Bee Gees - Islands In The Stream (Demo)

Only an audio of Islands In The Stream's Demo.
Written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb (1983).

This song was written by the three brothers together.
Maurice may be playing the second guitar and singing the harmonies in original.
Barry and Maurice had done country songs in 1969 and afterwards, and Conway Twitty had had a country number 1 in 1981 with Barry's "Rest Your Love on Me".

As recorded by Kenny with Dolly Parton, it sounds so authentically Nashville that people find it hard to believe it is The Bee Gees song.
When they first wrote the chorus the brothers conceived it as a rhythm and blues ballad a la Smokey Robinson, but it evolved easily into a country number.
As of this demo it was still not planned to be a duet, so it does not change key going into the second verse.
This again seems to have both Robin and Maurice on backup vocals.

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• Dolly
• Parton

[concam28]

this was played at my grandads funeral R.I.P

[honeybabe2007]

hi concam28 :-)

Do your grandad look like Kenny Rogers? Thank you for the comment!!

[concam28]

@honeybabe2007 A BIT LIKE HIM BUT HE THOUGHT HE LOOKED LEKE BRUCE WILLICE

[honeybabe2007]

@concam28 yeah John McClane!!

[grdixon83]

Hi honeybebe,I forgot to ask your opinion of the BEE GEES In Our Own Time Blu-ray/DVD.What did you think?

[honeybabe2007]

hi grdixon83 :-)

Interview video is interesting, but Live video and TV broadcasting already had seen :-)

[atrotroa]

They have always been true to themselves but also managed to re-invent themselves again and again, they were setting trends and always remained outstanding. The Bee Gees are a phenomenon to this day. They have made uncountable hits and yet it is a pity they stopped after Maurice died (as far as I know). I did not like their disco time very much but nevertheless there are songs from this period which I like. Thanks honeybabe2007 for posting so many of their songs.

[Jurek54ful]

Bee Gees - A great group of my old times. Why are they neglected?

I think Selena Quintanilla Perez by.

[opendtuning]

the Bee Gee's according to Barry in interview said that the BeeGee's, could not have released an album,because they were in enormous legal problems with their record company and management. So they concentrated on writing for other artists, and did a film soundtrack. 1987 was the album release from when they were free as a group.

[jaamman]

Great demo ..RU kidding me..its Album or Cd ready..I think it was brilliat to farm it out to other Artist after the stigma of being a disco artist hit!

[ana1peres]

Que música, espero vêlos tocar no Brasil

[suetnose]

Sorry to hear about your Grandad concam,he had a very nice song to send him on his way.Kind regards.Dx