What do you prefer the late 60's early 70's Bee Gees

[ArnoldLayne]

or the mid to late 70's Disco era Bee Gee's and why?

[pinboy3niner]

1. How can you even ask me that when I'm busy trying to stay alive?

Sheesh!

[CTyankee]

2. I guess the 70s. I iknow I like staying alive and my 2 1/2 year old grandson rocks out

to that song in his car seat, embarrassing my indie rock fans son and dtr in law...I just had to laugh because my son always made fun of my musical taste...ha!

[elleng]

7. yank, so does my 1 1/2 year old grandson!

Fortunately my daughters and I have similar musical tastes.

[CTyankee]

8. It's kinda funny, isn't it?

It's all good hearted, tho. Everybody's still happy. Just glad we've all got our health and well being. So many people don't.

Different strokes...

[elleng]

9. Funny and great!

I gave him (brought to them when I visited last month) an entire disc so we can all listen, but may not do that next time I visit, in a few weeks, as new grandbaby will be born and she may prefer peace and quiet!

[CTyankee]

11. Will you announce her birth with all the pertinent details on DU or Facebook?

I just love all that stuff. A pic would be nice, too!

[elleng]

12. I certainly will,

as soon as I can! Maybe both venues. Right now, hoping she arrives SOON, well before Pope arrives in NJ, or after he leaves, but really shouldn't focus on that. Gas tank is full and bag almost packed. I hope someones can water my roses while I'm away!

[CTyankee]

14. We'll await eagerly!

[ailsagirl]

3. I like them both

They certainly morphed, didn't they?

From "Holiday" to "Stayin' Alive"

[Ron Obvious]

4. I hated disco

so, these guys:

[CTyankee]

10. I adored Disco!

What could possibly be wrong with John Travolta's great song and dance in Saturday Night Fever?

Do you like ABBA? That finale to Mamma Mia was among the funniest and happiest moments musical films, IMO. Colin Firth in a blue satin costume with platform boots...PERFECT...

[rug]

18. Who are the other two here?

[Doc_Technical]

5. 1960's

[PennyK]

6. Early half of therir career

I love those harmonies and loved many of their songs. The "disco" they did was okay, but didn't really show off their singing together as much, and that was their strong skill.

[CTyankee]

13. I loved the falsetto of the Gibb brother whose name I forget...

[Skittles]

22. BARRY!

OMG, so swoon-worthy

[CTyankee]

23. I hope he is still alive...I know a few of the brothers did pass away and that was sad...

they weren't that old...

[Skittles]

24. alas, it would seem they are passing away in reverse order

Barry is still very much with us, but has lost his younger brothers.....he and his older sister survive

[CTyankee]

25. sad, that. Sorry to hear it...I loved the beegees...great sound...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

28. Don't forget little brother Andy!

Andy was a singer too and died tragically just after his 30th birthday as a result of myocarditis caused by drug abuse.

His biggest hits: I Just Want to Be Your Everything, Love is Thicker than Water.

In the United States, Andy became the first male solo artist to have three consecutive number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with all of the weeks at #1 from those singles just barely inside a year, from 30 July 1977 through 29 July 1978. Two further Top Ten singles, "An Everlasting Love" (which reached number five) and &quot Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" (which reached number nine), were released from the album, which became another million seller.


&quot Love Is) Thicker Than Water" , a song co-written by Gibb and his brother Barry. To support it, quickly became a million selling album. That single broke in early 1978 during the time that the Bee Gees' contributions to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack were dominating the world charts. In the United States it replaced "Stayin' Alive" at the top of the charts, and then was surpassed by "Night Fever" at number one in mid-March.

His romance with Victoria Principal also ended shortly thereafter when she gave him an ultimatum to choose between her or drugs, but not before they recorded and released a duet of the Everly Brothers' "All I Have to Do Is Dream" in the summer of 1981. He reportedly heard her singing in the shower and convinced her to go into the studio with him.[14] This would be Gibb's last official single, and his last US chart entry, peaking at number 51.

[ArnoldLayne]

15. They seemed to haven't reinvented themselves more

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than any other group. Even more than The Pink Floyd or David Bowie I believe.

[OakCliffDem]

16. I like basic black

Oh wait, wrong thread.

[pinboy3niner]

17. Bee Gees not Squee Gees

[rug]

19. What about the early 6os Bee Gees?

[SwissTony]

29. I saw that performance way back in '63.

It was the Australian version of Bandstand and the compere is Brian Henderson.

Ah, memories. I was 12 years old.

Sad that three of the four brothers have passed away at an early age.

My favourite Bee Gees song...

[rug]

30. Wow, that's a sharp memory.

I have to look up Brian Henderson now. Thanks!

[SwissTony]

31. I remember it because the Bee Gees were quite the phenomenom in Australia in the early 60s.

Pre Beatles, of course.

The Bee Gees were born in England and came to Australia in the late 50s/early 60s (with their parents, of course). They came, as my family did, on the "10 quid Pom" scheme. Families from Europe could emigrate to Australia for the the princely sum of ten pounds per adult (we hadn't gone decimal then). Kids were free. We had a month long journey on a cruise liner. I kid you not. The Australian government picked up the rest of the tab. They wanted migrants.

I used to watch Bandstand religiously. They featured Australian talent. I liked the Bee Gees. They were about my age, had emigrated from Britain. And they were really talented.

They were my pre-Beatles group. Then I got into the Beatles, then Cream and Hendrix.

[rug]

32. Our tastes followed the same path.

I did get sidetracked into Bob Dylan early though. That's why this clip caught my attention.

[SwissTony]

33. I hadn't heard of Dylan at at that time. I lived in Adelaide

and we had a couple of pretty progressive radio stations (5KA and 5AD, long gone or morphed into something forgettable). But I can't remember hearing Dylan until the late 60s.

And few of us had extensive record collections. I mean I was 12 in 1963. I did get a reel-to-reel tape recorder in about 67 and I'd record songs off the radio by attaching crocodile clips to the speaker. I knew enough to stay away from the large capacitors. But I would not let my kids do that, even though I thought no big deal.

[olddots]

20. pot or coke ?

[Skittles]

21. their old stuff is awesome

love, love loved them......although they did disco with style, nothing beats them way back in the day, even when they sang those songs later

does anything beat this?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

27. Yes their old stuff is awesome.

But I guess people don't remember that.

Anyone else remember "Massachusetts" and "I Started a Joke" and "Gotta get a Message to You"?

They were great singers BEFORE disco.

Brian May of Queen said: "Of course I was, and am a huge fan of the Bee Gees' creations in music. Undoubtedly at the pinnacle of song-writing considered over the last—30 years, is it?! My fondest recollections are not of the SNF days, which were really a re-birth in the Bee Gees' popularity, but the early ground-breaking songs [...] I remember singing these [songs] with my pal Tim Staffell [of Smile] and Freddie [Mercury] in the real old days." May also praised the song "You Win Again" as one of the greatest songs of the '80s.[89]

In his 1980 Playboy magazine interview, John Lennon praises the Bee Gees, "Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just the Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees. They do a damn good job. There was nothing else going on then".[90]

[kwassa]

26. I prefer the Stones.

Real rock.

Disco still sucks.

[area51]

34. '60s

I think the music was better, plus I don't really care for disco music of the '70s.

[Art_from_Ark]

35. '60s British Invasion stuff was the best