Chicago "Hot Streets"

Hot Streets is the tenth studio album (twelfth overall) by the American band Chicago, released in 1978. In many ways, Hot Streets marked the beginning of a new era for the band, turning to disco music, a move which would be derided in retrospect. This was the band's first album with all-new material released since their second that did not have a numbered title. It was also the first album not to feature original guitarist/vocalist Terry Kath, who died from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound in January 1978. He was replaced by Donnie Dacus on this album.

Having worked with James William Guercio since their 1969 debut, Chicago decided to part ways with the producer following the release of Chicago XI in 1977. Another major change for the group was the death of guitarist Terry Kath in January 1978, who accidentally shot himself at a roadie's house while playing with a gun. The members of the band were devastated by his death, and considered breaking up. After the initial shock waned, the group decided they still had something to offer musically, and carried on.

Phil Ramone, who had mixed some of their earlier albums, was called upon to co-produce their new effort. But before Chicago could begin recording, they had to contend with the difficult process of finding a new guitarist. Accomplished guitarist Donnie Dacus was chosen, bringing his own distinctive style to the group's music. Prior to joining Chicago, Dacus had worked with both Roger McGuinn and Stephen Stills.

Recording sessions took place both in Miami and Los Angeles that spring, after years of working at Guercio's Caribou Ranch in Colorado. By the end of the sessions, the band felt as though they were still in a strong musical position even after the loss of Kath. Some of the tracks featured the Bee Gees and their keyboardist, Blue Weaver, who were recording the album Spirits Having Flown next door at the same Miami studio. The Gibb brothers added vocals to the song "Little Miss Lovin'" while Weaver added synthesized strings to "No Tell Lover" and "Show Me The Way". In turn, Chicago's horn section played on Spirits Having Flown, most notably on the hit single "Too Much Heaven".

To mark their new beginning, the band broke with tradition by giving their album a title, rather than a number. Having chosen the title Hot Streets, the album cover featured a picture of the band (shot by photographer Norman Seeff) rather than just the group logo. Because a later marketing survey noted that consumers expected to see the logo on the cover, Chicago's logo returned in the form of a high-rise building for the follow-up album, Chicago 13.

The album was released in October 1978, preceded by a release of the lead single "Alive Again". Hot Streets was another hit for the group, who had been concerned that the public might not accept them without Kath. Although the album went platinum, and Chicago scored a second top-twenty hit with "No Tell Lover", Hot Streets was the first Chicago album since their debut that failed to reach the US Top 10; fittingly, the band's twelfth album peaked at #12.

Although unsuccessful commercially, Cash Box said of the single "Gone Long Gone" that the guitar introduction sounds like George Harrison and said that it has "slick harmonies and smooth production" and praised "Donnie Dacus' guitar shadings."

Following the release of Chicago 13 and at the end of the Christmas 1979 tour, Dacus would be released from the group, bringing his short tenure with Chicago to an abrupt end.

In 2003, Hot Streets was remastered and reissued by Rhino Records with an alternate version of Lamm's "Love Was New" sung by Dacus as a bonus track.

Track listing

Side One

1. "Alive Again" James Pankow Peter Cetera 4:08
2. "The Greatest Love on Earth" Danny Seraphine, David "Hawk" Wolinski Peter Cetera 3:18
3. "Little Miss Lovin'" Cetera Cetera (featuring the Bee Gees) 4:36
4. "Hot Streets" Robert Lamm Lamm 5:20
5. "Take a Chance" Lee Loughnane, Lawrence "Stash" Wagner Donnie Dacus 4:42

Side Two

1. "Gone Long Gone" Cetera Cetera 4:00
2. "Ain't It Time" Dacus, Seraphine, Warner Schwebke Dacus, with Cetera 4:12
3. "Love Was New" Lamm Lamm 3:30
4. "No Tell Lover" Cetera, Loughnane, Seraphine Cetera, with Dacus 4:13
5. "Show Me the Way" Seraphine, Wolinski Lamm 3:36

Bonus Track (2003 Rhino edition)

1. "Love Was New" (Alternate Vocal) Lamm Dacus 3:32

Produced by Phil Ramone and Chicago

Associate Producer – Carol Peters

Engineered by Jim Boyer, Don Gehman and Lee DeCarlo.

