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"Wear Your Love Like Heaven" | ||||
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Single by Donovan | ||||
from the album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden | ||||
B-side | "Oh, Gosh!" | |||
Released | November 1967 [1] | |||
Genre | Psychedelic pop | |||
Length | 2:28 | |||
Label | Epic 5-10253 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Donovan Leitch | |||
Producer(s) | Mickie Most | |||
Donovan US singles chronology | ||||
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Donovan – Wear Your Love Like Heaven on YouTube |
"Wear Your Love Like Heaven" is a song and US single by British singer-songwriter Donovan, released in 1967. It became the opening track of his 1967 double-disc album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden. It peaked at No. 23 in the Billboard Hot 100.
The song mentions seven dye and pigment colours: Prussian blue, scarlet, crimson, Havana lake, rose carmethene, alizarin crimson and carmine.
According to Billboard, the single has a "vital lyric message backed by a solid dance beat". [2] Cash Box said that it has "a message of love that should prove itself one of the chanter’s brightest sellers" and that the "easy-going steady beat lacks the basic drive of ' There Is A Mountain' but puts far more melodic beauty in this side." [3]
"Wear Your Love Like Heaven" | |
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Song by Eartha Kitt | |
from the album Sentimental Eartha | |
Released | 1970 |
Genre | |
Songwriter(s) | Donovan Leitch |
The song was featured in commercials for Menley & James' Love Cosmetics line in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including an Eau De Love fragrance commercial that featured Ali MacGraw.
It was featured in Season 13 The Simpsons episode " Weekend at Burnsie's" where Homer Simpson (after he smokes medicinal marijuana) gets ready for work and pictures his world as a psychedelic wonderland.
Definition of Sound's "Wear Your Love Like Heaven", a UK Top 20 hit in 1991, is a different song with the same title, but contains samples from the Donovan track.