Where Is Love?
"Where is Love?" is a song from the Tony Award-winning British musical Oliver! and the 1968 film Oliver! based on the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. The musical was written by Lionel Bart and was first staged in London's West End in 1960.
Background
Oliver Twist, the leading character, sings the song after being thrown into the cellar of a funeral parlour for getting into a fight with Noah Claypole, another servant of the undertaker. Later in the show a reprise is sung by Mr Brownlow's housekeeper, Mrs Bedwin.
In the 1968 musical film version of Oliver!, "Where is Love?" was performed onscreen by Mark Lester, whose singing voice was reportedly dubbed by Kathe Green (the daughter of the film's conductor and musical arranger, Johnny Green), though Lester was actually given credit on the soundtrack album.
Cover versions
Podcasts:
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by Perry Como
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by Refreshments
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by Will Downing
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by Lionel Bart
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by Lea Salonga
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by Nina
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by Joseph Mcmanners
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by Bobby Caldwell
Where Is Love ?
by: Perry ComoWhere is love?
Does it fall from skies above?
Is it underneath the willow tree that I've been dreaming of?
Where is she,
Who I close my eyes to see??
Will I ever know the sweet 'hello' that's meant for only me?
Who can say where she may hide?
Must I travel far an' wide,
till I am beside the someone who, I can mean something to?
Where, where is love?
< instrumental break >
Where is she,
Who I close my eyes to see??
Will I ever know the sweet 'hello' that's meant for only me?
Every night I kneel an' pray, let tomorrow be the day,
when I see the face of someone who, I can mean something to!
Where, where is love?
Words and Music by Lionel Bart , 1963