(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away

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"(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away"
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Single by Andy Gibb
from the album Shadow Dancing
B-side "One More Look at the Night"
ReleasedSeptember 1978
RecordedDecember 1977 – January 1978; Wally Heider Studios (Los Angeles, California)
Genre
Length4:08 (album version)
3:38 (single version)
Label RSO Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Gibb-Galuten-Richardson
Andy Gibb singles chronology
"An Everlasting Love"
(1978)
"(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away"
(1978)
"Why"
(1978)

"(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" is a song penned by Barry Gibb and Blue Weaver and recorded by the Bee Gees in 1977 on the Saturday Night Fever sessions but was not released until Bee Gees Greatest (1979). A different version was released in September 1978 by RSO Records as the third single by Andy Gibb from his second studio album Shadow Dancing . His version was produced by Gibb-Galuten-Richardson.

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Andy Gibb's version

The song was Andy Gibb's fifth single to reach the US Top 10; the single reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart. [1] When Andy Gibb was going to record it, Barry reworked on the song adding the middle eight that was not on the original Bee Gees' version, [2] as Blue Weaver recalls, "When Andy actually went to record it, Barry listened to it [the original version] again and thought, 'Oh, it's not finished', so Barry wrote the whole of the middle-eight. [3]

Allmusic's Amy Hanson described this version of "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" as a "tender ballad" that suited Andy's voice. [2] Cash Box said it has "gentle keyboards, strings, an easy beat and harmonies." [4] It appears on Andy's three greatest-hits albums.

Personnel

Chart performance

Bee Gees' version

"(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away"
Song by Bee Gees
from the album Bee Gees Greatest
ReleasedOctober 1979
RecordedFebruary and March 1977
Le Chateau, Herouville, France
April 1977
Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida
Genre Soul, soft rock, pop
Length4:02
Label RSO
Songwriter(s) Barry Gibb, Blue Weaver
Producer(s) Bee Gees, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson

The Bee Gees version of the song, the first one created, was recorded in 1977 during the sessions for Saturday Night Fever but was not released until the compilation Bee Gees Greatest in 1979. [14] Barry and Maurice Gibb are the only members of the Bee Gees to appear on the recording.

Barry wrote the lyrics while Weaver composed the melody. Weaver said of this song, "That was me playing around again; It wasn't done for [Saturday Night Fever], it was just something that we did". [3] The stereo mix of an early state of the song exists but was unreleased until now. Samantha Sang, who was visiting France where this version was recorded, asked Barry for a song; not long afterwards, Barry sent Sang "Don't Throw it All Away", but Sang never recorded or released it, choosing instead the new song "Emotion". [15]

During the Bee Gees' One Night Only tour, they performed the song with Andy's vocal mixed in during the second stanza, chorus, bridge and the coda of the song years after Andy died.

Personnel

Other versions

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