Marbles [EXTRA TRACKS] [IMPORT]

Marbles

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 8, 2003)
• Original Release Date: November 25, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Repertoire
• ASIN: B0000DIJLT
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #197,300 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Product Description
2003 reissue of the Baroque pop act's 1970 album is packaged in a digipak & features 18 tracks including 6 bonus tracks, 'Only One Woman' (Mono Single Version), 'By The Light Of A Burning Candle' (Mono Single Version), 'The Walls Fell Down' (Mono Single Version), 'Love You', 'I Can't See Nobody' (Mono Single Version), & 'Little Boy' (Mono). Repertoire.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bee Gees produced & written material, November 27, 2003

By	Philip A.Cohen (Bay Harbor Islands, Florida United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This reissue brings together the album & 3 singles of Australian duo of vocalists Trevor Gordon & Graham Bonnet(yes,the same Graham Bonnett who later sang with heavy metal bands "Rainbow" & "Alcatrazz").For the 3 singles,it's a good thing that the pure mono versions have been added as bonus tracks,because,though 3 of these 6 songs appear on the album,these 3 appeared in fake stereo on the album.The 3 singles(including their one major UK hit "Only One Woman") have the fingerprints of The Bee Gees all over them.The Bee Gees wrote,produced and played on these 6 songs,which have all of the trademarks of late 1960's Bee Gees arranger/conductor Bill Shepherd.They are simply Bee Gees backing tracks with somebody else singing.There have been conflicting reports about whether The 2 Marbles members were each other's cousins or whether Graham Bonnett is The Bee Gees cousin.On the other Marbles tracks(the ones without Bee Gees/Bill Shepherd involvement),the duo veers towards a Righteous Brothers-type sound,with good renditions of "A House is Not a Home","Storybook Children" & "Stay With Me Baby".I occasionally bump into Barry Gibb here in South Florida,and when I informed him that the "Marbles" album had just been released on CD in Germany,Gibb said(with slight embarrassment/amazement) "Oh Gosh!!".You see,musicians are always thinking about their latest project;they're not nostalgic like the fans are.For Barry Gibb,the 33-year old Marbles tracks were just a long-forgotten part of his distant musical past.They're musically good though,and fans of the late 1960's Bee Gees music will like the 6 singles tracks.I'd say that the two songs on the debut single("Only One Woman" & "By The Light of a Burning Candle") were too strong for the Gibbs to give away,something that they belatedly realized:They recorded their own version of "Only One Woman" in the 1970's(during the sessions for the album "Main Course")....only to unfortunately never release the recording.Maybe it will be heard someday....(Oh,and in an update to the above,despite oft-repeated publicity hype repeated in this CD's liner notes,while The Marbles may be each others cousins,neither Graham Bonnet or Trevor Gordon is related to The Bee Gees)

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Great historic Album!, May 16, 2004

By	Martin A Hogan "Marty From SF" (San Francisco, CA. (Hercules)) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

In 1968, Trevor Gordon and Graham Bonnet, friends of the Bee Gees, were signed with Robert Stigwood. Possessing bold voices, the duo only released one album before going their separate ways. But it is a grand album. Only three of the thirteen songs were written by the duo, with six being written by the Bee Gees. The first two singles were Gibb songs and were fairly large hits in 1968 and 1969 with "Only One Woman" becoming a classic. Even corny ballads like, "A House Is Not A Home" and "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" are given new life with Graham Bonnet's soaring vocals. But it's the Gibb songs that bring out the vocal magic of this duo. "By The Light Of The Burning Candle" is pure Gibb confection and "To Love Somebody" will stand high among the other 250 cover versions of this composition. This collection is an important mark in time from these two talented guys.

This version contains five extra Gibb compositions (including the very early "Love You") repeated in Mono. It really doesn't add much to the set other than historical perspective.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Magnificent Marbles, April 18, 2004

By	Fredric A. Cooper (Torrance, CA United States) - See all my reviews

Lovers of '60s Bee Gees and Walker Bros. music will absolutely need to hear this. They may have only recorded one album, but The Marbles made a gem of a pop album if ever there was one. They actually outdo their mentors The Bee Gees with the clever arrangements here, which are upbeat and lively. But the quiet moments are lovely, too, as the self-penned "Daytime" and "Little Laughing Girl" illustrate. And as for the other non-Bee Gees material, "A House is Not a Home" is simply the best-ever version of this often-recorded song. Even Neil Sedaka's "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" is good (it got some radio play in the US). The Marbles singing, solo or harmonizing, is absolutely incredible. Buy this.