"Love Is All Around" is a song composed by Reg Presley and performed by The Troggs in D-major. Purportedly inspired by a television transmission of the Joy Strings Salvation Army band's "Love That's All Around",[1][2] the song was first released as a single in the UK in October 1967. On the UK Singles Chart top 50, the record bowed at #50 on 18 October 1967, peaked at #5 on 22 November 1967, and lasted 15 weekly charts. On the Hot 100, the record bowed at #98 on 24 February 1968, peaked at #7 on 18 May 1968, and lasted 16 weeks. This version features a string quartet and a 'tick tock' sound on percussion.
"Love is All Around" has been covered by numerous artists, including R.E.M., with whom the Troggs subsequently recorded their 1992 comeback album Athens Andover. R.E.M.'s cover was a B-side on their 1991 "Radio Song" single, and they also played it during their first appearance at MTV's Unplugged series that same year. Wet Wet Wet's cover, for the soundtrack to the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral, was an international hit and spent 15 weeks at number one in the UK Singles Chart.
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COME ON AND LET IT SHOW
I feel it in my fingers
I feel it in my toes
love is all around me
and so the feeling grows
it is written on the wind
thats everywhere I go
so if you really love me
come on and let it show
you know I love you
I always will
my mind's maid up
by the way that I feel
there's no beginning
there be no end
cause on my love
you can depend
I see your face before me
as I lay on my bed
I kind a get to thinking
of all the things we said
you gave your promise to me
and I gave mine to you
I need someone beside me
in everything I do
you know I love you
I always will
my mind's maid up
by the way that I feel
there's no beginning
there be no end
cause on my love
you can depend
it is written on the wind
thats everywhere I go
so if you really love me
come on and let it show
