Put a Little Love in Your Heart

Infobox Single
Name = Put a Little Love in Your Heart


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Artist = Annie Lennox & Al Green
Album = Scrooged
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Released = 1988
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Recorded = 1988
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Writer = Jackie DeShannon, Jimmy Holiday, Randy Myers
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This single = "Put a Little Love in Your Heart"
(1988)
Next single = N/AExtra chronology
Artist = Annie Lennox singles
This single = "Put a Little Love in Your Heart"
(1988)
Next single = "Why"
(1992)Extra chronology
Artist = Al Green singles
Last single = "Everything's Gonna Be Alright"
(1987)
This single = "Put a Little Love in Your Heart"
(1988)
Next single = "As Long as We're Together"
(1989)
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"Put a Little Love in Your Heart" is a song originally performed by Jackie DeShannon in 1968, who composed it with her brother, Randy Myers, and Jimmy Holiday. In the US, it was DeShannon's highest-charting hit, reaching #4 and rivaling the success of her signature song, "What the World Needs Now is Love".

The song has been covered numerous times, although only one version was a charted hit in the US. In 1988 Al Green and Annie Lennox recorded a version that was released as the ending theme song to the 1988 film Scrooged. The song reached #9 in the US, and was a top 40 hit in several countries worldwide.

It has been pointed out that the melody is strikingly similar to that of "Baby, You're a Rich Man" by The Beatles.

Other versions

*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 ["British Hit Singles", 12th edition, Guinness] .
*Mary Mary's version was featured in the film Stuart Little 2.
*Punk band Circle Jerks covered the song on their sophomore album "Wild In The Streets".
*Marcia Griffths recorded a reggae cover.
*"Cover of "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" with Al Green, Melissa Etheridge, Kelly Rowland, Stephan Jenkins, Ginuwine, Musiq, Heather Headley and Gavin DeGraw for the Gap holiday television campaign, 2003)

Charts

Jackie Deshannon version

Annie Lennox & Al Green Version

External links

* [http://www.dollyon-line.com/archives/lyrics/palliyh.shtml Put A Little Love In Your Heart lyrics at Dolly Parton On-Line]

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