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"I'll Kiss Your Memory"
Song
B-side"This Time"

"I'll Kiss Your Memory" is the first solo single written, performed and produced by Barry Gibb released in May 1970 with "This Time".[1] It was included on his debut album The Kid's No Good but was never released.[2]

Writing and recording

"I'll Kiss Your Memory" was a country weepie ballad in the mold of Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey". The song is about a widower recalling his happier days with his lover:[3]

Maybe it's been so long our house looks kind of different but the empty room still means the same to me and as I wander through the darkness i'll keep crying one last tear now your lips are gone i'll kiss your memory, i'll kiss your memory, as though you were here, i'll hold your memories, till you reappear.

Gibb said: "On the single, I double-tracked my voice, seven times, because I knew exactly how I wanted everything done. Now I want to make one mark on my own before I get too involved in anything else. I think my past associations with the Bee Gees are a bad thing to have as far as it effects my solo efforts, because people already know me. And also in this business, it's who you know!".[3]

As a simple song with verse and chorus of essentially the same melody, it is disappointing both lyrically and musically from the man considered from the man considered the Bee Gees' main songwriter. The song features an echo vocal with an arrangement of orchestra by Bill Shepherd. This song was recorded in IBC Studios in February 15 and finished in February 20 with "The Victim", "Moonlight" and "Summer Ends".[4]

Release

It was released in the U.K. and the U.S, but did not chart. He recorded this song in February 15 and it was finished in February 20. Like the Bee Gees' songs from 1967 to 1972, this single was released on Polydor Records in United Kingdom and Atco Records in United States.[4] The CD version of the song was available in the compilation Tales from the Brothers Gibb.

This track's stereo mix was released in 1974 on I've Gotta Get a Message to You (1974).[5]

His next single, "One Bad Thing" was proposed to released in the same year with "The Day Your Eyes Meet Mine" as the flipside but was also not charted. His third single, "A Day in the Life", originally by The Beatles was released in 1978 on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was also not charted.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I'll Kiss Your Memory"Barry Gibb4:26
2."This Time"Barry Gibb3:21

Personnel

  • Barry Gibb: lead vocals and guitar
  • Bill Shepherd: orchestra and strings arrangement
  • Uncredited: bass, drums

References

  1. ^ "Barry Gibb - I'll Kiss Your Memory / This Time". Discogs. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  2. ^ "Barry Gibb - The Kid's No Good". Discogs. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  3. ^ a b Hughes, Andrew. The Bee Gees: Tales of the Brothers Gibb. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  4. ^ a b Brennan, Joseph. "Gibb Songs: 1970". Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  5. ^ Brennan, Joseph. "Gibb Songs: 1974". Retrieved 8 March 2013.
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