Billboard #1 Hits: #414: “Torn Between Two Lovers”- Mary MacGregor. February 5, 1977. #1 for 2 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.
- Single: “Torn Between Two Lovers”- Mary MacGregor
- Record Company- Ariola
- Genre: Pop
- Written by -Peter Yarrow and Phillip Jarrell
- Time: 3:40
- B-side:”I Just Want To Love You”
- Album-Torn Between Two Lovers
- Grade: D-
- Peaked at #1 2 weeks in Billboard Hot 100. #4 in UK Singles Chart, #1 in Canada.
Mary MacGregor was pretty close to a one hit wonder- she had one hit which barely hit the Top 40- “Good Friend” #39 in 1979. This song brings back bad memories- of the winter of 1977- getting up for school turning the radio on for a half hour or so before leaving and it was guaranteed for a couple months that every morning you’d hear two songs “I Like Dreamin'” by Kenny Nolan and “Torn Between Two Lovers”- bad awfulness. Even Mary MacGregor would say she hated this song. It was co-written by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary.
That’s pretty bad when even the song’s singer hates it. I remember being shocked when this reached #1.
and also considering it was her only hit-… she also said that the song becoming a hit ruined her marriage.. she had to tour behind the song- separating her and her husband- they grew apart.. marriage ends. Maybe she would have been better off not having a hit.
Probably so…
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