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"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'".