If you lived through the disco era like me, it’s difficult recognizing the genius of the BeeGees.
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At one point, they had, like, five songs in the Top Ten and from the mid to late 1970’s, when you turned on the radio, you heard them or a song they’d written.
Living an hour out of Atlanta, I’d wake up before school and check the weather to make sure that I could get 96 Rock rather than settling for the Athens pop stations with the Gibbs on constant rotation. After a while, I started listening to WUOG to consistently avoid the BeeGees.
And, yet, nearly 50 years down the road, I can sing all their songs and won’t turn the radio/Spodify or, in the case of last week’s PBS special, the TV channel when they pop up. In that regard, they’re sort of the Steve Spurrier of pop music.
Most of us have a falsetto and go through life not using it owing to the lack of opportunities in modern music, church hymns, and the general aversion to prison rape. But, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be able to pull it out like a corny parlor trick on occasion.
If you’d like to practice yours today, start with “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart” and work your way up to “You Should Be Dancing”.
Living an hour out of Atlanta, I’d wake up before school and check the weather to make sure that I could get 96 Rock rather than settling for the Athens pop stations with the Gibbs on constant rotation. After a while, I started listening to WUOG to consistently avoid the BeeGees.
And, yet, nearly 50 years down the road, I can sing all their songs and won’t turn the radio/Spodify or, in the case of last week’s PBS special, the TV channel when they pop up. In that regard, they’re sort of the Steve Spurrier of pop music.
Most of us have a falsetto and go through life not using it owing to the lack of opportunities in modern music, church hymns, and the general aversion to prison rape. But, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be able to pull it out like a corny parlor trick on occasion.
If you’d like to practice yours today, start with “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart” and work your way up to “You Should Be Dancing”.