Posted in 1970s, Lyrics, Music, Reelin' In The Years at 12:00 on 13 April 2018
Another outing for the word nonchalant in a lyric; except here its inclusion is a little more forced.
The harmonies on the verse of this are sublime.
The Bee Gees: Lonely Days
Posted in 1960s, Friday On My Mind, Music at 13:00 on 14 March 2014
Do It Again would have made a good title for this category.
The single represented something of a comeback for the Beach Boys and brought back memories of the early surfing songs.
As I recall Do It Again was one of the singles which featured in an unprecedented (and unrepeated) three-way tie at No 1 in the charts along with Herb Alpert’s This Guy’s in Love With You and a third one I’m not sure of but may have been the Bee Gees’ I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You.
You may remember me mentioning that one of my school mates was a big Beach Boys fan. He really liked Do It Again’s b-side Wake the World – a very short song indeed – which I include here for your pleasure.
The Beach Boys: Do It Again
The Beach Boys: Wake the World
Posted in 1960s, Events dear boy. Events, Music at 12:00 on 24 May 2012
The Bee Gees‘ headiest days were in the late 1970s when they started to sing falsetto and had hits with Jive Talkin’ and a huge success with the songs from Saturday Night Fever. I preferred their earlier incarnation in the 60s.
So this is the late Robin Gibb – without his brothers – performing To Love Somebody, one of those early songs.
Robin Gibb: To Love Somebody
Robin Gibb, 22/12/1949-205/2012. So it goes.
