Induction Year: 2024
Birth Name: David Milton Bellamy
Birth Date: 09-16-1950
Place of Birth: Dade City, Florida
David Bellamy and his singing partner/brother, Howard, are natives of Darby, FL. Their father was a Country musician, and they followed in his footsteps.
David first tasted songwriting success in 1974 when Jim Stafford made a major hit of his “Spiders And Snakes.”
The Bellamy Brothers landed a recording contract the following year and began making their mark on the Pop and Adult Contemporary charts before finding a home in Country music. By 1979, the duo scored a monster hit with David’s classic “If I Said You Have A Beautiful Body (Would You Hold It Against Me),” which was a Grammy nominee the following year for best country & western song.
From there, David began to provide the team with a steady stream of hits, topping the charts with “Sugar Daddy,” “Dancin’ Cowboys,” “For All The Wrong Reasons,” “Redneck Girl,” “I Need More Of You,” “Kids Of The Baby Boom” and “Old Hippie” (named one of Rolling Stone’s top 100 greatest country songs of all time in 2014) — all written solo by David, as was “Drug Problem” (a 2008 Dove nominee for country song of the year).
Over the years, David has also written or co-written songs sung by Carl Perkins, Clint Black, Rod Stewart, Blake Shelton, Frankie Miller, Alan Jackson, Dolly Parton and others. To date, more than 35 David Bellamy songs have been placed on the Country charts.
"Big Love"
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1989 | #5 Country |
"Crazy From The Heart"
(written with Don Schlitz)
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1987 | #3 Country |
| The Bellamy Brothers w/ Chris Hillman, Herb Pedersen & Rhonda Vincent | 2005 |
"Dancin' Cowboys"
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1980 | #1 Country |
| The Bellamy Brothers w/ Trini Triggs | 2005 |
"Drug Problem"
| The Bellamy Brothers | 2007 |
"Feelin' The Feelin'"
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1986 | #2 Country |
"For All The Wrong Reasons"
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1982 | #1 Country |
"I Love Her Mind"
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1983 | #4 Country |
"I Need More Of You"
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1985 | #1 Country |
"I'd Lie To You For Your Love"
(written with Jeff Barry, Howard Bellamy, Frankie Miller)
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1985 | #2 Country |
| Kim Carnes | 1987 |
"I'll Give You All My Love Tonight"
(written with Billy Crain, Wally Dentz)
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1988 | #6 Country |
"If I Said You Have A Beautiful Body (Would You Hold It Against Me)"
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1979 | #1 Country |
| The Bellamy Brothers w/ Dolly Parton | 2005 | #60 Country |
"Kids Of The Baby Boom"
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1987 | #1 Country |
| The Bellamy Brothers w/ Charlie Daniels & Bobby Bare | 2005 |
"Lovers Live Longer"
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1980 | #3 Country |
"Old Hippie"
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1985 | #2 Country |
| The Bellamy Brothers w/ Montgomery Gentry | 2005 |
| The Bellamy Brothers [as "Old Hippie (The Sequel)"] | 1986 |
| The Bellamy Brothers [as "Old Hippie Christmas"] | 1996 |
| The Bellamy Brothers [as "Old Hippie III (Saved)"] | 1996 |
"Redneck Girl"
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1982 | #1 Country |
| The Bellamy Brothers w/ Pat Green | 2005 |
| Blake Shelton | 2007 |
| The Bellamy Brothers [as "Redneck Girl 2002"] | 2002 |
"Santa Fe"
(written with Ron Taylor)
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1988 | #5 Country |
"Spiders And Snakes"
(written with Jim Stafford)
| Jim Stafford | 1973 | #66 Country, #3 Pop, #28 AC |
| Conway Twitty | 1974 |
| Kim Carnes | 1987 |
"Sugar Daddy"
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1980 | #1 Country |
| The Bellamy Brothers w/ George Jones | 2005 |
"Too Much Is Not Enough"
(written with Ron Taylor)
| The Bellamy Brothers w/ The Forester Sisters | 1986 | #1 Country |
"You Ain't Just Whistlin' Dixie"
| The Bellamy Brothers | 1979 | #5 Country |
| The Bellamy Brothers w/ Alan Jackson | 2005 |
Induction Year: 2024
