Best of Bee Gees

Infobox Album |
Name = Best of Bee Gees
Type = Compilation Album
Artist = Bee Gees


Released = June 1969
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length =
Label = Polydor
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = Odessa (March 1969)
This album = Best of Bee Gees
Next album = Cucumber Castle (April 1970)

"Best of Bee Gees" is the first compilation album of international hits by the Bee Gees. The original 1969 vinyl release included the Bee Gees' 1966 Australian top ten hit "Spicks and Specks", but due to licensing issues with Festival Records in Australia, the group's 1969 hit "Tomorrow, Tomorrow" was substituted on the Polydor CD release. The album is noted by fans for its bad stereo mix of the song "Words", which increased the vocals so much that the percussion was lost in the background. This is the only album/CD with this mix. All future compilations have the proper stereo mix which is more balanced. Vince Melouney, although playing guitar on most of the tracks, is not pictured on the front or back cover as he had departed the group a year earlier.

With the release of in 2001, this CD is currently out of print, but is due to be reissued by Rhino in November 2008 with the same tracks as the Polydor CD. All tracks on the album appear on "The Record" except for "Tomorrow, Tomorrow".

Track listing

#"Holiday" (Barry & Robin Gibb)
#"I've Gotta Get a Message to You"
#"I Can't See Nobody" (Barry & Robin Gibb)
#"Words"
#"I Started a Joke"
#"Tomorrow, Tomorrow" (Barry & Maurice Gibb)
#"First of May"
#"World"
#"Massachusetts"
#"To Love Somebody" (Barry & Robin Gibb)
#"Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You"
#"New York Mining Disaster 1941" (Barry & Robin Gibb)

Except where stated all songs written by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb