The Bee Gees-Timeless

Picked out this one to listen to tonight. Right at the beginning of this blog I listened to a used live record I had bought. Many of these songs were on there but when I saw this record at Barnes & Noble I bought it and traded in the live one. It was released on the 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Fever. Most of their big hits are on here, only “Holiday” and “Run To Me” are ones I would like to see on here. The tracks were selected by Barry Gibb and are arranged chronologically. The first nine are from their late 60’s to early 70’s mellow Pop songs. “Lonely Days” from 1970 is the first of their songs I heard a lot. That was followed by “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart” the following year. I was still listening to AM radio back then and those songs were played a lot. Older songs like “New York Mining Disaster 1941”, “I Started A Joke” and “I’ve Gotta Get A Message To You” were ones I had heard occasionally then. Their Disco period started in 1975 and I hated it like most of my friends but I have come to like them in a nostalgic way since they were the soundtrack of my early adult life from ’75 to ’80 when I did all kinds of crazy things. “Jive Talkin'” and Nights Of Broadway” were singles from 1975 when I turned 18. “Stayin’ Alive” and “Night Fever” from Saturday Night Fever and “Tragedy” from 1979 sound better now with age. The last song from 1987 “You Win Again” is one I had never heard as was “Spicks And Specks”, the first track that was an Australian hit from 1966.

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