Editing Cucumber Castle (section)

==Production==
On 7 May 1969, the Bee Gees recorded "Don't Forget to Remember". The other songs recorded around May were "[[I Lay Down and Die]]", "Give a Hand, Take a Hand" (not released at the time but recorded by the [[Staple Singers]] in 1971 and re-recorded by the reformed Bee Gees for the 1974 album ''[[Mr. Natural (Bee Gees album)|Mr. Natural]]'') and "[[Bury Me Down By the River]]". At the time the band was considering a replacement for Robin. As Dave Dee recalls, "[Barry] was looking for a replacement and I found him one, A guy called Peter Mason, he was a Scouser, but he lived in Salisbury where we lived. Barry was looking for somebody who had a similar voice sound but also wrote". Peter Mason did audition and recorded vocals on a few of the songs to be included on the Cucumber Castle album but those were either erased or left out of the final mix. Mason is unable to verify if his voice is on "Don't Forget to Remember". Mason believes that it was Robert Stigwood wanting to reunite the three brothers that kept him from joining the Bee Gees, in spite of the fact that Barry had welcomed him on board and even bought him a suit for performing in.<ref name="wrote">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KugbDQHX0R8C&q=brother+can+you+spare+a+song&pg=PT366 |title=The Bee Gees – Tales of the Brothers Gibb |last=Hughes |first=Andrew |access-date=21 July 2013|isbn=9780857120045 |year=2009 |publisher=Omnibus Press }}</ref>

In June, Barry produced "The Love of a Woman" and "Don't Let It Happen Again" performed by [[Samantha Sang]], the orchestral arrangement was credited to Bill Shepherd. Also in that month, Barry produced [[P.P. Arnold]]'s version of "Give a Hand, Take a Hand", around the same time, the Bee Gees recorded the unreleased "Between the Laughter and the Tears". On 13 June, Maurice produced Tin Tin's "Tuesday Dreamer", "Swans on the Canal" and "Spanish Shepherd", . On 9 July 1969, Barry produced P.P. Arnold's version of "Bury Me Down By the River" and "[[Let There Be Love (Bee Gees song)|Let There Be Love]]". Also in July, the Bee Gees continued recording eight songs for the [[Cucumber Castle (film)|film of the same name]]. Filming started on 11 August 1969. Also on July, Maurice played all the instruments on the song "[[My Thing]]", which was sung by him. In August 1969, Maurice Gibb, Steve Groves, [[Steve Kipner]] and Billy Lawrie recorded "Have You Heard the Word" under the name The Fut. The song was released as a single in 1970.<ref name="songs"/>

The Bee Gees returned to the studio in September 1969 to record seven songs including the unreleased "[[One Bad Thing]]" and "The Day Your Eyes Meet Mine". Both songs were later re-recorded for what was intended to be Barry's debut solo album ''[[The Kid's No Good]]''. In October, the Bee Gees recorded two songs, around the same time as they re-recorded "[[I.O.I.O.]]", a song from 1968. On 16 October, the last album session, they recorded the unreleased track "Julia", which was sung by Maurice. On 31 October, Gibb produced the two Samantha Sang songs and on November, Gibb produced [[P.P. Arnold]] songs "Piccaninny", "High and Windy Mountain" and a cover version of "Turning Tide". Also in November, Gibb produced Tin Tin's three songs.<ref name="songs">{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/69.html |title=Gibb Songs: 1969 |last=Brennan |first=Joseph |access-date=22 March 2013}}</ref>

During much of this time, Maurice Gibb was also producing the [[Tin Tin (album)|debut album]] by Australian duo [[Tin Tin (band)|Tin Tin]].

Shortly after Petersen's departure, Barry reminded everyone, "Maurice is capable of playing about seven instruments - most of the back tracks on the records were all him, and I sang lead on four or five of the hit singles. So how can the Bee Gees sound be finished?".<ref name="instruments">Melinda Bilyeu, Hector Cook, Andrew Mon Hughes, ''The Ultimate Biography of the Bee Gees'', Omnibus Press, 2000, p. 243-246 (based on an interview in 1999)</ref> Nevertheless, Barry and Maurice drifted apart shortly afterwards and both recorded unreleased solo albums. The brothers reunited as a trio in 1970.