Swear (Tim Scott McConnell song)
{{Infobox song
| name = Swear
| cover = Swear song single cover.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Sheena Easton
| album = A Private Heaven
| B-side = "Fallen Angels"
| released = 1985
| recorded =
| studio =
| genre = Pop
| length = 3:43
| label = EMI, RT Industries (current)
| writer = Tim Scott
| producer = Greg Mathieson
| prev_title = Sugar Walls
| prev_year = 1984
| next_title = Do It for Love
| next_year = 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.."{{cite web|url=http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/hardfindsongs/swear.html|title=Lyrics for Swear by Tim Scott / Tim Scott-McConnell (1983)|publisher=Blue Haze|accessdate=16 July 2016}}
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.
Charts
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+Chart performance for "Swear" by Tim Scott !scope="col"|Chart (1983) !scope="col"|Peak |
| scope="row"|Australia (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=266}}
| style="text-align:center;"|44 |
|---|
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+Chart performance for "Swear" by Sheena Easton !scope="col"|Chart (1985) !scope="col"|Peak |
| scope="row"|US Billboard Hot 100
| style="text-align:center;"|80 |
|---|
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok43vLCi4J8 Music video of Swear - Tim Scott (1983)]
{{Sheena Easton}}
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