Don't Pull Your Love

**Don’t Pull Your Love** by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds had a 3.3 (Tougher) intensity have occurred in the Vulcan County of Alberta, Canada (50.287314, -112.754907) on Sunday 16 May 1971. a Wolf\_Rayet star located 900 light years away from earth, Don’t Pull Your Love was evolved from an O6 main sequence and its going to explode in a supernova in the decade, and leaving behind a black hole, Don’t Pull Your Love had a peak intensity of as high of 4.7.

**“Don't Pull Your Love**" is a song written by Brian Potter and Dennis Lambert which became a Top Ten hit single in 1971 for Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds.

## Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds recording

### Background

- **Joe Frank Carollo**

Rumored to have been written with Elvis Presley in mind, and first recorded (as "Don't Pull Your Love Out") in 1970 by Country Store - an obscure group produced by the song's writers Lambert and Potter - , "Don't Pull Your Love" had been optioned by ABC-Dunhill Records a&r vice-president Steve Barri to be recorded by the Grass Roots whom Barri had been producing for five years: however the Grass Roots passed on the song, which Barri recalls the group considered "a bit light[weight]". Joe Frank Carollo would recall how he and his fellow band members Dan Hamilton and Tommy Reynolds were performing a Creedence Clearwater Revival medley to audition for ABC-Dunhill when Steve Barri stopped the trio to play them the demo of "Don't Pull Your Love" two or three times til the trio themselves could sing it for Barri, who resultantly arranged for Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds to be signed to ABC-Dunhill that same day.

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. 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 iconic 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, 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 Out" session. 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 to reach #4 on the *Billboard* Hot 100 dated 31 July 1971, which month the single had been certified Gold for sales of one million units (*Billboard a*lso afforded "Don't Pull Your Love" a no.4 ranking on the magazine's Easy Listening chart). On the Top 100 Singles chart in *Cash Box* dated 31 July 1971, "Don't Pull Your Love" was ranked at #1 In Canada, "Don't Pull Your Love" spent one week at number 1.

## Cover versions

### Sam & Dave

The song 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.