Where Is Love?

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For the 1993 dance track What is Love by the singer Haddaway, see What Is Love (song).

"Where is Love?" is a song from the Tony Award-winning British musical Oliver!, and the 1968 film Oliver! (film) based on the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. The musical was penned by Lionel Bart, and was first shown in London's West End in 1960.

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Oliver, the lead role, sings the song after being thrown into the cellar of a funeral parlour for getting into a fight with Noah Claypole, another servant of the undertaker.

In the 1968 musical film version of Oliver!, "Where is Love?" was not sung by Mark Lester but dubbed by Kathy Green, the daughter of the film's conductor and musical arranger, Johnny Green).^[1] The song has been covered by a number of singers, including Leonard Nimoy.^{[citation needed]}

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^ "Oliver!". Music Feature. BBC Radio 4. 2007-11-20.

v • d • e Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Characters	Oliver Twist \| Bill Sikes \| Fagin \| Mr. Brownlow \| Nancy \| Rose Maylie \| Monks \| The Artful Dodger \| Charley Bates

Film adaptions	Oliver Twist (1948) \| Oliver! \| Oliver & Company \| Oliver Twist (1997) \| Twist \| Boy called Twist \| Oliver Twist (2005)

Other adaptions	Oliver! \| Fagin the Jew \| Oliver Twist (TV miniseries) \| Oliver Twist (TV serial)

Songs	"As Long as He Needs Me" \| "Consider Yourself" \| "Food Glorious Food" \| "I'd Do Anything" \| "Oliver!" \| "Where Is Love?" \| "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two"