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Way back in our CBS years in the 60's, we used to reluctantly trudge around music publishers looking for songs and I remember me, and I think Dean, ( could've been big Fairley ), went to Campbell Connelly, an established Tin Pan Alley publisher who admin'd the Gibb Bros early catalogue, and they suggested "Butterfly".
I really fancied the song, and the band recorded it on the same session as Tony Macaulay's "Baby Make It Soon" at CBS Studios 25/26th April 1969.
“Baby Make It Soon” was in the UK Top 10 within two months and “Butterfly” put on hold
During this period our contract was up for renewal and for various reasons we jumped companies to Decca in the autumn of '69 and our first release was "Reflections of My Life", in Nov '69, our own song, which became a huge UK hit.

CBS immediately released Butterfly, right up against Reflections, to try and cash in on the back of Reflections - shame - another day, another story maybe.
'Always loved it - still do.
One thing, I'd never seen this CBS Label copy - it lists our own company Walrus Music as music publisher, which is incorrect - weird!

A wee story to end -- when Reflections was at the top of the chart, we were doing BBC Top Of The Pops -- the UK National TV Chart Show -- and after camera rehearsal we were in the BBC bar in the afternoon ( nothing unusual ) when Maurice and Barry, came up to us and said "great record -- well done".
I/we were of course very VERY chuffed as "Reflections" was our first self-penned hit.
It was only a few years ago that it suddenly occurred to me -- maybe they were talking about "Butterfly"??????? .... our version is at 3:15