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Swear to Your Heart

1990 song by Russell Hitchcock

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ65117751 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Swear to Your Heart" (also titled "Caught in Your Web (Swear to Your Heart)") is a song recorded by Air Supply lead singer Russell Hitchcock in 1990. The song was written by Diane Warren. It is a track from the soundtrack album of the 1990 film Arachnophobia. The song features Timothy B. Schmit on backing vocals.

"Swear to Your Heart" was released as a CD single, and became a hit on the U.S. and Canadian Adult Contemporary charts, reaching number 9 and number 12 respectively, during early 1991.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Swear to Your Heart” as 1990 song by Russell Hitchcock. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990-12. The account is most persuasive where Swear, Your and Heart can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1990 song by Russell Hitchcock. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65117751. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1990 and 1991.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Swear to Your Heart”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Swear to Your Heart primary sources, Swear to Your Heart archive and Swear research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Swear to Your Heart”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Swear to Your Heart” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.