Released 22 September 1967 Recorded August 1967 | Format 7" | |
B-side "Daddy What'll Happen to Me" Genre Psychedelic rock, soft rock Label Parlophone (United Kingdom)
Laurie (United States) | ||
"Cowman, Milk Your Cow" is a 1967 song written and composed by Barry and Robin Gibb and was popularized by Adam Faith. This song was included on The Two Best Sides of Adam Faith on EMI.
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This song was released as the A-side of "Daddy What'll Happen to Me" in the UK, but in the US, this track was the flipside of the same song that was released as a B-side of this song in the UK. With the single released on 22 September, it deserved a far better fate the thumbs-down and it received from an uninterested public.
Origins and recording
Faith asked the Gibbs to write a new songs after he heard the Bee Gees' third LP Bee Gees' 1st, and certainly got what he asked for, a psychedelic rock song with intriguing lyrics. The backing band are The Roulettes, according to the notes on The Two Best Sides of Adam Faith, an LP collection on the EMI Records. According to the liner notes on Bee Gees Songbook (CD) that the guitar is played by Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac. The backing vocals are the Gibb brothers and Robin singing with Faith on the bridge section. The song was recorded in August 1967 inside a little studio in Denmark to assist Faith.
Faith talk about "Cowman, Milk Your Cow":
Barry agreed with Faith's admission that the Gibbs were a hard act to follow vocally and expressed frustration that performers of the Gibb's work didn't possess the same degree of extrasensory perception that the brothers claim plays an important part in their collective writing process.