"I Only Want My Love to Grow in You" is a song by

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band Strawbs featured on their 1976 album Deep Cuts. The song was written by

Dave Cousins Dave Cousins (born David Joseph Hindson; 7 January 1945) is an English musician who has been the leader, singer and most-active songwriter of Strawbs since 1967. Career Cousins is a founder member of the Strawbs, which started out as the Str ...

and

Chas Cronk Chas Cronk is an English musician, best known as the bass player and acoustic guitarist for the Strawbs from 1973 to 1980 and again from 2004 to the present. Chas also toured and recorded with Steve Hackett and Rick Wakeman in the 1980s and C ...

and was the first single to be released under their new deal with Oyster Records. This was the first single to be written by the Cousins/Cronk partnership and was chosen for its radio friendliness. Indeed it was BBC Radio 1's record of the week when released and got plenty of airplay. However, this did not translate into record sales

Release history

B-Side of the single

The B-side track "(Wasting My Time) Thinking of You" is another Cousins/Cronk composition also appearing on the album. The B-side of the 1975 United States release is a

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version of the A-side.

Personnel

– lead vocals, acoustic guitar * Dave Lambert –

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–

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, backing vocals *

Rod Coombes Rodney Coombes (born 15 May 1946) is an English musician. He was mostly known from playing drums with British bands Stealers Wheel in 1972 to 1973 and again in 2008 and Strawbs from 1974 to 1977 and again from 2004 to 2010. Career He has pla ...

– drums with *

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– mellotron *

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References

"I Only Want My Love to Grow in You" at Strawbsweb
*Liner notes to Road Goes on Forever CD RGF/WCDCD 027 ''Deep Cuts/Burning for You''

External links

Lyrics to "I Only Want My Love to Grow in You" at StrawbswebLyrics to "(Wasting My Time) Thinking of You" at Strawbsweb
1976 singles Strawbs songs 1976 songs Songs written by Dave Cousins Songs written by Chas Cronk {{1970s-rock-song-stub