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Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)

"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)"
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Single by Edison Lighthouse
B-side "Every Lonely Day"
Released January 1970 (UK)
21 February 1970 (US)
Recorded England, November 1969
Genre Pop rock
Length 2:51
Label Bell Records
Writer(s) Tony Macaulay and Barry Mason
Producer(s) Tony Macaulay
Edison Lighthouse singles chronology
"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)"
(1970)
"It's Up to You Petula"
(1971)

"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. It also became the first number one single of the 1970s (not counting Rolf Harris' "Two Little Boys" which was a holdover from 1969).

"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" was written by Tony Macaulay and Barry Mason. 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. Mason and Macaulay 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.


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