Let There Be Love (Bee Gees song)

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"Let There Be Love"
The Dutch release of the single.
Single by Bee Gees
from the album Idea
B-side"Really and Sincerely" (Netherlands)
ReleasedSeptember 1968 (album)
1970 (Netherlands)
Recorded12 June or 21 June 1968
IBC Studios, London
GenreBaroque pop
Length3:28 (mono)
3:32 (stereo)
LabelPolydor (United Kingdom)
Atco (United States)
Songwriter(s)Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb
Producer(s)Robert Stigwood, Bee Gees

"Let There Be Love" is a dramatic ballad by the Bee Gees, written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb and released as the opening track on their 1968 album Idea. In 1970 it was issued as a single in the Netherlands, peaking at no. 14 in March during a four-week chart run.[1] In 1968 the group performed (lip-synced) the song on a European TV station, and the clip has been played on 192TV in the Netherlands.[2]

"Let There Be Love" features on the 1973 compilation Best of Bee Gees Vol. 2.

Background

Barry Gibb recalls:

"'Let There Be Love'" was written next to St. Paul's Cathedral in a penthouse apartment that we rented when we first arrived in England. That song was written in that penthouse 'round about midnight. Me and my then-girlfriend, who is my wife now, we'd just fallen in love, and it was that type of mood I was in that night."[3]

The 2006 deluxe remaster has a mono mix of an earlier state of the recording, with different lead vocal sung entirely by Barry and some instrumental differences and faded at 3:34.

Personnel

Cover versions

References

  1. ^ Hung, Steffen. "Bee Gees - Let There Be Love". Hitparade.ch. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  2. ^ "192 TV rare clips". Missingepisodes.proboards.com. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  3. ^ Sandoval, Andrew. "Bee Gees - Idea at Album Liner Notes". Album Liner Notes. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
  4. ^ "Tom Jones - Tom". Discogs.com. 1970. Retrieved 22 March 2013.