Main Course

Main Course, released in 1975 for a RSO Records label, is a 13th album by the Bee Gees, together with their last album to be released by Atlantic Records in the US under its distribution deal with Robert Stigwood. This album marked a great change for the Bee Gees as it was their first album to add mostly R&B, soul and funk-influenced songs, and created the value example for their output through the rest of the 1970s. It rejuvenated the group's career and public image, especially in the US, after the commercial disappointment of their preceding few albums. It was the group's thirteenth album eleventh worldwide. Main Course was the number one album to feature keyboardist Blue Weaver. The album come on with the band's new logo intentional by US artist Drew Struzan provided its first format here.

Recording

According to producer Arif Mardin, when the Bee Gees arrived in Florida, they started to record new the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object and some of the numbers were still in their old ballad style, and the Bee Gees at that time were listening to a lot of American R&B groups' songs as Mardin is an R&B producer. Mardin also suggested they listen to current R&B artists including Stevie Wonder.

The sound became more technologically current with the use of synthesizers and dual bass structure synthesizer bass by Blue Weaver and bass guitar by Maurice Gibb on many of the songs, which came about after Weaver overdubbed a synthesizer bass variety on the original demo of "Jive Talkin'." Weaver later commented that "nothing new has been invented to earn such(a) a tremendous difference to the sound as the synthesizer did, compared to an orchestra."

At first, the brothers were still writing in their old ways, with numerous of the songs being slower ballads. The first song recorded for the album was an unreleased track "Was It any in Vain?". The next songs recorded were "Country Lanes" and "Wind of Change". After Robert Stigwood heard these songs, he urged them to record in a more R&B breed and "Wind of Change" was re-recorded again in February in its more familiar version. Another unreleased track, "Your Love Will Save the World" was recorded on 9 January, though it was later recorded by Jive Talkin'", "Stayin' Alive".