Still Waters (Bee Gees album)
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| Studio album by Bee Gees | ||||
| Released | 10 March 1997 (UK) 6 May 1997 (US) |
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| Recorded | October 1995 – August 1996 at Middle Ear Studios, Miami Beach |
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| Genre | Contemporary R&B, new jack swing, pop rock | |||
| Length | 53:40 | |||
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Polydor (UK) A&M (USA) |
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| Producer | Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Russ Titelman, David Foster, Hugh Padgham, Raphael Saadiq, Arif Mardin | |||
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Still Waters is the twenty-first studio album by the pop group the Bee Gees, released on 10 March 1997 in the UK by Polydor, and on 6 May the same year in the US by A&M.
In 1994, the Bee Gees and Polydor Records had planned a major tour to promote Size Isn't Everything (1993) but it was postponed in February the same year due to Barry Gibb's trouble with arthritis in his back, right hand and right knee. Following the cancellation of the tour, Robin Gibb told the press that the group was working on an album of acoustic versions of songs they had written for other artists. The project was later called Love Songs which featured some new recordings. However, their record company rejected the album and the new songs were included on a new studio album instead, announced in September 1994 and released on 14 February (Valentine's Day) of 1995.
Around 1994, the Bee Gees did record six songs, one of which was called "Miracles Happen" which was written and recorded to be the title song for a new film version of Miracle on 34th Street; the Bee Gees got the job in June 1994 and quickly returned this recording, with a boys’ choir and a big string section backing them. The filmmakers however decided later to use only old Christmas songs. On the same session, they also did their own version of their compositions such as "Emotion" (Samantha Sang), "Heartbreaker" (Dionne Warwick), "Love Never Dies" and "Rings Around the Moon", which were later released as B-sides.
In July 1995, they started with seven demos for what would become included on the album, along with four demos recorded in the second quarter of 1995. In the October 1995 sessions they recorded their rendition of "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" for a Carole King tribute album Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute to Carole King.
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