnew Chamberlain. At the beginning of the shoot in Kentucky, Boone was in a car accident while filming a scene. He was a passenger in a car which was to be overtaken by a car driven by two local girls; the cars collided but Boone was uninjured. Boone did not kiss Shirley Jones on screen for fear of upsetting his wife.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Love_(song) and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Love_(film)
Lyrics:
April love is for the very young
Every star’s a wishing star that shines for you
April love is all the seven wonders
One little kiss can tell you this is true
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