| "Long Live Love" | ||||
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| Single by Sandie Shaw | ||||
| B-side | "I've Heard About Him" | |||
| Released | 1965 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Label | Pye 7N 15841[1] | |||
| Writer(s) | Chris Andrews | |||
| Producer | Chris Andrews | |||
| Sandie Shaw singles chronology | ||||
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"Long Live Love" is a Chris Andrews composition which in 1965 afforded Sandie Shaw the second of her three UK #1 hits.
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Shaw was sufficiently confident in the hit potential of the buoyant "Long Live Love" as to turn down the chance to "It's Not Unusual" allowing the last-named song to be given Tom Jones and become his breakout hit. "Long Live Love" did spend three weeks at #1 UK in June 1965 also affording Shaw a #1 hit in both Ireland and New Zealand with a #2 peak attained in South Africa. A Top Ten hit in both the Netherlands(#7) and Norway (#8), "Long Live Love" was also a hit in Australia (#12) and Belgium, reaching #15 on the latter territory's Dutch language chart.
In France Shaw reached #5 with lyricist Georges Liferman's rendering of "Long Live Love" entitled "Pourvu Que Ça Dure"; at the same time the original "Long Live Love" reached #32 on the French charts. Shaw also rendered "Long Live Love" for the market in Germany as "Du weißt nichts von deinem Glück"; both the German rendition and English original reached the German Top 30, respective peaks being #25 ("Du weißt nichts...") and #28 ("Long Live Love"); the first-named charted higher in Austria (#5). In 1966 Shaw made a belated Italian rendering of "Long Live Love" entitled "Viva l’amore con te"; however the track was relegated to the B-side of "E ti avrò", a rendering of the even older "Girl Don't Come" which reached #11 on the Italian charts.
Also in 1966 Shaw rendered "Long Live Love" as "¡Viva el amor!" for an EP released in Spain which also featured renderings of Shaw's UK hits "Girl Don't Come", "Message Understood" and "Tomorrow".
In the US "Long Live Love" received enough regional attention to return Shaw to the Billboard Hot 100 for the third and last time, with a #97 peak.
Besides Sandie Shaw's own non-English renderings of "Long Live Love", the song was recorded in 1965 as "Kiva, kiva rakkaus" by Marion Rung, "Leve kärleken" by Lill-Babs and "Viva el amor" by Gelu.
In 1992 Nick Berry recorded "Long Live Love" to be the followup single to his hit version of the theme from the TV series Heartbeat; Berry's version of "Long Live Love", which was featured in the Heartbeat series, reached #47 on the UK chart.
"Long Live Love" has also been recorded by its composer Chris Andrews, as well as Jessica Andersson in 2009 [2] and Tracey Ullman.
There is no connection between the Chris Andrews' composition entitled "Long Live Love" and the same named song by Olivia Newton-John which served as the 1974 Eurovision entrant for the UK.
| Chart (1965) | Position |
|---|---|
| Norway | 8 [3] |
| Preceded by "Where Are You Now (My Love)" by Jackie Trent |
UK number-one single 27 May 1965 (3 weeks) |
Succeeded by "Crying in the Chapel" by Elvis Presley |