That's what makes them so special... they have so many great songs, and they don't all sound the same. JIVE TALKING, ALONE and WORDS are some more to check out.
You’ve commented to the live version of You Should be Dancing that Barry uses his falsetto, then in the next line goes deep. Bee Gees are the most versatile, talented trio.
I wish you’d do The Midnight Special version of this. Yeah, that’s Barry. Maurice does the falsetto on The Midnight Special version and it’s excellent.
Love your reaction!❤ First verse is Barry leading, then Robin leads in 2nd verse starting with "Well I had to follow you" this verse ( 4 lines) is Robin. Yes, this is how they sounded pre-disco. Robin has incredible range as well ( they all do) and sang a lot of the leads in the 60s. For more lower range Barry, please react to 1960s "Run to Me", "Tomorrow, Tomorrow" and mid 70s "Wind of Change"! Also Robin singing the lead in" I Cant See Nobody" ( R&B) and "And the Sun Will Shine" (a beautiful ballad) - both performed live in Melbourne 1974 for the best video. The lyrics of both of these Robin songs are deep and true. "And the Sun Will Shine" is about a young boy idolizing a woman who is out of his league & unattainable ( possibly a teacher or just older than him.) " I Cant See Nobody" is fabulous R&B Robin - a beautiful voice.
You know...talent doesn't live in a box. Real talent is versatile and is great within those changes. Our music was not canned. It was every changing showcasing ALL the entertainers could do. That's real music. It can touch all emotions. ❤
Honestly if the disco Bee Gees are the only Bee Gees you know, then you haven’t even begun to know The Bee Gees! Need to go and do their 1960’s era and later decades. The last album before Maurice died is incredible.
No no no no it was only one of their bags! And a drop of water in the ocean that was the amazing singing and songwriting career of The Bee Gees! Whenever you say things like that you are selling them very short!
If you really want to hear a different sounding Barry, do: Wind of Change, live from their 79 Spirits tour. You probably wouldn’t recognize his voice on this song if you’re use to his falsetto voice. 🤣🤣. I love ALL his voices!
That is his chest voice. They all have massive vocal range. Wind of change (1979), I Surrender, Ordinary People, I will, Kiss of Life, She keeps on coming, I could not love you more and Sacred Trust. ❤❤❤
Excellent, the live versions of this group even are better . Thanks for your reactions,love love love the Bee Gees over 1000 songs to choose from. More please x❤
The lead is Barry’s chest voice. This is the song he discovered the falsetto so he is doing the adlibs. Maurice does a great job on falsetto when done live on Midnight special. Wind of change is a great song 1979, Lonely days, I could not love you more and I surrender. ❤
Barry starts chest voice, then Robin comes in with his vibrato at the pre-chorus “Well, I had to follow you…” “ Jive Talkin” from the same album is a good one. The album, Main Course, was a purposeful departure from prior albums and put them into a different sound (soul, R & B, funk). As you found out in your research after, it was also Barry’s discovery of his famous falsetto.
Also…I noticed that you basically liked their songs from their 4 mid-late 70’s that you’ve reacted to: Main Course had Jive Talking and Fanny Be Tender Children of the World had You Should Be Dancing and (you really should react to Love So Right!) Then the Saturday Night Fever which incorporated some of the songs above, as well as How deep is your love; Staying Alive, and Night Fever Then Spirits Havin Flown had Too Much Heaven, Tragedy, and Love You Inside Out. And remember this song you just reacted to: Nights on Broadway, was the first song Barry prominently used his new found falsetto…and the rest became history! Two others songs I think you should do are ONE and YOU WIN AGAIN from their later CD’s, as well as Wedding Day from their final cd.
This was the song that the bee gees discovered their falsettos. The producer asked if the Bee gees could scream or do something to sound excited. The bee gees kept Harmonizing at a Higher and Higher voice until they discovered their falsettos. They realized they could all do it but Barry could hold it the longest.
