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The Bee Gees ft AC/DC - Stayin in Black Mix #popdisco #softrock #discos...

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Feature Artist / Bee Gees / September 3, 2024 / 12pm ET

The Bee Gees were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were especially successful in popular music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers in the disco music era in the mid-to-late 1970s. The group sang recognizable three-part tight harmonies: Robin’s clear vibrato lead vocals were a hallmark of their earlier hits, while…

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Lecture 15: Barry Gibb and his younger brothers, twins Robin and Maurice, were a musical powerhouse. As the band the Bee Gees (formed in 1958 and originally a pop act) they recorded a number of hits, including a string of #1s. But their real talent was in song writing. In one year alone, 1978, they were responsible for 13 singles on the Billboard Top 200, either as song writers or singers - 12 of which broke the top 40. The Bee Gees would go on to become not just one of the most successful groups of all time, with well over 100 million in estimated unit sales, but also one of the most successful song-writing partnerships in music history. Here’s a live 1979 performance of their 1976 hit “You Should Be Dancing,” featuring little brother Andy Gibb. This song was the band’s first foray in to disco, a genre they would later come to symbolize.

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Lecture 15: Barry Gibb and his younger brothers, twins Robin and Maurice, were a musical powerhouse. As the band the Bee Gees (formed in 1958 and originally a pop act) they recorded a number of hits, including a string of #1s. But their real talent was in song writing. In one year alone, 1978, they were responsible for 13 singles on the Billboard Top 200, either as song writers or singers - 12 of which broke the top 40. The Bee Gees would go on to become not just one of the most successful groups of all time, with well over 100 million in estimated unit sales, but also one of the most successful song-writing partnerships in music history. Here’s a live 1979 performance of their 1976 hit “You Should Be Dancing,” featuring little brother Andy Gibb. This song was the band’s first foray in to disco, a genre they would later come to symbolize.

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Ootz Ootz: Disco in a Nutshell

Disco emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the NYC and Philadelphia nightlife scene. Its sound includes four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars. Disco started as a mixture of music from venues popular with Italian Americans, Hispanic, Latino, and African Americans. This music scene itself produced popular groups such as ABBA, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Bee Gees, Chaka Khan, and Michael Jackson to name a few. Films such as Saturday Night Fever and Thank God It’s Friday have also contributed to the mainstream popularity of disco. The groups I, however, would like to highlight in this post are ABBA and The Bee Gees.

ABBA is a Swedish pop group from Stockholm made up by the members: Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad (who were two married couples), with the name of the group being an acronym of the first letters of their first names. They have had forty-eight hit singles including “Dancing Queen” and “Waterloo”, which won them the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974. 

“Dancing Queen” is still a song that is widely listened to today. I mean shit, I remember singing along to it and recording it on the day of my seventeenth birthday, as was a popular trend to do back in high school. The song itself is beautifully produced as it gives off a catchy and euphoric vibe, perfect for describing the life of someone young and carefree. The record starts off with a bang, which catapults you straight into the middle of the chorus. This appears to show an explosive opening to draw in listeners to the rest of the song, a smart move I may add.This song narrates the story of a seventeen-year-old girl on a nightclub dance floor that is lost in the music and dancing due to her feeling of carefreeness and freedom to express herself. The song has stayed trendy through the musical Mamma Mia!, which even I’ll admit to binging a few times.

This brings me to The Bee Gees aka The Disco Kings. The Bee Gees were a music group formed in 1958, featuring brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb, who were especially successful in the late 1960s and early 1970s aka the disco era. The group sang in three-part tight harmonies with Robin's clear vibrato leading vocals being prominent in the early hits, while Barry's R&B falsetto became their signature sound during the mid- to late 1970s and 1980s. The Bee Gees have sold over 120 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling artists of all time. 

My two favorite songs by The Bee Gees would have to be “Stayin’ Alive” and “You Should Be Dancing”. “Stayin’ Alive” wasn’t even meant to be a single until it appeared in the Saturday Night Fever trailer, but I’m so glad it was. The song itself represents the hardships in life and the struggle to survive in New York, which can be clearly demonstrated by the way Barry walks his walk. The vocals are an electric-shocked falsetto yip, with a squeal of pain, and becomes a terror-like screech after the second chorus. Coincidentally, this song wouldn’t have become structured the way it was without some things occurring by chance, such as the drummer not being able to record due to personal circumstances, which caused the band to use his old drum recordings. The looped-up drums, combined with that perfectly wormy bassline, help make “Stayin’ Alive” such a fundamental song in the disco era. 

