Let There Be Love (Bee Gees song)

"Let There Be Love" is a ballad performed by the Bee Gees, It was written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb and released as the opening track on the 1968 album Idea. It was also issued as a single in the Netherlands in 1970, peaking at number 16.[1] The group performed this song at 192 TV in 1968.[2]

"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)
Format7", 45rpm single
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

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
  • P.P. Arnold recorded this song on 9 June 1969 same day as "Bury Me Down By the River", another track by the Bee Gees. The session was produced by Barry Gibb.
  • Tom Jones covered the song and released it as the closing track on the album Tom in 1970. It was arranged by Johnnie Spence, engineered by Bill Price and produced by Peter Sullivan.[4]

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. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
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