Let Your Love Flow 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
Put a Little Love in Your Heart Put a Little Love in Your Heart "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" is a song originally performed in 1969 by Jackie DeShannon, who composed it with her brother Randy Myers and Jimmy Holiday. In the U.S., it was DeShannon's highest-charting hit, reaching number 4 on the Hot 100 in August 1969 and number 2 on the Adult Contemporary charts. In late 1969, the song reached number one on South Africa's hit parade. The song rivaled the success of her signature song, "What the World Needs Now Is Love". In 1988, Annie Lennox and Al Green recorded a version