Bee Gees ~ Boogie Child 1976 Funky Purrfection Version

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After the success of the Arif Mardin produced "Main Course" brought the Bee Gees a new sound and direction, they promptly lost his services when RSO switched Bee Gees distribution rights away from Atlantic. Being a house producer for Atlantic did not allow him to work with anyone not connected to Atlantic.

The brothers were thunderstruck, Mardin was their ticket out of obscurity. The group approached Richard Perry among other producers but that did not work out and they parted ways. They then thought that the best thing to do was to re-create the atmosphere in the studio and hired engineers Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson who worked on "Main Course".

Their thoughts were bang on and "Children Of The World" produced the #1 hit "You Should Be Dancing" then "Love So Right" peaked at #3 and "Boogie Child" peaked at #12.

The song evolved from "Boogie Summer" and was one of the last two songs recorded for the album along with "Can't Keep A Good Man Down" which received a lot of album play. It was their funkiest single to date with critics saying that it had a Sly influenced lead vocal with incredibly crisp instrumentation and several emotive choruses" according to Billboard.

The song was recorded live in Dec 1976 and the original audio had uncredited background vocalists. They took the lead vocal and instrumentation and Barry's voice was mixed in to the final cut which was released as a single on January 15, 1977.
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