The Wedding Song (There Is Love)

"Wedding Song (There is Love)"
Single by Petula Clark
from the album Now
B-side	"Song Without End" US/ UK "My Guy" Australia
Released	September 1972 US October 1972 Australia/ UK
Format	7" single
Recorded	July 1972
Genre	Easy listening
Length	3:14
Label	MGM US Polydor Australia/ UK
Songwriter(s)	Noel Paul Stookey
Producer(s)	Mike Curb, Don Costa
Petula Clark US singles chronology
"My Guy" (1972) "Wedding Song (There is Love)" (1972) "String Module Error: Match not found" (String Module Error: Match not found)
"My Guy" (1972) "Wedding Song (There Is Love)"(1972) "I Can't Remember (How It Was Before)" (1973)
Petula Clark UK singles chronology
"I Don't Know How to Love Him" (1971) I Don't Know How to Love Him1971 "Wedding Song (There Is Love)" (1972) String Module Error: Match not foundString Module Error: Match not found "I Can't Remember (How It Was Before)" (1973) String Module Error: Match not foundString Module Error: Match not found
Petula Clark Australian singles chronology
"The World Song" (1971) The World Song1971 "Wedding Song (There Is Love)"(1972) String Module Error: Match not foundString Module Error: Match not found "(Let The Love Light In Your Eyes) Lead Me On" w/ Sacha Distel (1973) String Module Error: Match not foundString Module Error: Match not found

"Wedding Song (There Is Love)" is a title of a 1971 hit single by Paul Stookey: the song—which Stookey credits to divine inspiration—has since been recorded by many singers (with versions by Petula Clark and Mary MacGregor returning the song to the Billboard Hot 100)—and remains a popular choice for performance at weddings.

Stookey had first performed the song at the wedding of Peter Yarrow—Stookey's co-member of Peter Paul & Mary—to Mary Beth McCarthy at Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Willmar, Minnesota. Stookey was best man at the ceremony, which took place in the evening of October 18, 1969.

Stookey recorded "Wedding Song (There is Love)" for his solo album Paul and, which was released on July 23, 1971. On this recording he accompanied himself on a 12-string guitar tuned a tone and a half down. On June 28, 1971, "Wedding Song" was issued as advance single from the Paul and album to reach #24 on the Hot 100 in Billboard and reached #3 on the Easy Listening chart. Internationally, Stookey reached #31 in Canada and #55 in Australia with "Wedding Song.

(1973)

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Petula Clark recorded "Wedding Song (There Is Love)" in the August 1972 recording sessions at Trident Recording Studios in London for her album Now produced by Mike Curb with the album's arranger Don Costa. Clark had previously recorded the Paul Stookey co-write "The Song is Love" which had afforded Clark a #19 hit on the Adult Contemporary (A/C) chart in Billboard in 1971. Curb had signed Clark to MGM Records—of which he was president—after seeing Clark's Vegas show in March 1972 when Clark was co-headlining at Caesars Palace with MGM's current top act the Osmonds. "Wedding Song..." was issued in September 1972 as the second advance single from the Now album which would be a December 1972 release: the first advance single had been a remake of the 1964 Mary Wells hit "My Guy" which had afforded Clark a #12 A/C chart hit while crossing over to the lower tier of the Billboard Hot 100, the track's Hot 100 peak being #70. "Wedding Song..." would experience a similar chart history to Clark's "My Guy", as "Wedding Song..." would garner strong enough A/C support—the track's A/C chart peak was #9—so as to reach #65 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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