Best of Bee Gees Volume 2 | ||||
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Greatest hits album by Bee Gees | ||||
Released | August 1973 | |||
Recorded | July 25, 1967 - April 12, 1972 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 52:17 | |||
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Polydor Rhino 2008 reissue |
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Producer | Bee Gees, Robert Stigwood | |||
Bee Gees chronology | ||||
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Best of Bee Gees Volume 2 is a compilation album of hits by the Bee Gees released in 1973. The album, briefly revived on CD in the late 1980s, went out of print, but was reissued by Rhino in November 2008.
Whereas the original Best of Bee Gees had focused on songs that had been major hits for the group in America and/or the United Kingdom up to 1969, this follow-up collection featured two cuts from each of the four studio albums released subsequent to the first compilation, all of which, barring Man For All Seasons, had been single A-sides, along with the soundtrack contribution Morning of My Life, [Robin Gibb]]'s solo hit Saved By the Bell and the single only hit My World. The album also featured one song each from their early albums Horizontal, Idea and Odessa. Of these, And the Sun Will Shine had been successfully covered by Jose Feliciano and Melody Fair had achieved success as a single in the Far East. The album featured nothing from Bee Gees' 1st which had already been represented by five tracks on the earlier compilation. As such it serves as a collection of hits through from late 1969 to 1972 plus popular cuts from earlier albums.
All tracks written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb except where stated
The original North-American LP release of this album included the song "Wouldn't I Be Someone" from the Bee Gees' unreleased album A Kick In The Head Is Worth Eight In The Pants and arranged the tracks in a different order:
Side 1: Wouldn't I Be Someone/I.O.I.O./My World/Saved by the Bell/Don't Forget to Remember/And the Sun Will Shine/Run to Me/Man for All Seasons