This was their big comeback hit in 1975. They had gone through a slump and hadn't had a hit song for some time. This was the first single from their R&B influenced album "Main Course", and it soared all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their change over to a more R&B sound paid off for them as the listening public loved it. Two more R&B type singles were released from the album, "Nights On Broadway" and "Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)", and both became hit singles. Their next album was even more influenced by R&B and Funk, and finally, by 1977/78, their sound turned to what was considered mainstream disco, though Barry continued to state that he considered their songs to be R&B and not disco.

@dr4782

Жыл бұрын

"Jive Talkin'" became the #1 song in the U.S. on August 9, 1975. It spent one week at #1. Beavis and Butt-Head liked the song too.

@mrcoldshower2823

Жыл бұрын

@@dr4782 Beavis and Butt-Head the first music reviewers

@michaelasay8587

Жыл бұрын

A slump? For a year....lol

John Travolta and Saturday Night Fever started the disco craze. I wish you would put Couch Mama and Berto on more often.

This song always sounded more funk than disco.

@MarcosElMalo2

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It’s that bass. What a sound!

@stephintheatre6335

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To me it sounded equally disco and funk

@melod7670

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@@MarcosElMalo2 Check out Phish covering Boogey on Reggae Woman by Stevie Wonder. Same bass tone but even funkier..

@otisroseboro5613

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Fact's

@jxchamb

Жыл бұрын

@@melod7670 LOL! Bass is a type of fish. Lots of hidden puns in that comment.

Nights On Broadway is probably my fave Bee Gees track. This one has a really good groove, too.

@MHume63

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Those are my two fave BeeGee tunes 😊

@andreadeamon6419

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Strong vocals in that one - my goodness!!

@dankelly5150

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This song pre dated Saturday Night Fever but was included on the soundtrack, that’s why it sounds a bit different than the soundtrack.

The Bee Gees had a huge career in the 60’s that I don’t think you guys have reacted to yet. The whole Saturday Night Fever era was the revival of their career.

@strqrt70

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They need to listen to their Beatles influenced 1st album. Great stuff

@Thisandthat8908

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and then they had a nother break and another massively successful comeback in the 80/90's. And the sound was very different again. My favourite there is You win again. Stayin alive was probably the biggets hit but they were far from Disco only.

The 70’s! I was there as a kid and a teen in the 80’s. I enjoyed it all! Your mom is so cool - she knows good music😄

@franklimper2677

Жыл бұрын

I grew up in the same time .. being a kid in the 70s was great

When they first wrote this song, the Bee Gees didn't even know what the word 'jive' meant. When someone told them, they had to rewrite the lyrics.

Brad & Lex, they had several hits before the disco era. Try their "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart", "To Love Somebody" and "Lonely Days"!!

@MarcosElMalo2

Жыл бұрын

Weren’t they kind of folky when they started?

@surlechapeau

Жыл бұрын

@@MarcosElMalo2 their song "Wine and Women" from 1965 was definitely folky!

@itbechelsea

Жыл бұрын

I second this!

@fowleheidi482

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Thank you!

@proudmoon3

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"How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" gets my vote. Very easy on Brad's ears, too!! :)

Anything BeeGees is worth listening to! Not every song was a disco track. They've been around since the 60's . Songs like Massachusetts and Fannie Be Tender are classics.

Personally the disco era Bee Gees were my second favorite. I loved the 1960’s and early 70’s and the aftermath 90’s early 2000 better

the ONLY bad thing about this song is its too short! its a banger! love as always!

Barry Gibb sings lead on this track, taking out his frustrations on a jive talkin' woman telling him lies. She treats him cruel, like a dumbstruck fool, and he's sick of it. He wrote the song with this brothers (also his band mates) Robin and Maurice. The story is fictional: Barry Gibb had been married since 1970 to his wife Linda, a former Miss Edinburgh. This was called "Drive Talking" in its early stages, but producer Arif Mardin suggested the change to "jive" to play to teenage sensibilities. "Jive talkin'" is a term for slang. The rhythm was inspired by the chunka-chunka-chunka sound of a car rolling over a bridge crossing Biscayne Bay near Miami; the Bee Gees went over it on their way to Criteria Studios, where they were recording the Main Course album. Robin Gibb explained to The Mail On Sunday November 1, 2009: "We'd already thought up the title for this song, but it wasn't until Barry, Maurice and I drove from Biscayne Bay to Miami that we realized what the tune was going to be. We had the idea as we passed over a bridge. Some tar noises made a rhythmic sound on the wheels of our car, which created the feel to the type of song we wanted to write. We finished the song at the Criteria Studios that day." (Songfacts.com)

Your Mom is exactly right. I don't remember ever hearing anyone call their girlfriend "child" except in songs. Great reaction!

Hey Brad, if you think this one's light, then you need to check out "How Deep Is Your Love?"

@vickilloyd7472

Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite songs of all time ❤️

How deep is your love is another one. Their pre disco era dogs like how can you mend a broken heart is another

Whether you like disco or not, you just try to sit still to this song. It’s electric ⚡️🧨

always loved this one. great bass line by Maurice as well.

