Country-pop crossovers The Bellamy Brothers are releasing a box set through Reader's Digest, collating four discs' worth of hits with rare and new tracks.
Howard and David Bellamy, self-taught brothers from Florida who enjoyed mixing traditional country sounds with rock/pop influences, first enjoyed success behind the scenes of the music industry. David wrote Top 5 country hit "Spiders and Snakes" for Jim Stafford, while Howard became his road manager. (Trivia alert: Stafford's previous manager was a man named Leo Gallagher, who would become a famed stage act when he dropped his first name and took a sledgehammer to a plethora of watermelons.) Eventually, the brothers signed to Curb Records and released an international hit, the soaring "Let Your Love Flow," in 1976.
The single only hit No. 21 on the country charts, however, and subsequent chart success would be hard to come by until 1979, when the duo scored their first country No. 1 single, "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me." Thus began a string of country hits through the '80s (all but one of their singles reached the Top 40 during the decade), released through Curb and distributed by a number of labels, including Warner Bros., Elektra and MCA.
In the '90s, the brothers eked out some success releasing their recordings on their own label. (They briefly returned to Curb in 2006 for Angels and Outlaws, Vol. 1, a new compilation featuring duets with other country superstars.) They continue to tour and record, garnering some minor controversy in 2010 for the politically charged track "Jalapeños." That track is one of 60 included on this four-disc set, as well as two new tracks, "Spanish Bible" (to be released on a forthcoming gospel album) and "What a Country."
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You can order the Bellamy box here and check the track list after the jump. (A note on discographical information: the duo have recorded and re-recorded their catalogue in the past, and there's unfortunately no way as of now to tell which are original masters and which might be re-recorded. To that end, we have not included any sourcing at this time.)
The Bellamy Brothers, Let Your Love Flow: The Ultimate Bellamy Brothers Collection (Reader's Digest, 2012)
Disc 1
- Let Your Love Flow
- If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body (Would You Hold It Against Me)
- Redneck Girl
- Old Hippie
- I Need More of You
- Do You Love As Good As You Look?
- Dancin' Cowboys
- When I'm Away from You
- Crazy from the Heart
- Feelin' the Feelin'
- Sugar Daddy
- For All the Wrong Reasons
- Kids of the Baby Boom
- Lie to You for Your Love
- I Could Be Persuaded
Disc 2
- Get Into Reggae Cowboy
- Lovers Live Longer
- Forget About Me
- Country Rap
- World's Greatest Lover
- Rip Off the Knob
- She Don't Know That She's Perfect
- Crossfire
- Cowboy Beat
- I Love Her Mind
- She's Awesome
- You Ain't Just Whistlin' Dixie (Live)
- Rebels Without a Clue
- Big Love
- Where's Your Brother?
Disc 3
- You'll Never Be Sorry
- You're My Favorite Star
- They Could Put Me in Jail
- Too Much is Not Enough
- Hillbilly Hell
- I'll Give You All My Love Tonight
- Santa Fe
- Almost Jamaica
- Center of My Universe
- Guilty of the Crime
- Jalapeños
- Let's Fall in Love Again
- Blue California
- Save Your Love
- Mexico Came Here
Disc 4
- Love by the Moon
- Back in the Day
- Heart of My Heart
- Blame It on the Fire in My Heart
- Strung Out
- After the Storm
- I Wish I Had You
- The Fires of Time
- Where Did the Common Sense Go?
- Lost in Ireland
- Up and Away
- Our Love
- Trust Me
- Spanish Bible
- What a Country
Goessens Danny says
Is it possible that the box of The Bellamy Brothers comes on sale again?
I really like to have it in my collection.
Please, if someone knows where I can buy it, let me known.
Great thanks
Goessens Danny says
I know that the box from The Bellamy Brothers is on sale by Reader's Digest.
But it is out of stock.