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The Bellamy Brothers are an American pop and country music duo consisting of brothers David Milton Bellamy (born September 16, 1950 ) and Homer Howard Bellamy (born February 2, 1946), from Darby, Florida, United States. The duo had considerable musical success in the 1970s and 1980s, starting with the release of their crossover hit "Let Your Love Flow" in 1976, a Number One single on the Billboard Hot 100.

Starting in the late 1970s, the Bellamy Brothers found success in country music as well, charting twenty Number One singles and more than fifty hits overall on the country charts. To date, they have released more than fifty albums, primarily on Curb Records.

They have also enjoyed success in Continental Europe, with a compilation album topping the Norwegian charts in 2011 and with over two dozen hit songs that were released outside the US market. In 2013, their album Bellamy Brothers & Friends: Across the Sea landed at No. 5 in the Swiss Music Chart and took the top spot in album sales for weeks in Switzerland.

It was their third major release in Europe in three years. Their album Mermaid Cowgirl, recorded in Switzerland and released in 2014, won them Gold Record status in Switzerland. They also recorded four albums in Germany with Ralph Siegal for release to the European Market.

In total, they have released albums in Canada , Germany , the UK , the Netherlands , Australia , New Zealand , Japan , Portugal , Italy , Austria , Belgium , Czechoslovakia , France , Kenya , South Africa , and Spain in addition to their 73 recordings in America.

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The Bellamy Brothers - Let your love flow

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The Bellamy Brothers are an American pop and country music duo consisting of brothers David Milton Bellamy (born September 16, 1950 ) and Homer Howard Bellamy (born February 2, 1946), from Darby, Florida, United States. The duo had considerable musical success in the 1970s and 1980s, starting with the release of their crossover hit "Let Your Love Flow" in 1976, a Number One single on the Billboard Hot 100.

Starting in the late 1970s, the Bellamy Brothers found success in country music as well, charting twenty Number One singles and more than fifty hits overall on the country charts. To date, they have released more than fifty albums, primarily on Curb Records.

They have also enjoyed success in Continental Europe, with a compilation album topping the Norwegian charts in 2011 and with over two dozen hit songs that were released outside the US market. In 2013, their album Bellamy Brothers & Friends: Across the Sea landed at No. 5 in the Swiss Music Chart and took the top spot in album sales for weeks in Switzerland.

It was their third major release in Europe in three years. Their album Mermaid Cowgirl, recorded in Switzerland and released in 2014, won them Gold Record status in Switzerland. They also recorded four albums in Germany with Ralph Siegal for release to the European Market.

In total, they have released albums in Canada , Germany , the UK , the Netherlands , Australia , New Zealand , Japan , Portugal , Italy , Austria , Belgium , Czechoslovakia , France , Kenya , South Africa , and Spain in addition to their 73 recordings in America.

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"If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me" is a song written by David Bellamy, and recorded by American country music duo The Bellamy Brothers.

It was released in March 1979 as the second single from the album The Two and Only. The song became their first number 1 hit on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart and their second number one overall, after their 1976 pop hit "Let Your Love Flow".

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THE BELLAMY BROTHERS LYRICS
"Crossfire"

Sleep some nights it just don't show
When you've pushed and life won't go
Your dreams get lost and your sorrows grow
You read and try to watch T.V. take a drive out to the sea
You might break down but you can't break free.
Standin' in the crossfire
hangin' from a live wire.
Reachin' for a lost smile and hidin' in the wind.
Standin' in the crossfire
stranded on a high wire
Runnin' for a reason
lookin' for a friend.
Dream your eyes are almost blind
They photograph your mind
And leave a trace of her love in time.
Night's
you live the smokey past
Try to break the spell she cast.
You start out first but you end up last.
Standin' in the crossfire
hangin' from a live wire...

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"Dancin' Cowboys" is a song written by David Bellamy, and recorded by American country music duo The Bellamy Brothers.

It was released in May 1980 as the second single from the album You Could Get Crazy. "Dancin' Cowboys" was The Bellamy Brothers third number one on the country chart.

