Second Hand People

"Second Hand People" is a song recorded by the Bee Gees in November 1966 on the Spicks and Specks album. Written by Barry Gibb. Produced by Nat Kipner, released on Spin Records. This song ends at 2 minutes and 10 seconds.
"Second Hand People" was later included in many of the group's greatest hits album. One of them is The Festival Albums Collection, 1965-1967 and Morning of My Life both released in 2013 only in Australia.
Recording and chords
Like "Monday's Rain", this song was slow and features guitars by Barry and Maurice, and also features a low voice by Barry and Robin. On some now unidentifiable songs guitarist John Robinson played bass alongside Maurice playing guitar the example is "Second Hand People" with it active bass might be one of them with Maurice playing the lead guitar style (with distortion) heard in several 1966 recordings. Maurice joins Barry and Robin in vocals. Recording took place at St. Clair Studio in Hurstville outside Sydney around April and May 1966.
The opening chord was A and then D (repeat two times) as the singer started to sing See the cracks the drums was played. Robin joins Barry on the refrain:
The song ends with a fadeout as Barry and Robin sings the refrain, the last line they sing before the fadeout was Softer than treacle.
Personnel
* Barry Gibb — lead vocals, acoustic guitar
* Robin Gibb — lead vocals
* Maurice Gibb — electric guitar
* John Robinson — bass guitar
* Colin Petersen — drums

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