6/20/2023 0 Comments Bee gees main course![]() ![]() In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. The track listing and pre-order link follows!īee Gees, Main Course (RSO 4807, 1975 – reissued Rhino Flashback, 2011) Still, this long out-of-print Bee Gees classic is well worth your $4.99. It’s likely that Main Course hasn’t been remastered from the original CD the packaging, too, appears to be identical, with the Rhino Flashback logo in place of the Polydor one. ![]() The tight, immaculately-produced R&B/dance-styled Main Course marked the turning point from balladry to rhythmic, beat-driven disco (with those unmistakable falsetto vocals!) for the Bee Gees, and paved the way for 1976’s Children of the World (with “You Should Be Dancing,” “Love So Right” and “You Stepped Into My Life”) and then 1977’s landmark Saturday Night Fever. Hit the jump for more, including the complete track listing and pre-order link! It’s a mystery why, at the very least, all of the remaining Bee Gees titles haven’t gotten this treatment titles like 2 Years On, Here at Last and To Whom It May Concern (just to name a few) all remain out-of-print and expensive in the secondhand market. As of tomorrow, the Bee Gees classic will be available once again for around five bucks from your local retailer. Main Course, oddly, wasn’t among them.) With no fanfare at all, Rhino’s budget Flashback line has restored Main Course to the catalogue. (A small number of the Bee Gees’ Polydor albums were immediately reissued under the Rhino banner in 2006 with no additional content or new packaging. 1975’s Main Course was the first “disco” album from Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, and despite containing such hits as “Nights on Broadway” and “Jive Talkin’,” it’s been unavailable since the original Polydor CD went out of print. After that, a lavish boxed set devoted to the Odessa album arrived, but nothing else has emerged except for a couple of decent greatest hits reissues and a 4-CD box set, Mythology, that hit stores in 2010 after a one-year delay.Īnother Bee Gees title is reissued tomorrow, December 6, and it’s a bit of a surprise. Then, the 30th anniversary of Saturday Night Fever came and went, with a remastered edition of the seminal soundtrack album released with no additional material or new packaging. The promise of more collections to come from the Brothers Gibb archives was particularly enticing. ![]() The Studio Albums: 1967-1968 contained expanded mono/stereo editions of the group’s first three “canon” albums with a generous amount of unissued tracks. When Warner Music Group’s Rhino arm announced its licensing of the Bee Gees catalogue in 2006, hopes were high, and the campaign’s initial release certainly didn’t disappoint. ![]()
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