who sang the original song sea of love
Sea of Love (song) "Sea of Love" is a song written by Philip Baptiste (better known as Phil Phillips) and George Khoury. Phillips' 1959 recording of the song peaked at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart and No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] It became a gold record. It was the only top-40 chart song for Phillips, who never recorded another hit.[2] In the UK, Marty Wilde covered the song, his version peaked at No. 3, and Phillips' version failed to chart there.
Salt-Water Poems and Ballads In The Collected Poems of John Masefield the opening line was changed to the text now more commonly anthologised: "I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky". The first lines of the second and third stanzas retained the form "I must down to the seas again [...]".[2]