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'"Long Live Love"' is a Chris Andrews composition which, in 1965, gained Sandie Shaw the second of her three UK number one hit singles.

In the UK



Shaw was sufficiently confident in the hit potential of the buoyant "Long Live Love" as to turn down the chance to record "It's Not Unusual", allowing the song to be given to Tom Jones and become his first hit. "Long Live Love" did spend three weeks at No 1 in the UK in June 1965, also giving Shaw a No 1 hit in both Ireland and New Zealand, with a No 2 peak attained in South Africa. A Top Ten hit in both the Netherlands (No 7) and Norway (No 8), "Long Live Love" was also a hit in Australia (No 12) and Belgium, reaching No 15 on the latter territory's Dutch language chart.

International



The original English-language version of "Long Live Love" was a substantial hit in Canada, peaking at No 6; and in Australia, where it hit No 12. In the USA "Long Live Love" received enough regional attention to return Shaw to the 'Billboard' Hot 100 for the third and last time, peaking at No 97 the week of June 26, 1965.[https://www.billboard.com/music/sandie-shaw/chart-history Sandie Shaw (Hot 100 chart history) – 'Billboard'.] Retrieved October 27, 2020 'Billboard' described the song as a "happy rhythm hand-clapper with good dance beat."

In France, Shaw reached No 5 with lyricist Georges Liferman's rendering of "Long Live Love" entitled "Pourvu Que a Dure"; at the same time the original "Long Live Love" reached No 32 on the French charts. Shaw also recorded "Long Live Love" for the market in Germany as "Du weit nichts von deinem Glck"; both the German rendition and English original reached the German Top 30, respective peaks being No 25 ("Du weit nichts...") and No 28 ("Long Live Love"). The German-language version charted higher in Austria (No 3). In 1966 Shaw made a belated Italian rendering of "Long Live Love" entitled "Viva lamore con te". However the track was relegated to the B-side of "E ti avr", a recording of the even older "Girl Don't Come", which reached No 11 in the Italian chart.

Also in 1966 Shaw rendered "Long Live Love" as "Viva el amor!" for an EP released in Spain which also featured renderings of Shaw's UK hits "Girl Don't Come", "Message Understood" and "Tomorrow".

Also



Besides Sandie Shaw's own non-English renderings of "Long Live Love", the song was recorded in 1965 as "Kiva, kiva rakkaus" by Marion Rung, "Leve krleken" by Lill-Babs and "Viva el amor" by Gelu.

In 1992 Nick Berry recorded "Long Live Love" to be the follow-up single to his hit version of the theme from the TV series 'Heartbeat'; Berry's version of "Long Live Love", which was featured in the 'Heartbeat' series, reached No 47 in the UK Singles Chart.

"Long Live Love" has also been recorded by its composer Chris Andrews, as well as Jessica Andersson on her 2009 album, 'Wake Up' and Tracey Ullman.

There is no connection between the Chris Andrews' composition and the same named song by Olivia Newton-John, which served as the 1974 Eurovision entry for the UK.

Shaw's original version was featured in Mike Figgis' 1999 film 'The Loss of Sexual Innocence'.[https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/052899loss-film-review.html Holden, Stephen. "'The Loss of Sexual Innocence': The Story of Adam and Eve, Sort Of," 'The New York Times', Friday, May 28, 1999.] Retrieved October 22, 2020

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Category:Sandie Shaw songs

Category:1965 singles

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Category:UK Singles Chart number-one singles

Category:Irish Singles Chart number-one singles

Category:Songs written by Chris Andrews (singer)

Category:Pye Records singles

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