Songfacts®:

• According to Howard Bellamy, who is half of the Bellamy Brothers duo, it pays to be in the right place at the right time. "Let Your Love Flow," their most popular song and a #1 hit in 1976, is a prime example of that.
  
  Bellamy told Songfacts the story behind the song: "Around '74, we moved from Florida to L.A. to kind of pursue a career. We're from here in Central Florida in a little community called Darby - there is not much of a music scene here, to say the least. So we moved out there and met a lot of guys and met Neil Diamond's band, became good friends with his band. And one day Neil's drummer 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.' So we went off to record that, and the rest is kind of history. It became not only the largest song of that year, it's become somewhere in the area of one of the largest songs ever, as far as being played. And it's become a standard, basically. I wish another one of those would come along."
• Larry Williams, who was one of Neil Diamond's roadies, wrote this song. Neil Diamond, however, turned it down. Says Bellamy: "Well, it really wasn't in Neil Diamond's vein. I would say the guy who wrote this song is the wealthiest roadie now that ever was. Actually, Johnny Rivers had passed on the song. It had been pitched to a few people. It was recorded once by a guy named Gene Cotton; he recorded a kind of unusual version. But when we heard it we had an idea of how we wanted to record it because it kind of fit our style, acoustic bass with a groove, and I think that has a lot to do with it. You've got to really match songs with artists, and I think it was the perfect song for us, a great match."
• This song was re-recorded with Hal Ketchum and Lisa Brokup for the Bellamy Brothers 2006 Angels and Outlaws album.
• "Let Your Love Flow" did well in the UK, going to #7 when it was released in 1976. It returned to the chart at #21 in 2008 when it was used in a popular commercial for Barclaycard.
• The song plays in a 2025 Super Bowl commercial for Budweiser where a young clydesdale pushes a stray keg of beer across dusty roads and "down a mountain stream" to deliver it to a bar.
• "Let Your Love Flow" was by far the biggest hit for The Bellamy Brothers, and one of the few songs they didn't write. They crossed over to country music in 1979 with "If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body (Would You Hold It Against Me)," which reached #39 on the Hot 100 but topped the Country chart. From there they ran off a series of #1 Country hits, including "Sugar Daddy" and "Do You Love as Good as You Look."
• The song appears in these movies:
  Little Darlings (1980)
  Slums Of Beverly Hills (1998)
  Clay Pigeons (1998)
  Go (1999)
  Mr. Church (2016)
  American Made (2017)
  
  And in these TV shows:
  That '70s Show ("The Good Son" - 1999)
  The Sopranos ("Where's Johnny?" - 2004)
  Breaking Bad ("Down" - 2009)
  Daisy Jones & The Six ("Track 8: Looks Like We Made It" - 2023)