Andy Gibb – I Just Want To Be Your Everything

“I Just Want to Be Your Everything” – Single by Andy Gibb from the album Flowing Rivers. B-side “In the End”. Released April 1977

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Andy Gibb - I Just Want To Be Your Everything

Andy Gibb - "I Just Want To Be Your Everything" (1983) - MDA Telethon04:04

By 1977, the Bee Gees were writing so many hits that they could afford to pass a few off to other artists. One of the key beneficiaries of this generosity was Andy Gibb, the youngest Gibb brother, who went on to enjoy a string of three #1 hits penned by his brothers. The first was “I Just Want To Be Your Everything,” a soft-rock tune with plenty of Bee Gees-style hooks. The lyrics present a twist on the usual love song premise – the song’s narrator isn’t trying to win over some mysterious object of desire but trying to earn the devotion of someone who hasn’t made up her mind about him: “Open up the heaven in your heart and let me be/The things you are to me and not some puppet on a string.”

Andy Gibb’s recording of “I Just Want To Be Your Everything” perfectly captures the essence of mid-1970’s soft rock with its glossy production, which marries acoustic guitar textures and ethereal washes of synthesizer to a light but insistent beat that borders on disco.

This was the first of three #1 singles for Gibb, which made him the first male solo artist with three consecutive #1 singles in the US. The next single was “(Love Is) Thicker Than Water,” which was released when the Bee Gees were scoring huge hits from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack

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