Save Your Kisses for Me

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"Save Your Kisses for Me"
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Single by Brotherhood of Man
from the album Love and Kisses
B-side "Let's Love Together"
Released5 March 1976
Genre Pop, MOR, schlager
Length3:06
Label Pye
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Tony Hiller
Brotherhood of Man singles chronology
"Kiss Me, Kiss Your Baby"
(1975)		"Save Your Kisses for Me"
(1976)		"My Sweet Rosalie"
(1976)
Eurovision Song Contest 1976 entry
Country
Artist(s)
As
Language
English
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)
  • Tony Hiller
  • Lee Sheriden
  • Martin Lee
Conductor
Finals performance
Final result
1st
Final points
164
Entry chronology
◄ "Let Me Be the One" (1975)
"Rock Bottom" (1977) ►

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
France (SNEP) [47] Gold500,000*
United Kingdom (BPI) [48] Platinum1,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Legacy

Margo Smith version

"Save Your Kisses for Me"
Margo Smith--Save Your Kisses For Me.jpg
Single by Margo Smith
from the album Song Bird
B-side "I'm About to Do It Again" [49]
ReleasedMay 1976 (1976-05)
RecordedColumbia Recording Studio
Nashville, Tennessee, US [49]
Genre Country
Length3:04 [50]
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s) Tony Hiller
Lee Sheriden
Martin Lee
Producer(s) Norro Wilson
Margo Smith singles chronology
"Meet Me Later"
(1975)		"Save Your Kisses for Me"
(1976)		"Take My Breath Away"
(1976)

"Save Your Kisses for Me" was notably covered by Margo Smith in 1976. Her version of the song was recorded in a country format and released as a single via Warner Bros. Records.

Smith cut "Save Your Kisses for Me" in her second studio session for Warner Bros. Records. The session took place at the Columbia Recording Studio, located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The session was produced by Norro Wilson. An additional session in March would yield songs that would later make up her second studio album Songbird. [49] Smith's cover version of the song was generally met with positive reception. Kurt Wolff of Country Music: The Rough Guide would later call the song one of the "sizeable hits" Smith would enjoy on the radio between 1976 and 1978. [51] Robert K. Oermann and Mary A. Bufwack of Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music stated the song represented Smith's "wholesome, homey image". This can be seen in Smith's other hits including "Take My Breath Away", "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You", and "It Only Hurts for a Little While". Two year after the song's release, Smith would identify more as a sexually-charged performer. [52]

"Save Your Kisses for Me" was released as a single in May 1976 via Warner Bros. Records. It was Smith's first single issued by the label, after previously recording for Sugar Hill and 20th Century Fox. The song reached the tenth position on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the fall of 1976. The single became Smith's second top-ten single on the country chart and would start a series of major hits for her. [53] In July 1976, the single was released on Smith's first studio album for Warner Bros. Records entitled Song Bird . [49] Margo Smith's version of the song is the most successful cover of "Save Your Kisses for Me" to date. [53]

Track listing

  1. "Save Your Kisses for Me" – 3:04 [50]
  2. "I'm About to Do It Again" – 2:32

Chart performance

Bobby Vinton version

Bobby Vinton had a Billboard top 100 hit in the same year with his version. [54]

Chart (1976)Peak
position
Canada (RPM Adult Contemporary) [55] 41
Canada ( RPM Top Singles) [56] 98
US ( Billboard Hot 100) [57] 75
US (Cash Box Top 100)105

Other covers

Helena Vondráčková and Jíři Korn made a Czech version "Já půjdu tam a ty tam", Rex Gildo a German "Küsse von dir", and Philipp Kirkorov a Russian version "Мимо опять".

In 2019, the Israeli singer Eden Alene released it as her debut single. She was due to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, however she did it in 2021 instead. Icelandic musician Daði Freyr, who was also meant to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 and did so instead in 2021, included it in his second edition of JúróDaði, a video in which he covers past Eurovision songs. [58]

See also

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