Barry Gibb - The Kid's No Good (1970)

As mentioned in the Robin Gibb post, all three brother took time out in 1970 to record solo albums, none of which were ever released. Barry began recording his album on 15th February 1970, completing four songs: 'The Victim', the country-styled 'I'll Kiss Your Memory', 'Moonlight' and 'Summer Ends', with the last two being held back and instead offered to other artists for later release. On 20th February Gibb recorded 'It's Over', also known as 'I Just Want To Take Care Of You', and two days later laid down 'Mando Bay', 'Born', 'Clyde O'Reilly', and 'Peace In My Mind'. On 9th March he recorded 'What's It All About', 'This Time' and 'The Day Your Eyes Meet Mine', and a couple of weeks later he recorded the last two songs, the upbeat pop number 'One Bad Thing' and the soft ballad 'Happiness'. 'I'll Kiss Your Memory' / 'This Time' were released as a single but didn't chart, and a follow-up was mooted in 'One Bad Thing' / 'The Day Your Eyes Meet Mine', but Atco's initial batch of this were destroyed, and the few surviving copies are now considered collectors items. Before the album could be released Barry reconciled with Maurice and the two of them recorded the 'Cucumber Castle' album as The Bee Gees, and so both this record and Maurice's 'The Loner' were shelved. Of the two posts so far, this is the more varied, with the songs including some nice pop/rock numbers, whereas Robin's album was rather heavy on the ballads. 

Track listing

01 Mando Bay
02 One Bad Thing
03 The Day Your Eyes Meet Mine
04 Happiness
05 Peace in My Mind
06 Clyde O'Reilly
07 I Just Want to Take Care of You
08 I'll Kiss Your Memory
09 The Victim
10 This Time
11 What's It All About
12 Born