Disco has cemented its legacy in music, inspiring hip-hop artists and even rave culture and house music, two popular sounds in recent years. Disco has been a huge part of my life, something you probably would not expect and it allowed me to explore different genres that originated from it. 

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco#Legacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBA#Greatest_Hits_and_Arrival

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/08/40-years-abba-dancing-queen-people-just-surrender-to-it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Gees

https://www.stereogum.com/2066359/the-number-ones-the-bee-gees-stayin-alive/columns/the-number-ones/

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Lecture 15: Barry Gibb and his younger brothers, twins Robin and Maurice, were a musical powerhouse. As the band the Bee Gees (formed in 1958 and originally a pop act) they recorded a number of hits, including a string of #1s. But their real talent was in song writing. In one year alone, 1978, they were responsible for 13 singles on the Billboard Top 200, either as song writers or singers - 12 of which broke the top 40. The Bee Gees would go on to become not just one of the most successful groups of all time, with well over 100 million in estimated unit sales, but also one of the most successful song-writing partnerships in music history. Here’s a live 1979 performance of their 1976 hit “You Should Be Dancing,” featuring little brother Andy Gibb. This song was the band’s first foray in to disco, a genre they would later come to symbolize.

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The Bee Gees - “Nights On Broadway” - (Live on The Midnight Special TV Show, 1975) The Bee Gees were a pop music group formed in 1958. Their lineup consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were especially successful as a popular music act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers of the disco music era in the mid-to-late 1970s.

[rocknroll105]

Lecture 15: Barry Gibb and his younger brothers, twins Robin and Maurice, were a musical powerhouse. As the band the Bee Gees (formed in 1958 and originally a pop act) they recorded a number of hits, including a string of #1s. But their real talent was in song writing. In one year alone, 1978, they were responsible for 13 singles on the Billboard Top 200, either as song writers or singers - 12 of which broke the top 40. The Bee Gees would go on to become not just one of the most successful groups of all time, with well over 100 million in estimated unit sales, but also one of the most successful song-writing partnerships in music history. Here’s a live 1979 performance of their 1976 hit “You Should Be Dancing,” featuring little brother Andy Gibb. This song was the band’s first foray in to disco, a genre they would later come to symbolize.

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Lecture 15: Barry Gibb and his younger brothers, twins Robin and Maurice, were a musical powerhouse. As the band the Bee Gees (formed in 1958 and originally a pop act) they recorded a number of hits, including a string of #1s. But their real talent was in song writing. In one year alone, 1978, they were responsible for 13 singles on the Billboard Top 200, either as song writers or singers - 12 of which broke the top 40. The Bee Gees would go on to become not just one of the most successful groups of all time, with well over 100 million in estimated unit sales, but also one of the most successful song-writing partnerships in music history. Here’s a live 1979 performance of their 1976 hit “You Should Be Dancing,” featuring little brother Andy Gibb. This song was the band’s first foray in to disco, a genre they would later come to symbolize.

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The Bee Gees were a pop music group formed in 1958. Their lineup consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were especially successful as a popular music act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers of the disco music era in the mid-to-late 1970s. 😀☕️💛🎼 .... ☕️ #coffee #coffeetime #coffeeaddict #coffeelover #coffeeshop #coffeebreak #coffeegram #coffeeart #coffeeholic #coffeeoftheday #cotd #coffeeroaster ☕️ #espresso #espressohouse #espressobar #caffeine #cafe #cafelife #cafeonleche 🍸#drink. 📜🖊

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crushes from the past: 60s Barry Gibb

i know it's been a hot minute but the screentime for the past two weeks was devoted to the Winter Olympics when i wasn't working or dealing with migraines 🤷‍♀️

(there are some new and returning old fav regrettable crushes i definitely will be posting about later tho)

today's post, however, is brought to you by the bee gees "to love somebody" getting stuck in my head somehow this morning, which led to this YouTube gem:

young Barry's energy is so *so* powerful here and that's before we get to the sideburns, the outfit, the gestures, the voice, the song itself all combining for a vortex of crush fodder

the part that really gets me is when he gets to the lyrics "I'm a man/can't you see what I am" ugh! completely weak at the knees every time

