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<p>"<strong>(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away</strong>" is a song penned by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Gibb" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Barry Gibb</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Weaver" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Blue Weaver.</a>&nbsp;The Bee Gees recorded it in 1977 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Fever_(soundtrack)" target="_blank"><em>Saturday Night Fever</em></a>&nbsp;sessions, but it was not released until&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Gees_Greatest" target="_blank"><em>Bee Gees Greatest</em></a>&nbsp;(1979). Andy Gibb released a different version in September 1978 as the third single from his second studio album,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Dancing_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Shadow Dancing</em></a>.</p><p><br></p><h2>Andy Gibb's version</h2><p>The song was Andy Gibb's fifth single to reach the US Top 10; the single reached No. 9 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Billboard</em>&nbsp;Hot 100</a>&nbsp;chart and No. 2 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Contemporary_chart" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Adult Contemporary chart</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(Our_Love)_Don%27t_Throw_It_All_Away#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[1]</a>&nbsp;When Andy Gibb was going to record it, Barry reworked on the song adding the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_eight" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">middle eight</a>&nbsp;that was not on the original Bee Gees' version,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(Our_Love)_Don%27t_Throw_It_All_Away#cite_note-version-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[2]</a>&nbsp;as Blue Weaver recalls, "When Andy actually went to record it, Barry listened to it [the original version] again and thought, 'Oh, it's not finished', so Barry wrote the whole of the middle-eight.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(Our_Love)_Don%27t_Throw_It_All_Away#cite_note-original-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmusic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Allmusic</a>'s Amy Hanson described this version of "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" as a "tender ballad" that suited Andy's voice.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(Our_Love)_Don%27t_Throw_It_All_Away#cite_note-version-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[2]</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_Box" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Cash Box</em></a>&nbsp;said it has "gentle keyboards, strings, an easy beat and harmonies."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(Our_Love)_Don%27t_Throw_It_All_Away#cite_note-cb-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[4]</a>&nbsp;It appears on Andy's three greatest-hits albums.</p>