Love Is All Around

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This article is about the 1968 song performed by the Troggs. For the theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show, see Mary Tyler Moore theme song.

"Love Is All Around" is a song composed by Reg Presley and performed by the Troggs. (After first being released in the UK in October 1967)it was released as a single in 1968 and reached the top 10 in the U.S. singles chart. "Love Is All Around" was the Troggs' second and last chart hit, after "Wild Thing". The Troggs version of this song features a string quartet, plus a tick-tock- sound on a percussion.

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[edit] Remakes and parodies

"Love Is All Around" has been covered by numerous artists, including R.E.M., with whom the Troggs subsequently recorded their 1992 comeback album Athens Andover. Wet Wet Wet's cover, for the soundtrack to the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral, was an international hit and spent 15 weeks at number one in the UK Singles Chart. The Troggs' original version was more recently featured in the 1998 film Get Real.

A parody of the song appears in the opening scene of the British romantic comedy Love Actually (2003), changing "love is all around" to "Christmas is all around" and "come on and let it show" to "come on and let it snow."

[edit] Wet Wet Wet version

The cover of the Wet Wet Wet single
The cover of the Wet Wet Wet single

Wet Wet Wet's version of "Love Is All Around" was released on 9 May 1994. It topped the UK singles chart in its week of release and, fuelled by its appearance in the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral, remained there for fifteen consecutive weeks. All told, the song spent 37 weeks on the survey.[1] "We did everybody's head in in the summer of 1994," joked Wets frontman Marti Pellow exactly a decade later. "I still think it's a brilliant record. Its strength is its sheer simplicity. Any band would give their eye teeth to have a hit record like that. I'm very proud of it."[2]

[edit] Track listings

CD 1:

  1. "Love Is All Around"
  2. "I Can Give You Everything" (7" Arthur Baker soul remix)
  3. "Ain't No Stoppin'/Le Freak"

CD 2:

  1. "Love Is All Around/Is This Love?" (live)
  2. "Love Is All Around" (TV mix)
  3. "I Can Give You Everything" (12" House mix)

MC:

  1. "Love Is All Around"
  2. "I Can Give You Everything" (7" Arthur Baker soul remix)

7":

  1. "Love Is All Around"
  2. "I Can Give You Everything" (7" Arthur Baker remix)

[edit] Slovenian adaptation

A Slovenian adaptation of the Wet Wet Wet version was also recorded, with the lyrics in Slovenian language, by the Slovenian pop band Čuki, as Vsepovsod ljubezen (Slovenian literally for Love everywhere), soon after the original Wet Wet Wet version was released.

Čuki also released a video for their adaptation of the song, which, just like the Wet Wet Wet video, features the same technique of film projection onto blank cards.

[edit] R.E.M. connection

The employment of film projection onto blank cards in the song's video is reminiscent of R.E.M.'s "Radio Song" video, shot three years earlier. Regarding the Wets' recording of the song, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck said, "People say they got the idea to do it from seeing us play - and I hope so, because it made Reg a million pounds or something. It's a great song. I thought it was a fine version."[3]

"I heard their live version - they did it on TV once - and [Marti Pellow] sang it with the same little melody that I threw in there, which was kind of nice," added Mike Mills. "That thing like uh-uh-uh-urrr at the end. That doesn't exist on the original version."[3]

"Oh, okay. I thought you meant bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah," concluded Michael Stipe.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.hart/lyricsw/wet.html
  2. ^ Sloan, Billy. "Wets Get Together Again", Daily Record, June 27, 2004.
  3. ^ a b c Harris, John. "unknown", Q magazine, June, 2001.
Preceded by
"Come On You Reds" by Manchester United Football Squad		 UK Singles Chart Number 1 single version by Wet Wet Wet
May 29, 1994 for 15 weeks		 Succeeded by
"Saturday Night" by Whigfield
Wet Wet Wet
Marti Pellow - Tommy Cunningham - Graeme Clark - Neil Mitchell
Other musicians: Graeme Duffin
Discography
Studio albums: Popped In Souled Out - The Memphis Sessions - Holding Back the River - High on the Happy Side - Cloak & Dagger - Picture This - 10
Singles: See here
Live albums: Wet Wet Wet: Live - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Compilations: End of Part One - The Greatest Hits
Videos: Video Singles - Live Glasgow Green Free Concert - High on the Happy Side - The Wets at the Castle - Live at the Royal Albert Hall - End of Part One - Picture This: All Around and in the Crowd - Playing Away at Home - The Greatest Hits and More
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