You should react to "New York Mining Disaster 1941" if you want to hear a really early Bee Gees hit. Their outfits are awesome in the video as well. I think you'll enjoy it, even though it's very different from the Bee Gees you're used to.
That was the song Barry discovered his falsetto. Robin had a higher register prior to Barry discovering his falsetto. Robin did a lot of the leads. Maurice did the 'Blaming it all...' falsetto that appeared first. Barry's falsetto 'screams' come right towards the end. for a while both Maurice's and Barry's falsetto are happening together. Before Saturday Night Fever the Bee Gee's had already been awarded 3 platinum disks - why do you think they got the film?
Falsetto songs make only a few percent of their songs catalog, mainly the saturday night fever songs and some others. Barry said, Robin wanted to sing him songs in falsetto, bc they were such a huge success!
This was on a great album before The Saturday Night sound track. It was basically the first time the Brothers Gibb did disco and that Barry started doing falsetto!
The Main Course album,released 1975,went in a number of musical directions and styles.This was an attempt to revamp their career..disco wasn't an above ground thing yet..so we have Nights On Broadway(R&B),Come On Over(country) etc..yes,a great album..but no disco.
@@joelliebler5690 I was 16 in 1975,and yes,people danced to these songs..as R&B...but...if people choose to call these 'disco' songs..I can't very well stop them.Whatever we decide to call them,they're still amazing songs.We can agree on that.Have you heard the last track on the second side,Baby As You Turn Away.?Always thought that should have been released as a single.
You have to keep in your mind that I’m old…My favorite songs are the ones recorded before Saturday Night Fever. This one and Lonely Nights are my favorites. Also, Jive Talkin’.
Try *To Love Somebody* back in 1967 to see a whole different side of the Bee Gees before Disco even existed. Definitely need to watch this one live. Same with Fanny (Be Tender).
You need to watch the live version of the Mid-Night Speciial. Barry had all kinds of voices. This was before the disco era. A few years before Saturday Night Fever. Lead was first Barry then Robin with the vibrato. This was before the full-out falsetto. I think this was the very first time he used the falsetto voice, and it was just a small part. He was practicing with it.
That gorgeous, rich, lead voice is Barry. He didn't always use his falsetto. Look this song up on "Midnight Special" 1975 And you can see who's singing what (Maurice is the one doing the falsetto in this song toward the end).
Hi, before hitting the big time with their falsetto era in the disco times, Bee Gees was already a successful band, but they had another style and the leading voice was sometimes Robin and sometimes Barry. Nights of Broadway marked the new era. I think in "Fanny be Tender with my Love" they also used falsetto at the end of the song. In the falsetto era they also continued making some successful songs with no falsetto voices, like Someone belonging to someone, The way it was, etc. Anyway they had many great hits from the sixties on, for example songs like Massachusetts, My World, Words, How can you mend a broken heart, Melody fair, and a long long etcetera.
If you listen carefully, much of what you are nearing is actually Barry and Robin singing together on one mic to create a new voice… just one of their many tricks. Try IDEA (from the 60’s), YOU WIN AGAIN (their 1987 comeback song), and REST YOUR LOVE (the B side of Too Much Heaven and only top 40 on the Country charts sung by them).
The summer I turned 12 I found my aunt's copy of Main Course on the turntable at my grandparent's house, and it transformed me from a child to an adult.
Yes, they ALL have voices with very broad ranges--not just falsettos. They had tons of big hits before the 70s, and long after. They wrote many of the soundtrack songs BEFORE the movie was filmed. No, they had the talent before the movie.