(i am a sucker for when a guy becomes a total simp as soon as they fall for their love interest in romance novels and tv shows/movies if you can't tell)

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Wednesday 9/1/21 12pm ET: Artist Countdown: Bee Gees Top 30 Hits

Wednesday 9/1/21 12pm ET: Artist Countdown: Bee Gees Top 30 Hits

The Bee Gees were a pop music group formed in 1958 that consisted principally of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. Born on the Isle of Man to English parents, the Gibb brothers lived in Chorlton, Manchester, England until the late 1950s. There, in 1955, they formed the skiffle/rock and roll group The Rattlesnakes. The family then moved to Redcliffe, in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland,…

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SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER The Original Movie Soundtrack

Originally released as a double LP in late 1977, “Saturday Night Fever” has the considerable distinction of being the biggest selling soundtrack album ever (estimated in Joel Whitburn’s “Billboard’” US chart "bible", “Top Pop Albums 1955-1992”, as having sold 25 million copies). Before Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” overtook it in the mid-1980s, it was the biggest selling album of all time. It spearheaded the disco music craze of the second half of the 1970s, and of its 17 tracks, no less than 10 were hit singles in the US and/or the UK, including six US chart-toppers.

The undoubted stars of the “Saturday Night Fever” musical phenomenon were the Bee Gees, although they were not used as actors in the movie, which starred John Travolta as Tony Manero, a 20-year-old with a dead-end job. On Saturday nights, he forgets his weekday boredom to become a hotshot dancer in a New York discotheque, inspired to remarkable athletic heights by the disco music of the time, as exemplified by various contemporary hitmakers, but headed by the Bee Gees, who became the biggest act in the world in 1977/8 largely due to the exposure their hits received in this movie.

Barry Gibb and his twin brothers, Robin and Maurice, were born on the Isle of Man, but spent their formative years in Australia, where they had emigrated with their parents in 1958. They worked as the Bee Gees with some success in Australia, before returning to England in 1967, and only months later, released “New York Mining Disaster 1941”, a single which became their first hit on both sides of the Atlantic. They accumulated several early hits, but in 1969, Robin Gibb left the group to launch a solo career. Even though he rejoined his brothers less than a year later, the group’s releases during the early Seventies became less consistently popular, and by 1973/4, they seemed washed-up, with their glory days apparently behind them.

After a considerable change of musical direction, the Bee Gees achieved their first US Number One in mid-1975 with “Jive Talkin’”, which also gave them their first UK Top 5 hit since the 1960s. Australian-born Robert Stigwood, their manager and mentor, had achieved considerable success as producer of the “Jesus Christ Superstar” movie, and was working on another film, this time on a very different subject, the New York discotheque scene, about which British rock writer Nik Cohn had written “Tribal Rites Of The New Saturday Night”, a story published in a New York magazine. Stigwood commissioned the Bee Gees, who had meanwhile returned to the top of the US singles chart with another self-penned classic, “You Should Be Dancing”, to submit songs for use in the film’s soundtrack. Their comeback hit, “Jive Talkin’” was one of the songs included in the movie, also contributed three more million selling hits to the soundtrack album: “How Deep Is Your Love”, which topped the US singles chart for three weeks over the festive season of 1977/8, “Stayin’ Alive”, which spent the whole of February, 1978, at the top of the US chart, and “Night Fever”, their biggest ever hit, which was US Number One for eight weeks during the spring of that year. Between Christmas, 1977, and mid-May, 1978, a Bee Gees single was at the top of the US chart for 15 weeks out of 20, and when “Night Fever” eventually relinquished the pole position, it was replaced by RSO Records labelmate Yvonne Elliman performing “If I Can’t Have You”, also written by the Gibb brothers and featured in the film.

Unsurprisingly, the hit-packed movie was a huge success, and when the soundtrack album emerged, it was soon at the top of the US chart, where it remained for almost six months (January to July, 1978), and was the biggest-selling LP of that year in both the US and UK. Apart from the chart-toppers written by the Gibb brothers, the album included another US Number One, the original tune of which was written by (of all people), the classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven - pianist Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band had topped the US singles chart with “A Fifth Of Beethoven” (based on Beethoven’s Symphony No.5) in late 1976, and this track was most successfully revived in the movie.

