"
My Love" is a song performed by
Petula ClarkPetula Clark, CBE is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II...
which, like most of her hits of the era, was written by
Tony HatchTony Hatch is an English composer, songwriter, pianist, music arranger, and producer...
.
Hatch was on a flight from
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to
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, where he was joining Clark to record a new album, and was putting the finishing touches on a tune entitled "The Life and Soul of the Party," which was to be included on the LP and released as a single. The
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seated next to him inexplicably claimed the phrase had no meaning in the
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, so Hatch quickly dashed off the lyrics to "My Love" before landing and set them to music soon after arrival.
Although she detested the song on first hearing, Clark was coaxed into recording it.
"
My Love" is a song performed by
Petula ClarkPetula Clark, CBE is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II...
which, like most of her hits of the era, was written by
Tony HatchTony Hatch is an English composer, songwriter, pianist, music arranger, and producer...
.
Hatch was on a flight from
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
to
Los AngelesLos Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the municipality of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123.445 inhabitants...
, where he was joining Clark to record a new album, and was putting the finishing touches on a tune entitled "The Life and Soul of the Party," which was to be included on the LP and released as a single. The
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
seated next to him inexplicably claimed the phrase had no meaning in the
StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, so Hatch quickly dashed off the lyrics to "My Love" before landing and set them to music soon after arrival.
Although she detested the song on first hearing, Clark was coaxed into recording it. Unhappy with the result, she begged
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not to release it, but executives there ignored her pleas. It went on to become her second US chart-topper (reaching Number One on the
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in early 1966) and made Clark the first British female to have two number one singles in the US. It remains a staple of her concert repertoire to this day.
Clark also recorded the song in German ("Verzeih' die dummen Tränen"), French ("Mon amour"), and Italian ("L'amore e il vento"), making it a major international hit.
Cover version
Country singer
Sonny JamesJames Loden , known professionally as Sonny James, is an American country music singer and songwriter best known for his 1957 smash hit, "Young Love." Dubbed the Southern Gentleman, James had 72 country and pop chart hits from 1953 to 1983, including a five-year streak of 16 straight among his 23...
covered the song in 1970. His version reached No. 1 that May on the
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chart, in the midst of his then-record string of 16-straight No. 1 singles in as many releases.
This song was also covered by
Mrs. MillerElva Ruby Connes Miller , who recorded under the name Mrs. Miller, was an American singer who gained some fame in the 1960s for her out-of-tune versions of songs such as "Moon River", "Monday, Monday", "A Lover's Concerto", and "Downtown". She sang in an untrained, Mermanesque, vibrato-laden voice...
in 1966, on her debut album with Capitol Records entitled
Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits and is on the 1997 compilation CD of her work released on Capitol's Ultra-Lounge label:
Wild, Cool & Swingin', The Artist Collection Vol. 3: Mrs. Miller.
John DavidsonJohn Hamilton Davidson, Sr. is an American singer, actor and game show host known for hosting That's Incredible!, Time Machine, and Hollywood Squares in the 1980s, and a revival of The $100,000 Pyramid in 1990....
covered it in 1966 for his album
Time of My Life!.
Actress/singer
Florence HendersonFlorence Agnes Henderson is an American actress and singer, best known for playing the role of Carol Brady in the television program The Brady Bunch, which ran from 1969 to 1974.-Early life:...
performed the song as a serenade on the famous 1969 "Tonight Show" segment in which
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married Miss Vicky.