Before they relocated to England and became international stars in 1967, the Bee Gees were highly successful as teenage pop singers in their adopted home of Australia. Barry Gibb penned a series of hit songs for other performers, while the Bee Gees also used the opportunity of virtually unlimited studio time to learn the record production techniques which proved so useful later in their career. The young Bee Gees were heavily influenced by the Beatles in the mid-60s, and regularly recorded cover versions of their new releases - less as a commercial proposition than to study the way the Beatles made their records. The tracks on this acetate were recorded in 1966 and briefly considered by the Bee Gees' Australian record label, Festival, as an album release; but the project was cancelled when the group decided to move to England, and most of these tracks remained unreleased for another decade or more.