The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart.

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"Islands in the Stream" is a song written by the Bee Gees and sung by American country music artists Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. Named after the Ernest Hemingway novel, it was originally written for Marvin Gaye in an R&B style, only later to be changed for the Kenny Rogers album. It was released in August 1983 as the first single from Rogers' album Eyes That See in the Dark.

The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, giving both Rogers and Parton their second pop number-one hit (after Rogers' "Lady" in 1980 and Parton's "9 to 5" in 1981).

It also topped the Country and Adult Contemporary charts. It has been certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling over two million physical copies in the US.  In 2005 the song topped CMT's poll of the best country duets of all time; Parton and Rogers reunited to perform the song on the CMT special.

Rogers and Parton went on to record a Christmas album together, and had an additional hit with their 1985 duet "Real Love".

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"Let Your Love Flow" is the title of 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.

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 who owned Diamond's own catalog having been founded by the singer - 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"  - and 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 of song 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 Jim 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 of 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.

In 2008 and 2009 "Let Your Love Flow" enjoyed a UK chart renaissance due to the song's being featured in a television ad for Barclays promoting the bank's Barclaycard in its contactless format. Filmed in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the ad's focus was on an office clerk - played by Robert Wilfort - who utilizes his Barclaycard while traveling home on a waterslide, a metaphor for the ease with which the card may be used. The ad was first aired 25 October 2008,  and two weeks later "Let Your Love Flow" re-entered the UK Top 100 singles chart dated 8 November 2008 at #48, with the track eventually peaking at #21 over a six week tenure with subsequent UK chart tenures of five weeks in February/ March 2009 (peak #48) and three weeks that summer (#76).

Speaking for the Bellamy Brothers, David Bellamy would state: "We had no idea the song 'Let Your Love Flow' had been licensed to Barclay for an advertisement [until] after the single started climbing the charts in England. Any artist is always thrilled when one of your signature songs has longevity like this because it was thirty-two years ago when we first released the tune. We've always had such faithful fans in Europe, like we do in the United States, but with the single charting again we're introducing our music to a whole new generation of music lovers."

In other media, "Let Your Love Flow" was featured in the 1980 Tatum O'Neal film Little Darlings, the 2008 period drama Swingtown, and season 2 episode 'No Room at the Inn' of the HBO series The Leftovers.

"Let Your Love Flow" has been covered by numerous other artists, most notably Joan Baez, who included it on her 1979 Honest Lullaby album. Another re-recording by the Bellamy brothers with Gölä is included on the album The Greatest Hits Sessions. "Ein Bett im Kornfeld", a German language adaptation of the song recorded by Jürgen Drews, spent eleven weeks at #1 in West Germany in 1976, immediately subsequent to the five week #1 tenure of the Bellamy Brothers' original.

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"Lovers Live Longer" is a song written by David Bellamy, and recorded by American country music duo The Bellamy Brothers. It was released in October 1980 as the first single from the album Sons of the Sun. The song reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1]

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"I Need More of You" is a song written David Bellamy, and recorded by American country music duo The Bellamy Brothers. It was released in January 1985 as the third single from the album Restless. "I Need More of You" was The Bellamy Brothers eighth number one country hit. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart.

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Satin sheets
Recorded by the Bellamy Brothers
Written by Willis Allan Ramsey

G                              D7
I wish I was a millionaire  I'd play rock music and grow long hair
  C                        G
I tell you boys  I'd buy a new Rolls Royce
                                D7
Pretty women they'd come to me  I'd give 'em all the third degree
            C                        G
I'd give 'em satin sheets to keep 'em off the streets

D7          G
Hallelujah  let me sock it to ya
D7                                G
Praise the Lord and pass the tambourine
D7            G
Great Jehova  you'll come over
  D7                                                G
As soon as you see me boogie woogie 'cross the silver screen


I'd hang 'em high or hang 'em low
    D7
I'd put 'em in the ceilings wherever I'd go
    C                        G
And swing all night  from the rafter lights

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Dancing Cowboys

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I Need More Of You

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