“Holiday” by Bee Gees

"Holiday" comes off Bee Gees' 1st, and it went out as a single in America in September 1967, though British fans never got it on a seven-inch: Polydor UK went with "World", from the follow-up album Horizontal, instead. Barry and Robin Gibb wrote it and trade the lead vocal, and it was cut around April 1967 in the same session that yielded "To Love Somebody".

It's a hushed, minor-key mood piece, with Bill Shepherd's orchestral arrangement swelling around the brothers. Maurice Gibb is all over it on bass, piano, organ, harpsichord and mellotron, Robin adds organ, Colin Petersen drums, and all three brothers pile into the wordless chorus harmonies. Robert Stigwood produced with Ossie Byrne. Billboard took it as a ballad change of pace after "To Love Somebody", and Cash Box tipped its hat to the organ.

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