Alive (Bee Gees song)

Infobox Single
Name = Alive


Artist = The Bee Gees
Album = To Whom It May Concern
Released = November 1972
B-side = "Road To Alaska"
Format = 7" single
Recorded = 21 October 1971
IBC Studios, London
Genre = Pop
Length = 4:03
Label = UK: Polydor, USA/CA: Atco
Writer = Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb
Producer = Robert Stigwood, Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb
Last single = "Run To Me"
(1972)
This single = "Alive"
(1972)
Next single = "Saw a New Morning"
(1973)

"Alive" was the second single of the "To Whom It May Concern" album. as was customary for Bee Gees singles during this time, it was another piano ballad which Barry has noted that he doesn't even remember writing. As mastered for the LP, the inherent dynamic range in the vocal and piano has unfortunately been compressed almost out of existence, but it still comes across as a expressive ballad. The remastered version found on has increases the range somewhat lost on the LP version.

"Alive" barely scraped the Top 40 in the winter of 1973 reaching #34 in the US. This was also the last release on the ATCO label for the Bee Gees, as their manager, Robert Stigwood, formed his own label RSO Records in 1973.