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on the album ''

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''. Written by Barry and

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, it closes the first side of the album. An alternate take was released in 2006 on ''The Studio Albums 1967-1968''. This track was recorded on March 21 after the orchestral dubbing for the other album tracks had been laid down. Featuring only piano and voice, the song stands in stark contrast to the rest of the album.

Personnel

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Maurice Gibb Maurice Ernest Gibb (; 22 December 1949 – 12 January 2003) was a British musician and songwriter. He achieved global fame as a member of the Bee Gees pop group. Although his elder brother Barry Gibb and fraternal twin brother Robin Gibb wer ...

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— producer * Ossie Byrne — producer

Johnny Young version

Later, it was covered by Australian singer

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, a friend of the Bee Gees. His version was recorded in July 1967 at IBC Studios, and Barry, Robin and Maurice sang backup. The track was conducted by Bill Shepherd and produced by

. It was issued as a single on

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in UK and Clarion Records in Australia, in August 1967. The B-side was another Bee Gees song " I Am the World", written by Robin Gibb in 1966. Young's version of this song had been on the Radio London playlist for the final four weeks of the station's life. The song was one of the most popular tracks featured on Big L'97. Mike Ahern cited this track as "being on Caroline's pay-for-play list". The song reached #14 at the ''

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'' charts in Melbourne and on ''

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'' in Sydney.

Chart performance

References

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