Spicks and Specks (song)

Spicks and Specks (song)

Infobox Single
Name =Spicks and Specks


Cover size =
Caption =
Artist =The Bee Gees
from Album =
B-side ="I Am the World"
Released =September 1966
March 1967 (UK)
Format =7" single
Recorded =Mid-1966, St Clair Studio, Hurstville, New South Wales
Genre =Beat, Pop
Length =2:52
Label =Spin EK-1474 (AUS)
Polydor 56727 (UK)
Writer =Barry Gibb
Producer =Nat Kipner
Chronology =Bee Gees Australian singles
Last single ="Monday's Rain"
(1966)
This single ="Spicks and Specks"
(1966)
Next single ="Born a Man"
(1967)
Misc =

"Spicks and Specks" is a song by The Bee Gees (chart positions: #1 (Australia), #28 (Germany), #2 (Netherlands)).

An instrumental version of the song is part of the soundtrack for "Melody", which also featured several other Bee Gees songs.

A version of the song performed and produced by The Dissociatives is used as the theme song of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's music based quiz show Spicks and Specks (2005-present).

Status Quo covered the song on their debut album Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo.

References

*http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/66.html Gibb songs: 1966


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