Don't Pull Your Love
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ABC, Los Angeles, California | ||||
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| Length | 2:42 | |||
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"Don't Pull Your Love" is the debut single by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds which became a top ten hit single in 1971. The song was written by Brian Potter and Dennis Lambert.
Background
The guys that wrote ['Don't Pull Your Love'] actually put that record out a year before we got a hold of it...We did it exactly like they did it...we liked the way the horns sounded & the way they had the tune structured & we literally kept that total arrangement on it.
Joe Frank Carollo, BlogTalkRadio[2]
Rumored to have been written with
According to Steve Barri, Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds themselves played on the basic tracks for their recording sessions, on which Jimmie Haskell's horn and string arrangements were later overdubbed.[6] The credits for their debut, which included "Don't Pull Your Love", entitled Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, lists the group members as musicians (Dan Hamilton on lead vocals and guitar, Joe Frank Carollo on bass guitar and Tom Reynolds on keyboards) with additional credits for drummer Joe Correro Jr. – formerly of Paul Revere & the Raiders – and keyboardist Larry Knechtel. Both Correro (Carollo's second cousin) and Knechtel were prolific session musicians with Knechtel - who also played bass - being a regular member of famous Los Angeles session band the Wrecking Crew: it has been alleged that the instrumentation on "Don't Pull Your Love" was exclusively a work of the Wrecking Crew with the trio being relegated only to vocals,[7][8] an allegation which Carollo has refuted ("we were self contained so we pretty much played on everything"), concluding that only Knechtel and Correro, as session musicians, played on the "Don't Pull Your Love" session.[2][9] An instrumental entitled "Funk-in-Wagnal", credited to the group's members, was recorded to be B-side of "Don't Pull Your Love".
Recorded in December 1970, "Don't Pull Your Love" was released April 1971[2] and reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated 31 July 1971, in which month the single was certified gold for sales of one million units (Billboard also afforded "Don't Pull Your Love" a No. 4 ranking on the magazine's Easy Listening chart).[10] On the Top 100 Singles chart in Cash Box dated 31 July 1971, "Don't Pull Your Love" was ranked at #1.[11] In Canada, "Don't Pull Your Love" spent one week at number one.[12]
Chart performance
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Glen Campbell medley version
| "Don't Pull Your Love/Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" | ||||
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 Side A of the US single | ||||
| Single by Glen Campbell | ||||
| from the album Bloodline | ||||
| B-side | "I Miss You Tonight" | |||
| Released | March 1976 | |||
| Recorded | December 23, 1975 | |||
| Studio | Sound Labs, Hollywood, California | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:22 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter ("Don't Pull Your Love") John D. Loudermilk ("Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye") | |||
| Producer(s) | Dennis Lambert Brian Potter | |||
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| "Don't Pull Your Love / Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" by Glen Campbell on YouTube | ||||
The lead single from the 1976
Chart performance
| Chart (1976) | Peak position |
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| Australia Kent Music Report | 65 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 2 |
| Canadian RPM Top Singles | 51 |
| Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks | 7 |
| New Zealand | 23 |
| US Billboard Hot Country Singles[25] | 4 |
| US Billboard Hot 100[26] | 27 |
| US Billboard Easy Listening[27] | 1 |
Sean Maguire version
| "Don't Pull Your Love" | ||||
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| Single by Sean Maguire | ||||
| from the album Spirit | ||||
| Released | July 22, 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1996 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter | |||
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In 1996, the song was covered by English actor/singer
Track listing
CD1
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Don't Pull Your Love" | |
| 2. | "Love by Candlelight" | |
| 3. | "Sean Interview" |
CD2
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Don't Pull Your Love" | |
| 2. | "Love by Candlelight" | |
| 3. | "The Sun Shines from You" |
Other versions
"Don't Pull Your Love" was recorded by Sam & Dave in 1971. Their version was released on Atlantic Records in October 1971 and reached number 36 on the Billboard R&B chart. It can be found on various "best of" Sam & Dave collections that are currently available.
The song was sung by the characters Min and Max (Two-Face's henchmen, voiced by Rob Paulsen) in the animated film Batman and Harley Quinn. They perform in a henchpersons' tavern that Batman, Nightwing, and Harley Quinn visit for information on Poison Ivy.
The Grass Roots who passed on the song were performing it in concert by 1996, with their live version - entitled "Don't Pull Your Love Out on Me Baby" - being included on the group's 2000 concert album Live at Last.
The song was also recorded by the Lettermen (album Love Book/ 1971), Sammy Babitzin (as "Kuin Tuhka Tuuleen" Finnish: album Sammy/ 1973): also a 1972 single release), and Guys 'n' Dolls (album The Good Times/ 1976), the last-named modifying the song to a duet with the lead vocals split between Dominic Grant and Martine Howard. Jimmy Helms had a 1975 single release of "Don't Pull Your Love".
Sonny & Cher covered the song on an episode of The Sonny & Cher Show in 1976.
References
- ^ ISBN 031214704X.
- ^ a b c "Joe Frank Carollo interview". BlogTalkRadio. 26 July 2014. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
- ISBN 9781365288760.
- ^ Billboard Vol 88 #19 (15 May 1976) "Barri Gets Good Vibes & Top Hits in Move to Warners" p.40
- ^ "See all likes of JohnTalkRadio: Joe Frank Carollo Interview with John Darlington by Joey Newman Music on SoundCloud | Listen online for free".
- ^ Record World Vol 26 #1267 (2 October 1971) "Steve Barri on Producing Singles" by Tony Lawrence pp.6, 26
- ISBN 9780312619749.
- ISBN 9781888408126.
- ^ "Episode 43 - Joe Frank Carollo of Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds".
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 111.
- ^ "Top 100 1971-07-31". Cashbox Magazine. Retrieved 2015-07-07.
- ^ a b "RPM 100", RPM, Volume 15, No. 24, July 31, 1971. Accessed August 2, 2016.
- ^ a b Steffen Hung. "Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". Australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
- ^ "MOR Playlist", RPM, Volume 15, No. 23, July 24, 1971. Accessed August 2, 2016.
- ^ NZ Listener chart summary, Flavour of New Zealand. Accessed August 11, 2016.
- ^ "Cash Box Top 100", Cash Box, July 31, 1971. p. 4. Accessed August 3, 2016.
- ^ "The Singles Chart", Record World, July 24, 1971. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
- ^ "The M.O.R. Chart", Record World, July 10, 1971. p. 26. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
- ^ "RPM 100 Top Singles of '71", RPM Weekly. p. 18. Volume 16, No. 20, January 08, 1972. Accessed August 3, 2016.
- ^ "Top Pop 100 Singles", Billboard, December 25, 1971. TA-36. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- ^ "Top Easy Listening Singles", Billboard, December 25, 1971. TA-38. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- ^ "Cash Box Top 100 Charts Hits of 1971", Cash Box, December 25, 1971. p. 31. Accessed August 3, 2016.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 44.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 67.
- ^ "Hot Country Singles", Billboard, June 5, 1976. p. 52. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
- ^ "Glen Campbell Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
- ^ "Easy Listening", Billboard, May 8, 1976. p. 46. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
External links
- "Don't Pull Your Love" at Discogs (list of releases)
