Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)

"Love Grows"
Song
B-side	"Every Lonely Day"

"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, Barry Mason and Sylvan Whittingham. 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 Tony's 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.

"Love Grows" 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. It reached number 3 in South Africa in 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.

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1970)	Peak position
Australia ARIA	2
Canadian RPM	3
UK	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	5
U.S. Cash Box Top 100	4
WLS survey (Chicago)	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1970)	Rank
Australia ARIA	12
Australia GoSet	27
Canada	53
UK	11
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	40
U.S. Cash Box	33
WLS survey (Chicago)	21
WABC Musicradio 77 (New York)	38

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".
• In 1984, Hong Kong singer Samuel Hui covered the song in Cantonese as "Tsui Hei Foon Lei" (最喜歡你, which means "like you the most").
• 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 fundraising album 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 friend of Little Carmine Lupertazzi.
• 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.
• It is parodied in the game Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine, at the title theme for Act 3: Shallow Al.
• It acts as the closing theme to The Kennedys.