"Letter Full of Tears" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Don Covay and released by Gladys Knight & the Pips as a single in November 1961.

[1] The song was covered the following year by English singer Billy Fury who had a minor hit with it in the UK.

They then asked songwriter Don Covay, who had written Chubby Checker's number one hit "Pony Time", to write a song for them.

[5] It was released with the B-side "Magic Eyes", written by Americans Dorian Burton and Herb Bernstein.

[6] Whilst on the official Record Retailer chart, the single only peaked at number 32, it did fare better on other music paper charts, such as Disc and New Musical Express, both on which the single peaked at number 17.