(#2006-2146) - Topics this issue: 1) Clare Torry, 2) Strange Timing, 3) Digest (06/12/2006 15:01) (#2006-2145), 4) Clare Torry, 5) Clare Torry, 6) Sir Geoffrey Saved The World, 7) Party With No name, 8) Strange timing, 9) Clare Torry, 10) Digest (06/12/2006 15:01) (#2006-2145), 11) Timing, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:13:51 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andrew_M=F4n_Hughes?= Subject: Re: Clare Torry From: "Ronnie Olsson" > Has anyone else picked up the Clare Torry compilation CD 'Heaven In The > Sky' > (UK: RPM 309). I bought it a while back, been meaning to bring it up here > but > forgot about it. They've compiled 18 recordings of Clare's humble output > among > which contains the so called yes-I-did,-no-I-didn't Robin Gibb-produced > Love > For Living. > The booklet describes how Clare cut the demo to that song, took it to play > for > Chris Hutchins who just had a visit by Robin. Robin wanted to keep the > demo as > it was but do brass and strings overdubs. > Sadly the CD omits the b-side of the same single. I haven't got the CD, but I do have the original single - if you have the Robin Gibb "Magnetic Tour 2004", we used a pic of it in there. Fret no more Ronnie - the omission of the B-side "Love Tomorrow, Love Today" is of no consequence as there is no involvement there, the Musical Director was John Fiddy and the Producer, Dick Rowe. John Fiddy was the MD on the A-side too. Release date was 20th June 1969. Andrew ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:39:53 -0400 From: "Narissa Rahaman" Subject: re: Strange Timing words@brothersgibb.com on Monday, June 12, 2006 at 3:02 PM -0500 wrote: > (This also brings to mind a sad thought about where Sir Geoffrey may be). Haha...one can only wonder. Maybe he knew what was coming... Narissa ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:56:40 -0400 From: SarahSms@webtv.net (Sarahsms) Subject: Re: Digest (06/12/2006 15:01) (#2006-2145) how did Sir Geoffry save the world? The song says you know sir geoffrey saved the world, I played it for someone and they said they didn't know that and how did he? Answer? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:03:41 -0400 From: "Ronnie Olsson" Subject: Re: Clare Torry -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Môn Hughes Subject: [words] Clare Torry > I haven't got the CD, but I do have the original single - if you have the > Robin Gibb "Magnetic Tour 2004", we used a pic of it in there. A similar image, not the same though, is portrayed in the fold-out booklet and they have hand-written accounts for each recording rendered in there as well giving session information for each recording (Stand by your inbox, Joe). > Fret no more Ronnie - the omission of the B-side "Love Tomorrow, Love Today" > is of no consequence as there is no involvement there, the Musical Director > was John Fiddy and the Producer, Dick Rowe. Good to know, I'll probably get round to getting the actual 7" one day. > John Fiddy was the MD on the A-side too. > > Release date was 20th June 1969. Demo rec. Apr 9th, overdubs on May 28th. /Ronnie Apatisk livsnjutare http://www.brothersgibb.com Bee Gees News and Information ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:32:41 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andrew_M=F4n_Hughes?= Subject: Re: Clare Torry From: "Ronnie Olsson" > A similar image, not the same though, is portrayed in the fold-out booklet > and > they have hand-written accounts for each recording rendered in there as > well > giving session information for each recording (Stand by your inbox, Joe). Yes, my copy is a demo - in many cases with late 60's and early 70's singles, demo copies are sometimes more common than the stock issue. >> Fret no more Ronnie - the omission of the B-side "Love Tomorrow, Love >> Today" >> is of no consequence as there is no involvement there, the Musical >> Director >> was John Fiddy and the Producer, Dick Rowe. > > Good to know, I'll probably get round to getting the actual 7" one day. It's seriously rare - I only know of one other person who has a copy! If there's anybody out there that has one, please do tell - at the moment I'd place this higher up the rarity league table than the Kelli Wolfe CD! Andrew ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:54:45 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andrew_M=F4n_Hughes?