THE 100 BEST SONGS WRITTEN BY THE BEE GEES. Today: #7. Continues tomorrow.

Caffè ☕️Lattè presents:

THE 100 BEST SONGS

WRITTEN BY THE

BEE GEES

 

The Bee Gees was a trio consisting of 3 siblings: older brother Barry (born in Manchester in 1946), and twins Maurice and Robin Gibb (born Isle Of Man in 1949). The brothers first performed in Manchester in 1955. Three years later, the Gibb family emigrated to Brisbane, Australia. Today, the group is regarded one of the most successful music acts of all-time.

Hear the songs with each update on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0e1TX4UcLWfTITnhpY3GVg?si=16d1d63b818f4c42    

7

GREASE Fankie Valli

While The 3 members of The Bee Gees were working on the ill-fated ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ film, Robert Stigwood asked Barry to write a song for the screen adaptation of the musical “Grease”. He duly came up with a song that plays during the opening scene of the film and perfectly takes the audience back to the 1950s while never compromising its contemporary sound.

Who better to record the title song than Frankie Valli? He encapsulated the sound of the bygone era with his recordings as part of The Four Seasons. The singer was riding a wave of renewed chart relevance after “Who Loves You” and “December ’63 (Oh What A Night)”. Meanwhile, Barry was the hottest songwriter of the time, writing disco hits as part of The Bee Gees and for artists including Andy Gibb, Yvonne Elliman and Samantha Sang. The combination of Valli and Barry brought the past and current trends together in one song. Both men struck gold with their falsetto. The latter contributed backing vocals on the recording.

Valli’s hit topped the American and Canadian charts. The single peaked in the Top 3 in Britain, Australia and New Zealand. In various European countries, it made the Top 10.

Barry was the fundamental figure in creating the music on ‘Saturday Night Fever’. He wrote “Grease”, co-producing the track with Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson. By doing so, he was part of not only two of the biggest hit albums of 1977-8, but 2 of the highest selling LPs of all-time.