To Whom It May Concern

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共14首歌曲

艺人: Bee Gees
语种: 英语
厂牌: Polydor Records
发行时间: 1972年10月01日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

在 "Run To Me" 之后，Bee Gees 於 1972 年 11 月，推出了他们回到英国后的第八张录音室专辑："To Whom It May Concern"，同时也发行了专辑的第二首单曲 "Alive"。

这首 "Alive"，和日后红遍全球的畅销曲 "Stayin' Alive" 的歌名相似，但排行成绩却不如歌名一般「生气勃勃」。"Alive" 在全美 Billboard 单曲榜勉强挤进 Top 40，名列第 34，而在英国和德国都没能进入排行榜。

另外，专辑 "To Whom It May Concern"，从 "My World" 的热身，到巡回演唱的加持，再到一连两首选自专辑的单曲 "Run To Me"、"Alive" 的连串促销攻势之下，最后是以 Billboard 专辑榜的第 35 名坐收，比前一张专辑 "Trafalgar" 又败退了一名。

从这张专辑的名称，也看得出 Bee Gees 当时，已有对自己定位不明的困扰，同时亦有乐迷已流失的觉悟。

"To Whom It May Concern" 这个词，是我们写信给某些不知名的个人或团体时，开头所用的称谓语。由於不知道读信的会是何人，所以就用「此致相关人士」来起头，与中文书信中所用的「敬启者」意思相当。

无论是单曲 "Alive" 或是专辑 "To Whom It May Concern"，其排名成绩都令 Bee Gees 不甚满意；但比起即将来临的低潮期，这两者的 Top 40 却又显得十分难能可贵了。

"To Whom It May Concern" 专辑的发行，也代表了 Bee Gees 一段旧时代的结束。这张专辑是他们最后一次在伦敦的 IBC Studios 录音、最后一次与乐团编曲师 Bill Shepherd 合作；同时这也是 Robert Stigwood 最后一次挂名制作，还有第四名成员 Geoff Bridgeford 所参与的最后一张专辑唱片。

by Bruce Eder

The next to last of the Bee Gee's "old-style" albums is one of their most fully realized works, with pleasing and memorable songs from beginning to end, and for a change this time, it's the single ("Run to Me"), rather than the surrounding tracks, that suffers from predictability. Another in a string of haunting ballads, it has a more plaintive, whining quality, and less of an ethereal feel than its predecessor, "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" -- not that "Run to Me" isn't a lovely song, but it was possible to tire of hearing it on the radio faster than their prior singles. By contrast, the album's other tracks are all intensely melodic and varied enough in tempo and texture to make for very satisfying listening, "You Know It's for You" calling to mind Paul McCartney at his most accessible; the group plunges into relatively hard rock, with a heavy guitar sound, on "Bad Bad Dreams," and a country-ish sound on "Road to Alaska," before returning to a kind of post-psychedelic mode in "Sweet Song of Summer." The Bee Gees were pushing their credibility as a cohesive band more than ever, emphasizing Barry Gibb and Maurice Gibb's contributions to their instrumental sound and retaining guitarist Alan Kendall, who had debuted with them on the Trafalgar album and who would play with them for the next two decades. As it turned out, To Whom It May Concern was also the commercial swan song for the trio in this phase of their career, and the last of their albums to be released by Atlantic Records in the United States, something of an artistic peak before a period of massive change in their sound and future.

To Whom It May Concern

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