Now Voyager

Now Voyager
Studio album by Barry Gibb
Released	September 1984
Recorded	1984 at Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida May 1984 at Ocean Way, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Pop rock, post-disco, dance, new wave, synthpop, ballad
Label	Polydor (UK) MCA (US)
Producer	Barry Gibb, Karl Richardson
Barry Gibb chronology
The Kid's No Good (1970) Now Voyager (1984) Moonlight Madness (1986)
Singles from Now Voyager
"Face to Face" Released: 1984 (promo single only) "Shine, Shine" Released: August 1984 "Fine Line" Released: October 1984

Now Voyager is the first solo album to be released by Barry Gibb (He had recorded an entire album in 1970 called The Kid's No Good, which never received official release). The single "Shine Shine" peaked at number 37 on the Billboard Magazine Hot 100 in the summer of 1984. The second single "Fine Line" was released but did not chart. The song "Face to Face" was released as a promo single only. He also released a full length Now Voyager video.

In August 1983, Irving Azoff signed Barry to the MCA label for North America. Azoff had recently left his own management company to chair MCA and he was expected to do great things with MCA. Barry was signed for a few million dollars to a multi-album deal, but in the end MCA released only one Barry Gibb album. Barry recorded his album during the same time that Robin recorded his album with Maurice. It was recorded at Middle Ear Studios, except for the string sweetening on few tracks which was done at Ocean Way in Los Angeles Recording was probably done in May in order to allow for filming the audio-visual version of the album. Filming was done in August. Albhy Galuten is notably absent from the production team as he left for California in 1983 after disagreeing with Barry on where to go next. Albhy wanted to break free from the studio straight jacket of recording tracks to mechanical beats and dubbing onto them. Instead he suggested that they rent a theater in New York where Barry could do a series of live performances before audiences for a week, using all the session players they usually used. They would record all the shows and pick the best take of each new song. Barry did not want to do it and Albhy moved on, but Karl Richardson carried on.^[1]

Track listing

Personnel

• Barry Gibb - vocals, guitar, orchestral arrangement
• Olivia Newton-John - vocals ("Face To Face", "Fine Line")
• Harry Wayne Casey - vocals ("Fine Line")
• Kitty Terry - vocals ("Fine Line")
• Denise DeCaro - vocals ("Shatterproof")
• Myma Matthews vocals ("Shatterproof")
• Marti McCall - vocals ("Shatterproof")
• George Bitzer - keyboards, synthesiser
• George Terry - bass, guitar
• Harold Cowart - bass
• Ron Ziegler - drums
• Dennis Bryon - drums
• Joe Lala - percussion
• Lenny Castro - percussion
• Michael Brecker - sax
• Randy Brecker - trumpet
• Jimmie Haskell - orchestral arrangement
• Sid Sharp - concertmaster

Production

• Steve Klein - engineer
• Neal Kent - engineer
• Steve Crimmell - engineer (Ocean Way)

Brass section

• Bob Findley
• Walt Johnson
• Lew McCreary
• Harold Diner
• Terry Harrington
• Vince DeRosa
• David Duke

References

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