Let Your Love Flow
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| Single by The Bellamy Brothers | ||||
| from the album Let Your Love Flow | ||||
| B-side | "Inside My Guitar" | |||
| Released | February 14, 1976 (U.S. pop) March 13, 1976 (U.S. country) |
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| Format | 7" (45 RPM) | |||
| Recorded | October 1975 | |||
| Genre | Country pop | |||
| Length | 3:18 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros./Curb | |||
| Writer(s) | Larry E. Williams | |||
| Producer | Phil Gernhard Tony Scotti |
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| The Bellamy Brothers singles chronology | ||||
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"Let Your Love Flow" is the title of a pop song written by Larry E. Williams, a former roadie for Neil Diamond, and made popular by the American country music duo The Bellamy Brothers. It was offered to Neil Diamond first, but he turned it down. [1]
This record was a crossover hit in the United States, reaching Number One on the 1976 Billboard Hot 100 charts, #2 on Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks, and #21 on Hot Country Singles. It was also an international hit, landing on the charts in the UK, Scandinavia and West Germany,[2] where the Bellamy Brothers' record spent five weeks at #1 followed by "Ein Bett im Kornfeld", a German language adaptation of the song recorded by Jürgen Drews, which spent the next six weeks at #1.[3] In 2008 the song was used in an advert in the United Kingdom for Barclaycard. Subsequently, the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart and peaked at #21.
[edit] Chart performance
| Chart (1976) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 21 |
| Canada RPM Top Singles | 3 |
| Canada RPM Adult Contemporary | 1 |
| Canada RPM Country Tracks | 42 |
| West German Media Control Charts | 1 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 1 [4] |
| Austria Top 40 | 1 [5] |
| Sweden Singles Chart | 2 [6] |
| New Zealand Singles Chart | 2 [7] |
| Norwegian Singles Charts | 2 [8] |
| Dutch Top 40 | 6 [9] |
| UK Singles Chart | 7 |
| Chart (2008) | Peak position |
| UK Singles Chart | 21 |
[edit] References
- ^ "Bellamy Brothers". http://www.bellamybrothers.com/loveflowvid.html. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
- ^ Erlewhine, Stephen Thomas. "The Bellamy Brothers biography". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p1522/biography. Retrieved 2008-09-12.
- ^ Hit Bilanz Deutsche Chart Singles 1956-1980, p. 347. Taurus Press, Hamburg. ISBN 39225422474
- ^ "Chart performance". http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Bellamy+Brothers&titel=Let+Your+Love+Flow&cat=s. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
- ^ "Chart performance". http://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=Bellamy+Brothers&titel=Let+Your+Love+Flow&cat=s. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
- ^ "Chart performance". http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Bellamy+Brothers&titel=Let+Your+Love+Flow&cat=s. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
- ^ "Chart performance". http://charts.org.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Bellamy+Brothers&titel=Let+Your+Love+Flow&cat=s. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
- ^ "Chart performance". http://norwegiancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Bellamy+Brothers&titel=Let+Your+Love+Flow&cat=s. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
- ^ "Chart performance". http://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Bellamy+Brothers&titel=Let+Your+Love+Flow&cat=s. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
| Preceded by "Disco Lady" by Johnnie Taylor |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single May 1, 1976 |
Succeeded by "Welcome Back" by John Sebastian |
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