Vinyl Album - Bee Gees - Best Of Bee Gees - Polydor

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Bee Gees
Title:	Best Of Bee Gees
Label:	Polydor
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	583 063
Date:	Oct 1969
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	16 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Bee Gees	Holiday	R. Gibb, B. Gibb	8.0 Rate
A2	Bee Gees	I've Gotta Get A Message To You	B. Gibb, R. Gibb, M. Gibb	10.0 Rate
A3	Bee Gees	I Can't See Nobody	R. Gibb, B. Gibb	9.0 Rate
A4	Bee Gees	Words	B. Gibb, R. Gibb, M. Gibb	10.0 Rate
A5	Bee Gees	I Started A Joke	B. Gibb, R. Gibb, M. Gibb	10.0 Rate
A6	Bee Gees	Spicks And Specks	B. Gibb	Rate
B1	Bee Gees	First Of May	B. Gibb, R. Gibb, M. Gibb	Rate
B2	Bee Gees	World	B. Gibb, R. Gibb, M. Gibb	Rate
B3	Bee Gees	Massachusetts (The Lights Went Out In)	B. Gibb, R. Gibb, M. Gibb	9.0 Rate
B4	Bee Gees	To Love Somebody	R. Gibb, B. Gibb	10.0 Rate
B5	Bee Gees	Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You	B. Gibb, R. Gibb, M. Gibb	10.0 Rate
B6	Bee Gees	New York Mining Disaster 1941	R. Gibb, B. Gibb	9.0 Rate

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Labels credit album as "Best Of The Bee Gees"

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dezwarteschijf 1st Feb 2016		Shame I didn't become a sound engineer ... After recording this album I reduced the stereo with 35% bringing the vocals and bass way more in front .. now it sounds wonderful !!!



dezwarteschijf 1st Feb 2016		To my own opinion these tracks are great but WHY did they had to make the recordings stereo. All tracks are becoming to sound so thin electronically reprosessed that with my headphone on it really become to sound that awful I stopped playing the record after a few songs. Shame because it's a great compilation of hits (besides Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You) .. that could have well been replaced with "Tomorrow Tomorrow" to my opinion. Maybe it's my 1973 RSO repro that sounds so awful ?



Jasper 6th Sep 2015		Added and linked Australian lp also Vol.2. - https://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/album/sel934548



Jasper 3rd Sep 2015		As boring as it may sound I used to keep meticulous account of all the records I bought - The Best Of - I bought on 17th May 1972 and Vol. 2 on the 26th August 1972 - both from Nicholsons in George Street Sydney and both cost me $5.95. The Best Of could be a re-issue as I believe the original release was 1969. I know - "get a life".



Record Collector 3rd Sep 2015		Me mine would be reissues sometime Around 1979



Jasper 3rd Sep 2015		I have both (Best Of and Vol. 2) on the Spin label.



Record Collector 3rd Sep 2015		I have the RSO issue this and volume two with their Bee Gee logo on the front



getalife 13th Jul 2015		@Record Collector, Ref: ‘here is some information about the song "Massachusetts" was recorded on 9 January 1967 along with "Sir Geoffrey Saved the World" at the IBC Studios in London’. ‘Sir Geoffrey Saved The World’ would have been the later recording as originally the lyrics were ’You Know You Gave Yourself Away’ and were only changed to ’Sir Geoffrey Saved The World’ at the last minute.



Record Collector 12th Jul 2015		There's two mixes of A2 and I have both of them



getalife 24th Feb 2015		@Record Collector, have a look at my 45 collection on 45cat, you will see and hear the recordings from the acetate and also see the original version of ‘Sir Geoffrey’. Also have a look at my collection on this site, Acetate of ‘Robert Stigwood’ Bee Gee Hits with ‘World’ would that have been the orchestration used on the record.



