Swear (Tim Scott McConnell song)

"Swear"
Single by Sheena Easton
from the album A Private Heaven
B-side"Fallen Angels"
Released1985
GenrePop
Length3:43
LabelEMI, RT Industries (current)
Songwriter(s)Tim Scott
Producer(s)Greg Mathieson
Sheena Easton singles chronology
"Sugar Walls"
(1984) 		"Swear"
(1985) 		"Do It for Love"
(1985)

"Swear" is a 1980s pop song by Tim Scott McConnell, released by Sire Records in 1983. It was covered by Sheena Easton for her 1984 album A Private Heaven and released as its third single in the US, reaching number 80 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985.

Background

The music video to promote the song was a campy/tongue-in-cheek music video of a hippy-based pagan/black mass set in a church. The stylized music video is seemingly a parody of late 1960s to early 1970s hippy horror movies.

McConnell would later comment on the song: "This was my young and confused record...I wrote the songs over a couple of weeks on a little Casio keyboard...Sire heard it and offered me a deal...no use appologising for such a thing...my mistake... the good part of it was working with Richard Gottehrer ...really took me under his wing...shame we were working on the wrong kind of music.."[1]

Cover versions

"Swear" was covered by Sheena Easton for her 1984 album A Private Heaven. It reached number 80 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the following year.[1]

Charts

Chart performance for "Swear" by Tim Scott
Chart (1983) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[2] 44
Chart performance for "Swear" by Sheena Easton
Chart (1985) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100[1] 80

References

  1. ^ a b c "Lyrics for Swear by Tim Scott / Tim Scott-McConnell (1983)". Blue Haze. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  2. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 266. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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