Rest Your Love on Me

"Rest Your Love on Me" was written by Barry Gibb in 1976 and recorded it on 2 May on the Children of the World sessions. Stephen Stills played bass on its original demo.^[1]

It was not used until "Too Much Heaven" was released, as "Rest Your Love on Me" was chosen as the B-side. As a country song, it did not fit in with what the Bee Gees were putting on their albums, even though they continued to write the occasional country song, like "Where Do I Go", also left off the forthcoming album.^[2]

The song reached No. 39 on the country charts in the United States, their only appearance in the Country Top 40 as artists (though Barry and Maurice also performed and played on 1983's country chart-topping "Islands in the Stream"). The single was a double-A side in the United Kingdom, France, Scandinavia, Ireland and Belgium. Later in 1979, it was included on the compilation album Bee Gees Greatest, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard album charts.

The Osmonds, themselves beginning a transition from pop/rock to country music, recorded the song under Maurice Gibb's direction shortly before the Bee Gees released their version, but it was not released until afterwards. In January 1979, Andy Gibb and Olivia Newton-John performed it at the Music for UNICEF Concert.

• Barry Gibb – vocals, guitar
• Stephen Stills – bass
• Blue Weaver – keyboards, synthesiser, piano
• Dennis Bryon – drums
• Karl Richardson – sound engineer
• Nick Blacona – engineer