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Swear (Tim Scott McConnell song)
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Wikipedia article
"'Swear'" was a 1980s pop song by Tim Scott McConnell and released by Sire Records in 1983.
Background
The music video to promote the song was a campy/tongue-in-cheek music video of a hippy-based pagan/black mass set in a church. The stylized music video is seemingly a parody of late 1960s to early 1970s hippy horror movies.
McConnell would later comment on the song: "This was my young and confused record...I wrote the songs over a couple of weeks on a little Casio keyboard...Sire heard it and offered me a deal...no use appologising for such a thing...my mistake... the good part of it was working with Richard Gottehrer ...really took me under his wing...shame we were working on the wrong kind of music.."
Charts
Cover versions
*Sheena Easton covered the song for her 1984 album 'A Private Heaven'. It reached #80 on the 'Billboard' Hot 100 chart the following year.
References
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