Bee Gees Greatest

Bee Gees Greatest is a greatest hits album by British pop/rock group, the Bee Gees. Released by RSO Records in October 1979, the album is a retrospective of the group's material from 1975 to 1979. A remastered and expanded version of the album was released by Reprise Records in 2007.

Content

The original release was a double album, with album sleeves and labels featuring pictures of each brother on the label and all three brothers on side four, while each record sleeve was adorned with the Bee Gees Greatest logo. Side one contains disco tracks featuring "Jive Talkin'", "Night Fever", "Tragedy", "You Should Be Dancing" and "Stayin' Alive". Side two contains ballads and featured "How Deep Is Your Love", "Too Much Heaven", "Love So Right", "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" and "Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)". Side three consists of B-sides and album tracks such as "If I Can't Have You", "You Stepped Into My Life", "Love Me", "More Than a Woman" and "Rest Your Love on Me". Side three also consists of songs that spawned cover versions for other artists. Side four contains "Nights on Broadway", "Spirits (Having Flown)", "Wind of Change", "Love You Inside Out" and "Children of the World".

Two Top 40 charting singles, "Boogie Child" (#12) and "Edge of the Universe (Live)" (#26) were omitted in favor of tracks that other artists had hits with such as "Love Me" and "If I Can't Have You" (Yvonne Elliman) and "You Stepped Into My Life" (Melba Moore and Wayne Newton). Incidentally "Boogie Child" reached slightly higher on the Billboard Hot 100 than Yvonne Elliman's version of "Love Me" (#14), while Melba Moore's and Wayne Newton's recordings of "You Stepped Into My Life" only peaked at 47 and 90, respectively, in 1979. "Boogie Child" did appear in the box set Tales from the Brothers Gibb, but it was again passed over on the double disc set Their Greatest Hits: The Record from 2001.

Reissues

Greatest was released on CD as a two disc set, but has since has been deleted domestically with the release of The Record.

On 18 September 2007, Reprise Records released a remastered and expanded version of Greatest. Many of the tracks on Greatest have been previously remastered, but the album contain the first release for remastered versions of "You Stepped Into My Life", "Rest Your Love on Me", "Wind of Change", "Spirits (Having Flown)" and "Children of the World". In addition, there are extended versions of "Stayin' Alive" and an unreleased Bee Gees track, "Warm Ride", which was written for the group Rare Earth. The re-release contains new mixes of "You Should Be Dancing", "If I Can't Have You", "Night Fever" and "More Than a Woman" and as a hidden track, a new mix of "Stayin' Alive". Billboard's unofficial policy states an album requires at least 33% new material to qualify as a new release; Bee Gees Greatest contains about 28% new material, thus making it a re-issue.

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic	link

Bee Gees Greatest topped the Billboard album charts early in 1980, becoming their third consecutive number one album. The re-issue of Bee Gees Greatest debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Pop Catalog charts for the week of 30 September 2007. There was some question as to whether Billboard was going to treat this as a new release or a re-issue. The set scanned over 20,000 copies for the week, making it the 35th best selling album in the country, good enough to place in Billboard's Top 40.

Track listing

All tracks were written by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb. except where noted

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Jive Talkin'"	3:43
2.	"Night Fever"	3:33
3.	"Tragedy"	5:03
4.	"You Should Be Dancing"	4:16
5.	"Stayin' Alive"	4:43

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"How Deep Is Your Love"	4:03
2.	"Love So Right"	3:34
3.	"Too Much Heaven"	4:55
4.	"(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" (B. Gibb, Blue Weaver)	4:02
5.	"Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)"	4:02

Side three
No.	Title	Length
1.	"If I Can't Have You"	3:25
2.	"You Stepped Into My Life"	3:25
3.	"Love Me" (B. Gibb, R. Gibb)	4:01
4.	"More Than a Woman"	3:15
5.	"Rest Your Love on Me" (B. Gibb)	4:20

Side four
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Nights on Broadway"	4:31
2.	"Spirits (Having Flown)"	5:19
3.	"Love You Inside Out"	4:11
4.	"Wind of Change" (B. Gibb, R. Gibb)	4:54
5.	"Children of the World"	3:07

2007 re-issue edition

Disc one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Jive Talkin'"	3:43
2.	"Night Fever"	3:33
3.	"Tragedy"	5:03
4.	"You Should Be Dancing"	4:16
5.	"Stayin' Alive"	4:43
6.	"How Deep Is Your Love"	4:03
7.	"Love So Right"	3:34
8.	"Too Much Heaven"	4:55
9.	"(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" (B. Gibb, Weaver)	4:02
10.	"Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)"	4:02
11.	"Warm Ride" (Bonus track)	3:16
12.	"Stayin' Alive (Promo 12" version)" (Bonus track)	6:59

