"Wear Your Love Like Heaven" is a song and US-single by Donovan

Donovan

Donovan Donovan Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...

, released in 1967. It became the opening title of his double album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden

A Gift from a Flower to a Garden

A Gift from a Flower to a Garden is the fifth album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, and marks the first double album of his career and one of the first box sets in rock music...

. Chart positions were #23 (USA).

The song mentions several colors including Prussian blue

Prussian blue

Prussian blue is a dark blue pigment with the idealized formula Fe718. Another name for the color Prussian blue is Berlin blue or, in painting, Parisian blue. Turnbull's blue is the same substance but is made from different reagents....

, Alizarin

Alizarin

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 crimson (Rose madder

Rose madder

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), Havana Lake (a dark brown, possibly purple), and Rose carmethene.

Covers

• Eartha Kitt
  Eartha Kitt
  Eartha Mae Kitt was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit recordings of "C'est Si Bon" and the enduring Christmas novelty smash "Santa Baby." Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the...
  
  , on her 1970 album Sentimental.
• They Might Be Giants
  They Might Be Giants
  They Might Be Giants is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During TMBG's early years Flansburgh and Linnell were frequently accompanied by a drum machine. In the early 1990s, TMBG became a full band. Currently, the members of TMBG are...
  
  , as a spoken word piece.
• Sarah McLachlan
  Sarah McLachlan
  Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...
  
  , for the Donovan tribute album Island of Circles
  Island of Circles
  Island of Circles is a tribute album to singer-songwriter Donovan that was released on June 26, 1992 by Nettwerk. The title song "Island of Circles" is provided by Donovan himself.-Track listing:#"Island of Circles" - Donovan#"Hurdy Gurdy Man" - Brix E...
  
  ; it also appeared on US printings of her 1991 album Solace
  Solace (Sarah McLachlan album)
  * In Canada, "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" appeared on Nettwerk's Donovan tribute album, Island of Circles. McLachlan fought hard to not have the song on her album but she eventually let Arista Records include it on the record...
  
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• Japanese noise artist Masonna perform a noise "cover" of this song on Japanese/American Noise Treaty compilation.

Appearances in other media

The song was featured in the Eau De Love (by Menley and James) fragrance commercial in the early 1970s that featured Ali MacGraw

Ali MacGraw

Elizabeth Alice "Ali" MacGraw is an American actress. She is known for her role in Love Story, for which she won a Golden Globe and received an Academy Award nomination.-Early life:...

.

It was featured in Season 13 The Simpsons

The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...

episode "Weekend at Burnsie's

Weekend at Burnsie's

"Weekend at Burnsie's" is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons thirteenth season. It first aired in the United States on the Fox network on April 7, 2002. In the episode, Homer Simpson is prescribed medicinal marijuana after getting pecked in the eyes by a murder of crows. While his...

" where Homer Simpson

Homer Simpson

Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons and the patriarch of the eponymous family. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987...

(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.

External links

• Wear Your Love Like Heaven (Single) - Donovan Unofficial Site