[2][1] The duo had considerable musical success in the 1970s and 1980s, starting with the release of their crossover hit "Let Your Love Flow" in 1976, a number one single on the Billboard Hot 100.
They have also enjoyed success in continental Europe, with a compilation album topping the Norwegian charts in 2011 and over two dozen hit songs that were released outside the US market.
[2] Their first musical gig was in 1968 at a benefit concert with their father in San Antonio, Florida, at the Rattlesnake Roundup.
[9][10] In the late sixties, the brothers and their band played for dances at the Dade City Civic Center and at Louie's in Brooksville.
They played as The Accidents and later as The Heterogeneous Grouping, performing covers of many of the popular rock and roll and R&B tunes of the time.
"Spiders & Snakes" went on to become a top five hit, providing the Bellamys with the money to move to Los Angeles.
The song, with its double entendre title derived from a Groucho Marx quote,[13] landed the Bellamys their first country music No.
[15] After the success of "If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me", the brothers continued with a run of country hits, including tunes such as "Redneck Girl", "Santa Fe", and the social commentary pieces "Old Hippie" and "Kids of the Baby Boom".
In 2005, the Bellamys returned to Curb Records to record Angels & Outlaws, Volume 1, a compilation album featuring re-recordings of the duo's older hits with additional artists, including Dolly Parton, George Jones, Alan Jackson, Tanya Tucker and Montgomery Gentry.
[31] Both sets of brothers performed the song together on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 1, 2009.
In 2010, the Bellamys recorded The Greatest Hits Sessions with Swiss rock star Gölä (Marco Pfeuti) and the project sold double platinum in Europe.
[34] In 2012, the Bellamy Brothers collaborated with Austrian schlager singer DJ Ötzi to create the album Simply the Best.
They recorded "Hello, Lady Harley" with Truck Stop in 2003,[37] worked with Alan Jackson in 2005,[38] and collaborated with Tom Astor in 2007.
[39] In April 2018, the group released the memoir Let Your Love Flow - The Life and Times of the Bellamy Brothers.
[42] In 2018 the brothers became the feature of the reality television series Honky Tonk Ranch, which aired on the Cowboy Channel, RFD-TV and now on the Circle Network.
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[44] They have had concerts in the United States, Europe, Australia and South Africa and have been to distant (from their US base) places like Dubai, Saudi Arabia, India, Sri Lanka, New Caledonia, Qatar, the Faroe Islands and the Czech Republic.
[42] The brothers have traveled around the world playing benefit concerts for American troops abroad including performances throughout Germany, Italy, Japan, Guam, South Korea, Bosnia and Kosovo.
[57] In 2016, the Bellamy Brothers partnered with the Susan G. Komen Foundation to release a video for "Let Your Love Flow."
They supported the foundation's breast cancer research by donating one dollar for every digital download of their 40 Year package.