A Sunday Kind of Love by The Harptones

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"A Sunday Kind of Love" is a jazz and pop standard, written by Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes, and Louis Prima. It was first published in 1946. The first recording was by Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra, sung by Fran Warren, in 1946. Louis Prima, Frankie Laine, Jo Stafford, and Ella Fitzgerald recorded it in 1947. And then there's the great arrangement by The Harp-tones, with their special harmonies, which was recorded in 1953.

The Harptones formed in Manhattan in 1953. They are a revered and influential group. Notable are the lead singer Willie Winfield and pianist/arranger/singer Raoul J. Cita. For "A Sunday Kind of Love," group members were Winfield, Cita, Nicky Clark, William Dempsey, Bill Brown, and Bill "Dicey" Galloway. Other classic songs from The Harp-tones are "Life is But a Dream" (1955) and "My Memories of You" (1956). Group personnel has changed over the years, but The Harptones continued to tour and perform for many decades.

Here are the lyrics:

"(GROUP:) I'm through with my old love,
I loved her through and through.
I'm searching for a new love--
Can that new love be you?
(LEAD:) I want a Sunday kind of love,
A love to last past Saturday night;
I want to know it's more than love at first sight,
I want a Sunday kind of love.
I want a love that's on the square--
Can't seem to find somebody to care.
I'm on a lonely road that leads me nowhere,
I want a Sunday kind of love
I do my Sunday dreaming
And all my Sunday scheming
Every minute, every hour, every day;
I'm hoping to discover
A certain kind of lover--
(BASS:) Who will show me the way?
(LEAD:) My heart needs someone to enfold,
To keep me warm when Mondays are cold,
A love for all my life, to have and to hold--
I want a Sunday kind of love.
I want a Sunday-- kind of--
Lo-o-o-o-ove"