= Subject: Re: Sir Geoffrey Saved The World From: "Sarahsms" > how did Sir Geoffry save the world? The song says you know sir geoffrey > saved the world, I played it for someone and they said they didn't know > that and how did he? Answer? The Sir Geoffrey refered to is Geoffrey Brown who was a Secretary of State in the British government at the time. His saving the world relates to the Clean Air Act, although it wasn't introduced by him - the Gibb's were just writing about contemporary events. Andrew ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:56:53 EDT From: Bgwise2000@aol.com Subject: Re: Party With No name Er, what if i said it was my party? Ok, sorry, poor joke. Guess, i'll stand in the corner now and wonder whose party i belong to. I actually love movements in Ghost Train with all of its 'special effects'. Like Tragedy, the music pushes the rhythm along as if on a train journey. Unique to find the same technique used successfully twice but at different beat/pace. For the best atmospheric effect listen to it in the dark, under the duvet covers, almost like you did as a child with the radio on after hours. > The only thing everybody seems to agree upon is that Party With No Name is > nobody's favourite. > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:56:57 EDT From: Bgwise2000@aol.com Subject: Re:Strange timing Marty, i couldn't have said it better. I too find the Brothers amazingly=20 spiritual and have an uncanny foresight that allows them to swing away from=20 disaster each time. Predestined it would seem. > They all knew they would be out of their contract and would re-release all= =20 > the original works, but the idea that this =E2=80=9Cwas=E2=80=9D the last=20= of the Bee Gees=20 > never occurred to me until Maurice died. > =20 > The Gibbs are very spiritual if not mystical. Anyone else have any=20 > thoughts about this timing? >=20 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:13:28 -0400 From: "Ronnie Olsson" Subject: Re: Clare Torry -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Môn Hughes Subject: [words] Clare Torry > > Good to know, I'll probably get round to getting the actual 7" one day. > > It's seriously rare - I only know of one other person who has a copy! If > there's anybody out there that has one, please do tell - at the moment I'd > place this higher up the rarity league table than the Kelli Wolfe CD! Oh, stop it Andrew! I'm slobbering worse than a St. Bernard when you say things like that.... ;) /Ronnie Apatisk livsnjutare http://www.brothersgibb.com Bee Gees News and Information ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:17:20 -0500 From: "Grant Walters" Subject: Re: Digest (06/12/2006 15:01) (#2006-2145) > > The Gibbs are very spiritual if not mystical. Anyone else have any > thoughts about this timing? I hadn't really put a lot of thought toward the spiritual "coincidences" surrounding the events before and after Maurice's death. I have always said that I thought the tone and substance of "This Is Where I Came In" and the shifting to various solo projects, new publishers, financial handlers, etc. was a foreshadowing of the end of the Bee Gees. But yes, it is odd that all of these events happened to be in process or tied up by the time Maurice died. I don't pretend to know anything about religion or other powers of the universe, but I suppose one could might not rule out that all of those things were part of a spiritual master plan. Stranger things have happened. Grant ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:46:58 EDT From: BevSully@aol.com Subject: Re: Timing In a message dated 6/12/2006 3:16:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, listmember@brothersgibb.com writes: The Gibbs are very spiritual if not mystical. Anyone else have any thoughts about this timing? Hi Marty - I didn't really think of the timing of Mo's death in relation to all the activity that you mentioned, but I have on numerous occassions (the death of my Mother being one of them) seen how often God gives you just enough time to tie up lose ends before moving on to the next dimension. We all more or less assumed that there would have been more BeeGee music once they got the rights to their music back, but there is a piece of me that thinks the writing was on the wall. It just doesn't take four years to write a collection of songs. It is definitely interesting to think about the timing of all those events. Bev ------------------------------ End words@brothersgibb.com Digest [06/12/2006 21:01] ----------------------------------------------------