Songoftheday 11/7/13 - I've never been sorry for the way I was raised, the enemy fewer and the love that I made...

Barry Gibb - "Shine Shine"
from the album Now Voyager (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #37 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 3

Today's Song of the Day is by singer/songwriter/producer Barry Gibb, who as one-third of the brother group Bee Gees dominated the seventies from the soft-rock start (with chart-topping "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart") to the disco apex of Saturday Night Fever. Barry himself also side-jobbed with Barbra Streisand on the #1 title track from her Gibb-produced Guilty album and top-10 follow-up "What Kind Of Fool". However once the disco backlash happened at the start of the eighties, the trio had quite a rough go, with their studio album Living Eyes and soundtrack follow-up Staying Alive producing only one top-40 hit each with "He's a Liar" and "The Woman In You". The year after the latter song hit, in 1984, both Barry and Robin Gibb released solo albums. Robin's came out first, scoring a top-40 hit with "Boys Do Fall In Love". The first single from Barry's record was "Shine, Shine", written by the artist with brother Maurice and keyboardist George Bitzer, and produced by Barry and Karl Richardson....

"Shine, Shine" became Barry's first and only solo top-40 hit in October of 1984. It actually made the same rank as Robin's single, and though it spent one more week at #37, it spent one less week in the top-40. So I guess they could call it a draw on who had the bigger hit. But as Robin's was a top-10 dance hit, "Shine Shine" went top-10 on the adult-contemporary (easy-listening) chart. His follow-up single, "Fine Line" (I guess he went with rhyming) made the dance club play chart at #50.

Up tomorrow: some colored precipitation.