"(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" | ||||
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Single by Andy Gibb | ||||
from the album Shadow Dancing | ||||
B-side | "One More Look at the Night" | |||
Released |
October 1978 (International) January 1979 (US) |
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Format | 7" | |||
Recorded | December 1977 – January 1978 Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles, California |
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Length | 4:07 | |||
Label | RSO Records | |||
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Producer(s) | Gibb-Galuten-Richardson | |||
Andy Gibb singles chronology | ||||
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"(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" | |
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Song by Bee Gees | |
from the album Bee Gees Greatest | |
Released | October 1979 |
Recorded | February and March 1977 Le Chateau, Herouville, France April 1977 Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida |
Genre | Soul, soft rock, Pop |
Length | 4:02 |
Label | RSO |
Songwriter(s) | Barry Gibb, Blue Weaver |
Producer(s) | Bee Gees, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson |
"(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" is a song penned by Barry Gibb and Blue Weaver and recorded by the Bee Gees in 1977 on the Saturday Night Fever sessions but was not released until Bee Gees Greatest (1979). It was released as a single by Andy Gibb on his version from his second studio album Shadow Dancing.
October 1978 (International)
"(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" was released as the third single from Andy Gibb's Shadow Dancing album, but only in the United States, in September 1978. The song was also his fifth single to reach the US Top 10; the single reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #2 on the Adult Contemporary chart. When Andy Gibb was going to record it, Barry reworked on the song adding the middle eight that was not on the original Bee Gees' version, as Blue Weaver recalls, "When Andy actually went to record it, Barry listened to it [the original version] again and thought, 'Oh, it's not finished', so Barry wrote the whole of the middle-eight.
Allmusic's Amy Hanson described this version of "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" as a "tender ballad" that suited Andy's voice. It appears on Andy's three greatest-hits albums.
The Bee Gees version of the song, the first version ever recorded by anyone, was recorded in 1977 during the sessions for Saturday Night Fever, but was not released until the compilation Bee Gees Greatest 1979. Barry Gibb is the only member of the Bee Gees to appear on the recording.
Barry wrote the lyrics while Weaver composed the melody. Weaver said of this song, "That was me playing around again; It wasn't done for [Saturday Night Fever], it was just something that we did". The stereo mix of an early state of the song exists but was unreleased until now. Samantha Sang, who was visiting France where this version was recorded, asked Barry for a song; not long afterwards, Barry sent Sang "Don't Throw it All Away", but Sang never recorded or released it, choosing instead the new song "Emotion".