Barry did the high fills on this studio cut, but Maurice does them on live versions. They sing lower in ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ too …very versatile! For a super high falsetto tune, try ‘Alone’…sort of 50s doo-wap! Look up ‘Nights On Broadway, Midnight Special for the live performance of it. 🔥
... remember .... the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack album has a lot of Bee Gees material on it, but also contains tracks by other artists, so technically, it is not a Bee Gees album. They are the prominent artist of the album, and because of that, their picture is placed on the album cover above John Travolta. Songs such as "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever" were actually already made for a new Bee Gees album, but when their producer, Robert Stigwood, asked them to provide material for the movie, they decided to hand over their new songs for the soundtrack instead of releasing a new album, and some tracks from previous albums, such as "Jive Talkin'" from the "Main Course" album were also included. And also, here's a heads-up... if you decide to watch the movie, "Saturday Night Fever", please don't go into it thinking it is a fun dance movie. It is not. It is actually a sometimes very gritty portrayal of life in New York City in the mid to late 1970s. Some reactors have been totally shocked because they went into it thinking it was a totally fun movie, like "Grease", only to find out it was something different, and were disappointed because it was not what they had thought it would be.
I forget you kids only know the Bee Gees from their Disco falsetto era. Before Disco they were a successful group with a number of hits.
I love their sixties music.❤❤
@aletmartins6940 me too! I've listening to them since 1968.
Me too.
Sadly, Saturday Night Fever overwrote everything they had done, . . . or would later do.
And after,too.
Barry is doing the falsettos on the cd but in the live version, Maurice does them!
Maurice is singing high harmonies on this song.
That's how Barry's voice sounded pre 1975.. After this song , is when he started using his falsetto.
That's what makes them so special... they have so many great songs, and they don't all sound the same. JIVE TALKING, ALONE and WORDS are some more to check out.
"Jive Talking" straight fire
Words, To Love Somebody, NY Mining Disaster and so many other of the earlier songs were way better than that.
My mom had this as a 45 and played it alot when I was a kid
Damn straight baby
Nobody can switch there Voices like the Bee Gees ❤❤❤
Thank you for "covering" my favorite Bee Gees song! God bless.
You’ve commented to the live version of You Should be Dancing that Barry uses his falsetto, then in the next line goes deep. Bee Gees are the most versatile, talented trio.
Words
How can you mend a broken heart
For whom the bell tolls
Fanny be tender
Love you inside out
You win again
It's Robin who shines with - "Well I had to follow you, though you did not want me to".
Run to me! Great song before the disco and falsetto
I wish you’d do The Midnight Special version of this. Yeah, that’s Barry. Maurice does the falsetto on The Midnight Special version and it’s excellent.
Yes…you can see who’s doing what when you do the live version. Barry was singing in his chest voice here!
Until Barry discovered his falsetto while working on this album, Maurice had typically done the high harmonies.
Robin, not Maurice. Maurice always stayed in the background with Robin in lead most of the time with Robin singing lead in others.
"Lonely Days" , a big hit from 1970 has Barry singing in a lower range.
Welcome to The Bee Gees world now you know this four brothers are unique, and the most talent .
Great great song especially when they slow it down and Barry sings even if it takes forever I will wait. Smooth and sexy.
One of their very best songs. When they sing it live Maurice does the falsetto.
Please react to
Alive.
Love your reaction!❤ First verse is Barry leading, then Robin leads in 2nd verse starting with "Well I had to follow you" this verse ( 4 lines) is Robin. Yes, this is how they sounded pre-disco. Robin has incredible range as well ( they all do) and sang a lot of the leads in the 60s. For more lower range Barry, please react to 1960s "Run to Me", "Tomorrow, Tomorrow" and mid 70s "Wind of Change"! Also Robin singing the lead in" I Cant See Nobody" ( R&B) and "And the Sun Will Shine" (a beautiful ballad) - both performed live in Melbourne 1974 for the best video. The lyrics of both of these Robin songs are deep and true. "And the Sun Will Shine" is about a young boy idolizing a woman who is out of his league & unattainable ( possibly a teacher or just older than him.) " I Cant See Nobody" is fabulous R&B Robin - a beautiful voice.
This was the beginning of their dance/disco era!
@joelliebler5690 yes!
When they sang this song live on the Midnight Special Maurice did the falsetto part.
