Here's a tablature for "Love Letters In The Sand".
The music for the song was composed by J. Fred Coots (not to be confused with J. Fred Muggs). Coots also composed the music for Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town. It's been recorded by everyone from Pat Boone to Leon Redbone, but I heard it done mostly by Mac Wiseman at Bluegrass festivals back in the Seventies.
I love to pick and sing that song. One of my favorites. Some people are going to be so glad you posted the tab for it.
Thanks for putting this up. I'm a huge Leon Redbone fan! ~Suzy
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Originally posted by RB3Here's a tablature for "Love Letters In The Sand".
The music for the song was composed by J. Fred Coots (not to be confused with J. Fred Muggs). Coots also composed the music for Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town. It's been recorded by everyone from Pat Boone to Leon Redbone, but I heard it done mostly by Mac Wiseman at Bluegrass festivals back in the Seventies.
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Originally posted by RB3Here's a tablature for "Love Letters In The Sand".
The music for the song was composed by J. Fred Coots (not to be confused with J. Fred Muggs). Coots also composed the music for Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town. It's been recorded by everyone from Pat Boone to Leon Redbone, but I heard it done mostly by Mac Wiseman at Bluegrass festivals back in the Seventies.
Another great tab, Wayne, with a great up the neck break included for the same price!! I saw Mac Wiseman perform a number of times back then, we were probably at some of the same festivals. Here is a link to a video of Wiseman doing Love Letters in the Sand, in case any of the BHO youngsters aren't familiar with him.
Don,
In the Seventies, between March and October, I spent virtually every weekend at a festival somewhere in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky or West Virginia. It seemed that Mac Wiseman was at each one of those festivals. I always loved his selection of songs and the inimitable way he performed them. There was however, one thing that ole' Mac did that I didn't appreciate.
Mac never had a band. He would show up at a festival alone, and then put together a band that consisted of young, aspiring, semi-professional musicians who he invited to accompany him on his festival performances. No two consecutive performances included the same band members. I don't know what financial arrangements he made with those musicians, but I always presumed, perhaps incorrectly, that they performed with him in exchange for the honor of having done so.
Hi Wayne,
Great tabbing and arranging of a "Classic"....Jack p.s. the high break is super good...
Originally posted by RB3Here's a tablature for "Love Letters In The Sand".
The music for the song was composed by J. Fred Coots (not to be confused with J. Fred Muggs). Coots also composed the music for Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town. It's been recorded by everyone from Pat Boone to Leon Redbone, but I heard it done mostly by Mac Wiseman at Bluegrass festivals back in the Seventies.
Edited by - Jack Baker on 03/26/2023 13:07:32
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Originally posted by RB3
...Mac never had a band. He would show up at a festival alone, and then put together a band that consisted of young, aspiring, semi-professional musicians who he invited to accompany him on his festival performances. No two consecutive performances included the same band members. I don't know what financial arrangements he made with those musicians, but I always presumed, perhaps incorrectly, that they performed with him in exchange for the honor of having done so.
I remember that, too. He always had a pick-up band, or sometimes would join a band already on the bill and essentially borrow the whole bunch for his own set. For years I heard those same rumors, and when you mentioned it, I actually tried a Google search to see if anyone ever complained online about it. I couldn't find anyone. In a post here on the BHO from about four years ago, Jim Britton responded to the rumor, even though nobody had brought it up. "For the record, Mac paid me everytime. I'd heard that he didn't pay sidemen and I found that to be untrue... at least for me. Just before the second set he'd always say 'here ya go cowboy" and it was a handshake with cash.'"
- Don B.
Mac was the best. He really was "The Voice With A Heart" as he was often called. I don't know anything about the payment stuff. I have several of Mac's LPs or LPs with Mac on them....Jack
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Originally posted by RB3
Edited by - Jack Baker on 03/26/2023 17:48:17
Just curiosity: Love Letters in the Sand by Lee Morse and her Blue Grass Boys (1931)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8hYXIEvVJ8
Pat Boone was my first listening of the song but I must admit, I never forgot Mac's version....Jack
Originally posted by RB3Here's a tablature for "Love Letters In The Sand".
The music for the song was composed by J. Fred Coots (not to be confused with J. Fred Muggs). Coots also composed the music for Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town. It's been recorded by everyone from Pat Boone to Leon Redbone, but I heard it done mostly by Mac Wiseman at Bluegrass festivals back in the Seventies.
