| Swear | |
| Cover: | Swear song single cover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Sheena Easton |
| Album: | A Private Heaven |
| B-Side: | "Fallen Angels" |
| Released: | 1985 |
| Genre: | Pop |
| Length: | 3:43 |
| Label: | EMI, RT Industries (current) |
| 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.
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]
"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]
| Peak position | ||
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[2] | 44 |
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| Peak position | ||
| US Billboard Hot 100 | 80 |
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. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 266.