Lonely Days and living together.
Fanny be tender with my love.
You know...talent doesn't live in a box. Real talent is versatile and is great within those changes. Our music was not canned. It was every changing showcasing ALL the entertainers could do. That's real music. It can touch all emotions. ❤
Lead is Barry, second voice is Robin. Watch the live version on the Midnight Special, where Maurice did the falsetto
Dude! PRE-Disco BeeGee's IS Where IT's AT!! Wait till you get a load of LONELY DAYS LONELY NIGHTS! :-D
Be sure to watch their live version on The Midnight Special 1975
These guys were just talented beyond words. This singer is a BANGER!!
The live version is amazing.
Honestly if the disco Bee Gees are the only Bee Gees you know, then you haven’t even begun to know The Bee Gees! Need to go and do their 1960’s era and later decades. The last album before Maurice died is incredible.
No no no no it was only one of their bags! And a drop of water in the ocean that was the amazing singing and songwriting career of The Bee Gees! Whenever you say things like that you are selling them very short!
If you really want to hear a different sounding Barry, do: Wind of Change, live from their 79 Spirits tour. You probably wouldn’t recognize his voice on this song if you’re use to his falsetto voice. 🤣🤣. I love ALL his voices!
Great song.
Yes great suggestion
That is his chest voice. They all have massive vocal range. Wind of change (1979), I Surrender, Ordinary People, I will, Kiss of Life, She keeps on coming, I could not love you more and Sacred Trust. ❤❤❤
Excellent, the live versions of this group even are better . Thanks for your reactions,love love love the Bee Gees over 1000 songs to choose from. More please x❤
You should have watch the Midnight Special performance!
No, that is NOT their original sound.
That is the sound "new sound" that got them Saturday Night Fever.
Go back to their 1960's stuff.
" Love You Inside Out " is a must.
Before disco era. Next, Fancy!
You’ve got to see this live to see who’s singing what…A Great Surprise.
Do you mean Fanny as in Fanny be tender?
The falsetto is Maurice! Barry came in on the backing vocals.
That’s them…watch the live version on The Midnight Special
Play to love somebody from 1967.. you will see where it all started
Yes, indeed!
The lead is Barry’s chest voice. This is the song he discovered the falsetto so he is doing the adlibs. Maurice does a great job on falsetto when done live on Midnight special. Wind of change is a great song 1979, Lonely days, I could not love you more and I surrender. ❤
Barry starts chest voice, then Robin comes in with his vibrato at the pre-chorus “Well, I had to follow you…”
“ Jive Talkin” from the same album is a good one. The album, Main Course, was a purposeful departure from prior albums and put them into a different sound (soul, R & B, funk). As you found out in your research after, it was also Barry’s discovery of his famous falsetto.
I can't hear this song without thinking about the skits from Saturday night live with Justin Timberlake and jimmy Fallon
Barry does the falsetto of this song on album, but Maurice does them live.
Need to listen to TOO MUCH HEAVEN.
This is before they got really big with disco.
There are more than a 1000 songs and more from Barry alone
Also…I noticed that you basically liked their songs from their 4 mid-late 70’s that you’ve reacted to:
Main Course had Jive Talking and Fanny Be Tender
Children of the World had You Should Be Dancing and (you really should react to Love So Right!)
Then the Saturday Night Fever which incorporated some of the songs above, as well as How deep is your love; Staying Alive, and Night Fever
Then Spirits Havin Flown had Too Much Heaven, Tragedy, and Love You Inside Out.
And remember this song you just reacted to: Nights on Broadway, was the first song Barry prominently used his new found falsetto…and the rest became history!
Two others songs I think you should do are ONE and YOU WIN AGAIN from their later CD’s, as well as Wedding Day from their final cd.
Great music from a better time real instruments anjelic smooth voices 😊
Nights on Broadway was a big hit.
You have to watch the live version on the "Midnight Special".
I think of ‘Main Course’ as a transitional album. I was 14 when this came out and I knew every word of every song!
