Exit, Stage Right - RONNIE BURNS (1967) - Pop Archives - Sources of Australian Pop Records from the 50s, 60s and 70s

RONNIE BURNS
Exit, Stage Right
(Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb)
Australia 1967
#15 Sydney #12 Melbourne #15 Brisbane

Original released version.

Single on Spin label. The B-side, In The Morning was a Barry Gibb composition.

Melbourne singer Ronnie Burns emerged in 1964 as a member of Beatles influenced band The Flies, and went on to a successful solo career. After signing with Spin he benefited from his association with The Bee Gees, and he had several charting singles, usually with original songs by Australian songwriters.

Nowadays, Ronnie Burns lives in Tasmania, where he and his wife Maggie run the Appin Hall Children’s Foundation, their non-profit organization for children in crisis and distress.

From the 60s to the 90s, Ronnie hosted and produced several television programs, including his own creation, Prophecy & Prediction - Threat or Warning? In the late 90s he joined fellow music stars Russell Morris and Darryl Cotton to form Burns, Cotton & Morris. Along the way he ran an architectural and design company and wrote The Australian House Book.

In 2001, Ronnie was the subject of This Is Your Life, for which 2 million people tuned in to the Nine Network.

Reference: Ronnie Burns, official biography
Further reading: Milesago's Ronnie Burns page. Wikipedia article on Ronnie Burns. Appin Hall Children's Foundation. Ronnie's books The Australian House Book and Prophecy & Prediction - Threat or Warning? at AbeBooks.
Photos: Colin Beard (top), Ronnie Burns.

THE BEE GEES
Exit, Stage Right
(Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb)
Australia 1966

Original unreleased version.

Unreleased at the time, but first appeared on the 1970 album Inception/Nostalgia on Karrussel label, and then on the 1998 Festival CD retrospective Brilliant From Birth.

Joseph Brennan, at his Gibb Songs website, notes that the Ronnie Burns release used the backing tracks from this Bee Gees session, recorded in June or July 1966. The B-side, In The Morning (aka Morning Of My Life) was also recorded by The Bee Gees at that time, but the Ronnie Burns release was a fresh recording. See also Ronnie Burns's single Coalman b/w All The Kings Horses.

For more about other 'songs the Bee Gees gave away', there are several Bee Gees sites with useful discographies. See, for example, BeeGees World or Joseph Brennan's Gibb Songs.