TOP 30 BEE GEE VIDEOS FOR FREE!
June 20, 2009
They’re all here 30 BEE GEE VIDEOS, Rare clips, ORIGINAL VIDEOS, unseen concert footage and personal remembrances! PLUS covers of Bee Gee songs by Al Green, Yvonne Elliman, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, and Andy Gibb.
I liked the Bee Gees from the moment I heard “1941 Mining Disaster” and in 1968 my partners and I picked up the US sub publishing for their 1st Australian album. Although I wasn’t able to get any cover records on their songs, I did become a lifetime fan.
NEW YORK MINING DISASTER 1941 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN7nfxx1ulw&feature=related
WORDS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUFRdqxjcx8&feature=related
GOTTA” GET A MESSAGE TO YOU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPTl8kAVHCs&feature=related
Even though a few of their first hits were lyrically obscure, like “I Started A Joke”and “Massachusetts”, Barry, Robin, and Maurice developed into classic songwriters. Every time I listened to one of their new records I could hear three distinct contributors who eventually melted into a universal chorus that the whole world could sing.
I STARTED A JOKE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfX7C7APlr8&feature=related
In 1969 their music permeated my creative consciousness and I morphed into Shadow Mann, a hybrid of Jimi Hendrix and Barry Gibb and put out my first album for Morris Levy (Tommy James, The Exciters). While I sank into the sea of obscurity, the Bee Gees rode a wave of unforgettable hits. In 1970 when I was General Professional manager of Warner Brothers Music, I was thrilled to represent some of the group’s greatest songs. “Lonely Days”, “Run To Me”, and “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?” which we got Al Green to cut.
LONELY DAYS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pn1SGRq7_Y&feature=related
RUN TO ME http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPDwd5UiRC0&feature=related
HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOGODoE4qKc
HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART? By AL GREEN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzitOsxKJNY&feature=related
Just as the public began to get weary of the group’s sentimental fare, they updated the menu and served up a new main course. Although their music had always been soulful it wasn’t until they were produced by Arif Mardin (Aretha Franklyn, The Rascals) did they dominate the R&B market as well. “Mardin, when producing the Bee Gees’ 1975 “Main Course” album track “Nights On Broadway” famously discovered the distinctive falsetto of Barry Gibb, which became a familiar trademark of the band throughout the disco era.”
Once my late partner Lou Reizner, the man who discovered and produced the Singing Nun and Rod Stewart, developed a taste for larger than life productions, there was no going back. Still riding the success of his stellar recording of the Rock opera “Tommy” that he produced with a cast that included Roger Daltry, Elton John, Tina Turner, as well as the London Symphony orchestra… Lou was determined his next project would be as spectacular!
“Lou was larger than life himself. At 6′4″ he looked more like an action hero than the transplanted American who once ran Mercury Records International in London. I remember when I was staying with Lou and his wife Pam in Knightsbridge; he sat me down in a futuristic cocoon like chair, with built-in stereo speakers, and proceeded to play me a dozen or so tracks he just produced on the Bee Gees. Robert Stigwood had hired him to be the musical director of his soon to be produced film, “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and these incredible recordings of John Lennon and Paul McCartney songs were to be part of the sound track.
Several months later, when Lou was staying with me in Hollywood, the project had developed into something else. It seems that Robert Stigwood and Lou couldn’t make a deal, and Stigwood gave the rights to the tracks back to Lou, including 3 performances by the Bee Gees as part of a settlement.
Our lawyer and manager, Marty Machat, Russ Regan, who was head of 20th Century records, and Lou got together and came up with the idea of putting some of the biggest recording artists of the day over the remaining tracks and combining it with WW2 newsreel footage from 20th Century Fox’s’ vast archives calling it All This And World War Two”!!!”
Ultimately, the Official “Sgt. Pepper’s” Film was released to dismal reviews and box office returns, but the Bee Gees survived to become the biggest stars of the disco era with their records and songs featured in the movie, “Saturday Night Fever”
YOU SHOULD BE DANCIN’ from SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6ccjD_hfSk&feature=related
IF I CAN’T HAVE YOU by YVONNE ELLIMAN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Do14z5ycic
MORE THAN A WOMAN from SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZCtgFmQvjQ&feature=related
HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyDuzqkCPxs&feature=related
My favorite of all their albums is “Spirits Having Flown”, which includes “Tragedy” and “Too Much Heaven”, both written on the same day.
TRAGEDY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSVTOMkJdqs&feature=related
TOO MUCH HEAVEN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeGMrUdhovk&feature=related
The Bee Gees became the biggest group in the world, and dominated the airwaves like no one since the Beatles! Even when their own record sales suffered from a disco backlash, they continued to have hits with other artists including their brother Andy.
SHADOW DANCIN’ by ANDY GIBB http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZxA3FVUwvk
I JUST WANT TO BE YOUR EVERYTHING by ANDY GIBB http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM0iexThuYE&feature=related
EVERLASTING LOVE by ANDY GIBB http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJBTIT8KU-E&feature=related
DON’T THROW OUR LOVE AWAY (OUR LOVE) by ANDY GIBB http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAs8YU3L084&feature=related
EMOTIONS by SAMANTHA SANG http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mkTg1Cyun4
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM by KENNY ROGERS and DOLLY PARTON http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lixDK_tMEhE
WOMAN IN LOVE by BARBRA STREISAND http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ppc_dT-J5E&feature=related woman in love
WHAT KIND OF FOOL by BARBRA STREISAND and BARRY GIBB http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdQ6o9Aig9o&feature=related what kind of fool
GUILTY by BARBRA STREISAND and BARRY GIBB http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxMOByRYbsY&feature=related
Since the tragic passing of Maurice and Andy Gibb, Barry and Robin have vowed never to perform as the Bee Gees again.
Copyright 2009 by Artie Wayne from the forthcoming autobiography “I Did It For A Song” http://artiewayne.wordpress.com/about-artie-wayne/
June 20, 2009 at 11:55 pm
HEY, you didn’t mention “Stayin Alive” – the “Saturday Night Fever” Movie version featured background vocals by me, Clydie King, Venetta Fields, Merry Clayton and Gloria Jones. We fought with SAG to be paid for commercial performances featuring this version…to no avail. We have to wait for competent legal halp in order to pursue this matter.