Let Your Love Flow (original) - Gene Cotton 1975.wmv
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Written by Larry Williams, then a roadie for Neil Diamond. A big hit for the Bellamy Brothers in 1976, however first recorded by Gene Cotton on ABC album For The Young Writers.
Thanks Joop Jansen (audio) and www.originals.be (info). 
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Had the pleasure of working with Gene and he's not only a nice guy but a true professional and a class act.
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Met him in my college years. A true professional and genuinely nice person
I've been loving The Bellamy Brothers hit version for 30 years but after finding and listening to Gene Cotton's original version countless times the last couple of days I honestly think Gene brings even more feeling into the song. Such vibrancy yet easy going vocal performance! Love Gene Cotton
My favourite songs of his is You Got Me Running and Me And The Elephant.
THIS voice is what represents 70s pop rock to me.
ABC Records sure made one helluva blunder when they failed to promote this fine song by Gene Cotton. It took 1976s Bellamy Brothers to clean up and get the hit.
Even though the Bellamy Brothers turned this song into a hit, you can feel how comfortable Gene Cotton sings it. I like both. Thank you for posting it.
ussvoyager2001 I didn't even know that this was the original hit, but this is just as good. It's very Western Days worthy.
I met Gene Cotton in 1981 in Arkadelphia Arkansas. It was the 2nd time I had seen hin in Concert. I saw him in 1979 at Ouachita Baptist University with a full band. Very Rock. A couple of years later I was attending Ouachita, and he was to perform a solo concert. He asked for a guy from the A/V dept, to run the sound. I was there when he arrived, so I helped unload. We set everything up, and he asks the A/V guy could he run the mixer and he said he'd try. I said, I know how to do it. Since I had my own system and was semi-gigging at the time. So I spent the day with Gene tuning Guitars, Playing his songs with him, and he was gracious enough to listen to a couple of mine. I ran the sound for him that night, and It is still one of my fondest memories.
I had no idea that Gene did this first. I can see where the Bellamy Brothers got their version from. They virtually copied Gene and how he sang it. Good for them, but give credit where credit is due. This should have been known as GENE's song. And it became the Bellamy Brothers meal ticket pretty much for their entire career.
Why should they give credit to Cotton? It's Larry Williams's song.
He is my great uncle. He wrote it.
@@kernetbus Did Larry Williams record it first? Maybe. Sure, it was written by Williams but if Gene Cottons version is the original, he SHOULD be given credit, especially since its a flawless performance!
Such a confident yet laid back singer. Never pushing it. Just relying on his superb vocals to carry him through. Gene Cotton remains an underrated artist!
This gets better with each new listen! I've been listening to Bellamy Brothers cover version and hit for 30 years so this took a little getting used to. Love Gene Cotton!
Gene Cotton remains such an underrated artist/songwriter. Sure, he had near hits with You Got Me Running and the wonderful Me And The Elephant but his 1960s and 1970s studio album are filled with warm-hearted Soft Rock gems! Gene recorded Let Your Flow a year before The Bellamy Brothers and I must say I like Genes version better!
Im a late comer to the music of Gene Cotton but now I'm playing the catching up game and just purchased the Rain On album (1976). Such a superb Soft Rock album with stellar songs like Me And The Elephant and You Got Me Running. Let Your Love Flow is from the For All The Young Writers album (1975) and it was released a year before the Bellamy Brothers hit version.
The brass is really effective and the bouncy beat brings the song forward with ease. Top that with Gene Cotton's fine vocals and some great singing gals and you really SHOULD have been rewarded with a top charting hit.
Larry Williams had actually offered Neil Diamond the opportunity to record this song, but he declined.
+Jeffery Coogan I'm surprised Natalie Merchant never did a cover version of this song. She has just the right voice for that song. In fact better than any female singer I know. even the one from Swing Out Sister.
+stephen lang Absolutely, Natalie Merchant is one of my favorite female vocalist too. He solo work as well as all the stuff she did with 10,000 Maniacs.
Having been listening to The Bellamy Brothers hit version from 1976 for over 20 years, the brass on Gene Cotton's original 1975 version is fresh sounding and vibrant! Gene's got such a pleasing laid back voice yet its confident at the same time.
Gene Cotton actually wrote this song believe it or not! Pretty awesome song!
@@colinmonaco976 Are you referring to Let Your Love Flow? Well, Gene Cotton may have had the original version but the song itself was written by Larry Williams.
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It's like the song "I fought the law" most people think that the Bobby Fuller four did the original but it was actually The Crickets but because the Bobby Fuller version was the biggest hit people think that, that is the original.
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Beautiful song. The Bellamy brother's put a more polished version out. I love this song!
Joan Baez did a good version
He played at Northern State University in 1988 and told the story about how ABC records was less then fair with him and this song. It was so cool to see him and I hear he still plays at many Universities.
I have a promotional copy of that album
ABC Dunhill was getting ready to release the song. The Bellamy's producers found out about it and rushed their version out which went to #1.
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Thanks for posting!! Great song, great performance.
Fair or unfair, the Bellamy's version was far more catchier: don't get me wrong, I really love Gene's music.
I agree. But that may just be because the first version of a song you learn always seems the "right" version. With few exceptions, I've liked the first version I learned the best--whether I heard the remake first on today's pop station, or whether I heard the original first on today's oldie's station.
Agreed. I love Gene Cotton and never cated for this song, but objectively the Bellamy version is better.
The melody is stronger in the Bellamy's version, and their harmonies are much tighter than on the Gene Cotton version.
Cotton’s chorus just isn’t that catchy because he doesn’t give the notes the chance to sing.
That additional syllable that changes the rhythm makes so much of a difference.
“Just let your loooove floooow” vs “ltyrlvflo”.
I had no idea the Bellamy Brothers' version was a cover. I mean, look at I Turn to You, You Can't Hurry Love and I Will Always Love You, All 4 One, The Supremes and Dolly Parton did them first before Christina Aguilera, Phil Collins and Whitney Houston made them more popular.
Great singing great song.
the one truely Original. so much better than the Bellamy Brothers Cover. the radio stations should play this version !
love his style
Has a Van Morrison vibe.
Davan Mani agreed. The horns, especially.
All songs seem so real when you know its the first not the hit but the real song Greta to hear thanks
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Bellamys was a lot better this version sucks
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. 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. [1]