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Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Song performed by Shirley Bassey This article is about the song from Oliver!. For the album by Irene Kral, see Where Is Love? (album). For the 1993 dance track by Haddaway, see What Is Love. For the 1972 hit single, see Where Is the Love (Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway song). For the 2003 hit single by the Black Eyed Peas, see Where Is the Love?

"Where Is Love?" is a song from the Tony Award-winning British musical Oliver! and the 1968 film of the same name, based on the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. The musical was written by Lionel Bart and was first staged in London's West End in 1960. Oliver is a young boy on the search for his mother, and comes across many people, friends and criminals alike.

Background

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Oliver Twist, the leading character, sings the song after being thrown into the cellar of a funeral parlour for getting into a fight with Noah Claypole, another servant of the undertaker. Later in the show, a reprise is sung by Mr. Brownlow's housekeeper, Mrs Bedwin.

In the 1968 Columbia Pictures musical film version of Oliver!, "Where Is Love?" was performed onscreen by Mark Lester, whose singing voice was reportedly dubbed by Kathe Green (the daughter of the film's conductor and musical arranger, Johnny Green), though Lester was actually given credit on the soundtrack album.[1]

Cover versions

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• Sammy Davis Jr. on his 1966 album, Sammy Davis Jr. Sings and Laurindo Almeida Plays.[2]
• Oliver on his 1969 album, Good Morning Starshine[3]
• Irene Kral on her album Where Is Love?[4]
• Leonard Nimoy on his 1967 album Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space

References

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1. ^ "Oliver!". Music Feature. 2007-11-20. BBC Radio 4.
2. ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
3. ^ Oliver, Good Morning Starshine Retrieved March 16, 2012.
4. ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved November 2, 2025.

v t e Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist
Characters	Oliver Twist Bill Sikes Fagin Mr Brownlow Nancy Rose Maylie Monks The Artful Dodger Charley Bates Mr Sowerberry Mr. Bumble
Film adaptations	1909 1912 (American) 1912 (British) 1916 1922 1933 1948 Oliver! (1968) 1974 Las Aventuras de Oliver Twist (1987) 2005
Film retellings	Manik (1961) Chitti Tammudu (1962) Oliver & Company (1988) Twisted (1996) Twist (2003) Boy Called Twist (2004) Twist (2021)
TV adaptations	1962 TV serial 1982 American–British TV film 1982 Australian TV film 1985 TV serial Saban's Adventures of Oliver Twist (1996 TV series) 1997 TV film 1999 TV series 2007 TV series
Stage adaptations	Oliver Twist (1905) Oliver! (1960)
Songs	"As Long as He Needs Me" "Consider Yourself" "Food, Glorious Food" "I'd Do Anything" "Oliver!" "Oom-Pah-Pah" "Where Is Love?" "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two" "Be Back Soon" "Reviewing the Situation"
Related	Oliver! (soundtrack to the 1968 film) Oliver & Company (soundtrack to Oliver & Company) Escape of the Artful Dodger (2001 TV series retelling) Fagin the Jew (2003 graphic novel) Oliver and the Artful Dodger (1972 TV film) I'd Do Anything (2008 TV series) Dodger (2022 TV series) The Artful Dodger (2023 TV series)

v t e Oliver
Studio albums	Good Morning Starshine Again The Best of Oliver Prisms
Singles	"Good Morning Starshine" "Jean" "Sunday Mornin'"
Cover Songs	"Both Sides Now" "If You Go Away" "In My Life" "Leaving on a Jet Plane" "Ruby Tuesday" "The Twelfth of Never" "Until It's Time for You to Go" "Where Is Love?"

Authority control databases	MusicBrainz work

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