"Put a Little Love in Your Heart" | ||||
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Single by Jackie DeShannon | ||||
from the album Put a Little Love in Your Heart | ||||
B-side | Always Together | |||
Released | June 1969 | |||
Format | 7" vinyl | |||
Recorded | 1969 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 2:39 | |||
Label | Imperial Records | |||
Writer(s) | Jackie DeShannon, Jimmy Holiday, Randy Myers | |||
Producer(s) | VME | |||
Jackie DeShannon singles chronology | ||||
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Single by Annie Lennox & Al Green | ||||||||||||||||||||
from the album Scrooged | ||||||||||||||||||||
B-side | "A Great Big Piece of Love" by The Spheres of Celestial Influence | |||||||||||||||||||
Released | 1988 | |||||||||||||||||||
Recorded | 1988 | |||||||||||||||||||
Genre | Pop | |||||||||||||||||||
Label | A&M Records | |||||||||||||||||||
Writer(s) | Jackie DeShannon, Jimmy Holiday, Randy Myers | |||||||||||||||||||
Producer(s) | David A. Stewart | |||||||||||||||||||
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"Put a Little Love in Your Heart" is a song originally performed in 1969 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 in August 1969 and #2 on the Adult Contemporary charts. 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".
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. Although credited to Lennox, the song was produced by her Eurythmics partner David A. Stewart.
The video was directed by Sophie Muller.