Singing Valentines

Valentines Day is coming up on a Saturday this year, and if you’re in a quandary about what to buy your wife or girlfriend, I have a suggestion for you.  Buy her a Singing Valentine.  If you’ve never bought a singing valentine for your wife, girlfriend, fiancé

or other significant loved one in your life, you don’t know what you’re missing-or rather, what they’re missing.. 

There will be two days of songs for the ladies this year.  Our chorus always does Singing Valentines on at least one weekday, so that we can visit schools and businesses.  Then, on Saturday we'll sing in the homes on a more personal level.  So, you have two chances to impress her this year.

I doubt that there is anything else you can do on Valentines Day that will equal the experience she will have when four tuxedo-clad men show up at her home or at her workplace, present a long-stem red rose and a card with your personal greeting on it and then sing two love songs to her.

Our quartet sang about 30 times last year, and the response was phenomenal.  The ones we sang in the home were the most personal, and the tears flowed every time.  But the ones we sang at the workplace, especially at schools, were the most fun, because our audience was larger, and the school children were so impressed.

We sang to women and men—that’s right, we’re gender neutral—and our audience included teenage girls, widows, mothers and daughters.  We started at 7 AM and didn’t quit until 9 PM. 

We were one of five quartets that circulated throughout the metropolitan area singing, and we presented 166 Singing Valentines.  It wasn’t inexpensive for the senders, but I bet every one of them felt it was worth every penny.  For the lovebirds I’m certain it pays dividends later that evening.

If you would like to send a Singing Valentine to your sweetheart this year, most cities have the service available.  You can usually place an order online or by phone.  Just use the link above and enter your postal zip code to locate the service in your area.  If you order early and you allow a four-hour window, you can probably get a discount.  The extras, like having the presentation at your Valentine dinner at your favorite restaurant are a little extra money, but are always worth it.

So here it is ladies and gentlemen.  If you are trying to come up with a good gift for this Valentines Day, I guarantee that you cannot do any better than a Singing Valentine.  If you don’t score big with your honey, it won’t be our fault.

Here are the lyrics to the two songs usually sung by the quartet:

Let Me Call You Sweetheart

Let Me Call You Sweetheart, I’m in love with you.

Let me hear you whisper that you love me too.

Keep the love light glowing in your eyes so true.

Let me call you sweetheart, I’m in love with you.

Heart Of My Heart (The Story of the Rose)

Heart of my heart, I love you.

Life would be naught without you.

Light of my life, my darling,

I love you... I love you.

I can forget you never.

From you I ne’er can sever.

Say you’ll be mine forever.

I love you.

Now I ask you, “How can she resist when you phrase it that way?”