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Paul Haney
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Was listening to "Let Your Love Go" by Bread today and I think I hear something at the 1:53 mark. Sounds like a bad edit, but I'm just not sure. Anybody else hear anything weird there or am I just hearing things???
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Paul, I had just starting buying most of the current 45s at around that exact time, in early 1971, and that song happened to be a big-time personal favorite of mine. It has sort of an unusual, off-beat, musical guitar/drum combo moment, at right around that 1:53 mark. Even without playing it for myself again today, I can clearly still recall at exactly what point in the song that you are referring to. I initially thought my 45 contained a skip because of it, but it didn't. And when my local Top 40 station played it as a current, I heard it on the radio that way as well. David Gates had been a successful songwriter for years, and as such had long known many of the other VERY top songwriters/session players. Among them were James Griffin, his good friend Robb Royer, guitarist Jim Gordon and drummer Mike Botts, who ended up as the group's early lineup. And by '72 or so, with the band's industry rep now emerging as a pop group, group defections occurred. Paul, my only point in mentioning all this is simply that the EARLY Bread songs had an abnormally strong, highly-skilled lineup of musicians providing the licks/rhythm section for their early pop/rock songs, which probably resulted in that "unusually creative, ear-jumping" moment within the song - hope this helps, my friend.
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Paul Haney
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Jim, thanks for your detailed response. I hadn't listened to that song in many, many years. I think it's one of their best. Glad to know my hearing isn't going yet:)
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Interestingly, this is one of the few Bread (and indeed, Elektra) singles to be released in mono.
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Paul and Jim, I think you were both hearing things. :) I never thought that was anything other than a neat turn of the drums on that spot.
Jim, I agree 100% that Bread had the chops; unfortunately, they were tagged with that dreaded "soft rock" label. Not that it was completely undeserved, though, with their mostly romantic ballad choices for A-sides. The relatively disappointing chartings of their two most rocking 45s ("Let Your Love Go", #28, and "Mother Freedom", #37) didn't help to foster a harder commercial image, but some of their album tracks and B-sides, such as "Truckin'", "Down On My Knees", "Take Comfort" and "This Isn't What The Governmeant" rewarded those who looked beyond the top-40 hits.
Steve, I presume you're speaking of 1968-and-beyond-era Elektra singles being mostly stereo. :) The first two Bread 45s were stereo ("Dismal Day" and "Could I") while the next two were mono ("Make It With You" and "It Don't Matter To Me") on both promo and stock copies. They, in turn, were followed by the mono "LYLG."
Edited by Yah Shure on 04 November 2008 at 5:52pm
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If one didn't purchase the original 45's back in the 70's, many are now being exposed to Bread, through the many greatest hits compilations out there. Mother Freedom and others are being discovered by new fans.
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The actual commercial 45 run time of Bread's "Let Your Love Go" is 2:24. (Jim once again is my source for the timing info. The printed record label time is 2:25.) I'm posting this because database CD times range from 2:18 to 2:25.
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