Long Live Love (Chris Andrews song)

"Long Live Love" is a Chris Andrews composition which, in 1965, gained Sandie Shaw the second of her three UK number one hit singles.[3]

"Long Live Love"
Single by Sandie Shaw
B-side"I've Heard About Him"
Released1965
GenrePop
LabelPye 7N 15841[1]
Songwriter(s)Chris Andrews[2]
Producer(s)Chris Andrews[2]
Sandie Shaw singles chronology
"I'll Stop at Nothing"
(1965)		 "Long Live Love"
(1965)		 "Message Understood"
(1965)

In the UK

Shaw was sufficiently confident in the hit potential of the buoyant "Long Live Love" as to turn down the chance to record "It's Not Unusual", allowing the song to be given to Tom Jones and become his first hit. "Long Live Love" did spend three weeks at No 1 in the UK in June 1965,[3] also giving Shaw a No 1 hit in both Ireland and New Zealand, with a No 2 peak attained in South Africa. A Top Ten hit in both the Netherlands (No 7) and Norway (No 8), "Long Live Love" was also a hit in Australia (No 12) and Belgium, reaching No 15 on the latter territory's Dutch language chart.

International

The original English-language version of "Long Live Love" was a substantial hit in Canada, peaking at No 6; and in Australia, where it hit No 12. In the USA "Long Live Love" received enough regional attention to return Shaw to the Billboard Hot 100 for the third and last time, peaking at No 97 the week of June 25, 1965.[4]

In France, Shaw reached No 5 with lyricist Georges Liferman's rendering of "Long Live Love" entitled "Pourvu Que Ça Dure"; at the same time the original "Long Live Love" reached No 32 on the French charts. Shaw also recorded "Long Live Love" for the market in Germany as "Du weißt nichts von deinem Glück"; both the German rendition and English original reached the German Top 30, respective peaks being No 25 ("Du weißt nichts...") and No 28 ("Long Live Love"). The German-language version charted higher in Austria (No 3).[5] In 1966 Shaw made a belated Italian rendering of "Long Live Love" entitled "Viva l’amore con te". However the track was relegated to the B-side of "E ti avrò", a recording of the even older "Girl Don't Come", which reached No 11 in the Italian chart.

Also in 1966 Shaw rendered "Long Live Love" as "¡Viva el amor!" for an EP released in Spain which also featured renderings of Shaw's UK hits "Girl Don't Come", "Message Understood" and "Tomorrow".

Also

Besides Sandie Shaw's own non-English renderings of "Long Live Love", the song was recorded in 1965 as "Kiva, kiva rakkaus" by Marion Rung, "Leve kärleken" by Lill-Babs and "Viva el amor" by Gelu.

In 1992 Nick Berry recorded "Long Live Love" to be the follow-up single to his hit version of the theme from the TV series Heartbeat; Berry's version of "Long Live Love", which was featured in the Heartbeat series, reached No 47 in the UK Singles Chart.

"Long Live Love" has also been recorded by its composer Chris Andrews, as well as Jessica Andersson on her 2009 album, Wake Up[6] and Tracey Ullman.

There is no connection between the Chris Andrews' composition and the same named song by Olivia Newton-John, which served as the 1974 Eurovision entry for the UK.

Shaw's original version was featured in Mike Figgis' 1999 film The Loss of Sexual Innocence.[7]

Charts
Chart (1965) Position
Ireland 1 [8]
United Kingdom 1 [3]
New Zealand 1 [9]
South Africa 2 [10]
Austria 3 [5]
France 5 [11]
Canada 6 [8]
The Netherlands 7 [12]
Norway 8 [13]
Australia 12 [8]
Belgium (Flanders) 15 [14]
Belgium (Walloon) 17 [15]
Germany 28 [16]
USA 97 [8]

References
  1. "Sandie Shaw". 45-rpm.org.uk. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  2. Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. pp. 92–3. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
  3. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 495. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  4. Sandie Shaw (Hot 100 chart history) – Billboard. Retrieved October 27, 2020
  5. "Billboard Magazine, November 1965". Billboard. 6 November 1965.
  6. "Wake up | Svensk mediedatabas". SMDB. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  7. Holden, Stephen. "The Loss of Sexual Innocence: The Story of Adam and Eve, Sort Of," The New York Times, Friday, May 28, 1999. Retrieved October 22, 2020
  8. Every chart topper tells a story. Mainstream Publishing. 6 January 2012. ISBN 9781780574165. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  9. "Billboard Magazine, August 21, 1965". Billboard. 21 August 1965.
  10. "Billboard Magazine, August 28, 1965". Billboard. 28 August 1965.
  11. "Billboard Magazine, August 14, 1965". Billboard. 14 August 1965.
  12. "Billboard Magazine, July 1965". Billboard. 10 July 1965.
  13. Hung, Steffen. "Sandie Shaw - Long Live Love". norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  14. "Belgian charts". ultratop.be. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  15. "Belgian charts". ultratop.be (French site). Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  16. "German charts". germancharts.de. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
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