@giorgiopalmas7934

Жыл бұрын

No bass guitar- that's a synthesizer.

My mother took me to see the BeeGees in 1979 when I was 6 years old. 2nd row center! Barry Gibb threw out his towel and the girls in front of us almost killed each other fighting over it!

Need more mum content she’s a treasure

Love seeing Grandma singing to the opening while rocking the Parliament T-shirt! (more P-Funk!) That's going to be a cool baby! Congratulations Couch Fam!

Vocal harmonies that you really only get with siblings. The Bee Gees owned the mid to late '70,s. BTW? Blue Weaver on keys.. Sick keyboard skills.

This song came out in 1975. just before their "Stayin' Alive" disco phase.

@Chris.Davis.2

Жыл бұрын

Barry Gibb said BEE GEES were not a disco band.

@Zlata1313

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@@Chris.Davis.2 yup. They hated the label. They called their music contemporary r&b and blue eyed soul

'Nights on Broadway' is another great song from this time frame by them

Barry was the falsetto. The other two were twins Robin & Maurice. Robin likely sang lead on Jive Talkin Saturday Night Fever was the movie w/ Travolta and the entire LP album was amazing.

@msoileau83

Жыл бұрын

Barry sings lead here. Maurice could sing falsetto as well.

This was the song that brought The Bee Gees back. And it snowballed from there

This song rebooted the second half of their career. They were in the studio trying to find their sound. Each night, after recording, they would drive across a bridge and the seams gave them the base rhythm. The song was built on top of that. One of my favorite BeeGee tracks

@fowleheidi482

Жыл бұрын

They had major hits in the USA in the '60& international fame as children. Let's not forget Andy Gibb

@BobSoltis1

Жыл бұрын

Started what??? They were stars long before this song came out.

@surferles589

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@@BobSoltis1 their career was at a standstill. Eric Clapton had just recorded 461 ocean boulevards (his comeback album) in Florida. He suggested they go there to record coz the feel is different. So they arrived and we’re trying to resurrect their career. This song kicked off the second half of their career and a songwriting spree that would see them wrote more #1’s than the Beatles

@BobSoltis1

Жыл бұрын

@@surferles589 Why tell me something I already know? The comment I was replying to stated "This song started it all for them".

@surferles589

Жыл бұрын

@@BobSoltis1 .‘It started it all’ was referring to the disco era. Should’ve been clearer. Sorry

To Lex s mom, congrats grandma

Listening to this song again after all of these years (I’m 61) you think that the synth music was more popular in the 80’s but this was in the late 80’s and yet it has so much synth programming (probably except for the drums ). I remember this song was actually more popular on the R&B/Soul stations and charts , and fun fact, Rufus & Chaka Khan did a great laid back version of this song , too. Your mom is right this was a jam!

@Eowyn187

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Written and released in mid-seventies

@dmel911

Жыл бұрын

Nope...this came out in the mid 70's, not the late 80's

This song gave Barry the idea as he drove over a bridge .

One of my favorites from them. They didn't really getting heavily into the falsetto stuff till the late 70's. They had a bunch of really great songs before that.

@jaywad8876

Жыл бұрын

Yeah

Lonely Days, Lonely Nights is my fav by them, this would be my second best

MOMS IN DA HOUSE, OR SHOULD I SAY GRAND MA MA!! great to see you all together..good reaction.

I remember running around with my transistor radio with this song blasting as loud as my tiny radio would let it.

I love my mama is in on it… Tell em mama, “nights on Broadway” that’s the one they should do!!🤗

So nice to see Momma there with you! See really knows her 70’s music! Love to you all.....

I remember. It was 1975. I was like in 3rd or 4th grade. I'm in the car with my dad. Car radio is on. Jive Talkin' start playing. Dad's focused on driving but after maybe 30 seconds or so, he begins to register what he's hearing. A look of mild disgust comes over him and he nonchalantly reaches down to change the station. Keep in mind, he was born in 1922 and grew up on Big Band music. I yell out, "No, don't! This is great!" He looked at me like he realized for the first time, I might not be related to him. It was a look of mild surprise and a little sadness. My dad and I got along fine, but we really never saw eye-to-eye when it came to music. Thankfully my time with Disco and whatnot was short-lived and I moved on to metal, classic rock, etc. Oh, yeah, dad changed the station. I mean, I might like that hippy nonsense, but damned if he was going to listen to it. In his own car! 😂

I was 15 when this song came out. Ah, memories.

I hadn't heard that song in years, maybe decades! What a vibe. Thanks for taking me back to the funky seventies! If you want to hear something REALLY easy on the ears by the Bee Gees, check out "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart"!

You guys have been sleeping on “TOO MUCH HEAVEN” official video - a ballad that’s the closest thing to perfection by the BG’s .

John Travolta got his walk, way back playing Vinnie Barbarino on the TV series Welcome Back, Kotter (1965-1979). High School series, so to speak. He was a member of a group called the Sweat Hogs.

@jackiegoodspeed1849

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Still watch that show on me tv

@argonwheatbelly637

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"Welcome Back Kotter" was from '75 to '79.

