"Torn Between Two Lovers"
#1 weeks: 2
weeks: 1977-02-05, 1977-02-12
genre: pop
artist: Mary MacGregor
album: Torn Between Two Lovers
writers: Peter Yarrow, Phillip Jarrell
producers: Peter Yarrow, Barry Beckett
label:
formats: 7" single
lengths: 3:40
"Torn Between Two Lovers" is the title of a pop song written
by Peter Yarrow (of the folk music trio Peter, Paul & Mary)
and Phillip Jarrell. It was inspired by Boris Pasternak's 1957
novel,
Dr. Zhivago, which featured a man in love with two
women. Yarrow originally intended the song to be sung by a man.
It was recorded by St. Paul, Minnesota-born singer Mary
MacGregor in 1976, and was #1 on the U.S. pop and adult
contemporary charts for two weeks in February of 1977. The song
inspired the title of a TV movie aired in 1979, starring Lee
Remick, George Peppard, and Joseph Bologna in which the song is
played three times (over both credit sequences and during the
actual film).
The song was mentioned in Dolly Parton's 1984 top-twenty
country single, "God Won't Get Ya'".