Barry Gibb - The Kid's No Good

Unreleased solo album from 1970

Hi Barry Gibb fans,

i have done azimuth, phase, speed & level correction.
Also did new EQ

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Remastered by Captain Acid, December 2025


01 Mando Bay
02 One Bad Thing
03 The Day Your Eyes Meet Mine (Fast Version)
04 Happiness
05 Peace In Your Mind
06 Clyde O'Riley
07 I Just Wanna Take Care OF You / It's Over
08 I'll Kiss Your Memory
09 The Victim
10 This Time
11 What's It All About
12 Born
13 The Days Your Eyes Meet Mine (Slow Version)
14 Moonlight
15 King Cathy
16 I Can Bring Love
17 Summer Ends
18 I'll Kiss Your Memory (Mono Version)
19 This Time (Mono Version)

The Kid's No Good was to have been the debut solo album by British musician Barry Gibb following his departure from the Bee Gees in December 1969. There was no official title given to the album at the time. The line "the kid's no good", which the album is commonly titled on several bootleg releases, is also featured in the Bee Gees song "Come Home Johnny Bridie" on the 1973 album Life in a Tin Can. The album features orchestral arrangements by Bill Shepherd who performed the same role for the Bee Gees from 1965 to 1972 (Robin and Maurice Gibb's solo recordings were done with different arrangers).

Background
On 1 December 1969, Barry Gibb announced his departure from the Bee Gees and that he would carry on as a solo artist instead. He would spend the following months writing new material for his solo album. Few of the songs were released."It's not the same orchestra as we used with the Bee Gees", Gibb explained, "But Bill Shepherd is the only arranger I'll ever work with."

Recording
I love country music and I probably allowed a little more than I should have to influence me. But I do music that I enjoy and hope that everyone else will enjoy it too. If you try to work for whatever everyone else wants, I think that you get lost."
– Gibb discussing his songs on The Kid's No Good

Gibb began recording the album on 15 February 1970 with four songs: "I'll Kiss Your Memory", "The Victim", "Moonlight" and "Summer Ends". The latter two were held off the album and instead offered to other artists for later release. On 20 February, Gibb recorded "It's Over", also known as "I Just Want to Take Care of You". On 22 February he recorded "A Child, a Girl, a Woman", "Mando Bay", "Born", "Clyde O'Reilly" and "Peace in My Mind". On 9 March he recorded "What's It All About", "This Time" and "The Day Your Eyes Meet Mine" and on 23 March he recorded the last two songs, the upbeat pop number "One Bad Thing" and the soft ballad "Happiness".[4] Other musicians are uncredited but P. P. Arnold, with whom Gibb was working with at the time, can be heard singing backing vocals on some songs.


Review by Bruce Eder
Seventy minutes of surprisingly decent quality outtakes from Barry Gibb's unreleased 1970 solo album. One could think of them as the equivalent of lost solo tracks by any of the Beatles from the same era, except that it's clear that The Kid's No Good, as the album was reportedly to have been called, was a finished work, thus making the bulk of these songs considerably more satisfying aesthetically than, say, a bunch of unfinished John Lennon or Paul McCartney tracks off of Let It Be, if not remotely as important -- this is a record that casual listeners could enjoy without having to make allowances for its origins. Started by the eldest Gibb brother in January of 1970, a few months after the breakup of the two-man Bee Gees lineup with his brother Maurice, these 19 tracks represent an odd lost chapter in the history of the Bee Gees. From the moody "Mando Bay" to the somewhat Beatlesque "One Bad Thing," the sounds here are of a piece with the late-'60s Bee Gees output, and they're worth owning by any admirers of the trio who are interested in stretching their legacy as far as possible. A lot of the material is sentimental and country flavored, and all of it features the light to moderately heavy orchestrations that were favored by the group as a whole in their sound before and after the split. There probably wasn't a hit single here, at least for the American market, but it's all good listening and does, indeed, sound a lot like one might picture the Bee Gees album that should have fallen in between Cucumber Castle and 2 Years On. The quality ranges from fair to good, the sources all apparently tapes from hardcore fans' collections.

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Thank you Captain, to my ears Barry Gibb is as far from the Rolling Stones as you can get! But, I have an adventurous and esoteric ear, it's one of my faults. Since you've taken the time and effort to share , I will give this an enthusiastic listen!

Cheers and Happiest of Holiday wishes to you!

Thank you for BGs.