TELL LAURA I LOVE HER
BY RAY PETERSON
BY RAY PETERSON
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A. Glance of the Song
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Single
by Ray Peterson
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Released:
1960
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Genre:
Pop
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Length:
2:50 minutes
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Label:
RCA Victor
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Writer(s):
Jeff Barry and Ben Raleigh
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Producer(s):
Hugo&Luigi
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Was
an American Top Ten popular music hit for singer Ray Petersons
in 1960 on RCA Victor Records.
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Was
a
tragic song.
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Reaching #7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot
100 chart.
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Has
been a hit in 14 countries, and has sold over seven million copies.
B.
Analysis (The Lyric)
Laura and Tommy were
lovers
Laura and Tommy loved
each other
He wanted to give her
everything flowers, presents, but most of all, a wedding ring
Because Tommy loved her
very much, he intended to give her anything for her happiness.
He thought to give her
flowers, presents, and the most important thing was a wedding ring.
He saw a sign for a
stock car race
One day, he saw an
announcement in the championship of car racing
A thousand dollar prize it read
A thousand dollar prize it read
There was a prize money
in the amount of one thousand dollars.
He couldn't get Laura
on the phone
He wanted to
participate in the championship because if he won, he could use the money to buy
Laura anything, especially a wedding ring
So to her mother, Tommy
said
Unfortunately, he could
not call Laura to tell about that
so he
called her mother.
Tell Laura I love her
Tommy would actually
say his feeling to Laura that he loved her
Tell Laura I need her
He wanted to say that
he needed her
Tell Laura I may be
late
He also wanted her to
know that he might not be able to meet her on time
I've something to do,
that cannot wait
He had to compete in
the race so that he was busy
He drove his car to the
racing grounds
He drove his car to the
circuit because the race was about to start
He was the youngest
driver there
He was the youngest
racer in the championship.
The crowed roared as
they started the race
The atmosphere was very
lively when the race started because of the spectators’ yell
Around the track they
drove at a deadly pace
During the race, the
racers drove on the dangerous tracks
No one knows what
happened that day
Or how his car
overturned in flames
Suddenly, an incident happened and no one knew
exactly what the cause was
They saw Tommy’s car
was on fire
But as they pulled him
from the twisted wreck
Many people tried to
help by pulling him out of his damaged car
With his dying breath,
they heard him say
At that time, they
heard him say something, although he could hardly breathe
Tell Laura I love her
He asked them to tell
Laura that he loved her
Tell Laura I need her
He wanted to let her
know that he needed her
Tell Laura not to cry
He did not want her to
cry over his condition
My love for her will
never die
They could also hear
that he spoke that his love for Lura would always exist. After that, he died
Now in the chapel where
Laura prays
Hearing his deatrh,
Laura was sad and could only pray in the chapel
For her poor Tommy, who
passed away
She did it for her
beloved Tommy who left her tragically
It was just for Laura
he lived and died
Because of his big love
for laura, he lived and died
Alone in the chapel she
can hear him cry
She cried over his
death and no one who was with her in the chapel
C.
Story
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"Tell Laura I Love Her" is the
tragic story of a teenage boy named Tommy who is desperately in love with a
girl named Laura.
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Although they are only teenagers, he
wants to marry her, so he enters a stock car race, hoping to win, and uses the prize money to buy Laura a
wedding ring.
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The lyrics of "Tell Laura I Love
Her" originally concerns
a rodeo, not an automobile race, as composer Jeff Barry was an aficionado
of cowboy culture.
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There are many singers who recorded it
such as Ricky Nelson, John Leyton, Cesar Costa, and so on.
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In Spanish: “La Historia de Tommy”.
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In German: “Sag’ Laura , ich liebe sie”.
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Answering the lyrics: “Tell Tommy I Miss
Him” by Marilyn Michaels and Skeeter Davis (1961).
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The second verse tells the mysterious
story of how the boy's car overturned and burst into flames—though no-one knows
why—and the boy was killed, his last words being "Tell Laura I love her...
My love for her will never die."
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In the final verse, Laura prays inside
the chapel, where she can still hear Tommy's voice intoning the title one more
time, before it fades out.
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The song expresses a true feeling of a
person for another that whatever happens the one will do everything only to
give her the world.
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Unfortunately, his story needs to pay a
prize.
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According to the lyric, he will be late
because he needs to do something important, but surely in that sense he will be
there and not planning to kill himself. Its just this unfortunate thing
happened.
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"Tell
Laura I may be late, I have something to do that cannot wait”,
that line means he has to go to win the money for her ring. It implies that he
will be there to meet Laura at some point.
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