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"Put a Little Love in Your Heart" is a song originally performed in 1969 by Jackie DeShannon, who composed it with her brother Randy Myers and Jimmy Holiday. In the U.S., it was DeShannon's highest-charting hit, reaching number 4 on the Hot 100 in August 1969 and number 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart.[1] In late 1969, the song reached number 1 on South Africa's hit parade. Gus Van Sant utilized it in his film Drugstore Cowboy.

"Put a Little Love in Your Heart"
Single by Jackie DeShannon
from the album Put a Little Love in Your Heart
B-side	"Always Together"
Released	June 1969
Recorded	1969
Genre	Pop
Length	2:39
Label	Imperial Records
Songwriter(s)	Jackie DeShannon, Jimmy Holiday, Randy Myers
Producer(s)	VME
Jackie DeShannon singles chronology
"Trust in Me" (1969) "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" (1969) "Love Will Find a Way" (1969)

"Put a Little Love in Your Heart" rivalled the success of her signature song, "What the World Needs Now Is Love".

Charts

Chart (1968–69)	Peak position
Australia Kent Music Report[2]	15
Canada RPM Top Singles	12
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary	9
South African Singles Chart	1
US Billboard Hot 100 Chart	4
US Billboard Adult Contemporary	2

Annie Lennox and Al Green version

"Put a Little Love in Your Heart"
Picture sleeve for US vinyl edition
Single by Annie Lennox and Al Green
from the album Scrooged
B-side	"A Great Big Piece of Love" by The Spheres of Celestial Influence
Released	1988
Recorded	1988
Genre	Pop
Length	3:48
Label	A&M
Songwriter(s)	Jackie DeShannon, Jimmy Holiday, Randy Myers
Producer(s)	David A. Stewart
Annie Lennox singles chronology
"Put a Little Love in Your Heart" (1988) "Why" (1992)
Al Green singles chronology
"Everything's Gonna Be Alright" (1987) "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" (1988) "As Long as We're Together" (1989)

In 1988, Annie Lennox and Al Green recorded a version that was released as the ending theme song to the 1988 film Scrooged.[3] The song reached number 9 in the US on the Hot 100 in January 1989 and climbed all the way to number 2 on the US Adult Contemporary chart, as well as becoming a Top 40 hit in several countries worldwide, including number 28 in the UK for the festive season of 1988-1989. Although credited to Lennox, the song was produced by her Eurythmics partner David A. Stewart.

The video was directed by Sophie Muller.[4]

Personnel

• Annie Lennox - vocals
• Al Green - vocals

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1988–89)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart	6
Austrian Singles Chart	4
Canadian Singles Chart	2
German Singles Chart	20
Irish Singles Chart	30
New Zealand Singles Chart	7
UK Singles Chart	28
US Billboard Hot 100	9

Year-end charts

Chart (1989)	Position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[5]	51

Other versions

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• Susan Raye, on her debut 1969 album, One Night Stand. It was released as a single and peaked at number 30 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
• The Dave Clark Five, in 1969. Issued as a single in the UK, it spent four weeks in the top 75, reaching number 31, three positions below that attained by Annie Lennox and Al Green in 1988.[6]
• Andy Williams - Get Together with Andy Williams (1969)
• David Ruffin formerly of The Temptations, on his sophomore solo album Feeling Good in 1969.
• Siw Malmkvist made a Swedish version in 1970, Pröva lite kärlek nå'n gång with lyrics by the well-known Swedish journalist and songwriter Peter Himmelstrand. Malmkvist's version appeared on her album Underbara Siw (Wonderful Siw), which was awarded a Swedish Grammis the same year.
• Cilla Black - Sweet Inspiration (1970)
• The Isley Brothers, on 1972's Brother, Brother, Brother album.
• Circle Jerks Tongue-in-cheek version appeared as the final track on their 1982 album Wild in the Streets.
• At the end of Richard Donner's film Scrooged (1988), Bill Murray breaks the fourth wall to lead a sing-along of the song.[7]
• Dolly Parton included a gospel-inspired rendition on her Slow Dancing with the Moon album in 1993.
• Judith Durham - Mona Lisas (1996)
• Anne Murray - What a Wonderful World (1999)
• Mary Mary, for the 2002 film Stuart Little 2
• KC & The Sunshine Band on 'Feeling You! The 60's' (2015)
• Darren Criss, Jeremy Jordan, Carlos Valdes, and John Barrowman perform the song during "Duet", the musical crossover episode between the series The Flash and Supergirl (2017)
• Leonard Nimoy, on his 1974 album Outer Space/Inner Mind[8]
• Bright Light Bright Light included a duet, performed with Nerina Pallot, on his 2017 EP Cinematography III[9] (2017)

References

External links

• Put A Little Love In Your Heart lyrics at Dolly Parton On-Line

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