Let Your Love Flow

Infobox Single
Name = Let Your Love Flow


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Artist = The Bellamy Brothers
from Album = Let Your Love Flow
B-side = "Inside My Guitar"
Released = February 14, 1976 (U.S. pop release)
March 13, 1976 (U.S. country release)
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Recorded = 1976
Genre = country pop
Length = 3:18
Label = Warner Bros./Curb
Writer = Larry E. Williams
Producer = ???
Certification =
This single = "Let Your Love Flow"
(1976)
Next single = "Hell Cat"
(1976)
Misc ="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. This record was a crossover hit in the United States, reaching Number One on the 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 Great Britain, Scandinavia and Germany, [cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:fifwxql5ldae~T1 |title=The Bellamy Brothers biography |accessdate=2008-09-12 |last=Erlewhine |first=Stephen Thomas |authorlink=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |work=Allmusic] where both the Bellamy Brothers' record and "Ein Bett im Kornfeld", the German adaptation of the song recorded by German Pop star Jürgen Drews, topped the German Pop chart.

The song has been recorded by many recording artists over the years including Ray Chales, Ziggy Marley, Sister Hazel and Tom Jones. In 2002, "Let Your Love Flow" received a Special Citation Of Achievement from BMI for 5 Million broadcast performances. Additionally, the song came in at #68 on BMI's Top 100 Songs of the 20th Century.

Chart performance

Re-recordings and covers

*A new re-recording was used for the 2001 two-disc compilation "The 25 Year Collection".

*The Bellamy Brothers re-recorded the song again, along with Hal Ketchum and Lisa Brokop, on the Bellamy Brothers' 2005 album "Angels and Outlaws, Volume 1".

*Collin Raye recorded a version of the song on his 2006 album "Twenty Years and Change".

*Joan Baez included a cover of the song on her 1979 album "Honest Lullaby".

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