Little Arrows

"Little Arrows" is a single by English artist Leapy Lee, written by composer Albert Hammond and lyricist Mike Hazlewood. Hammond had met Hazlewood in the band the Family Dogg and formed a songwriting partnership. Meanwhile, Lee was struggling finding success in the music branch, working at a bingo hall, where he met Hammond. The song was composed in the Chelsea Drugstore and is about Cupid shooting his bow and arrow. Musically, it is a country pop song with a whimsical tone. It was recorded at Olympic Studios and produced by Gordon Mills with Jimmy Page as a session guitarist.

MCA Records released "Little Arrows" as a single in the UK on 28 June 1968, and it reached number two on the Record Retailer chart in October of that year. In the US, "Little Arrows" was released by Decca Records and became a crossover hit, reaching number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Cash Box Country Singles chart. Elsewhere in the world, "Little Arrows" reached number one in Austria, New Zealand, Rhodesia, and Sweden and sold upwards of 4 million copies upon original release. It was the title track of Lee's first album Little Arrows, and was his only pop hit, leading him to be labelled a one-hit wonder.

Leapy Lee's recording of "Little Arrows" received positive reviews in the press for being "gimmicky", but mixed reception by contemporary journalists. Shortly after Lee's original was released, Irish showband Brendan O'Brien & the Dixies released a cover which reached number one in Ireland in September 1968. The song was translated into Swedish by Stig "Stikkan" Anderson as "Amors pilar", which became a hit for Ewa Roos in February 1969. A Spanish version, "Las Flechas del Amor", was recorded by Karina and reached number one in Spain for seven weeks between March and April of 1969.