Wear Your Love Like Heaven

"Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
Single by Donovan
from the album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden
B-side	"Oh Gosh"
Released	6 November 1967 [1]
Recorded	September 1967
Genre	Sunshine pop [2]
Length	2:28
Label	Epic 5-10253
Songwriter(s)	Donovan Leitch
Producer(s)	Mickie Most
Donovan USsingles chronology
"There Is a Mountain" (1967) "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" (1967) "Jennifer Juniper" (1968)
Audio
Donovan – Wear Your Love Like Heaven on YouTube

Prussian blue

Alizarin crimson

"Wear Your Love Like Heaven" is a song and US single by British singer-songwriter Donovan, released in 1967. It became the opening track of his 1967 double-disc album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden . It peaked at No. 23 in the Billboard Hot 100.

The song was originally written toward the end of the sessions for A Gift from a Flower to a Garden , after Epic Records head Clive Davis mentioned the lack of a hit single among the songs recorded to date. ^[3] It was one of just two tracks on the album produced by Mickie Most, the other being the single's B-side "Oh Gosh". The song mentions seven dye and pigment colours, which stemmed from Donovan's love of painting: Prussian blue, scarlet, crimson, Havana lake, rose carmethene, alizarin crimson and carmine.

According to Billboard , the single has a "vital lyric message backed by a solid dance beat". ^[4] Cash Box said that it has "a message of love that should prove itself one of the chanter’s brightest sellers" and that the "easy-going steady beat lacks the basic drive of 'There Is A Mountain' but puts far more melodic beauty in this side." ^[5]

Covers

"Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
Song by Eartha Kitt
from the album Sentimental Eartha
Released	1970
Genre	Psychedelic rock pop soul
Songwriter(s)	Donovan Leitch

• Eartha Kitt, on her 1970 album Sentimental. ^[6]
• 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, in a 1970 single that appeared in the Record World "Non-Rock" Top 40.
• A track from Richie Havens' 1969 album, Richard P. Havens, 1983 .
• Guy Davis, 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 commercials for Menley & James' Love Cosmetics line in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including an Eau De Love fragrance commercial 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.

Definition of Sound's "Wear Your Love Like Heaven", a UK Top 20 hit in 1991, is a different song with the same title, but contains samples from the Donovan track.

References

1. "Billboard". 11 November 1967.
2. Deming, Mark. Various Artists - Chartbusters USA: Sunshine Pop (2009) Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 16, 2024.
3. Leitch, Donovan (2006). The Autobiography of Donovan: The Hurdy Gurdy Man. New York: St. Martin's Press.
4. "Spotlight Singles" (PDF). Billboard. November 18, 1967. p. 12. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
5. "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. November 18, 1967. p. 22. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
6. "Sentimental Eartha - Eartha Kitt". Earthakittfanclub.com. Retrieved 2012-03-14.

External links

• Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven (Audio) on YouTube