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Bee Gees
Bee Gees : (Rock group)
While the Bee Gees began as a soft rock type of group in the late 1960s, they morphed into a falsetto dance tinged group best known for their contributions to the soundtrack to the movie Saturday Night Fever.
You Should Be Dancing
Jive Talking
More Than A Woman
Night Fever
StayinĚ Alive
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Brothers Gibb were the Club hit wonders of 1977 (Saturday Night Fever)
Can't talk about disco music w/o mentioning the fabulous BeeGees!!!!
With each passing decade, the pop act of the moment was able to become bigger and bigger--in '77 and '78, the Bee Gees were as big as the Beatles were a dozen years before. Then the great flame out. But who can deny "You Should Be Dancing" is one of the all-time disco greats?
The Bee Gees have been ridiculed by many disco lovers because many people believe they invented disco, and that their staple hits, along with the Village People's YMCA, were about all the disco era consisted of.
But if you just forget about Saturday Night Fever, if you forget about how they helped lift disco out of the underground and onto mainstream markets, and just listen to the music, it really is the brilliant work of geniuses.
The Bee Gees are for my taste the best songwriters ever. They were as good at disco as they were for other styles (country, pop, ballads, R&B, etc.)
They also wrote disco / R&B songs for other artists like Andy Gibb, Dionne Warwick (Take the short way home), Diana Ross (eaten alive / chain reaction), Frankie Valli (Grease), Teri de Sario (Ain't nothing gonna keep me from you), Samantha Sang (Emotion) and many more.
I'll add some not-well-known more disco songs by the Bee Gees to the list:
Subway (from 'Children of the world' album)
Can't keep a good man down (from 'Children of the world')
Search, find (from 'Spirits having flown')
Living together (from 'Spirits having flown')
I really love the Bee Gees.
I grew up on the Bee Gees, long befor they created the 'frenzy' they were an awsome band, in a way, Saturday Night Fever was their Sgt. Pepper lp, a complete change of direction, and thank God, alot of us made a good living off Disco, more specifically, the Brothers Gibb...Thanks Guys!!!
No matter how many genres of music, the Bee Gees covered them all!
Disco Music needed a twist of lime and the Bee Gees were sweetness as you took a sip and enjoyed the drink!
Robin Gibb will play a concert with his band in the Philippines on November 3rd, 2006 at the Araneta Coliseum, Manila. Further concert dates in the region will be announced soon.
I've read on the evosound website they are releasing the new X’mas album on the 3rd of November. A Mother of Love song sounds really great, all the Christmas songs that are included in the album are all great. The cover is really cool too.
The Bee Gees recorded some of the finest music on the planet in its day. Technically, none of it is true disco, but the stuff did extremely well as disco music (it is more soul). And we must not forget Spirits Having Flown, the last major successful work they had. Tragedy and Love You Inside Out are disco-like; Too Much Heaven is more mellow soft-rock (but could also be taken for mellow disco). Whether it is technically disco or not, no disco library is complete without Saturday Night Fever, Spirits Having Flown, and the songs You Should Be Dancing and Jive Talking (both on Saturday Night fever and older LPs.) They fell apart after, putting out basically crap in 1981 and later.
Actually, "You should be dancing" and "Night fever" are technically Disco. There is also a "special disco version" of "Staying Alive".
Also I strongly disagree on the fact that after 1981 their music was crap. Most of their latest albums are great, even though there are no true disco songs in them. My favorites "post-1981" albums are "One", "E.S.P." and their latest studio album "This is where I came in".
Now Bernie, calling the BEE GEES an unlikely act is like saying The Pope could be religious! These guys were DISCO for many years back in the day. Sure they were around before DISCO, and they remained after it too. That doesn't stop them from actually being a DISCO act for over a decade. Calling them "UNLIKELY", is well, UNLIKELY!!
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