Let Your Love Flow - The Bellamy Brothers
I proudly played this song for 20 years on country radio and it always sounded good. I know songs #2, #3 and #4 were powerful and very deep on my favorites list, so this is the perfect finish. A different kind of powerful.
I've loved this song my whole life, as it's one of the most positive and feel good songs ever. It launched Howard and David Bellamy to incredible heights. The Bellamy Brothers were shot into stardom by this one recording and went on to have a lot of big country songs over the next 20 years, with 52 singles and 20 #1 hits. This is one of the most loved and most played songs of the 20th Century (fact). It had a very long life as it was a big hit in dozens of countries around the world over the course of many years. It even climbed back onto the charts in the UK in 2010. It's been in movies, TV programs, advertising campaigns and has been recorded by dozens since.
The Bellamy's are from rural Pasco County Florida and moved to Los Angeles to start a musical career. This song was written by an unknown roadie for superstar Neil Diamond named Larry E. Williams. He offered it to Diamond but he said "no." Hit maker Johnny Rivers also said "no." Then Dennis St John, Diamonds drummer called the Bellamy's who were unknown studio session players and said basically, "This song is perfect for you guys." The legend says they went over, used Diamonds band and recorded it in "2 or 3 takes." Done! This went on to be spun on about every country, pop, adult contemporary radio station there was, and even some Christian stations played it.
This is the perfect 3 minute mix of artist, musicians, arrangement, and production. This also possesses a very rare attribute most songs don't. The second this starts, somehow you know it's a special song, you almost have to listen as its positive vibe is undeniable. It makes you happy and glad you're alive. It's also the kind of song we don't record much anymore, as positive isn't as prevalent as it once was in music. But read the comments as you play this video. This song is high on many all time favorites lists. Every artist, regardless of stature, from Luke Combs to the artist that just got off the bus in Nashville today, hopes and prays one day they have a song this big and this remembered.
I asked them once in an interview if they had any clue they just recorded a song that would be that big, and they said essentially, "We just hoped someone would play it on the radio." - We did.
Let Your Love Flow was in international hit and one of the best, most successful country, pop, hit songs ever recorded. But don't just ask me, ask the world.
My Full Profile On The Bellamy Brothers
