"The Harvest Of Love" is a short comedy song, co-written and originally performed by Benny Hill

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, released on Pye Records

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 (7N.15520). The other writer was shown as "M. Anthony", a pseudonym for the producer

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, Tony Hatch

Tony Hatch

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. The song was a #20 hit in the UK Singles Chart

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 in 1963, and has appeared on several compilation album

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s as well as being covered

Cover version

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 by The Wurzels

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. The Benny Hill version was flipped with another Hill composition, "BAMba 3688". The record

Gramophone record

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 also saw a U.S.

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 release on Rust

Andie Records

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 (5079).

The song is sung from the point of view of a farmhand who has fallen in love (or at least, lust) with a young lady. Hill's vocals were accompanied by The Kestrels, who instead of singing, provided a vocal back-up of farmyard impressions. The accompaniment was directed by Hatch. The Kestrels at that time were Roger Greenaway

Roger Greenaway

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, Tony Burrows

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, Jeff Williams, and Roger Gullane.

The lyrics included such lines as:

"And as the horse and I plough the field nearby,
Your memory I can't erase,
For while I walk at the rear of the horse, my dear,
I seem to see your face."

At the end of the song it turns out that the narrator is already married.