Excellent selection, Steph. Sensational trio. From one of the greatest movie soundtracks of all time, Saturday Night Fever. So many memorable hits to choose from with this band. 'How Deep is Your Love?', 'Love Somebody', 'Jive Talking', 'Nights On Broadway', 'You Should Be Dancing', 'Night Fever', 'More than a Woman', 'Tragedy', etc.
Thanks so much for your reaction. The BeeGees were: the tallest and oldest brother (with the big hair and beard), Barry Gibb, born September 1, 1946, the only surviving Gibb brother. Robin Gibb (with the long hair, no beard), born December 22, 1949-passed away May 20, 2012, and Robin's fraternal twin brother Maurice (the balding brother with the beard, pronounced "Morris") Gibb, born December 22, 1949-passed away January 12, 2003. They also had another, younger, brother Andy Gibb, born March 5, 1958-passed away March 10, 1988. The three oldest brothers were born on the Isle of Man (UK). Oldest brother Barry got seriously burned when he accidentally pulled boiling tea over himself at 18 months old. He was in coma for a while, nearly died and was in hospital for many months. Because of this, he did not learn to talk until after the twins were born. Later the family moved to Manchester and from there they emigrated to Australia in 1958, right after Andy was born. All 4 brothers are just natural musical talents. All of them dropped out of high school in their early teens and none of them could read or write music. All their compositions were created completely organically. Their musical career, which they had started as little kids, didn't lead to international success so they moved back to the UK in 1967. Then they had a string of big hits, until they temporarily broke up around 1970 for 15 months. Started back up, looking for a new sound which they first found in 1974 with the transitional album "Mr. Natural". After that "Main Course" was the first album that moved them into a new direction: more rhythm&blues, dance music like with great hits like Nights on Broadway and Jive Talkin' (and was also actually the first album on which their logo was introduced). From 1976 on they went all out with falsetto driven dance music which lead to their biggest commercial success as they provided classic songs for the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack (1977 Stayin' Alive, How Deep is Your Love, Night Fever amongst them). You should react to the 1979 live version of Stayin' Alive, too ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7niXSh7vWRI.html Other great songs to analyze: great album tracks from the 1979 Spirits Having Flown album, the title song: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WH_j90fCIk4.html, the outrageously beautiful song Reaching Out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vfHUS5Mf00Q.html. From their Still Waters album, Smoke and MIrrors: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MT9vRHSWNbk.html. From the 1960's I've gotta get a message to you ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CA4CInDnTk8.html. And from the 1990's the simple song Blue Island live in an accoustic version: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-162GlAEpfrY.html. Andy was kind of Barry's mini me, about half a foot shorter and 12 years younger but they were the only lefties of the family. However, his voice was nowhere near as broad in range or as strong as Barry's. As producer Alby Galuten said in the book "Tales of the brothers Gibb "Andy's falsetto was nowhere near Barry's." Andy had a lower, huskier, sound to his voice and his range was not as big as Barry's. I personally always thought his voice was much better suited to songs of his first album, Flowing Rivers. Andy died of myocarditis - which is an inflammation of the heart - on March 10, 1988, 5 days after his 30th birthday. His heart had been weakened by his drug addiction over the years which, by the way, was also the main reason for his split from Victoria Principal. He also had a congenital heart problem that was later also discovered in Barry and Barry's second son Ashley. Try listening to the song Dreamin' on ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--KdBVKcSSSw.html which is kind of a duet with Barry. And here are the 4 brothers live on stage in 1979 doing You Should Be Dancing ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_6MR-E_Qzz0.html And finally a few photos of Barry and Andy: i.postimg.cc/jS6n3Jkv/Barry-Andy.jpg and i.postimg.cc/TwnPh8M0/82c126fc42a35d3b737867af41338199.jpg and the 4 brothers with their mother i.postimg.cc/FRNMbwkD/b9b2561eadffee11347573c97063c2f8-zpsd89478eb.jpg
@@ReactionmissThey also have a big sister Lesley born 1945, she lives in Australia and have 8 kids (one of her daughters died some years ago)i think she had or still has some kind of kennel🤔something with dogs anyway. She sang too, i think she replaced Robin a few times.
I think this is probably my favorite of the most popular song reactors tend to do, but Bee Gees had so much great music across 5 decades and most of my favorites are the deep cuts/hidden gems. They were very talented and diverse. Perhaps try a variety across the decades - here's a suggestion from each album: "Monday's Rain", "To Love Somebody", "Indian Gin and Whisky Dry", "Massachusettes" (or "And the Sun Will Shine"), "Sound of Love" (or "Marley Purt Drive"), "I.O.I.O.", "Portrait of Louise", "Lion in Winter", "Road to Alaska", "Come Home Johnny Bridie", "Lost in Your Love" (or "Mr. Natural"), "Nights on Broadway" (or "Wind of Change"), "You Should Be Dancing", "Spirits Having Flown", "Living Eyes" (or "Don't Fall In Love with Me"), "ESP", "One", "High Civilization" (or "When He's Gone"), "For Whom The Bell Tolls" (or anything from the Size album), "Alone", "Man in the Middle" (or "She Keeps on Coming"). Have fun!