Assistant Engineers – Peter Lewis, Dave Martone and Kevin Ryan.

Mixed by Jim Boyer and Phil Ramone

Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound (New York, NY).

Photography and Design – Norman Seeff

Logo – Nick Fasciano

Bee Gees "Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits"

Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the Bee Gees. It was released on 21 April 2017 by Capitol Records to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. The album is a single-disc compilation of the group's biggest hits selected by the group's last surviving member, Barry Gibb. Gibb said of the compilation: "Although there are many other songs, these songs, I feel, are the songs that Maurice, Robin, and I would be most proud of."

The album is a career spanning compilation featuring 21 tracks selected by Barry Gibb that ranges from their first Australian hit, "Spicks and Specks", to the group's international number one single, "You Win Again". Several hits are omitted, including "Holiday", "Run to Me", "Love So Right", "One" and "World".

Track listing

All compositions by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, except as indicated.

1. "Spicks and Specks" Barry Gibb Spicks and Specks, 1966 2:51
2. "New York Mining Disaster 1941" Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb Bee Gees 1st, 1967 2:10
3. "To Love Somebody" Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb Bee Gees 1st, 1967 3:00
4. "Massachusetts" Horizontal, 1967 2:22
5. "Words" A-side Single, 1968 3:17
6. "I've Gotta Get a Message to You" Idea, 1968 3:04
7. "I Started a Joke" Idea, 1968 3:17
8. "Lonely Days" 2 Years On, 1970 3:47
9. "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb Trafalgar, 1971 3:38
10. "Jive Talkin'" Main Course, 1975 3:44
11. "Nights on Broadway" Main Course, 1975 4:33
12. "Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)" Main Course, 1975 4:04
13. "You Should Be Dancing" Children of the World, 1976 4:16
14. "How Deep Is Your Love" Saturday Night Fever, 1977 4:02
15. "Stayin' Alive" Saturday Night Fever, 1977 4:43
16. "Night Fever" Saturday Night Fever, 1977 3:32
17. "More Than a Woman" Saturday Night Fever, 1977 3:17
18. "Too Much Heaven" Spirits Having Flown, 1979 4:54
19. "Tragedy" Spirits Having Flown, 1979 5:02
20. "Love You Inside Out" Spirits Having Flown, 1979 4:10
21. "You Win Again" E.S.P., 1987 4:10

Bee Gees "Love Songs"

Love Songs is the third Bee Gees compilation album in four years, though the first to cover a specific musical style. A proposed album of love songs was in the works around 1995 when the Bee Gees recorded their own versions of "Heartbreaker" and "Emotion", but that project was soon shelved and those recordings remained unavailable until the release of Their Greatest Hits: The Record in 2001.

Following the success of the Number Ones compilation in 2004, Universal once again tried to mine the Bee Gees catalog, this time focusing on their ballads. Spanning their entire career, Love Songs features many of the group's big hits, but also includes some lesser known tracks such as "Secret Love" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls", which were both big hits in Europe. Also included is a live version of "Islands in the Stream".

The US and the UK versions differed slightly in song selection and running time. Included on the UK version were 1993's "Heart Like Mine" and a song Barry and Maurice wrote together with Ronan Keating in 1999 called "Lovers and Friends", backing Keating both vocally and instrumentally while also producing the recording. Another anomaly was the inclusion of the Robin Gibb solo hit "Juliet" from 1983, which was a big hit in many countries, except in the UK and the US.

By the time Love Songs was released, there had been several Bee Gees compilations on the market as well as their entire back catalog, so this release seemed somewhat redundant. In the US it did chart but only managed to reach No. 166. In their homeland it climbed to No. 51 on the UK Albums Chart, but its best showing was in the Netherlands where it went top 20, peaking at No. 21.

