"Wear Your Love Like Heaven" | ||||
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Single by Donovan | ||||
from the album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden | ||||
B-side | "Oh, Gosh!" | |||
Released | Dec 1967 | |||
Format | 7" single | |||
Genre | Psychedelic pop | |||
Label | Epic 5-10253 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Donovan Leitch | |||
Producer(s) | Mickie Most | |||
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"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 double album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden. Chart position: No.23 (USA).
The song mentions seven dye and pigment colours: Prussian blue, Scarlet, Crimson, Havana lake, Carmine (color), Rose carmethene and Alizarin crimson.
The song was featured in the Eau De Love (by Menley and James) fragrance commercial in the early 1970s 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.
It was also recorded by Richie Havens on his anthology release, Richard P. Havens, 1983.