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"Swear"
Single by Sheena Easton
from the album A Private Heaven
B-side	"Fallen Angels"
Released	1985
Genre	Pop
Length	3:43
Label	EMI, 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.."

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

References

1. ^ "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.

External links

• Music video of Swear - Tim Scott (1983)

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