BEE GEES: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
The Bee Gees at their best. The next to last of the Bee Gee's "old-style" albums is one of their most fully realized works, with pleasing and memorable songs from beginning to end. The brothers Gibb have refined their tremulous vocal style to the point that at times they sound more like reed instruments than singers. The Bee Gees have decided to concentrate on their one great strength—the writing, singing and production of big ballads, the best of which evoke a grand though momentary pathos. This is a very limited territory of pop music to occupy but the Bee Gees are its masters. The Bee Gees were pushing their credibility as a cohesive band more than ever, emphasizing Barry Gibb and Maurice Gibb's contributions to their instrumental sound and retaining guitarist Alan Kendall, who had debuted with them on the Trafalgar album and who would play with them for the next two decades. As it turned out, To Whom It May Concern was also the commercial swan song for the trio in this phase of their career, and the last of their albums to be released by Atlantic Records in the United States, something of an artistic peak before a period of massive change in their sound and future.
Tracklist:
1.Run To Me 2.We Lost The Road 3.Never Been Alone 4.Paper Mache, Cabbages & Kings 5.I Can Bring Love 6.I Held A Party 7.Please Don't Turn Out The Lights 8.Sea Of Smiling Faces 9.Bad Bad Dreams 10.You Know It's For You 11.Alive 12.Road To Alaska 13.Sweet Song Of Summer
Lineup:
Barry Gibb - lead, harmony and backing vocals, acoustic guitar, Robin Gibb - lead, harmony and backing vocals, Maurice Gibb - harmony and backing vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, organ, Mellotron, harpsichord, mandolin, Moog synthesizer on "Sweet Song Of Summer", lead vocal on "You Know It's For You", Geoff Bridgford - drums on "Paper Mache, Cabbages And Kings" and "Alive". Additional musicians: Alan Kendall - acoustic guitar, electric lead guitar on "Bad Bad Dreams", Clem Cattini - drums, Bill Shepherd - orchestral arrangement, Mike Vickers - synthesizer engineer (on "Sweet Song Of Summer")