(#2008-4130) - Topics this issue: 1) 1980s Solo Albums' promotion in the UK, 2) My Thing and The Chance of Love on Cucumber Castle, 3) Robin's Dilemma, 4) Robin's Dilemma, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:38:24 -0200 From: "David Yang" Subject: Re: 1980s Solo Albums' promotion in the UK Hi Robin, You picked up Walls Have Eyes CD from a bargain bin? Wow, lucky you!!! I bought it in cassette around 1986/7 and in vinyl around 1990. I dream about having the original solo albums ha! David On 3/24/08, Robin Setty wrote: > > The release of Secret Agent seemed to blend in with How Old Are you. As > far as I recall, it came out shortly after the release of Another Lonely > Night in New York. Perhaps it's just my fading memory. Although quite a > Bee Gees fan at the time, I didn't buy the How Old Are You when it first > came out (preferring to wait for the brothers to get together). However, > when I heard ALNINY I did want to buy it. So, having saved up, I went to > the record shop, only to be told that it wasn't his latest album. Secret > Agent had just been released. > > In 1985 of course, I wasn't a member of a fan club. My friend went to a > discount record shop and saw Walls Have Eyes. I didn't even know there was > an album! So, I went to that shop (I think I spent good bus money!). I saw > the LP cover. However, the staff at the shop couldn't find the LP > itself. So, I left home empty handed. Bizarely, it was when I got home > that I heard Like a Fool on Radio 2. I never, however, managed to locate > the record until I saw it in a bargain bin on cassette about a year > later. About another year later I saw the CD in a bargain bin and bought > it. > > In the UK, I recall some initial promotion for Now Voyager. I also > remember Steve Wright (then Radio 1) playing Face to Face one Sunday morning > and describing it as a 'sure-fire' massive hit single single. I was > staggered as to why it wasn't released. > > Kilburn Towers > > www.familysetty.com > > > > "Words & Music", Fans Of The Brothers Gibb ( Bee Gees ) > http://www.brothersgibb.com > > To change any of your list options, > please go to website listed above. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:39:57 -0200 From: "David Yang" Subject: Re: My Thing and The Chance of Love on Cucumber Castle I love the bouncy bossa-nova feeling in "My Thing" by the great Maurice Gibb with all those MAJ7 chords! On 3/24/08, ROBERT KIM wrote: > > I used to think Cucumber Castle is just a ballad album. > Today I noticed that My Thing and The Chance of Love > are very similar to the tracks on Tin Tin's S/T album. > > I finally realized how little I know about the Bee Gees' > music. > > > -- > ROBERT KIM (aka ROBERT STIGWOOD) > > E-MAIL: mdconsultant@paran.com > > ROBERT KIM's Want List > http://beegeescollector.blogspot.com/ > > IBC Studio in London, England > http://ibcstudio.blogspot.com/ > > > > "Words & Music", Fans Of The Brothers Gibb ( Bee Gees ) > http://www.brothersgibb.com > > To change any of your list options, > please go to website listed above. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:50:12 -0700 From: Ann Grootjans Subject: Re: Robin's Dilemma On Sunday, March 23, 2008, at 09:20PM, wrote: > > >"Boys Do Fall in Love" was a good choice for a single and should've done >better. I blame the lukewarm response to the single on radio. The song was being >played in some areas but not all areas. I don't remember hearing the song >being played one time where I live. Was there a video for the song? That >might've helped give the song a better push. > http://www.robingibb.com/history/period/1980:1986/2008/01/24/01061984 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:45:49 +0900 From: "ROBERT KIM" Subject: Re: Robin's Dilemma Does they have a red Polydor label? Otherwise, were they released on the Mirage? On 24/03/2008, Joseph Brennan wrote: > > > "Juliet" and the "How Old Are You" album were not released in the US > according to Robin. I have copies of both labelled as US releases > on Polydor (not a big label in the US), so we can put that to rest. > ------------------------------ End words@brothersgibb.com Digest [03/25/2008 15:01] ----------------------------------------------------