Someday you'll have to pull up their appearance on The Midnight Special doing Nights on Broadway live. Barry's on guitar & Maurice is amazing on bass.
Favorite album Main Course
Surprise the one with the falsetto is not Barry Gibb but its Maurice Gibb.
I grew up in Vegas in the 70s... as a kid the lights were so beautiful
This was such a popular song before they launched into disco. There's a good video for this song! ❤🎉
They had the songs on the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack written for their new album before they knew anything about the movie. The story is awesome.
This was the song that the bee gees discovered their falsettos. The producer asked if the Bee gees could scream or do something to sound excited. The bee gees kept Harmonizing at a Higher and Higher voice until they discovered their falsettos. They realized they could all do it but Barry could hold it the longest.
Yoy should have watch the live version on The Midnight Special.
You should react to "New York Mining Disaster 1941" if you want to hear a really early Bee Gees hit. Their outfits are awesome in the video as well. I think you'll enjoy it, even though it's very different from the Bee Gees you're used to.
That was the song Barry discovered his falsetto. Robin had a higher register prior to Barry discovering his falsetto. Robin did a lot of the leads. Maurice did the 'Blaming it all...' falsetto that appeared first. Barry's falsetto 'screams' come right towards the end. for a while both Maurice's and Barry's falsetto are happening together. Before Saturday Night Fever the Bee Gee's had already been awarded 3 platinum disks - why do you think they got the film?
Falsetto songs make only a few percent of their songs catalog, mainly the saturday night fever songs and some others. Barry said, Robin wanted to sing him songs in falsetto, bc they were such a huge success!
This was on a great album before The Saturday Night sound track. It was basically the first time the Brothers Gibb did disco and that Barry started doing falsetto!
The Main Course album,released 1975,went in a number of musical directions and styles.This was an attempt to revamp their career..disco wasn't an above ground thing yet..so we have Nights On Broadway(R&B),Come On Over(country) etc..yes,a great album..but no disco.
@@BobCrabtree-ev4rz Disco was already becoming popular and that is why The brothers decided to release a couple of dance tunes.
@@joelliebler5690 I was 16 in 1975,and yes,people danced to these songs..as R&B...but...if people choose to call these 'disco' songs..I can't very well stop them.Whatever we decide to call them,they're still amazing songs.We can agree on that.Have you heard the last track on the second side,Baby As You Turn Away.?Always thought that should have been released as a single.
This song is when Barry sang falsetto the first time.
masterpiece
"Well, I had to follow you - though you did not want me to." - I love this song, but also... I'll take the bear.
You have to keep in your mind that I’m old…My favorite songs are the ones recorded before Saturday Night Fever. This one and Lonely Nights are my favorites. Also, Jive Talkin’.
Barry and Robin both sang lead in this song.. Maurice back up and playing that awesome bass
Hi! You should check out To Love Somebody by the BeeGees! Brings me to tears every time. 😉
The best sounding stalker song. I like hearing Barry sing in a lower range.
ps.. listen to To love somebody bt Bee Gees, it was pre fever...
Yes, indeed! 1967 awesomeness 👌
Try *To Love Somebody* back in 1967 to see a whole different side of the Bee Gees before Disco even existed.
Definitely need to watch this one live. Same with Fanny (Be Tender).
Watch them singing this live on The Midnight Special. It is awesome.
❤ One of my faves by them .
Please please please check out Bodyguard. Robin kills it!
My favorite old Bee Gee song is "I Started a Joke" with Robin on lead.
You could react to one Bee Gees song a week and it would take you years to get through all of their great songs.
This was a couple years before Saturday night. Fever came out the earlier stuff is even better.
Maurice is doing falsetto. Barry singing lead.
You need to watch the live version of the Mid-Night Speciial. Barry had all kinds of voices. This was before the disco era. A few years before Saturday Night Fever. Lead was first Barry then Robin with the vibrato. This was before the full-out falsetto. I think this was the very first time he used the falsetto voice, and it was just a small part. He was practicing with it.
