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"(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away"
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
Length4:07
LabelRSO 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). It was released as a single by Andy Gibb on his version from his second studio album Shadow Dancing.

Andy Gibb's version

"(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" was released as the third single from Andy Gibb's Shadow Dancing album, but only in the United States, in September 1978. The song was also his fifth single to reach the US Top 10; the single reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #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] It appears on Andy's three greatest-hits albums.

Personnel

Chart performance

Bee Gees' version

"(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away"
Song

The Bee Gees version of the song, the first version ever recorded by anyone, was recorded in 1977 during the sessions for Saturday Night Fever, but was not released until the compilation Bee Gees Greatest 1979.[13] 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".[14]

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

References

  1. ^ "Shadow Dancing Billboard singles". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-02-21.
  2. ^ a b Hanson, Amy. "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away - Andy Gibb". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  3. ^ a b Hughes, Andrew. The Bee Gees - Tales of the Brothers Gibb. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  4. ^ David Kent (1993). Australian Charts Book 1970—1992. Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  5. ^ a b c d e Gerard. "Songs Written by the Gibb Family on the International Charts" (PDF). brothersgibb.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 January 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ "CAN Charts > Andy Gibb". RPM. Archived from the original on 2013-11-13. Retrieved 2013-05-20. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ "CAN AC Charts > Andy Gibb". RPM. Retrieved 2016-10-06. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  8. ^ "UK Charts > Andy Gibb". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 2015-01-03. Retrieved 2013-05-20. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ "Cashbox Top 100 Singles". December 23, 1978. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
  10. ^ "US Charts > Andy Gibb". Billboard. Retrieved 2013-05-20. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  11. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  12. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1979/Top 100 Songs of 1979". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  13. ^ "(Our Love) Don't Throw it All Away". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-01-21.
  14. ^ Brennan, Joseph. "Gibb Songs: 1977". Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  15. ^ "Streisand - Guilty Pleasures". Discogs.com. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  16. ^ Brennan, Joseph. "Gibb Songs: 2005". Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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