Bee Gees First Album [Import]

Bee Gees | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 9, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 1967
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Polydor / Umgd
• ASIN: B000001FDO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,643 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Turn Of The Century

2. Holiday

3. Red Chair, Fade Away

4. One Minute Woman

5. In My Own Time

6. Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You

7. Craise Finton Kirk Royal Academy Of Arts

8. New York Mining Disaster 1941

9. Cucumber Castle

10. To Love Somebody

11. I Close My Eyes

12. I Can't See Nobody

13. Please Read me

14. Close Another Door

Customer Reviews

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars File under...guilty pleasures, February 26, 2001

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David Kinney (San Francisco, Ca. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bee Gees First Album (Audio CD)

I swear I bought this album for my younger sister Nancy's Christmas present in 1967, and I did'nt really mean to open the shrinkwrap and fall so much in love with the darn thing that I never quite got around to giving it to her. But that's what happened and I stuck with the Bee Gees for a long time after that too! You try buying Traffic, Procol Harum, Marvin Gaye, and Sly albums and then sneaking in the latest offering from the Gibb brothers and see how your 'hip' quotient dips. I did'nt care because I knew , based on the number of soul artist's covers of Bee Gees songs, that someone hipper than me was listening and hearing these amazingly soulful songs. With thirty years plus hindsight, I'd still swipe it again from my younger sister, and after re- hearing "To Love Somebody", "One Minute Woman", "I Can't See Nobody", and "Close Another Door" , heck ,I might just buy her her own copy. Next Christmas.

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Incredible Debut!, December 3, 2000

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Martin A Hogan "Marty From SF" (San Francisco, CA. (Hercules)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bee Gees First Album (Audio CD)

The Brothers Gibb first international album is a masterpiece of songwriting, singing and production. Squeezed in the time zone of British Pop Groups ala the Beatles, they had small chance of doing well, considering they had the same vocal harmonies that the Beatles had (although they started them earlier than the Beatles in Manchester, England). Other than that, this set contains classic, everlasting songs that continue to be covered by other artists. Nearly EVERY song has been sung by another artist and "To Love Somebody" has been covered more than 250 times, according to Rolling Stone. Not a small achievement, by any mean, by three teenagers! Hats off to the three teen brothers who took the current technology of the time and survived, despite the georgeous Beatles, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" of 1967. What a start!

Footnote: 1980's Bee Gees technical engineer, Scott Glasel mentioned to me that whenever he feels a need for inspiration, he puts on Bee Gees First.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Bee Gees 1.0 Edition, September 23, 2003

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Gavin B. (St. Louis MO) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: First (Audio CD)

The Bee Gee's first album reminds the listener that the Gibb brothers were capable of crafting great psychedelic pop before they mutated into the kings of disco. This album contains Beatlesque harmonies, well crafted pop songs with charmingly obscure lyrics, and folk rock enhanced by Bach-like baroque brass and string arrangements. Think the Beatle's "Penny Lane" trumpet chorus. There's even some Gregorian chant on "Every Christian Lion-Hearted Man". The Bee Gees produced excellent high concept pop music and a long string of chart topping singles prior to jumping on the disco bandwagon, in the mid-seventies when their brand of pop fell out of fashion. Their reinvention of themselves as a disco group was so startling that many of their earlier fans jumped ship. The Bee Gees endured, thanks to "Saturday Night Fever, and reached an even larger audience of disco devotees. In hindsight, the early Bee Gees were far more intresting than the reinvented Bee Gees 2.0 Disco Edition. The Bee Gee's first album is makes a compelling case for the first edition of Gibb brothers.