What do mean before the hits came out?!!! They were having hits before the word disco made it in the dictionary!!
Versatility my dude
Disco was only a small part of the Bee Gee catalog. Though it definitely brought them huge fame. Their music is really quite varied.
That gorgeous, rich, lead voice is Barry. He didn't always use his falsetto. Look this song up on "Midnight Special" 1975 And you can see who's singing what (Maurice is the one doing the falsetto in this song toward the end).
The h8igh voice in here is Maurice
Hi, before hitting the big time with their falsetto era in the disco times, Bee Gees was already a successful band, but they had another style and the leading voice was sometimes Robin and sometimes Barry. Nights of Broadway marked the new era. I think in "Fanny be Tender with my Love" they also used falsetto at the end of the song. In the falsetto era they also continued making some successful songs with no falsetto voices, like Someone belonging to someone, The way it was, etc. Anyway they had many great hits from the sixties on, for example songs like Massachusetts, My World, Words, How can you mend a broken heart, Melody fair, and a long long etcetera.
If you listen carefully, much of what you are nearing is actually Barry and Robin singing together on one mic to create a new voice… just one of their many tricks. Try IDEA (from the 60’s), YOU WIN AGAIN (their 1987 comeback song), and REST YOUR LOVE (the B side of Too Much Heaven and only top 40 on the Country charts sung by them).
The summer I turned 12 I found my aunt's copy of Main Course on the turntable at my grandparent's house, and it transformed me from a child to an adult.
Yes, they ALL have voices with very broad ranges--not just falsettos. They had tons of big hits before the 70s, and long after. They wrote many of the soundtrack songs BEFORE the movie was filmed. No, they had the talent before the movie.
The lead voice is Maurice.he is done lot of lead on their songs like 'I started a joke'
Check out, melody 1963. The Bee Gees we're very young then.
Barry did the high fills on this studio cut, but Maurice does them on live versions. They sing lower in ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ too …very versatile! For a super high falsetto tune, try ‘Alone’…sort of 50s doo-wap! Look up ‘Nights On Broadway, Midnight Special for the live performance of it. 🔥
Barry did switch up during this time on the song Fanny Be Tender to the falsetto that Maurice was doing way before this album Main Course came out
You need to know that their work prior to 1977 is MUCH better than that after.
That's not Barry, it's Robin Gibb who's the lead in this song, along with the other brothers.
💪👍👍
Please watch the live version from the midnight special. BTW, maurice does the falsetto in this.
Someday you will just have to believe they had many great songs the weren’t disco. 🙄
And they never had just one sound.
I’ve been trying to tell everybody that !
Jimmy Fallon & Justin Timberlake do a funny parody on this song for an SNL skit called The Barry Gibb Talk Show. Check it out.
Saturday Night Fever was a sound track of various artists
... remember .... the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack album has a lot of Bee Gees material on it, but also contains tracks by other artists, so technically, it is not a Bee Gees album. They are the prominent artist of the album, and because of that, their picture is placed on the album cover above John Travolta. Songs such as "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever" were actually already made for a new Bee Gees album, but when their producer, Robert Stigwood, asked them to provide material for the movie, they decided to hand over their new songs for the soundtrack instead of releasing a new album, and some tracks from previous albums, such as "Jive Talkin'" from the "Main Course" album were also included. And also, here's a heads-up... if you decide to watch the movie, "Saturday Night Fever", please don't go into it thinking it is a fun dance movie. It is not. It is actually a sometimes very gritty portrayal of life in New York City in the mid to late 1970s. Some reactors have been totally shocked because they went into it thinking it was a totally fun movie, like "Grease", only to find out it was something different, and were disappointed because it was not what they had thought it would be.
gbs had hits way b4 v disco phase, vey were relasing songs in v early 60s, early hit was spicks n specs in au, 5 decades of hits!
bee gees angela