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| "I Want Home" | ||||
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| Single by theBee Gees | ||||
| B-side | "Cherry Red" | |||
| Released | March 1966(Australia) | |||
| Recorded | February 1966 Festival Studio, Sydney | |||
| Length | 2:24 | |||
| Label | Leedon | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Barry Gibb | |||
| Producer(s) | Joe Halford | |||
| TheBee Gees singles chronology | ||||
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"I Want Home" is a song by theBee Gees, written byBarry Gibb and released as a single inAustralia in early 1966, backed with "Cherry Red".[1] Their last single onLeedon had not been a hit, so the credit "Barry Gibb and the Bee Gees" used on the last several discs now reverted to simply "Bee Gees".[2] Neither song appeared on any Bee Gees album until the 1967compilation album,Turn Around, Look At Us, but both were featured onBrilliant From Birth the 1998 anthology of the group's Australian recordings.
With these two songs the Bee Gees inaugurated Festival's new four-track recording equipment. If the multitrack tapes still existed, stereo mixes would have been possible but only the mono mixdowns survived. Promotional material for this single asks radio to play both sides, but "I Want Home" is listed first as it has the lower number matrix number, usually indicating the A-side, Thelead guitar is played byMaurice.Colin Petersen thinks he played drums on both songs".
