Words is a song by the Bee Gees, written by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb. The song reached No. 1 in Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands and China. Words has been recorded by many other artists. Among them are a hit version by Rita Coolidge in 1978 and a version by Boyzone on the 1996 album A Different Beat. This was Boyzones fifth single and their first number one hit in the UK. Words was written by me at Adams Row when I was staying at Robert [Stigwood]s place, A lot of people began to cover that song, so over the years its become a bit like To Love Somebody. I didnt know it wasn’t on an album—that’s strange how it used to work in those days. We used to bang singles out one after another. ” — Barry Gibb[1] Robin Gibb describes Maurices keyboard sound on this track: “ That’s the IBC [Studios] compression, We discovered that quite early in recording at IBC. They had this incredible limited/compression sound that they pumped the piano through, which really was extraordinary and still sounds good even today. ” — Robin Gibb[1] It was originally intended for Cliff Richard, but he never got around to recording the track as he wasnt making an album at the time. Rather than wasting the song, the Bee Gees decided to record it themselves.[citation needed] The vocals feature a very strong vibrato.[2] Barry Gibb sings lead vocal and possibly all the backing vocals as well. Words is a solo spotlight for Barry Gibb, Robin does not appear to sing on the song at all, and Robin said Words reflects a mood, It was written after an argument. Barry had been arguing with someone, I had been arguing with someone, and happened to be in the same mood. [The arguments were] about absolutely nothing. They were just words. That is what the song is all about; words can make you happy or words can make you sad
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 05:00:28 +0000
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