Wear Your Love Like Heaven
| "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" | |||||||
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| Single by Donovan | |||||||
| from the album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden | |||||||
| B-side | "Oh, Gosh!" | ||||||
| Released | Dec 1967 | ||||||
| Format | 7" single | ||||||
| Genre | Psychedelic pop | ||||||
| Label | Epic 5-10253 | ||||||
| Writer(s) | Donovan Leitch | ||||||
| Producer(s) | Mickie Most | ||||||
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"Wear Your Love Like Heaven" is a song and US single by British singer/songwriter Donovan, released in 1967. It became the opening title of his double album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden. Chart position: No.23 (USA).
The song mentions several dye and pigment colours: Prussian blue, Scarlet, Crimson, Havana lake, Rose carmethene and Alizarin crimson. Lefranc's Linel[1] line of gouache paints includes Prussian blue and alizarin crimson as well as Havana lake, a deep red-brown similar to bistre, and Carthamus pink (French: Rose carthame), a bright red similar to vermilion. The latter two color names are only used in the Linel gouache line.[2]
Covers
- Eartha Kitt, on her 1970 album Sentimental.[3]
- They Might Be Giants, as a spoken word piece.
- Sarah McLachlan, for the Donovan tribute album Island of Circles; it also appeared on US printings of her 1991 album Solace.
- Japanese noise artist Masonna perform a noise "cover" of this song on Japanese/American Noise Treaty compilation.
- Peggy Lipton Her 1970 single appeared in the Record World "Non-Rock" Top 40.
- "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" is a track from Richie Havens' 1969 album, "Richard P. Havens, 1983." A cover of Donovan's 1967 single, the track is one of three live performances included on Haven's 1969 album.
- Guy Davis (musician), son of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, included the song on his 2015 album "Kokomo Kidd."
Appearances in other media
The song was featured in the Eau De Love (by Menley and James) fragrance commercial in the early 1970s 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.
It was also recorded by Richie Havens on his anthology release, Richard P. Havens, 1983.
References
- ↑ "Lefranc & Bourgeois - LINEL artist's gouache".
- ↑ "Art-Paints.com". Retrieved 22 November 2013.
- ↑ "Sentimental Eartha - Eartha Kitt". Earthakittfanclub.com. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
