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Mr. Natural is the Bee Gees' twelfth album (tenth worldwide), released in July 1974. It was the first Bee Gees release to be produced by Arif Mardin....

The decision to work with Mardin came after the RSO label rejected the brothers' post-Life in a Tin Can album, which had been provisionally entitled A Kick In The Head Is Worth Eight In The Pants. Their manager Robert Stigwood was not ready to give up on the Bee Gees, but he did not believe in the musical direction they were taking. At the suggestion of Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic, Robert Stigwood sent them to work with Atlantic producer and arranger Arif Mardin, who began to draw out their love of rhythm and blues music. Mardin brought the band's attention to the dance scene unfolding at the time, and the brothers Gibb in turn adapted their songwriting and arrangements to a more upbeat style.

The Bee Gees are not pictured anywhere in the exterior album package. The front and back are an art concept of a man in a bar, looking blissfully out the window on the front and being ejected smiling on the back. There is a small monochrome photo on the inner sleeve, which some have said Atlantic had the idea of hiding the fact that they were white Englishmen.

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Released during a period in which The Bee Gees just had an album (A Kick In The Head Is Worth Eight In The Pants) rejected by their manager Robert Stigwood, Mr. Natural barely scraped the lower end of the Billboard Hot 100 climbing to #93 despite promotional appearances on The Mike Douglas Show and The Merv Griffin Show. However, that showing continued their streak of reaching the Hot 100 every calendar year, starting in 1967, unbroken through 1979. "Mr. Natural" was a hit in Australia where it climbed to #11 due to the Bee Gees concerts there. -wiki

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Today’s Video: The Bee Gees - Wouldn't I Be Someone

"Wouldn't I Be Someone" was released on July 1973. Although the single failed to chart in United States, it was a No. 1 hit in Hong Kong and in Costa Rica, and reached No. 17 in Italy. It had been from an album called A Kick in the Head Is Worth Eight in the Pants. However, producer Robert Stigwood and Polydor refused to release that, citing it to not be commercial enough for sales. -wiki

 

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Today’s Video: Bee Gees - Saw a New Morning

"Saw a New Morning" was the Bee Gees first single released on Robert Stigwood's newly created records label RSO Records. The single did not fare well and stalled at #94 in the US, while it did not chart at all in the UK. Ironically, while the single flopped in most of the world, it reached #1 in Hong Kong, as did their next single "Wouldn't I Be Someone", which also flopped in both the US and UK.

Despite its low sales and poor chart performance, Life In A Tin Can was awarded "Album of the Year" by Record World magazine. It was the first Bee Gees album to bear the RSO label in the US. -wiki

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 Today’s Video: Bee Gees – Alive

It was another piano ballad (customary for Bee Gees singles during this period), which Barry has noted that he doesn't even remember writing. -wiki

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Today’s Video: Bee Gees - Sea of Smiling Faces

To Whom It May Concern is the tenth album released by the Bee Gees, released in October 1972. It was the follow-up , and continued the melancholic and personal sound of its predecessor Trafalgar. The album was recognised as "a farewell to the old Bee Gees" as the album marked the end of an era for the group in several ways as it was their last album to be recorded at IBC Studios, in London, their last with conductor and arranger Bill Shepherd who had guided them since 1967, and their last under their first contract with Robert Stigwood. Even some of the songs were old ones finished up or rewritten for the occasion. In the 2010 documentary In Our Own Time, Maurice was shown explaining (in archival footage) that by 1972 they didn't really know who their audience was, hence the title To Whom It May Concern.