The Bee Gees! The singles!

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Copied and pasted from their Wiki entry for U.K. singles (which are roughly the same as the U.S. singles, plus a few strays)

early prediction: either "To Love Somebody" or "Jive Talkin'" tho I'm partial because those are in my top four or so...

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Stayin' Alive 11
How Deep Is Your Love? 5
Words 3
Night Fever 3
Jive Talkin 2
Lonely Days 2
Nights on Broadway 2
To Love Somebody 2
Too Much Heaven 1
You Win Again 1
Massachusetts 1
Run To Me 1
You Should Be Dancing 1
New York Mining Disaster 1941 1
Love You Inside Out 1
Someone Belonging To Someone 0
The Woman In You 0
Living Eyes 0
He's A Liar 0
Spirits (Having Flown) 0
E.S.P. 0
Ordinary Lives 0
Immortality 0
Still Waters Run Deep 0
I Could Not Love You More 0
Alone 0
Kiss of Life 0
How To Fall In Love, Part 1 0
For Whom The Bell Tolls 0
Paying The Price Of Love 0
When He's Gone 0
The Only Love 0
Secret Love 0
Bodyguard 0
One 0
This Is Where I Came In0
Tragedy 0
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart 0
I.O.I.O 0
Don't Forget to Remember 0
Tomorrow, Tomorrow 0
First of May 0
I've Gotta Get a Message to You 0
I Started a Joke 0
Jumbo/ The Singer Sang His Song 0
World 0
Don't Want to Live Inside Myself 0
My World 0
Boogie Child 0
Love So Right 0
Fanny (Be Tender With My Love) 0
Charade 0
Throw A Penny 0
Mr. Natural 0
Wouldn't I Be Someone 0
Saw A New Morning 0
Alive 0
Spicks and Specks 0


will, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope Fanny (Be tender with my love) wins as it's such a great title for a song.

Billy Dods, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't say for sure if I've ever actually heard that one. but yeah, great title.,

will, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

there's been times when "stayin alive" is going when i think that groove is up there with mankind's greatest achievements. so that one.

andrew m., Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

there's been times when "stayin alive" is going when i think that groove is up there with mankind's greatest achievements. so that one.

andrew m., Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah what he said xpost!

andrew m., Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

stayin alive

groovemaaan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

no more than a woman?!?!

s1ocki, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

always had a weak spot for "Words"

Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I think "Tragedy" might be my favorite of the disco hits...

Tim Ellison, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i keep straining my ears to hear a sound

maybe someone is digging underground

and what, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

which i know courtesy
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-254185-1086202378.jpg

and what, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

"To Love Somebody"

I'm feeling more country than disco today.

Steve Shasta, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Love You Inside and Out, on another day could be Massachusetts or nearly every other song listed up there

Billy Pilgrim, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

no more than a woman?!?!

yeah wtf? It's not in the list of singles on Wikipedia, even though it's referenced in the entry itself. Bizarre. If any of the Bee Gee lovin' mods want (or can?) edit it, by all means.

will, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

The Bee Gees' version wasn't a single, though I think Tavares' was.

My vote is for "Words."

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

'Too Much Heaven'

i voted for 'Too Much Heaven'.

It's the best one.

tremendoid, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

A tie between "How Deep Is Your Love?" and "One."

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Never got any better than the marvellous "New York Mining Disaster".

Geir Hongro, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

"Nights On Broadway" All the way!

van smack, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

"You Win Again"

Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

'Nights on Broadway' seconded. Underrated: 'Run to Me', 'He's a Liar'.

Jeff Wright, Friday, 13 April 2007 01:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Stayin Alive

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 02:00 (seventeen years ago) link

"nights on goddamn broadway."

Veronica Moser, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Depressed to see all those 70s singles mentioned here. Obviously, the best Bee Gees singles were all released in the 60s.

Geir Hongro, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

that be one authorititave groove…they had shed loads of 'em back then, including "Tragedy," "Night Fever," and "Jive talkin"" which has that awesome 7/8 bit…

Veronica Moser, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesus Creeping Christ, GH, you are truly a goofball! You lament that people are picking '70s songs from a fucking band that joined groove to your precious melody…

Veronica Moser, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link

The addition of groove sadly harmed the melodies, even though some of the ballads were still nice ("How Deep Is Your Love?" is a great song)

Geir Hongro, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Lonely Days is my personal favorite; what a weird song for a hit single

akm, Friday, 13 April 2007 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link

okay, then, did the inclusion of groove harm Tamla/MoTown recordings, or the recordings of Gamble and Huff?

Veronica Moser, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Geir, can I have this dance?

PappaWheelie V, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

If "Night Fever" hasn't got melody & harmony in additon to a solid groove...then nothing does.

I vote for "Jive Talkin'".

Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

But wasn't Geir saying the melody and harmony were damaged by the groove?

Tim Ellison, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

"Damaged By The Groove" is my favorite Bee Gees album.

tylerw, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

And yo! Where's "Holiday?" My fave of the Pepper pop stuff. "Night Fever" gets the overall vote. It's so perverse how they sell the verse harder than the bridge harder than the chorus. An ultimate in disco hedonism - they make the high easiest to attain. And holy shit! I've heard the song countless times but just now HEARD how Prince-like that sickly "oh" is at 1:31.

Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 14 April 2007 09:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Sad to see I'm the only one who enjoys "New York Mining Disaster". Their only true masterpiece.

Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:14 (sixteen years ago) link

i've got very into odessa lately

cw, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Now, I'd have voted for "World"

b-side = "Sir Geoffrey saved the world"

Mark G, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh, I know the bloke wot sings lead on the b-side of "Don't forget to remember me" - "The Lord"

Mark G, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:00 (sixteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Was just the other day really struck by the similarity (kind of vaguely) between "Boogie Child" and Bowie's "Fame."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyqmwoCWHYs

dlp9001, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link

six years pass...

Don’t even seem to remember that track but enjoyed reading as always

Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 December 2018 09:06 (five years ago) link

To Love Somebody - 2... ok what?

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 16 December 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link

the Bee Gees had two imperial phases

Lee626, Monday, 17 December 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link

I saw a copy of that Cucumber Castle the other day. Reminds me of when I tracked down the original TV movie when Youtube first started. It's less, mmm, everything, than Magical Mystery Tour.

Mark G, Monday, 17 December 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link

eleven months pass...

U crazy Alfred, "Love You Inside Out" is a great song. And by the standards of posterity if not real-time chart runs, its success wasn't actually fleeting - I'm pretty sure I've heard it more on the radio than either of the other Spirits Having Flown singles/#1s, and certainly more than any Andy Gibb hit.

thewufs, Sunday, 8 December 2019 04:42 (four years ago) link


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