"Swear" is a 1980s pop song by

Tim Scott McConnell Tim Scott McConnell also known as Tim Scott (born March 23, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter and 12-string guitarist who performs since 2007 under the artist name Ledfoot. The artist's repertoire consists solely of self-written songs. ...

, released by

Sire Records Sire Records (formerly Sire Records Company) is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Records. History Beginnings The label was founded in 1966 as Sire Productions by Seymour Stein and Richard Gotteh ...

in 1983. It was covered by

Sheena Easton Sheena Shirley Easton (; born 27 April 1959) is a Scottish singer and actress who achieved recognition in an episode of the reality television series ''The Big Time (TV series), The Big Time: Pop Singer'', which recorded her attempts to gain a ...

for her 1984 album ''

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'' 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

for her 1984 album ''

''. It reached number 80 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart the following year.

Charts

References

External links

Music video of Swear - Tim Scott (1983)
1983 songs 1983 singles 1985 singles Sheena Easton songs Sire Records singles Parodies of horror {{1980s-pop-song-stub