Disc two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"If I Can't Have You"	3:25
2.	"You Stepped Into My Life"	3:25
3.	"Love Me" (B. Gibb, R. Gibb)	4:01
4.	"More Than a Woman"	3:15
5.	"Rest Your Love on Me" (B. Gibb)	4:20
6.	"Nights on Broadway"	4:31
7.	"Spirits (Having Flown)"	5:19
8.	"Love You Inside Out"	4:11
9.	"Wind of Change" (B. Gibb, R. Gibb)	4:54
10.	"Children of the World"	3:07
11.	"You Should Be Dancing (Jason Bentley/Philip Steir remix)" (Bonus track)	4:46
12.	"If I Can't Have You (Count Da Money remix)" (Bonus track)	4:10
13.	"Night Fever (GRN remix)" (Bonus track)	4:44
14.	"How Deep Is Your Love (Supreme Beings of Leisure remix)" (Bonus track)	4:39
15.	"Stayin' Alive (Teddybears remix)" (Bonus track) (Hidden track on some editions)	3:23
16.	"If I Can't Have You (The Disco Boys remix)" (Bonus track on some editions)	6:41

Charts

Chart (1979–1980)	Peak position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)^[1]	1
Canadian Albums (RPM)^[2]	4
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[3]	43
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[4]	2
UK Albums (OCC)^[5]	6
US Billboard 200^[6]	1

Chart (2007)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)^[7]	4
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[8]	65
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)^[9]	25
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)^[10]	35
French Compilations (SNEP)^[11]	5
Irish Albums (IRMA)^[12]	4
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[13]	92
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)^[14]	11
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)^[15]	24
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[16]	60

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/Sales
Canada (Music Canada)^[17]	2× Platinum	200,000^{^}
Ireland (IRMA)^[18]	Platinum	15,000^{^}
Spain (PROMUSICAE)^[19]	Platinum	100,000^{^}
United Kingdom (BPI)^[20]	Platinum	300,000^{^}
United States (RIAA)^[21]	2× Platinum	2,000,000^{^}
^{^}shipments figures based on certification alone

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Preceded by On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2 by Donna Summer	Billboard 200 number-one album 12–18 January 1980	Succeeded by The Wall by Pink Floyd
Preceded by Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 by Rod Stewart	Australian Kent Music Report number-one album 17 December 1979 – 6 January 1980	Succeeded by ELO's Greatest Hits by Electric Light Orchestra

Bee Gees

Barry Gibb Robin Gibb Maurice Gibb Colin Petersen Vince Melouney Alan Kendall Dennis Bryon Blue Weaver

Studio albums	The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs Spicks and Specks Bee Gees' 1st Horizontal Idea Odessa Cucumber Castle 2 Years On Trafalgar To Whom It May Concern Life in a Tin Can Mr. Natural Main Course Children of the World Spirits Having Flown Living Eyes E.S.P. One High Civilization Size Isn't Everything Still Waters This Is Where I Came In

Extended plays	The Bee Gees New York Mining Disaster 1941

Soundtracks	Melody Saturday Night Fever Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Staying Alive

Live albums	Here at Last... Bee Gees... Live One Night Only

Compilation albums	Turn Around, Look at Us Rare, Precious and Beautiful Rare, Precious and Beautiful, Volume 2 Best of Bee Gees Inception/Nostalgia Best of Bee Gees, Volume 2 Bee Gees Gold Bee Gees Greatest Tales from the Brothers Gibb The Very Best of the Bee Gees Their Greatest Hits: The Record Number Ones Love Songs Number Ones The Ultimate Bee Gees Mythology

Videography	Idea Cucumber Castle Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Bee Gees Special One for All Tour One Night Only The Ultimate Bee Gees In Our Own Time

Tours	The Bee Gees' concerts in 1967 and 1968 Spirits Having Flown Tour

Articles	Discography List of songs recorded List of unreleased material A Kick in the Head Is Worth Eight in the Pants The Barry Gibb Talk Show IBC Studios Hither Green rail crash

Bands	The Rattlesnakes Humpy Bong The Fut The Bloomfields Tin Tin The Groove Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs Toe Fat Amen Corner One World Project

People	Hugh Gibb Andy Gibb Steve Gibb Spencer Gibb Robert Stigwood Arif Mardin Ossie Byrne Steve Kipner Albhy Galuten

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