Spicks and Specks (song)

"Spicks and Specks"
Single by the Bee Gees
from the album Spicks and Specks
B-side"I Am the World"
Released
  • September 22, 1966 (1966-09-22) (Australia)
  • February 1967 (UK)
RecordedJuly 1966
Genre
Length2:52
Label
Songwriter(s)Barry Gibb
Producer(s)Nat Kipner
The Bee Gees singles chronology
"Monday's Rain"
(1966) 		"Spicks and Specks"
(1966) 		"Born a Man"
(1967)

"Spicks and Specks" is a song by the Bee Gees, written by Barry Gibb. When the song was released in September 1966, the single reached No. 4 on the Go-Set Australian National Top 40[3] (No. 1 on other Australian charts),[4][5] and when the song was released in other countries in February 1967, it reached No. 28 in Germany, No. 2 in the Netherlands and No. 1 in New Zealand.[2]

  1. ^ Davidson, Chris (2001). "Sunshine Pop". In Cooper, Kim; Smay, David (eds.). Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth. Los Angeles: Feral House. pp. 190–191.
  2. ^ a b [1] Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Go-Set Charts was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Barry Gibb". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  5. ^ Joseph Brennan. "Gibb Songs: 1966". Retrieved 2015-11-30.