Record Collector 24th Feb 2015		getalife yes it was here is some information about the song Massachusetts" is recorded in 9 January 1967 along with "Sir Geoffrey Saved the World" at the IBC Studios in London and finishing it later in August 17. Barry feels Bill Shepherd's orchestral score is perhaps the arranger's finest: "We never expected him to do that. Sometimes we would sing what we would [imagine] the strings doing. But in this case he did that himself, and I thought it was great. 'Massachusetts' was our first #1 in England" this would be one of my favourite early bee gees songs and for some strange reason I thought there be a extra verse in the song



getalife 23rd Feb 2015		RC, sorry for going of this thread a bit, but, was ‘Massachusetts’ originally intended to have no orchestra as with ‘World’ ?.



Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Fascinating, RC, Where did you find that info?



Record Collector 23rd Feb 2015		information about the song The song's first recording session was on 3 October 1967 along with "With the Sun in My Eyes" "Words" and the unreleased track "Maccleby's Secret". The song's last recording session was on 28 October 1967. "World" was originally planned as having no orchestra, so all four tracks were filled with the band, including some mellotron or organ played by Robin. When it was decided to add an orchestra, the four tracks containing the band were mixed to one track and the orchestra was added to the other track. The stereo mix suffered since the second tape had to play as mono until the end when the orchestra comes in on one side. Barry adds: "'World' is one of those things we came up with in the studio, Everyone just having fun and saying, 'Let's just do something!' you know". Vince Melouney recalls: "I had this idea to play the melody right up in the top register of the guitar behind the chorus" In 1990, Bill Inglot synched up the two tape reels and made a new stereo mix for the Tales from the Brothers Gibb box set. Two mixes of the record were played to journalists at a press conference before its release. The released version is mainly the unorchestrated version but the orchestrated version is used from 2:39. The track features Robin on organ and Maurice on double-tracked piano. The vocals are mostly by Barry but Robin sings the chorus a few times prior to the fadeout



Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		B2, World is a bit deceptive, when first heard it sounds like a mono track, but toward the end it kicks into a full stereo effect.



Record Collector 23rd Feb 2015		and B2 is in stereo also



Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		On this album, the Bee Gees must've had Words with Bobby Stigwood because A4(The Paper Sheet position, A4, get it?) was most definitely STEREO on this compilation!



Record Collector 23rd Feb 2015		the alternative mix featured on their The Ultimate Bee Gees and A4 is in mono on that album



Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		A commercially-issued mix and an unissued alternate mix, that's my best guess on A2.



Record Collector 23rd Feb 2015		A2 there is two stereo mixes of this song



Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		I had the cassette of the Festival/Spin issue, then later bought this on CD, The Volume Two I acquired a year or so ago(Australian Festival/Spin again) but only after I acquired the CD Best Of Vol.2 issued by Pickwick under a different title but having the same tracks as the B.O.B.G. Vol.2 in the same order. Pickwick was known for that sort of thing, y'see!



Record Collector 23rd Feb 2015		I have the 1970's reissue on the RSO label with the follow up greatest hits volume two



Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Intersting.... Veeeerrrrryyyyy interesting! This is the same contents list as per the Australian Festival/Spin issue of about the same time, even down to inclusion of The Bee Gees' last-ever Australian-produced single, Spicks & Specks, which was replaced on later issues with Tomorrow, Tomorrow. The boys recorded Spicks & Specks in 1966(I think at Festival's Ultimo studios in Sydney) and it was the first major hit in Australia(as well as being the last Australian recording). It gave its name to a TV comedy game show on the ABC here where the host(Adam Hills, known in Britain for his show, The Last Leg) would ask music-related questions to two teams of three members, each with a regular leader(Allan Brough and Myf Warhurst) and two guests for each team(four in all, usually celebrities) Tina Arena was a guest on one show and when the song came up in a question, she innocently suggested it could be a theme tune for the show, When Adam Hills told her it WAS the theme, she slid down below the desk with embarrassment.... poor Tina!