Save Your Love (Renée and Renato song)

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Save Your Love is a song which, when performed by duo, Renée and Renato was a UK Number one hit in December 1982. It remained at the top of the chart for four weeks before being knocked off by Phil Collins' "You Can't Hurry Love".

"Save Your Love" enterd the UK charts in October 1982 at number 54, relatively low down. However, it began to pick up sales to the surprise of many during the Christmas period and seven weeks after its debut was at the top of the charts, resulitng in it being played on Top of the Pops and many radio stations.

Preceded by "Beat Surrender" by The Jam	UK number one single December 12, 1982	Succeeded by "You Can't Hurry Love" by Phil Collins

[edit] Covers

Swedish "dansband" Vikingarna covered the song in 1983.
Swedish dansband, pop and country singer Kikki Danielsson covered the song in a duet with her then husband Kjell Roos on her 1988 Christmas album "Min barndoms jular", as "I juletid (Save Your Love)" ("At Christmas time (Save Your Love)") with lyrics in Swedish written by Kikki Danielsson. These lyrics, also made it a Christmas song.
Another text in Swedish, "Dröm om mig" "(Dream about me)", was written by Britt Lindeborg och Anne-Marie Nilsson and recoreded by Swedish "dansband" Lotta Engbergs on the 2000 album "Vilken härlig dag". This version was a duet between Lotta Engberg and Peter Åhs, and also appears on the 2006 Lotta Engberg compilation album Världens bästa Lotta.