SPIN EK1578:RONNIE BURNS 1967 OZ PSYCH-POP 7" BEE GEES

	A$		22
	$		14

 Recently a friend passed away - he was a gem of a person, and aside from the obvious sadness involved in all that, he was renowned for having one of the best collections of 60's Garage, Beat, Punk & Psychedelic 7"s, EPs and LPs (especially of Australian artists) - gathered together meticulously and carefully for longer than the 36 year period I'd known him. Some things he'd parted with over the past few years of little work and continuing overheads, and a small section was stolen by someone also well-known here (I suspect her karma will come) - but the bottom line is, he had amazingly good taste, and (like a previous recent collection I was selling here) the gems he had were mostly handpicked for excellence....[with some others gathered to complete (often very obscure) label collections].

::CATALOGUE #:   EK-1578  

::RELEASE DATE:   Jan. 1967 

::ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING?:   ...Yes, it is!...

::CONDITION (cover/record):  ( - / VG++ ) ...VERY nice copy...beautiful shiny vinyl with only a few light marks...plays very well...comes in original company sleeve...

...His third single - both sides written by the Bee Gees - although it was "Coalman" that became the hit, it was originally released with "All The King's Horses" as the 'A' side, and this copy reflects that with the original old promo sticker on that side (another indicator is that it was the first of the two tunes cut, and has the earlier matrix number) - both are typical of the pop-psych tunes the Gibbs were just beginning to pen at this time...and the backing vocals on both are unmistakable...Here's some further info from the 'Milesago' site:

Ronnie scored major success on  the singles chart by tapping into a rich vein of material written by his illustrious label-mates The Bee Gees. part of the large group of songs they wrote and recorded just before they left for the UK, but did not release. Many of the original unreleased Bee Gees demos and studio recordings of the songs Ronnie covered were eventually issued on LP by Festival, and a full compilation was issued on the 1998 Festival compilation CD Brilliant From Birth. Ronnie was one of several Aussie artists who scored significant hits with Bee Gees songs, although the brothers themselves had been  unable to score a hit until their very last Australian single, "Spicks and Specks". They became increasingly disenchanted with their lack of recognition in Australia, so at the beginning of 1967 they returned to England, where they had immense success. This group of songs, including those covered by Ronnie, were among the last that the Bee Gees wrote and recorded in Australia, and they also mark the first time that Bee Gees compositions were jointly credited to all three brothers. According to Bee Gees expert Joseph Brennan, the songs were subsequently used as demos for other artists, although they are clearly well above average demo quality and may in fact have been intended as tracks for a possible 1967 LP which never came to fruition.

The Bee Gees penned Ronnie's third solo single "Coalman" / "All The King's Horses" especially for him, and it became the first of many of Gibb songs that he covered. It was a major hit, making both the Sydney and Melbourne Top 10 in January 1967. A catchy, Beatle-esque ditty, "Coalman" became a national Top 10 hit, debuting at #21 on the Go-Set top 40 on 18 January 1967, peaking at #6 in the last week of February, and charting for twelve weeks in all. It opens with one of the earliest examples of reverse tape effects on an Australian pop recording. Both tracks were all-star cuts reportedly feature the three Gibb brothers on harmony vocals, with instrumental backing by top instrumental band The Strangers, whose guitarist John Farrar was the arranger for the single. Farrar went on to become one of our most successful expatriate musicians; after settling in the UK in the 70s, he hooked up with ex-members of The Shadows in Marvin, Welch & Farrar and he produced and/or arranged many major hits for Cliff Richard and Olivia Newton-John.

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::LABEL CONDITION:  

'A' side:  EX-  

'B' side:   M- 

...'A' side label has had a little bit of writing on it, but it's been 'whited' out...it's on the white background only - no text affected...see pic...

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