Songfacts®:

• In this song, we hear from a man who hates leaving for work because he has to leave his girl behind. At the end of the song, we find out that it's his three-year-old daughter. Brotherhood of Man's founder/manager Tony Hiller wrote the song with group members Martin Lee and Lee Sheriden. Hiller told us: "The three year old in 'Save Your Kisses for Me' was every three year old in the world who had a dad running off to work, and who kissed them goodbye."
• This won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1976, with Brotherhood of Man representing the United Kingdom. The victory helped the song become a worldwide hit, and it even cracked the American charts, becoming the group's first Top 40 since "United We Stand" in 1970.
  
  Said Hiller: "Regarding Eurovision, this was the second Brotherhood of Man and totally different to the original. I had put this new band together the previous year, and recorded a song 'Kiss me Kiss Your Baby.' It had been a big hit in Europe and I feel sure it helped us win the final so convincingly. It was in fact the biggest winner ever - we sold 5 million singles and it was #1 in 27 different countries." (Read our full interview with Tony Hiller.)
• Hillier has admitted that his payoff was a homage to the Ames Brothers' 1954 song, "The Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane." It's last line reveals the "naughty lady" to be an infant of nine days old.
• In the UK, this was the top-selling single of 1976.