Wear Your Love Like Heaven

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

"Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
Single by Donovan
from the album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden
B-side"Oh, Gosh!"
ReleasedDec 1967
GenrePsychedelic pop
LabelEpic 5-10253
Songwriter(s)Donovan Leitch
Producer(s)Mickie Most
Donovan USA singles chronology
"There Is a Mountain"
(1967)		 "Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
(1967)		 "Jennifer Juniper"
(1968)
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"Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
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Prussian blue
Alizarin crimson

The song mentions seven dye and pigment colours: Prussian blue, scarlet, crimson, Havana lake, rose carmethene, alizarin crimson and carmine.

Covers
"Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
Song by Eartha Kitt
from the album Sentimental Eartha
Released1970
Genre
Songwriter(s)Donovan Leitch

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. "Sentimental Eartha - Eartha Kitt". Earthakittfanclub.com. Retrieved 2012-03-14.


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