Massachusetts

Robin sang lead on Massachusetts, which was released in 1967 and later appeared on Horizontal. It was written at the Regis Hotel in New York during a US tour as an answer to the flower power anthems of the time: the narrator has been to San Francisco to join the hippies and is now homesick. The brothers had never been to Massachusetts. It was originally intended for the Seekers, but the Bee Gees had been unsuccessful in getting the song to them, so they recorded it themselves.

The group recorded it on 9 August 1967 at IBC Studios in London and finished it on 17 August, with an orchestral arrangement by Bill Shepherd. It was the first of five Bee Gees No. 1 hits in the UK and reached No. 1 in 12 other countries and No. 11 in the US. It sold over five million copies worldwide. On 1 April 1968 it became the first No. 1 on Japan's Oricon singles chart by a non-Japanese artist.

Live

Among the 320 logged setlists that list songs, it appears in 236.