Track listing

USA/International

1. "To Love Somebody" (Bee Gees' 1st)
2. "Words" (Horizontal)
3. "First of May" (Odessa)
4. "Lonely Days" (2 Years On)
5. "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" (Trafalgar)
6. "How Deep Is Your Love" (Saturday Night Fever soundtrack)
7. "More Than a Woman" (Saturday Night Fever soundtrack)
8. "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" (Bee Gees Greatest)
9. "Emotion" (Their Greatest Hits: The Record)
10. "Too Much Heaven" (Spirits Having Flown)
11. "Heartbreaker" (Their Greatest Hits: The Record)
12. "Islands in the Stream" (Live) (One Night Only)
13. "Juliet" (How Old Are You?) - Robin Gibb solo track)
14. "Secret Love" (High Civilization)
15. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (Size Isn't Everything)
16. "Closer Than Close" (Still Waters)
17. "I Could Not Love You More" (Still Waters)
18. "Wedding Day" (This Is Where I Came In)

UK/Japan

1. "To Love Somebody"
2. "Words"
3. "First of May"
4. "Lonely Days"
5. "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"
6. "How Deep Is Your Love"
7. "More Than a Woman"
8. "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away"
9. "Emotion"
10. "Too Much Heaven"
11. "Heartbreaker"
12. "Islands in the Stream (Live)"
13. "Juliet"
14. "Secret Love"
15. "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
16. "Heart Like Mine" (Bonus track) (Size Isn't Everything)
17. "Closer Than Close"
18. "I Could Not Love You More"
19. "Wedding Day"
20. "Lovers and Friends" (featuring Ronan Keating) – 5:17 (bonus track; new song)

PRC

1. "To Love Somebody"
2. "Words"
3. "First of May"
4. "Lonely Days"
5. "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"
6. "How Deep Is Your Love"
7. "More Than a Woman"
8. "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away"
9. "Emotion"
10. "Too Much Heaven"
11. "Heartbreaker"
12. "Juliet"
13. "Secret Love"
14. "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
15. "Closer Than Close"
16. "I Could Not Love You More"
17. "Wedding Day"

Bee Gees "Number Ones"

Number Ones is a compilation album by the Bee Gees released in 2004. It includes 18 of their greatest hits and a tribute to band member Maurice Gibb, who died in 2003. It is the final Bee Gees album released by Universal Records.

Rhino Records re-released Number Ones worldwide in 2008 using the European track list. Combining sales of versions issued by two different record companies, it has sold 1,236,000 copies in the US as of August 2012. The set, which peaked at No. 23 in the US on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart in 2004, re-entered the charts peaking at No. 5 in 2012. The following week after peaking at No. 5 the album plummeted to No. 195, the second-greatest drop for an album that still remained on the chart, in Billboard album history. This gives the group a span of 44 years, 9 months since their first Top 10 album, 1967's Bee Gees' 1st, which peaked at No. 7 in November 1967. The only other groups with longer spans are The Beach Boys (49 years 1 week), The Beatles (47 years 7 months), and The Rolling Stones (45 years 6 months).

Track listing

American release

1. "Massachusetts" – 2:26
2. "World" – 3:16
3. "Words" – 3:17
4. "I've Gotta Get a Message to You" – 2:52
5. "I Started a Joke" – 3:10
6. "Don't Forget to Remember" – 3:29
7. "Lonely Days" - 3:48
8. "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" – 3:58
9. "Jive Talkin'" – 3:46
10. "You Should Be Dancing" – 4:17
11. "Love So Right" 3:37
12. "How Deep Is Your Love" – 4:02
13. "Stayin' Alive" – 4:44
14. "Night Fever" – 3:33
15. "Too Much Heaven" – 4:54
16. "Tragedy" – 5:03
17. "Love You Inside Out" – 4:12
18. "You Win Again" – 4:04
19. "Man in the Middle" – 4:22

European/Australian release

Two of the bonus tracks were new recordings of classic Gibb compositions originally recorded by other artists, including "Islands in the Stream" (Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton), and "Immortality" (Celine Dion).

