BEE GEES How Love Was True (Another Bee Gees curiosity that led
to some head scratching. In October 1965, the Bee Gees went into
Festival Studios in Sydney to cut tracks for their first LP. Five songs
were recorded in all and this 10" double sided EMIdisc metal based
high grade methyl cellulose lacquer acetate has three of them, the
other two here being 'I Was A Lover, A Leader Of Men' & 'I Don't
Think It's Funny', all of which ended up as the opening three tracks on
'The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs'. What we are
unable to determine is whether this mono oddity was crafted in
Australia using EMI blanks in 1965 for sonic review, or whether it was
done as a publishing acetate to market the songs or a demo for the
band itself) Read on ...
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The Bee Gees How Love Was True Australian acetate
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This acetate runs at 45 RPM and is in Mono. It was very much cut as a 10" and looks to have been an early style lathe used to cut it.
The labels are hand annotated EMIdisc labels as used [and supplied to other countries] by EMI in the UK.
There were five songs recorded in that October 1965 series of sessions:
I Was a Lover, a Leader of Men [Intended as the A-Side of their next single], And the Children Laughing [The intended B-Side of the next single], I Don’t Think It’s Funny, How Love Was True & To Be or Not To Be.
The other seven songs intended for the first album were to be sourced from existing recordings made for earlier singles. Festival were prepared to take some risks with The Bee Gees, but also preferred to hedge their bets by lacing the first LP with known strong material.
The fact that these songs are cut into an EMIdisc blank is not so strange in itself, as EMI shipped the blank acetates all over the world. Festival in Australia may well have been supplied some. The period of the label design tells us little.
My guess [& that's all it is] is that this was made in Australia for sonic review. My reasoning being that it is hand annotated & not typed. This would indicate a temporary nature.
Review & publishing Acetates required to be of a more permanent nature would tend to be typed, with publishing date and publisher information. This has neither of these.
The handwritten track titles appear to be contemporary with the label and were made with a flowing ink pen, not a marker or ballpoint. There is 'AUSTR. LP' written on one side in blue ballpoint & that is quite different, suggesting a later annotation.
There is no real way to be sure.
Whatever it is, it pre-dates their first UK album and is astonishingly rare in itself, so we'll have to move on.
Condition:
Acetates are notoriously fragile, designed to last for just a few dozen plays before beginning to deteriorate and their soft surface makes them very prone to scuffs.
This one does show a good few light scuffs, as you would expect after fifty years, though nothing significant. It would probably benefit from a professional cleaning process that uses no solvents. That said, it happily plays through without fault on a very lightweight tone arm, but a degree of background noise is to be expected. It certainly doesn't jump and the sonic fidelity of the recordings does not appear to have suffered greatly from over play in the past.
So, there you have it. A little bit mysterious, but certainly 'Rare, Precious & Beautiful' to quote the Brothers Gibb.
Tracklisting:
01 How Love Was True
02 I Was A Lover A Leader Of Men
03 I Don't Think It's Funny
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| Year of Release: |
1965 - 59 years old |
| Artist: |
The Bee Gees (click here for complete listing) |
| Title: |
How Love Was True (click here for more of the same title) |
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| Format: |
acetate |
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| Record Label: |
EMIdisc |
| Catalogue No: |
10" ACETATE |
| Country of Origin: |
Australia
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| Language: |
Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. |
| Additional info: |
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| EIL.COM Ref No |
BGEATHO621925 (quote this reference in any e-mails, letters, faxes or phone calls to help identify this item) |
| Genres: |
60s Pop, 70s Pop, Disco, Male Solo, POP, Vocal Group
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| Related Artists: |
Andy Gibb, Barry Gibb, Glass Menagerie, Jimmy Stevens, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb, Samantha Sang, Saturday Night Fever (movie), Spencer Gibb, Teri DeSario, The Bill Shepherd Sound, The Tigers (Japanese), Tin Tin, Trevor Gordon, Vince Maloney |
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| Alternative Names: |
BEE GEES,BEEGEES,THE BROTHERS GIBB |
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to some head scratching. In October 1965, the Bee Gees went into
Festival Studios in Sydney to cut tracks for their first LP. Five songs
were recorded in all and this 10" double sided EMIdisc metal based
high grade methyl cellulose lacquer acetate has three of them, the
other two here being 'I Was A Lover, A Leader Of Men' & 'I Don't
Think It's Funny', all of which ended up as the opening three tracks on
'The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs'. What we are
unable to determine is whether this mono oddity was crafted in
Australia using EMI blanks in 1965 for sonic review, or whether it was
done as a publishing acetate to market the songs or a demo for the
band itself) Read on ... ){kind=spacer}
