Album · Voice of the Beehive
Let It Bee by Voice of the Beehive
Let It Bee is an album by Voice of the Beehive, released in 1988. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 6 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Beat of Love”, on 3 lists with a best position of #79.
Let It Bee, the 1988 debut from Voice of the Beehive, came out on London Records with Hugh Jones producing, and it's a sugar rush of bright guitar pop with a sly wink. The band had come together in London two years earlier around a pair of Californian sisters, Tracey Bryn and Melissa Brooke Belland, daughters of the Four Preps' Bruce Belland, who took the group's name from what Melissa means in Greek: honey bee. Behind them were Mike Jones and two former members of Madness, Daniel Woodgate and Mark Bedford.
The sisters' voices float sweet over the top while the songs, from "I Say Nothing" to "There's a Barbarian in the Back of My Car", carry a grin and a sting. Critics liked it, American college radio took to it, and in Britain it entered the albums chart at No. 13, with "Don't Call Me Baby" giving them their first top 40 single there.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Let It Bee on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beat of Love | 3 | #79 | – | 1989–1994 | |
| 2 | There's a Barbarian in the Back of My Car | 1 | #52 | – | 1988 | |
| 3 | I Say Nothing | 2 | #69 | – | 1988 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.