Sharing the post published by Staci Layne Wilson on Facebook - feb 9, 3:34PM
"I love this song so much! I just had to make a video of it in memory of my dad. The Ventures often joked onstage before Dad sang, saying, "This is why we're an instrumental band!" But... I enjoy his singing voice. He'd usually do over-the-top songs in a humorous way (like Sea Cruise, or Runaway) but this is a straightforward cover The Ventures did of a Bellamy Brothers song called Let Your Love Flow and I think it's really pretty."
“Let Your Love Flow” by The Bellamy Brothers, as performed by The Ventures with Don Wilson on vocals. Nebula Blue Video by Mike LaCoste.
RIP Don Wilson (February 10, 1933 - January 22, 2022). @TheVenturesMovie
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"Let Your Love Flow" (lyrics)
(Larry E. Williams) 1975
There's a reason for the sunshine sky
and there's a reason why I'm feeling so high
must be the season
when that love light shines all around us
so let that feelin' grab you deep inside
and send you reelin' where your love can't hide
and then go steelin'
through the moonlight nights with your lover
Just let your love flow like a mountain stream
and let your love grow with the smallest of dreams
and let your love show and you'll know what I mean
its the season
let your love fly like a bird on a wing
and let your love bind you to all living things
and let your love shine and you'll know what I mean
thats the reason
Theres a reason for the warm sweet nights
and theres a reason for the candle lights
must be the season
when those love right shine all around us
so let that wonder take into space
and lay you under its loving embrace
just feel the thunder as it warms your face
you cant hold back
Just let your love flow like a mountain stream
and let your love grow with the smallest of dreams
and let your love show and you'll know what I mean
its the season
let your love fly like a bird on a wing
and let your love bind you to all livin things
and let your love shine and you'll know what I mean
thats the reason
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* Song: THE VENTURES - "Joy Ride / Let Your Love Flow" - 7" Vinil - Toshiba EMI (Liberty) LLR-20099 (1976) Japan
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"Let Your Love Flow" - Bellamy Brothers
"Let Your Love Flow" is a pop song written by Larry E. Williams which was recorded in the autumn of 1975 by country music duo the Bellamy Brothers for whom it afforded an international hit in 1976.
History
The song's composer Larry E. Williams had been a roadie for Neil Diamond's live shows, and "Let Your Love Flow" had been published by Bicycle Music, which had been founded by the singer and owned Diamond's own catalog. On Diamond's apparent disinterest in recording the song himself, Howard Bellamy of the Bellamy Brothers has commented "it really wasn't in his [ie. Diamond's] vein." According to Howard, Johnny Rivers had also passed on "Let Your Love Flow". The song as recorded by Gene Cotton was a single release in the autumn of 1975, making Cotton's version - featured on his 1976 album release For All the Young Writers - the earliest released version of "Let Your Love Flow," although it is unclear if Cotton's recording was made prior to that by the Bellamy Brothers.
The Bellamy Brothers - siblings David and Howard Bellamy from Pasco County - had been working as session musicians at the Studio 70 recording studio in Tampa when a demo of a song written by David, "Spiders and Snakes", was optioned for Jim Stafford, whose 1973 recording became a million-selling hit single. On the recommendation of Stafford's producer Phil Gernhard, the Bellamy Brothers relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a recording career. The duo initially stayed with Stafford in the Hollywood house whose purchase Stafford's success with "Spiders and Snakes" had made possible, and for a time Howard acted as Stafford's road manager while Gernhard arranged for David to record as a solo act for the Warner Bros. Records affiliate Curb Records with a resultant regional hit, "Nothin' Heavy", #77 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the autumn of 1975.
David Bellamy's recording sessions featured members of Neil Diamond's band, including drummer Dennis St John, and it was St John who recommended "Let Your Love Flow" to the Bellamys. Howard Bellamy recalls that Dennis St John "one day...came over to our house and brought the demo of 'Let Your Love Flow' and said: 'Hey, this sounds like something you guys would do.'"David Bellamy recalls St John mentioning the song as appropriate for the Bellamys to record, but that St John sent the demo of the song to Phil Gernhard: David Bellamy (quote) - "the next day I went to Phil's office and listened to it. I [then] called Howard and said :'I’ve got to play you this song!'" David further states: "We went back in with Neil's band" - to the Wally Heider Recording Studio in Hollywood - "and cut the song. We got the right key, the band hooked it right away and we probably didn’t do more than two or three takes on the whole session. It was the perfect song for us and became the key to our career.
"Let Your Love Flow" reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated 1 May 1976, also crossing-over to the Billboard chart rankings for Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks with a peak of #2, and also for Hot Country Singles with a peak of #21. According to David Bellamy (quote): "There were a couple of guys from Holland [ie. the Netherlands] who were in town when the single was released, and our record company gave it to them to take home and they also sent it to Germany", and "Let Your Love Flow" would in fact debut at #22 on the Dutch Top 30 chart dated 6 March 1976, the same date as the track's Billboard Top 40 debut at #38: the track would eventually peak at #6 on both the Dutch chart and Belgium's Flemish chart. In June and July 1976 "Let Your Love Flow" spent five weeks at #1 in Germany and also in Switzerland, while the track would be ranked at #1 on the monthly Austrian hit parades dated the 15th of August, September and October. "Let Your Love Flow" was afforded further European success with a seven-week tenure at #2 in both Norway and Sweden, while in the British Isles the track achieved chart peaks of #7 in the UK and #3 in Ireland. "Let Your Love Flow" also reached #1 on the hit parade for South Africa, #2 in New Zealand and #6 in Australia.
(Source - Wikipedia - english)
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