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   In the Morning
  (1966) Barry Gibb
   
  In the morning when the moon is at it's rest,
you will see me at the time I love the best
watching rainbows play on sunlight;
pools of water iced from cold night,in the morning.
'Tis the morning of my life.

In the daytime I will meet you as before.
You will find me waiting by the ocean floor,
building castles in the shifting sands
in a world that no one understands,
In the morning.
'Tis the morning of my life,

In the morning of my life the
minutes take so long to drift away
Please be patient with your life
It's only morning and you're still to live your day

In the ev'ning I will fly you to the moon
To the top right hand corner of
the ceiling in my room
Where w'll stay until the sun shines
Another day to swing on clothe's lines
May I be yawning
It is the morning of my life
It is the morning of my life
In the morning
In the morning
In the morning
 
 
Barry Gibb wrote this song in 1966, when he was twenty.
The first recording of this song was by Ronnie Burns in Australia. It was a top 20 hit for him in Australia in July 1967. The Abi and Esther Ofarim version was also out in mid 1967 on a single. They worked mainly in Europe, not the US, including Germany where the Bee Gees were very, very popular, but I just don't know whether it was a hit single.



The Bee Gees version was first out on the movie soundtrack album Melody at the start of 1971, by the way. Best of vol.2, 1973 is the first actual Bee Gees album that had it. This is their second recording of it; that first one, was recorded as a demo by Bee Gees in late 1966 and first released in 1970 on the Inception / Nostalgia 2-LP set.

-- Joseph Brennan, webmaster of the site The Brothers Gibb.
   
  Recording live session 1968 Apr. 7, Westbury, Westbury Music Fair -- (LP 'Nuff Said)
   Never issued, as far as I known
   
  Recording studio session 1968 May 13, New York, RCA Studios
    LP 1968 'Nuff Said RCA LPS 4065/40554 Applause added.
    LP 1971 Best of RCA LSP 4373 [2:27] Applause added.
    CD 1989 Best Of RCA ND90376 [2:27] Applause added.
    CD 1997 Saga of the Good Life and Hard Times RCA 07863 66997-2 [2:41] Original undubbed studio version.
    CD 1998 Sugar in my Bowl 1967-1972 RCA [2:40] Original undubbed studio version.
   
  Recording studio session 1968 Jun., Rome
   Never issued, as far as I known
   
  Recording live session 1969 Apr., Germany -- (LP A Very Rare Evening)
    LP 1969 Very Rare Evening PM PMR-018
 
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