The brilliance of the Brother' Gibb

I've got to learn:    And also this one:  These two incomplete songs from the first international Album by the Brothers Gibb (Bee Gees)  stand to showcase the genius song-writing abilities they possessed.  The year was 1967 and as we have seen from the Australian recording of their work; they were not afraid to experiment with different sounds which could be said to sound  a little wacky but still showing their humour. This also demonstrates how they could write songs for different genres of music something that they would return to again and again. one can think of there song To love somebody which is a soul song.  Now these two songs show case the singing abilities of both Barry and Robin (take the lead on one song each).  These writing and recording session must have been very interesting for other witness. Let me just put up the lyrics of the first one: There's an old old story about a man I know, hated mash potato and ate everything real slow...

 New York Mining Disaster (2:10): To Love Somebody (3: 01): Here are the first two single that the Bee Gees release internationally in April and June 1967.  Now they had had around a dozen other singles release in Australia; but the two above with their B-side: "I can't see no body" (3:45) and "close another door" (3: 29) (excellent songs with Robin Gibb leads) .  Now all of these songs are of different music styles; for example,  to love some body is a classic soul song that was written with the intention of Otis Reading doing it-- but it was not to be as he died just before it was to be done, so the brother did their own record.  All of these 4 songs would later be tracks on their forth-coming album "first" which we will consider soon enough.  Now one thing that can be said of all these songs is that no matter how complex or non-complex they are; they truly display the Brothers song writing abilities as well as their singing ability as solo vocal as ...