The track was originally titled Drive Talking, inspired by the sound rhythm made by their car. The lead single from their 1975 album Main Course (and later featured on the 1977 Saturday Night Fever soundtrack), Jive Talkin' was seen as somewhat of a comeback for the group after a three-year absence from the charts. 20 years after its release, Tragedy landed at the summit once again thanks to Steps. The track became their fourth UK Number 1 and was also a chart-topper in America, where it knocked I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor off Number 1. Tragedy (1979)īy the time Bee Gees released hook-laden Tragedy they had been regulars at the top end of the Official Singles Chart for well over a decade.
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MORE: Bee Gees' Official UK Chart history in full 10. The full Top 20 appears at the bottom of the page, but first, here's a closer look at the Top 10. In addition to its success on the pop chart, "Stayin' Alive" hit #3 on the disco chart and #4 on the R&B chart.Barry Gibb's new album, a c ollection of country reinterpretations of Bee Gees' biggest hits titled Greenfields, is the latest chapter in the brothers' hugely successful career that spans over 50 years and 31 Top 40 singles.Īs Gibb's latest collection - the first of what he's hopes to be a trilogy of releases - heads for Number 1 on the Official UK Albums Chart, we're revealing which of the Bee Gees' hits stand up in the streaming age. It reached #4 on the UK pop singles chart and #1 in many countries around the world including Australia, Canada, Mexico, and South Africa. While "Stayin' Alive" was not originally intended as a single, it hit #1 on the pop singles chart in the US and sold more than two million copies. It grew out of a song the group had already written called "Saturday Night," but they didn't want to use that title being cognizant of the Bay City Rollers' recent hit "Saturday Night."
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Its use in the opening sequence of the movie helped make the song a signature hit for the Bee Gees and forever identify it with the emergence of disco into the pop culture mainstream.īarry Gibb said that "Stayin' Alive" was written to capture the emotions connected with survival on the streets of New York. "Stayin' Alive" was among the first set of songs that the Bee Gees wrote for producer Robert Stigwood and his Saturday Night Fever movie. Bee Gees1st also included the group's first hit single in the US "New York Mining Disaster 1941." The album peaked at #7 on the US chart.
The album cover was designed by Klaus Voorman who was noted for designing the Beatles' Revolver cover. The overall style of the record was psychedelic pop. "To Love Somebody" was included on the Bee Gees first internationally released studio album titled Bee Gees' 1st. Among those are Nina Simone's late 1960s version that went to #5 on the UK pop singles chart and a Michael Bolton recording that went to #11 in the US in 1992. Since then, the song has become a contemporary pop standard with recordings by more than 100 other artists. The Bee Gees released their own single version of "To Love Somebody" and it went to #17, becoming their second pop hit single in the US. The Bee Gees' manager Robert Stigwood reportedly asked the group for a Sam and Dave style soul song to give to Otis Redding to record and the result was "To Love Somebody." Unfortunately, Otis Redding died before he could record the song. The British boy band Take That recorded a version of "How Deep Is Your Love" in 1996, and it went to #1 on the UK pop singles chart. Barry Gibb has stated that this is his favorite of all of the Bee Gees' songs. It also hit #3 on the UK pop singles chart and reached the top 10 in many different countries around the world. "How Deep Is Your Love?" won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals. The song became the first of six consecutive #1 hit singles in the US for the group and set a record for the longest time spent in the top 10-17 weeks. The Bee Gees recorded "How Deep Is Your Love?" for the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever and released their own music video for the track.
"How Deep Is Your Love" was one of five songs forwarded to him, even though the group originally intended to give the song to Yvonne Elliman to record. The Bee Gees were working on the follow up to their 1976 album Children Of the World when their manager and film producer Robert Stigwood called asking for songs for an upcoming movie.
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