After Dark
ANDY GIBB: After Dark. Andy Gibb,
Olivia Newton-John (vocals); instrumental accompaniment. Desire; After Dark; Warm Ride; Dreamin’ On; Someone I Ain’t; and five others. RSO RS-1-3069 $7.98, 1-3069 $7.98, 8T-CT-1-3069 $7.98.
Performance: Schlock art
Recording: Expensive
And here we have another Art Schlocko release, courtesy of the Stigwood Organization.
Andy Gibb, youngest of the Bros. Gibb (though never a Bee Gee), whose adolescent looks, voice, and appeal seem to be stretching into his early middle age, now appears in his third solo album. Almost solo, that is, because his decorative female counterpart, the even more ever-youthful Olivia Newton-John, appears with him on two tracks, Rest Your Love on Me and I Can’t Help It.
Somehow, in the midst of all the grandeur befitting their status as clean-cut pop zillionaires, they still manage to come across as a cute, trendy couple who’ve just bought their first house in a development in Erehwon, New Jersey. After all, they are positioned in the market at the same place James Stewart and June Allyson were twenty years ago, aren’t they?
On his own, Andy contributes his pop single hit Desire, which in his boyish performance turns out to be more of a slight yen. The entire production is as grandly unbelievable as one of those thousand-dollar pinafores Metro used to whip up for Miss Allyson.
P.R.