Put a Little Love in Your Heart
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"Put a Little Love in Your Heart" is a song originally performed in 1968 by Jackie DeShannon, who composed it with her brother, Randy Myers, and Jimmy Holiday. In the USA, it was DeShannon's highest-charting hit, reaching #4 on the Hot 100 and #2 on the Adult Contemporary charts.[1] In late 1969, the song reached number one on South Africa's hit parade.
The song rivaled the success of her signature song, "What the World Needs Now is Love".
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[edit] Annie Lennox & Al Green version
In 1988 Annie Lennox and Al Green recorded a version that was released as the ending theme song to the 1988 film Scrooged. The song reached #9 in the USA on the Hot 100 in January 1989 and climbed all the way to #2 on the US Adult Contemporary chart, as well as becoming a top 40 hit in several countries worldwide. Outside of her Eurythmics band, it is Lennox's most successful single.
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- Ella Fitzgerald, the beloved "First Lady of Song", recorded this on her live album "Ella A Nice".
- Susan Raye covered the song her debut 1969 album, One Night Stand. The song was released as a single and peaked at #30 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
- Albertina Walker the "Queen of Gospel" recorded a cover of the song along with The Caravans for her album by the same title in 1972.
- The Isley Brothers on their 1972 album Brother, Brother, Brother.
- Dolly Parton recorded a cover of the song for her album Slow Dancing With the Moon.
- The Dave Clark Five recorded a version in 1968. Issued as a single in the UK, it spent four weeks in the top 75, reaching number 31, three positions below that attained by Annie Lennox and Al Green in 1988.[2]
- Mary Mary's version was featured in the film Stuart Little 2.
- Punk band Circle Jerks covered the song on their second album Wild In The Streets.
- Marcia Griffths recorded a reggae cover.
- A cover appeared in a 2003 Gap television campaign, performed by Al Green, Melissa Etheridge, Kelly Rowland, Stephan Jenkins, Vanessa Carlton, Ginuwine, Musiq, Heather Headley and Gavin DeGraw.
- A version is currently being used during the promo for the newest season of TLC's The Little Couple.
- Leonard Nimoy recorded a version.
- Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby recorded a version of this song.
- Lulu, a Scottish singer-songwriter and actress, recorded a cover of the song in 2005.
- The short-lived British funk/gospel band Kainos recorded the song on their 1978 albumChanging. After the band spilt, two of its members went on to further fame; organist Bazil Meade founded the London Community Gospel Choir in 1982, and guitarist Joel Edwards became the General Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance in the UK.
- David Ruffin recorded the song during his solo career after he parted ways with the Temptations.
- John Mayer covered the song at a holiday benefit for a radio station "WPLJ".
- The Great Don Gibson recorded the song on his album, "A Perfect Mountain" Hickory LPS 155.
[edit] References
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 77.
- ^ British Hit Singles, 12th edition, Guinness
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