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Wear Your Love Like Heaven

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"Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
Single by Donovan
from the album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden
B-side"Oh, Gosh!"
ReleasedNovember 1967[1]
GenrePsychedelic pop
Length2:28
LabelEpic 5-10253
Songwriter(s)Donovan Leitch
Producer(s)Mickie Most
Donovan US singles chronology
"There Is a Mountain"
(1967)
"Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
(1967)
"Jennifer Juniper"
(1968)
Audio
Donovan – Wear Your Love Like Heaven on YouTube
Prussian blue
Alizarin crimson

"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]

Covers

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"Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
Song by Eartha Kitt
from the album Sentimental Eartha
Released1970
Genre
Songwriter(s)Donovan Leitch

Appearances in other media

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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.

References

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  1. ^ "Billboard". 11 November 1967.
  2. ^ "Spotlight Singles" (PDF). Billboard. November 18, 1967. p. 12. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  3. ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. November 18, 1967. p. 22. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
  4. ^ "Sentimental Eartha - Eartha Kitt". Earthakittfanclub.com. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
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