1. "Massachusetts" – 2:26
2. "World" – 3:16
3. "Words" – 3:17
4. "I've Gotta Get a Message to You" – 2:52
5. "I Started a Joke" – 3:10
6. "Don't Forget to Remember" – 3:29
7. "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" – 3:58
8. "Jive Talkin'" – 3:46
9. "You Should Be Dancing" – 4:17
10. "How Deep Is Your Love" – 4:02
11. "Stayin' Alive" – 4:44
12. "Night Fever" – 3:33
13. "Too Much Heaven" – 4:54
14. "Tragedy" – 5:03
15. "More Than a Woman" – 3:18
16. "Love You Inside Out" – 4:12
17. "You Win Again" – 4:04
18. "Man in the Middle" – 4:22*
19. "Islands in the Stream" – 4:22*
20. "Immortality" (original demo version) – 4:16*

19/20: Bonus tracks

18: Special Maurice Gibb tribute

Bee Gees "This Is Where I Came In"

This Is Where I Came In is the twenty-second and final studio album by the English pop group the Bee Gees. It was released on 24 April 2001 by Polydor in the UK and Universal in the US, just less than two years before Maurice Gibb's unexpected death from a cardiac arrest before surgery to repair a twisted intestine.

It is the only album of all-new material released by them on the Universal Music label (which had acquired the rights to the group's releases on Polydor Records when they bought that label's parent PolyGram). The album peaked at No. 6 in the UK, while the single, "This Is Where I Came In", reached No. 18. In the US, the album peaked at No. 16. The group appeared on the A&E concert series Live by Request in April 2001 to promote the new album.

The brothers saw the album as a return to the original Bee Gees formula as well as a new beginning. The album marked the fifth decade of recording for the band. It was one of the first Bee Gees albums to be re-released on Reprise Records in 2006, when the brothers regained the rights to all of their recordings.

The album features main vocals from all three of the brothers, and employs a variety of musical styles. "This Is Where I Came In" recalls the rock theme more commonly found on 1960s Bee Gees songs. "She Keeps on Coming" and "Voice in the Wilderness" have strong rock themes, while "Sacred Trust", "Just in Case" and "Wedding Day" continue the Bee Gees' trend for love songs. Maurice plays the Epiphone guitar gifted to him by John Lennon on She Keeps On Coming Two of Robin's songs, "Embrace" and "Promise The Earth" are Europop dance songs, while Barry's "Technicolor Dreams" is an exception to the rule, as it is an homage to the typical 1930s Tin Pan Alley melody. Maurice Gibb provides lead vocals for two songs, "Man in the Middle" and "Walking on Air". In the United Kingdom, two bonus tracks were published, "Just in Case" and "Promise the Earth" as well as other countries issued the album with 14 tracks.

One song in the album, "Sacred Trust" was recorded in early 1998 in Miami Beach. Around 1999, the Bee Gees recorded "I Will Be There" but only as a demo as they sent it to Tina Turner and she recorded it for her album Twenty Four Seven that same year. Maurice Gibb was busy producing songs for the band Luna Park. Also in 1999, three new Barry Gibb compositions "Technicolor Dreams", "Loose Talk Costs Lives" and "Voice in the Wilderness" were recorded as well as four new Maurice Gibb compositions, but only "Walking on Air" and "Man in the Middle" were released. Also in 1999, the new Robin Gibb composition, "Embrace" was recorded. In October that year, the group recorded "Wedding Day". The next year 2000, the group recorded five more songs including the title track, "This Is Where I Came In".

Track listing

All songs written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, except where noted. The phonographic Copyright of the whole album belongs to Polydor Ltd.

1. "This Is Where I Came In" 4:55
2. "She Keeps on Coming" 3:57
3. "Sacred Trust" 4:53
4. "Wedding Day" 4:44
5. "Man in the Middle" Maurice Gibb, Barry Gibb 4:21
6. "Déjà vu" 4:17
7. "Technicolor Dreams" Barry Gibb 3:05
8. "Walking on Air" Maurice Gibb 4:05
9. "Loose Talk Costs Lives" Barry Gibb 4:19
10. "Embrace" Robin Gibb 4:43
11. "The Extra Mile" Barry and Robin 4:20
12. "Voice in the Wilderness" Barry Gibb, Ben Stivers, Alan Kendall, Steve Rucker, Matt Bonelli 4:37

UK/Japan/Australia bonus tracks

"Just in Case" 4:22

"Promise the Earth" 4:29