Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 21:04:31 +0000
From: "julian@theglassfamily.co.uk" <julian@theglassfamily.co.uk>
Subject: Odessa revisited
C'mon Chris,
YMIABAT or if you prefer 'Your memory is not as bad as that'
Julian
> On 17 Mar 2017, at 19:01, mailbag@brothersgibb.com wrote:
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> 1 Odessa revisited julian@theglassfamily.co.uk
> 2 Edge of the Universe compoccia@aol.com
> 3 Odessa revisited cmathis@brothersgibb.com
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> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:47:01 +0000
> From: "julian@theglassfamily.co.uk"
> Subject: Odessa revisited
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> It's regarded as a classic album despite being in the words of B and R as 'unfinished'. As you listen again it seems like the Robin and Maurice centric tracks are all finished but many of those where Barry takes centre stage are not.
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> the lyrics of YNSMFA; Give Your Best; Never Say Never Again
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> the double tracking errors on YNSMFA; GYB, NSNA; ILIYF
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> The magnificence of O; BD; MPD; E; MF; WW; L; SOL; FOM is a joy to behold though.
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> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:54:29 -0400
> From: Salvatore Compoccia
> Subject: Edge of the Universe
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> This has probably been discussed before at some point and I may not be revealing anything new, but I recently googled the name "Shenandoah. Of course, Shenandoah sounds very similar to "Shenandora" which is referenced in the song. Shenandoah is the Nati
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> Apparently, Barry or Robin either got the pronunciation of Shenandoah wrong or just perhaps intentionally changed it because it fit the melody better. Either way, "Shenandora" is the alien in the song and I guess he is being taken for the sky spirit "Sh
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> Weird song, but one of my early favorites. Still is.
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> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:25:46 -0400
> From: Chris Mathis
> Subject: Re: Odessa revisited
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> Any chance on us encrypting (insert sarcasm here) the song titles?
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> I personally am trying to figure out some of them! :(
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> On March 17, 2017 1:47:06 PM "julian@theglassfamily.co.uk"
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> > It's regarded as a classic album despite being in the words of B and R as
> > 'unfinished'. As you listen again it seems like the Robin and Maurice
> > centric tracks are all finished but many of those where Barry takes centre
> > stage are not.
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> > the lyrics of YNSMFA; Give Your Best; Never Say Never Again
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> > the double tracking errors on YNSMFA; GYB, NSNA; ILIYF
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> > The magnificence of O; BD; MPD; E; MF; WW; L; SOL; FOM is a joy to behold
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> > Julian
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> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:54:52 -0400
> From: "Chris Mathis"
> Subject: RE: Odessa revisited
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> Sorry, meant UN encrypting! 😊
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> From: Words@brothersgibb.com [mailto:Words@brothersgibb.com] On Behalf Of Chris Mathis
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 2:26 PM
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> Subject: [Words] Odessa revisited
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> Any chance on us encrypting (insert sarcasm here) the song titles?
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> I personally am trying to figure out some of them! :(
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> On March 17, 2017 1:47:06 PM "julian@theglassfamily.co.uk"
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> > It's regarded as a classic album despite being in the words of B and R
> > as 'unfinished'. As you listen again it seems like the Robin and
> > Maurice centric tracks are all finished but many of those where Barry
> > takes centre stage are not.
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> > Think:
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> > the lyrics of YNSMFA; Give Your Best; Never Say Never Again
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> > the double tracking errors on YNSMFA; GYB, NSNA; ILIYF
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> > The magnificence of O; BD; MPD; E; MF; WW; L; SOL; FOM is a joy to
> > behold though.
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> > Julian
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From: Salvatore Compoccia <compoccia@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Odessa revisited
Julian wrote:
>It's regarded as a classic album despite being in the words of B and R as 'unfinished'.
My memory is that they said only "Odessa", the song , was unfinished.
As far as the entire album is concerned, it's a little hard to figure what exactly they were going for. It started out as an ambitious album tentatively titled "Masterpeace", which was supposedly to be a send up on the American political scene (they were
Barry has also stated that it was not originally meant to be a double album and it was apparently sort of stretched into a twin LP. This seems to have been the case. Please look at Joe's Odessa entry in his Gibb Songs where he separates the tracks recorde
While I think Odessa is a very good album with some brilliant songs, I do have this "what might have been" feeling about it. As we know, the group was really breaking up at the time and this obviously affected the album and probably not for the better. Ba
Even under those trying circumstances, I think they could still have rounded the album out a little better. They could have easily included a few songs that were unused. Obviously, "Nobody's Someone" and "Pity" could have been added. To feature some more
But, it is a good album as it is.
Sal
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From: "julian@theglassfamily.co.uk" <julian@theglassfamily.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Odessa revisited oops
C'mon Chris,
YMINABAT or if you prefer 'Your memory is not as bad as that'
Julian
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