Six tracks which topped the US singles chart is a pretty good score for any album, but the “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack also included four other hit singles: another song written by the Gibbs, “More Than A Woman”, is included twice on the “SNF” album, once by the Bee Gees and also by Tavares, whose version was a UK Top 10/US Top 40 hit. Kool & The Gang’s “Open Sesame” was a US chart single, and “Boogie Shoes” by K.C. & The Sunshine Band reached the UK Top 40, while “Disco Inferno” by The Trammps was a US and UK Top 20 hit. A little-known fact - four of the Bee Gees tracks here were recorded in France at the celebrated Chateau d’HerouvilIe, immortalized by Elton John as the “Honky Chateau”.

“Saturday Night Fever” remains one of the biggest selling soundtrack albums in history, and this remastered reissue will surely reinforce that status. In 1978, it won a Grammy Award as Album Of The Year, while “Night Fever” also won a Grammy as Best Group Vocal Performance. As well as digital remastering throughout to enhance the sound, this spectacular and important reissue deserves to be part of any serious record collection.

John Tobler, 1995

(John Tobter has been writing about popular music since the late 1960s.)

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First of May Today's featured artsists are The Bee Gees When I was small, and Christmas trees were tall We used to love while others used to play Don't ask me why, but time has passed us by Some one else moved in from far away. Now we are tall, and Christmas trees are small And you don't ask the time of day But you and I, our love will never die But guess we'll cry come first of May. The apple tree that grew for you and me I watched the apples falling one by one And I recall the moment of them all The day I kissed your cheek and you were mine. Now we are tall, and Christmas trees are small And you don't ask the time of day But you and I, our love will never die But guess we'll cry come first of May. When I was small, and Christmas trees were tall Do do do do do do do do do Don't ask me why, but time has passed us by Some one else moved in from far away. Songwriters: Barry Gibb / Maurice Ernest Gibb / Robin Hugh Gibb First of May lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management Bee Gees Pop group · beegees.com The Bee Gees were a pop music group formed in 1958. Their lineup consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were especially successful as a popular music act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers... Wikipedia Origin: Redcliffe, Australia (1958) Members: Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb and more Brothers: Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb and Maurice Gibb *Italian et Americaine Haute Couture et Coiffure is a GIANewYork / Global Influencer Agency New York affiliate. @fashionguru327 @ItalianetAmeri1 @t.o.mblack @GIANewYork @olney_fashions_ @Pinterestbusiness @globalinfluenceragency fashionguru327.com Pinterest.com vogue.com vogue.co.uk behance.net globalinfluenceragency.com #Italianetamericainehautecoutureetcoiffure #fashionguru327 #entrepreneur #linkedin #smallbusiness #contentmarketing #vogue #condénast #vintagephotography #tumblr #instagram #socialmediamarketing #blog #OlneyFashions #globalinfluenceragency #nostalgia #vintage #fashionphotography #Behancé #RalphLauren https://www.instagram.com/fashionguru327/ (at Fish Hoek, Western Cape, South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/B70eD5dHqmO/?igshid=173v82xr4d85c

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Lecture 15: Barry Gibb and his younger brothers, twins Robin and Maurice, were a musical powerhouse. As the band the Bee Gees (formed in 1958 and originally a pop act) they recorded a number of hits, including a string of #1s. But their real talent was in song writing. In one year alone, 1978, they were responsible for 13 singles on the Billboard Top 200, either as song writers or singers - 12 of which broke the top 40. The Bee Gees would go on to become not just one of the most successful groups of all time, with well over 100 million in estimated unit sales, but also one of the most successful song-writing partnerships in music history. Here’s a live 1979 performance of their 1976 hit “You Should Be Dancing,” featuring little brother Andy Gibb. This song was the band’s first foray in to disco, a genre they would later come to symbolize.

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The BEE GEES Story II

The BEE GEES Story II

THE BEE GEES STORY –The Bee Gees were a pop music group formed in 1958. Their lineup consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were especially successful as a popular music act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers of the disco music era in the mid-to-late 1970s. The group sang recognisable three-part tight harmonies; Robin’s clear vibrato lead…