Watch the Flowers Grow

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“Watch the Flowers Grow”
Single by The Four Seasons from the album Edizione d'oro (Gold Edition)
B-side	Raven
Released	October 1967
Format	7"
Genre	Rock
Length	3:11
Label	Philips
Writer(s)	L. Russell Brown-Raymond Bloodworth
Producer	Bob Crewe
The Four Seasons singles chronology
Lonesome Road (as The Wonder Who?) (1967) Watch the Flowers Grow (1967) Will You Love Me Tomorrow (1968)

"Watch the Flowers Grow" is the name of a song composed by L. Russell Brown and Raymond Bloodworth and popularized by The Four Seasons in 1967. Produced by Bob Crewe, 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 Orlandoincluding the 3rd most recorded song in the history of recorded music

TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLE OAK TREE.Brown also wrote

The following multi million selling songs. KNOCK THREE TIMES SOCK IT TO ME BABY SAY HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY SWEET GYPSY ROSE C'MON MARIANNE.for the 4Seasons. Which is part of the score for the smash Broadway show Jersey Boys