"Let Your Love Go" - Bread

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.

Interestingly, this is one of the few Bread (and indeed, Elektra) singles to be released in mono.

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.