Origins: I'll Still Write Your Name in the Sand

Subject: Origins: I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand
From: HiHo_Silver
Date: 22 Jun 04 - 08:39 PM

I am looking for the composer of I'll Still Write your name In The Sand as sung by Mack Wiseman. I have checked the mudcat DT and search with no luck. Can find tons of lyrics but no mention of the composer. Thanks

Subject: RE: Origins: I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 22 Jun 04 - 11:04 PM

Oby Edgar Starcher, wrote it in 1946.

Subject: RE: Origins: I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand
From: 12-stringer
Date: 23 Jun 04 - 01:23 AM

Or maybe not. Songs of this title were recorded well before 1946:

1929: Freeman & Ashcraft (Columbia Co 15442-D)
1931: Home Town Boys (Columbia Co 15736-D)
1937: Bill Cox and Cliff Hobbs (Vocalion Vo 04454)

That's just from a search on a couple of labels at the Online Discographical Project http://settlet.fateback.com/

It sounds like an old pop song to me, and there may be other recording references in some of the popular music numericals at this site.

Subject: RE: Origins: I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 23 Jun 04 - 12:57 PM

Starcher was born in 1906.
A number of sites that mention this song. This site states that he cut no records until 1946, when "I'll Still Write..." was one of 16 sides recorded. He could have written the song much earlier.
I haven't found the date of composition.

Starcher: Starcher

Subject: RE: Origins: I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 23 Jun 04 - 01:04 PM

This site, mentioning his death at age 95 also lists the song as a Starcher composition: Starcher

Subject: Lyr Add: I'LL STILL WRITE YOUR NAME IN THE SAND
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 31 Jan 07 - 10:40 PM

I suppose this bluegrass song is what Chet Atkins had in mind when he wrote his parody I STILL WRITE YOUR NAME IN THE SNOW.

I'LL STILL WRITE YOUR NAME IN THE SAND
(also known as I STILL WRITE YOUR NAME IN THE SAND)
(Buddy Starcher)

It's been many years since we were childhood sweethearts,
Blissful days that I shall never forget,
And you know I still love you, little darlin',
Though the years bring me only regret.

CHORUS: Oh, I love you, my darlin', I love you.
If I talk, will you try to understand?
It's no matter how you talk to me, I love you.
And I'll still write your name in the sand.

Through the long lonely years, I have loved you
And I've waited, but only in vain.
Now I know that I've lost you, my darlin',
But I still sing this same old refrain: CHORUS

[Recorded by Buddy Starcher, The Maddox Brothers and Rose, Del McCoury, Mac Wiseman, and a few others.]