"Everybody Loves a Lover" is a popular song.
The writers were both people who were best known for collaborations with other partners. The music was written by Robert Allen (whose songs were usually collaborations with Al Stillman) and the lyrics by Richard Adler (after the 1955 death of his usual partner Jerry Ross).
The recording by Doris Day was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 41195. Her version is noted for its counterpoint melody, heard in the second part of the song, which fits the exact chords and harmonies. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on July 21, 1958. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #6; on the Best Seller chart, at #17; on the Hot 100 composite chart, it reached #14. It was revived by The Shirelles in 1963, reaching #19 that year. The Shirelles' version set the song's lyrics to the music of Barbara George's "I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)."
The song was Doris Day's last big charting hit, although she would hit # 4 in 1964 in the UK with the title song of her then-current movie Move Over, Darling. In Guy Mitchell's version of "...Lover," the feminine line "just like a Pollyanna" is sung as "just like the top banana."
In 2010, Australian singer Melinda Schneider recorded the song for her Doris Day tribute album "Melinda Does Doris."
Famous quotes containing the words loves and/or lover:
“We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is the rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“for never yet
Has lover lived, but longed to wive
Like them that are no more alive.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)