"Love You Inside Out" - Bee Gees

Wow! Thanks for pointing that out, Dale! Looks like a pretty cool compilation, and being a fan of the Bee Gees, I'll have to keep an eye out for it.

Todd Ireland wrote: Interesting, Dale, I've never heard of this compilation before. Was it only serviced to radio stations?

Hello, Todd, you know, I have no idea if it was a radio only promo or not, but looking it up just now, I found this blurb:

"Too Much Heaven is a elaborately packaged box set issued by Barry Gibb’s American publisher, distributed to people in the music business. It was not released, and probably never will be, because doing so would require licensing the recordings from several major record companies. But it was officially produced, and some of the recipients have sold their copies, making it available to fans at premium prices. Beware: counterfeit copies have been made.

This is the first and only official appearance of ‘Love Is Blind’, a demo recorded by Barry and Maurice in 1998. The other songs have been released before, but some of them appear here in uncommon edited versions, many of them otherwise available only on vinyl. Among the missing are songs written by Robin or Maurice without Barry. Although the title says Songs of the Brothers Gibb it is actually songs of Barry Gibb done with or without his brothers.

The following songs appear in unusual versions, described as follows in the box’s list of songs:

WOULDN’T I BE SOMEONE — DJ Stereo Single Edit
MR NATURAL — Commercial Single Edit
NIGHTS ON BROADWAY — DJ Stereo Single Edit
FANNY (BE TENDER WITH MY LOVE) — Commercial Single Edit
LOVE SO RIGHT — Commercial Single Edit
HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE — Commercial Single Edit
STAYIN’ ALIVE — Commercial Single Edit
TOO MUCH HEAVEN — DJ Stereo Single Edit
TRAGEDY — DJ Mono Single Edit
LOVE YOU INSIDE OUT — Commercial Single Edit
SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN — UK Commercial Single Edit
YOU WIN AGAIN — Commercial Single Edit
ONE — Commercial Single Edit
ALONE — Commercial Single Mix
THIS IS WHERE I CAME IN — DJ Stereo Single Edit"

I was lucky enough to find the set just sitting in a used CD store that seemed to have a pipeline to promo only items. It cost me 50 bucks at the time, IIRC. And I think I even let out an audible squeal at seeing the track listing before I bought it. Heheh. That store is unfortunately long gone, but I was a regular there for a long time. Again, if anybody needs to compare any of the versions on the set to the 45's, let me know. The versions that I can access on my computer are in mp4 format as the set is buried deep in a box deep in my basement.

Like to see Paul Haney chime in on this. What to make of this? A picture US sleeve for "Love You Inside Out"? They're showing one on Discogs in the below listing, but I cannot see any other reference to another one online. It looks like the smaller brown image may be identical to the image from a French DJ sleeve, but in a different color. Don't know why someone would post these picture sleeve shots with a US 45.

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1463289

First, get the LP version on the 4-CD Tales From The Brothers Gibb (1990), which sounds superb throughout, and is my go-to Bee Gees collection.

To recreate the 45, from Tales, remove the 32 beats, snare to snare, from 3.12.3 to 3.32.4.

The speed difference between the actual 45 and Tales is around 0.2%, which you can safely ignore.