Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)

"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)"
Single by Edison Lighthouse
B-side	"Every Lonely Day"
Released	January 1970 (UK) 21 February 1970 (US)
Recorded	England, November 1969
Genre	Pop rock
Length	2:51
Label	Bell Records
Writer(s)	Tony Macaulay / Barry Mason

"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" is a popular song by "one-hit wonder" Edison Lighthouse. The single hit the number one spot on the UK singles chart on the week ending on 31 January 1970, where it remained for a total of five weeks.

Song profile

"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" was written by Tony Macaulay and Barry Mason. Essentially, they were a studio group with prolific session singer Tony Burrows providing the vocals. When the song became a hit, a group needed to be assembled rapidly to feature the song on Top Of The Pops, a popular TV show. Sylvan Whittingham found a group called Greenfields and brought them to the auditions a week before their appearance on Top of the Pops. Once chosen and rehearsed, they appeared on the show as 'Edison Lighthouse' to mime to the fastest climbing number 1 hit record in history. Burrows sang the song on the programme during his third appearance on the same show with three different groups. It reached number 5 on US pop chart, number 3 in Canada, and number 1 on the UK Singles Chart for five weeks in January and February 1970.

In an interview in 2003, Rob Grill of The Grass Roots said that the song had been offered to them, but they turned it down.

Cover versions

• Anni-Frid Lyngstad covered the song in 1970 as "Där du går lämnar kärleken spår" (Where you go, love leaves traces).
• Uschi Glas covered the song in 1970 in German as "Wenn dein Herz brennt".
• British indie pop band The Siddeleys covered the song on the 1990 compilation "Alvin Lives (In Leeds) - Anti Poll Tax Trax".
• In 1995, Swedish dansband "Distance" (later "Frida & dansbandet") covered the song with lyrics in the Swedish language, as "När du ler" ("When you smile").
• In 2002, the Not Lame Recordings CD Right to Chews -- a collection of modern bands performing cover versions of bubblegum pop songs—included Beagle's version of the song.
• In 2007, Little Man Tate did a cover of this song at their concerts at the Boardwalk, Sheffield and at the Bolton Soundhouse.
• Singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston covered the song on his album Right Between the Promises.
• Guitarist, Mellotron player and Singer-songwriter Les Fradkin covered the song on his album "Perfect World".
• In 2012 Dennis Diken with Bell Sound recorded a version for a fund raising cd titled "Super Hits Of The Seventies" for radio station WFMU.

In the media

• The song is featured in the closing scenes of the film Shallow Hal. The female lead played by Gwyneth Paltrow was named Rosemary.
• It serves as the musical theme of the film Little Manhattan (wherein the female love interest is also named Rosemary), performed by Freedy Johnston.
• It was featured in a fifth season episode of The Sopranos ("All Happy Families...") during a hit on a female mobster.
• It is referred to in the narration of Reservoir Dogs, as part of the fictional "K-BILLY's Super Sounds of the '70s" radio show, but the song itself is not played.

References

Preceded by "Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris

UK Singles Chart number-one single January 31, 1970 (5 weeks)

Succeeded by "Wand'rin' Star" by Lee Marvin