Single:
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) entered the Australian singles chart* on 16 February 1970 and peaked at #2. The song was #17 on the Top 100 of 1970.
Songwriters:
Tony Macaulay, Barry Mason
Producer:
Tony Macaulay
Record label of Australian release:
Bell
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Songfacts:
British producers Tony Macaulay and Barry Mason wrote Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) with Sylvan Mason, who was Barry’s wife at the time.
Macaulay and Barry Mason recorded it using session musicians. When it became a hit, they put together a band from members of the group Greefield Hammer in order to perform the song live on Top of the Pops. McCaulay eventually put together another group using the Edison Lighthouse name.
The song is about a free spirit named Rosemary who leaves the singer besotted. Many have claimed to be the actual Rosemary the song is about, but Sylvan Mason says that like Delilah (which she also co-wrote), no such person exists.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/edison-lighthouse/love-grows-where-my-rosemary-goes
Lyrics:
She ain′t got no money
Her clothes are kinda funny
Her hair is kinda wild and free
Oh but love grows
Where my Rosemary goes
And nobody knows like me
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