Love You Inside Out
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| Single by Bee Gees | ||||
| from the album Spirits Having Flown | ||||
| B-side | "I'm Satisfied" | |||
| Released | April 1979 | |||
| Format | 7", 12" | |||
| Recorded | 1978 Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida |
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| Genre | Pop, funk | |||
| Length | 4:12 3:48 (7" version) |
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| Label | RSO | |||
| Writer(s) | Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb | |||
| Producer | Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson | |||
| Certification | Gold | |||
| Bee Gees singles chronology | ||||
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"Love You Inside Out" is a 1979 hit single for the Bee Gees, from their album Spirits Having Flown. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in June 1979 interrupting Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff", It would be the ninth and final number-one hit for the Bee Gees in the US.
Like their other big hits of disco era, this song also contained the falsetto vocal style of Barry Gibb.
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[edit] Background and versions
A slow funk groove, If the brothers can be believed, they sent off to Robert Stigwood a special version with the alternate line "backwards and forwards with my cock hanging out", (instead of "with my heart hanging out") just to see if he was paying attention.[1]
[edit] Achievements
"Love You Inside Out" was a statistically important single for The Bee Gees. It helped them rewrite the history books in several ways when it reached number one on June 9, 1979. [2]
- It was the group's ninth number one single in the U.S. (tenth if you include "Lonely Days", which reached number one on the Cashbox charts in 1971). That is the most number one singles of any artist during the 1970's.
- It was The Bee Gees sixth consecutive number one single. The only other group to achieve this was The Beatles.
- It was the third consecutive number single from Spirits Having Flown, which followed three consecutive number one singles from their previous album Saturday Night Fever. No other artist has ever had three consecutive singles from two successive albums.
- At the time, it placed them fourth among all artists with number one singles (9) and fourth in total weeks (27) at number one.
[edit] Chart performance
| Chart | Peak position |
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| United States Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| Canada | 1 |
| Chile | 3 |
| Ireland | 6 |
| United Kingdom | 13 |
| Italy | 17 |
| New Zealand | 17 |
| Germany | 21 |
| Belgium | 22 |
| Netherlands | 35 |
| France | 39 |
| Australia | 77 |
[edit] Cover versions
- In 1996, the R&B group Total recorded the song on the album track "When Boy Meets Girl" from their self-titled debut in 1996.
- In 2004, It has been covered by Leslie Feist (under the title "Inside and Out") on her 2004 album Let It Die.
- It was sampled by Snoop Dogg for his rap single "Ups & Downs" in 2005 on rap group Nemesis' hit "Cantifiguritout"
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/78.html
- ^ Fred Bronson . Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition Billboard Publications (ISBN 0-8230-7677-6)
| Preceded by "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer |
Billboard Hot 100 number-one single June 9, 1979 |
Succeeded by "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer |
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