Watch The Flowers Grow

"Watch the Flowers Grow" is a song composed by L. Russell Brown and Raymond Bloodworth and popularized by The Four Seasons in 1967. The single was released in the wake of The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, "Watch the Flowers Grow" struggled up the Billboard Hot 100 as The Four Seasons' music was rapidly falling out of favor with the American record-buying public (the Four Seasons' next single, a cover of The Shirelles' #1 hit "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" did slightly better, reaching #24 as the last Top 40 Four Seasons hit until "Who Loves You" in 1975).

Songwriter L. Russell Brown would compose (or co-compose) a string of hit records in the 1970s, including several recorded by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando.

The Four Seasons
  • Frankie Valli
  • Tommy DeVito
  • Bob Gaudio
  • Nick Massi
  • Charles Calello
  • Joe Long
Albums
  • Sherry & 11 Others (1962)
  • The 4 Seasons Greetings (1962)
  • Big Girls Don't Cry and Twelve others (1963)
  • The 4 Seasons Sing Ain't That a Shame and 11 Others (1963)
  • Golden Hits of the 4 Seasons (1963)
  • Golden Hits of the 4 Seasons (1963)
  • Dawn (Go Away) (1963)
  • Rag Doll (1964)
  • The Four Seasons Entertain You (1965)
  • Working My Way Back To You (1966)
  • New Gold Hits (1967)
  • Chameleon (1972)
  • Who Loves You (1975)
  • The Very Best of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (2002)
Singles
  • "Sherry"
  • "Big Girls Don't Cry"
  • "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"
  • "Walk Like A Man"
  • "Ain't That a Shame"
  • "Candy Girl"
  • "New Mexican Rose"
  • "Dawn (Go Away)"
  • "Stay"
  • "Ronnie"
  • "Rag Doll"
  • "Alone (Why Must I Be Alone)"
  • "Save It for Me"
  • "Sincerely"
  • "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby"
  • "Big Man in Town"
  • "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"
  • "Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby Goodbye)"
  • "Since I Don't Have You"
  • "Girl Come Running"
  • "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)"
  • "Let's Hang On!"
  • "Don't Think Twice"
  • "Working My Way Back to You"
  • "Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'bout Me)"
  • "On the Good Ship Lollipop"
  • "I've Got You Under My Skin"
  • "The Proud One"
  • "Tell It to the Rain"
  • "Beggin'"
  • "Can't Take My Eyes Off You"
  • "C'mon Marianne"
  • "Lonesome Road"
  • "Watch the Flowers Grow"
  • "Will You Love Me Tomorrow"
  • "You've Got Your Troubles (I've Got Mine)"
  • "My Eyes Adored You"
  • "Our Day Will Come"
  • "Who Loves You"
  • "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)"
  • "Silver Star"
  • "Grease"
Related topics
  • Discography
  • Members
  • Albums
  • Songs
  • The Four Lovers
  • The Wonder Who?
  • Bob Crewe
  • "Ces soirées-là"
  • Jersey Boys
Book:The Four Seasons

Famous quotes containing the words watch the, watch, flowers and/or grow:

    “I watch the clouds as I see them
    in pomp advancing, pursuing
    the fallen sun.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “Eyes—the head’s chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. A blind person is like a city abandoned by the authorities. On sad days they cry. In these carefree times they weep only from tender emotions.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
    Is a world of sweets and sours;
    Our flowers are merely—flowers,
    And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
    Is the sunshine of ours.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)