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| Artist : Bee Gees |
| Album : Children Of The World (Re-Issue) |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
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| Label : Reprise Records |
| Year : 2006 |
| Genre : Disco |
| Rip date : Jul-21-2006 |
| Store date : Jun-06-2006 |
| Size : 58,5 MB |
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|Track Listing: |
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| 01 - You Should Be Dancing 04:18 |
| 02 - You Stepped Into My Life 03:29 |
| 03 - Love So Right 03:40 |
| 04 - Lovers 03:39 |
| 05 - Can't Keep A Good Man Down 04:46 |
| 06 - Boogie Child 04:14 |
| 07 - Love Me 04:04 |
| 08 - Subway 04:26 |
| 09 - The Way It Was 03:22 |
| 10 - Children Of The World 03:09 |
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| 39:07 min |
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| Originally issued on LP in 1976, this is a digitally re-mastered |
| re-issue of 'Children of the World' by the brothers Barry, Maurice, and |
| Robin Gibb. |
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| The Bee Gees' second R&B album, Children of the World, had the advantage |
| of being written and recorded while the group was riding a string of Top |
| Ten singles and the biggest wave of public adulation in their history |
| off of the Main Course album. The group felt emboldened, but was also |
| hamstrung by the absence of producer Arif Mardin, whose services were no |
| longer available to them now that RSO Records had severed its ties to |
| Atlantic Records. So they produced it themselves, all six bandmembers |
| doing their best to emulate what Mardin would have had them do, with |
| assistance from Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson. The result still |
| sounds a lot like Mardin's production from the previous album, and the |
| group was in very good form ù stretching out not only on disco numbers |
| like "You Should Be Dancing," but also delivering beautiful soul ballads |
| such as "You Stepped Into My Life" and "Love So Right" on side one, |
| while side two featured a last look back at the older, more romantic Bee |
| Gees sound. The album was also somewhat experimental in its way, making |
| more use of synthesizers in a pop music setting than had ever been heard |
| on a mainstream, commercial long-player before; not all of it works, |
| because the technology wasn't quite perfected yet, but "Boogie Child," |
| "Love Me," and "The Way It Was," as well as the title track were quite |
| daring on a production level in their time, for a group shooting for |
| millions of sales. Overall, the album isn't quite as beguiling as Main |
| Course, which was a liberating experiment from start to finish. Children |
| of the World is beautifully sung, but the group's sound changed here as |
| well, Barry Gibb's falsetto now dominating the vocals, with Robin and |
| Maurice Gibb moved out of center stage. But it's still one of the most |
| enjoyably lighthearted albums in the group's history, and the dance |
| numbers provided a fore-taste of their work on the Saturday Night Fever |
| soundtrack. |
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