I Believe in Music (song)

[4] Gallery covered it in 1972 as the second of three singles off their Nice to Be with You album[5] and the follow-up release to their title track.

[6] Mac Davis's original had been released as a single nearly two years earlier and made a minor dent in the pop charts (US #117).

[8] In a 2017 interview, Davis said the song was inspired while he was in England at the home of Lulu and Maurice Gibb, who were married at that time:[8] I went to the kitchen and fixed myself a drink at the party, and there were a bunch of hippie types and they were gonna have a séance.

Helen Reddy's version was the first commercial recording of the song, and it was featured as the B-side of her first American success, "I Don't Know How to Love Him," which became a hit in February 1971.

Thomas, Liza Minnelli, Perry Como, Louis Jordan, Lee Towers, Wayne Newton, Kenny Rogers, Glen Campbell, Lynn Anderson and The Statler Brothers.

Davis in 2010. Davis said the line about lifting voices to the sky "epitomized the whole song. That's what music is about". [ 9 ]