Bellamy Brothers "Let Your Love Flow"

This song was pleasant enough back in the 70s, but why is it at #21 on the UK singles chart this week?

It's been permanently on R2 for the past few months

And I'd be lying if I didn't say I enjoyed it the 1st few times it was on.

It's on an advert for credit cards or something.

Cool record. Where's Chuck?

BECAUSE IT'S DOPE AS FUCK

these guys made some really good country/pop records after "Let Your Love Flow" if you like that song check their first greatest hits

though their attempts at reggae/country fusion, however well intended, were seriously misguided

My dad played this shit in the car all the time when we were kids. B/W Sutherland Brothers and Quiver.

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here is the german version from back in the 70s juxtaposed with a 1998 version. "ein bett im kornfeld". it was a huge hit in 76 and it made jürgen drews famous (only in deutschland, i suppose).

another try:

It's on the Barclaycard advert with the water flume going through the city

When Big & Rich first hit, I was convinced that if they covered this song, they'd sell a million singles.

Seriously catchy

Even the verse melody, yeah.

What an absolutely glorious record. I've loved it since I can remember. The Bellamys also occasioned one of my favorite Christgau lines: "Shameless, hooky, and slick, their country is about as pure as Mike Curb, who signed them, but if you can resist 'If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me' you don't eat fried food, and I say the hell with you."

I downloaded it off Amazon; thanks be to this thread for prompting it. (Though I look at the UK Top 40 every week and was surprised to see this there, too; I've been thinking about it anyway.)

I don't know if this has any real meaning anymore, but it did once, so I'll say it anyway: This is really one of the most ILM singles ever made.

I am dying to see what Tracer has to say about this song.

This was on a list Dave Edmunds made once of his 10 favorite summer tracks.

Where was that list published? Rolling Stone, by chance?

Yeah.

I've seen the issue. Marshall Crenshaw did one too; this was all right around the time of Field Day. MC listed "Could You Be Loved" and "Baby Come to Me," among others.

I have the DVD set, I'll check it out sometime. Thanks.

I love the way the lead vocal is kind of buried in the mix--because he's at one with his surroundings!

Hookiest thing in this ridiculous hookfest of a record: the acoustic guitar strumming on the verses. It's what I always, always, always remember.

it's one of those songs i would give a lot for to listen to for the first time again. not only because i was young (13 in 1976) but because it was so unbelievably great and full of sparkling energy. it has that summer song vibe and it was played on german radio a lot in the summer of 1976 which was a perfect, very hot summer iirc. it didn't rain for six weeks or something like that.

It sounds like the label looks.

http://i1.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/86/e1/9f25_1.JPG

I just heard this song in a Safeway ad here in California.

Nostalgia will always cloud objectivity for me, but yeah, love this song.

The only 70s crossover-country song I love more is Pure Prarie League's Amie (providing Glen Campbell's cover of Southern Nights doesn't count).

I just heard Petra Haden covering this song in a Toyota Prius commercial.

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"Redneck Girl" is kind of a jam

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I wish the Bellamy Brothers posted here, I bet they would fit right in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZj1vWX_kC8

good version but doesn't really open any new doors in the song, despite being recorded at Muscle Shoals with the studio band.

wonder if Joan wanted to forefront the hippie vibe by opening her album with this song?

Love it. I don't think the song needs any new doors to be opened!

yeah of course I agree