Oh My Love

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"Oh My Love"
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Philippines B-side label
Song by John Lennon
from the album Imagine
Released9 September 1971
Recorded28 May–5 July 1971
Genre Rock, [1] [2] Pop
Length2:44
Label Apple/EMI
Songwriter(s) John Lennon/Yoko Ono
Producer(s) John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Phil Spector

"Oh My Love" is a song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that appeared on Lennon's Imagine album in 1971.

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Information

The song was originally written with different lyrics and demoed in 1968 after sessions for the album The Beatles . [3] This demo was released on many Beatles bootleg albums.

Recorded on 28 May 1971 at Ascot Sound Studios, "Oh My Love" was the last song to be recorded for the Imagine LP. [4]

Former Beatle George Harrison contributed guitar on this song and several other songs for the album. His guitar work for the song echoes White Album songs "Julia" and "Happiness Is a Warm Gun". [5]

Ultimate Classic Rock critic Nick DeRiso called "Oh My Love" the most underrated song on Imagine. [3] Ultimate Classic Rock critic Stephen Lewis rated it as Lennon's 4th greatest solo love song. [6] Far Out critic Tim Coffman rated it as Lennon's 9th greatest deep cut, calling it "one of the gentlest songs he would ever write, based around the cosmic feeling of finally understanding the meaning of love." [7]

"Oh My Love" was also released on the Lennon compilation album Wonsaponatime in 1998, and on the album The U.S. vs. John Lennon in 2006. It is track number 7 on Wonsaponatime and track number 20 on The U.S. vs. John Lennon.

Cover versions

The song has been recorded by numerous artists, including Madness, The Bells, Cilla Black, Jackson Browne, Yoshida Brothers, Susheela Raman, Raimundo Fagner, The Jangles, The Wackers, Yellowcard, Morgan Fisher, Martin Gore, Fredo Viola, Jackson Greenhorn [8] and Jacky Terrasson with Cécile McLorin Salvant on Terrasson's 2012 album Gouache . [9] A cover version by The Lettermen became a minor hit, peaking at #58 on the Japanese singles chart in 1972. [10]

The song has also been used in a couple of films, namely Little Darlings , and several times throughout the film Heartbreakers . The song is on the first season soundtrack to the television show Gilmore Girls .

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Notes

  1. "Oh My Love". allmusic. Archived from the original on June 3, 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2009.
  2. Lewis, Stephen (20 March 2013). "Top 10 John Lennon Love Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  3. 1 2 DeRiso, Nick (5 June 2021). "Underrated John Lennon: The Most Overlooked Song from Each LP". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  4. Madinger, Chip; Raile, Scott (2015). LENNONOLOGY Strange Days Indeed - A Scrapbook Of Madness. Chesterfield, MO: Open Your Books, LLC. p. 240. ISBN   978-1-63110-175-5.
  5. "John Lennon: Oh My Love | The Beatles Bible". www.beatlesbible.com. 3 August 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  6. Lewis, Stephen (20 March 2013). "Top 10 John Lennon Love Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  7. Coffman, Tim (22 January 2024). "10 greatest John Lennon deep cuts". Far Out. Retrieved 2024-01-24.
  8. "Oh My Love". 2017.
  9. Gouache at AllMusic
  10. Okamoto, Satoshi (2011). Single Chart Book: Complete Edition 1968-2010 (in Japanese). Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. ISBN   978-4871310888.

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