Inception / nostalgia
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| Compilation album by Bee Gees | ||||
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Publication |
Summer 1970 |
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| Label (s) | carousel | |||
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2LP |
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pop |
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Title (number) |
24 |
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Studio (s) |
St. Clair Studio, Hurstville, Australia |
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Inception / Nostalgia is a compilation album of the Bee Gees , which was published in 1970 as a double album.
production
The Bee Gees had a new record deal with Spin , producer Nat Kipner's new label , in 1966 . This sent the brothers to the St. Clair Studio in Hurstville, Australia, which was operated by Ossie Byrne. There the Bee Gees, all still teenagers , should find each other as a band, try things out, compose and work with other artists. During this time recordings were made for several albums, and recordings with musicians such as Python Lee Jackson, Steve And The Board, Ronnie Burns, the later guitarist of the Bee Gees Vince Melouney , Barrington Davis, The Mystics and many others. Even drummer Colin Petersen was already one of the party. The first compositions by Robin Gibb and Maurice Gibb were created, as were the first joint works by all three brothers, and cover versions of Beatles songs or classics by Ray Charles and Bobby Darin .
One result of this time in Hurstville was the album " Spicks and Specks ", which was finished in the summer of 1966, but was not released until the fall of that year. Most of the recordings, however, remained unpublished and were apparently never intended for publication. Partly because it was demo versions for other artists, e.g. T. because the quality was often very questionable.
The 24 tracks on the album “Inception / Nostalgia” are all taken from these unpublished recordings from 1966. Among them is the first version of the Barry Gibb composition “In the Morning”, made famous two years later by Nina Simone and in One of the most covered Bee Gees titles over the years. "Like Nobody Else" was a demo for the Spaniards Los Bravos , who released the title in 1966 as a single. “I'll Know What to Do”, “Terrible Way to Treat Your Baby”, “Butterfly”, “Coalman”, “Exit Stage Right” and “Top Hat” were demos for Ronnie Burns and “All by Myself” is one Outtake of the album »Spicks and Specks«.
The cover versions, on the other hand, were created by chance. The brothers found backing tracks of various hits in the studio and recorded a vocal track for them. On the Beatles titles " You Won't See Me ", " Ticket to Ride " and " Paperback Writer ", as well as on "Daydream" by John Sebastian , current hits at the time, one can clearly hear the band accompanying the Bee Gees, so that one can assume that these were obviously finger exercises by the band.
With Rare, Precious and Beautiful , three albums with early material from the Bee Gees from their time in Australia were released in Europe and the USA in 1968. A total of 36 tracks that had little in common with the music that the band produced in England from 1967 onwards . In the summer of 1970, while the Bee Gees had long since announced their dissolution, »Inception / Nostalgia« appeared with 24 other titles, of the existence of which the public had not known until then.
"Inception / Nostalgia" appeared only in Germany, France and - two years later - in Japan.
Track list
Inception
- A1. In the Morning (Barry Gibb)
- A2. Like Nobody Else (Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb)
- A3. Daydream (John Sebastian)
- A4. Lonely Winter (Carl Keats)
- A5. You're the Reason (Edwards, Henley, Fell)
- A6. Coalman (Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb)
- B1. Butterfly (Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb)
- B2. Storm (Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb)
- B3. Lum-De-Loo (Robin Gibb)
- B4. You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You (Cavanaugh, Stock, Morgan)
- B5. You Won't See Me (Lennon-McCartney)
- B6. The End (Kronds, Jackson)
Nostalgia
- C1. I'll Know What to Do (Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb)
- C2. All By Myself (Maurice Gibb)
- C3. Ticket to Ride (Lennon-McCartney)
- C4. I Love You Because (Leon Payne)
- C5. Paperback Writer (Lennon-McCartney)
- C6. Somewhere (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim)
- D1. The Twelfth of Never (Livingston, Webster)
- D2. Forever (Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb)
- D3. Top Hat (Barry Gibb)
- D4. Hallelujah, I Love Her So (Ray Charles)
- D5. Terrible Way to Treat Your Baby (Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb)
- D6. Exit Stage Right (Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb)
expenditure
The album was released in 1970 on the Polydor cheap label Karussell . As all recordings were only available in mono , they were given an electronically processed stereo mix for this release. In 1998, all songs on the double album were released in the original monomix on the CD "Brilliant from Birth" on Festival Records in Australia. Until 1978, parts of the album appeared again and again in compilations in various South American countries and Australia.
- 1970: Carousel 2674 002 (2LP)
reception
Since a large part of the recordings on this album are demo recordings made available to the Bee Gees music publisher, a number of the songs were actually recorded by different musicians. The British The Marmalade released "Butterfly" as a single in 1969, Family Dogg played "Storm" and Cliff Aungier was one of the first to add "In the Morning" to their repertoire. He was later followed by Nina Simone, Esther & Abi Ofarim , Love Generation , Tracy Rogers , Lulu , Cora & Frank ("Every Morning"), John Holt, Frank Schöbel ("This Morning"), Marie Little and others. v. a.
Trivia
The album has long been considered the Bee Gees' rarest record.