Edge of the Universe was the first BeeGees song I ever heard, still one of my favorites!

Still a stunning song IMO,the bass sound is amazing,these guys were so talented as they proved over decades,genius!

@jaywad8876

Жыл бұрын

Yeah fr

"Stewardess, I speak Jive." 😁

Lol...My use to love the BeeGees, and drive my Dad crazy with them... my Dad use to say they sounded like chipmunks 🐿😄

Ha. This puts me right back to poolside in the '70's, elementary school. 🥰👍🏻🎶💕doodledoodledo...whackawhacka...those riffs and tones! Interesting point about the use of "Child" in reference to a woman...

John Travolta was in the movie Saturday Night Fever which the Bees Gees wrote the music for. They were born in England but raised in Australia. There is another brother, Andy but I'm not sure they had a sister.

just listen to how sick that bassline is ..... WOW...

The Bee Gees made several albums before they found their falsetto. I love the sound of both.

Jive Talking was the start of disco for me.

Speaking of the word "child", try giving the song "O-o-h Child" (1970) by The Five Stairsteps a listen and reaction. The song never reached the Top 10; however, it's been covered by dozens of artists and used in dozens of TV shows and movies. The song was also sampled by many hip-hop artists as well.

Love Seeing Your Reactions Guy's To This Great Classic Song 👍

Sweet Child Of Mine

This song is still above to me.. And I hadn't even heard it until a year or so ago.

I'm very surprised that it seems like you both haven't watched "Saturday Night Fever" by now. Given how many Bee Gees songs you both have listened to already, you both should watch the hit movie to see the context of how these songs were used. It'll be an eye-opener! American and NYC culture and values were very different back then!

Killer bass

Check out the song with the line "Oooh, Chile, Things are gonna get easier" (I forget the title or artist. but it was a hit.) yeah, the term was around, but people didn't use it as directly as the Bee Gees did in this song. They're also from another country, so they sometimes didn't get the idioms quite exact. (or sometimes they improved on our expressions. Like in their last Big hit! "You Win Again" When they used military language, to describe a love affair. It was amazing.).

Love your Mama!

Great reaction!!Ask Mama if she wants HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE, Fanny Be Tender, or MORE THAN A WOMAN next.

In my opinion, main course which has jive talking and knights of Broadway was their best album Love your reactions. Have fun with the baby when it comes. 💕

@bmw128racer

Жыл бұрын

"Main Course" is a very good album. And the track you're talking about is "Nights on Broadway." 🙂

@timmurphy5580

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@@bmw128racer sorry I didn't type it. That's the way they spelled it but killer album right?

they not only speak jive, but sing it too.

Brings back memories doesn't it mama

Bee gees are the best

Ah that funky bass

bee gees love you inside out

Can't beat a bit o Barry!🤩 Have you checked out "Tragedy" ??

I liked a lot your mother. Very cool. We shared the fact that this era was fantastic with new sound almost every days. I wished you tested french spoken song, a lot are so beautiful

One their greatest songs ever! Oooohhh child!

If you like this mellow Bee Gee song then you would like "To Love Somebody" ... the song "Oohhh Child" wasnt referring to their love interest, it was referring to a friend that broke up and they were giving advice to

A song about lying, so classic. Hi Mom!

MORE Bee Gees PLEASEEEEEEEEEE ♥

Momma's rockin' the P-Funk shirt!

Ditto to Fav 76. Couldn't agree more.

The song had all of us on the dance floor even if you didn’t know how to dance you were still up there

Fun facts. It started out as our ‘ride talkin’ cuz the car kept the beat. And they didn’t know that jive was bs Men calling their ladies child was the reverse of ladies callin they man daddy

i always enjoy lexi's mom!

This is the song frfr! I wasn't really born around this time though!

That must have been a regional thing. I lived in North Carolina, Illinois and Michigan during the 70s, the only people I heard call an adult, child were older parents in the south sometimes conversing with their adult children. But, we never called our ladies "Child" back then. I was 26 when this was released.

This is my favorite song by the Bee Gees.

Nights on Broadway and Tragedy are my JAMS!!

Amooooooooooo essa banda!!❤❤❤🇧🇷São maravilhosos!!

Your mum is my kind of girl.x

I'm in the Brad camp on this one, I have never been a fan, but this one was sick for roller skating 😁😎🦃

Mom with the Motor Booty Affair shirt! Love it!

luv this lady. U never introduced

Love it when your Mom is there. She cracks me up. Great reaction guys. Now let me go find more of your Bee Gee's reactions, lol.

Oh she knew on the opening note lol

Bee gees rule

Highlight in this one is Maurice playing that funky bass

Loved dancing to this band 'cause the girls loved them

😂🤣I just wanna take you guys out for dinner! Love y'all 💕

The Vinnie Mama was talking about was Travolta's Vinnie Barbarino from Welcome Back Kotter, not Vincent from Pulp Fiction.

Best one is Too Much Heaven for a reaction.

This was right before they went stratospheric in Saturday Night Fever. Main Course was actually the first Bee Gees record I owned, and it was very good.

A great band. It's hard to sit still, listening to this fantastic music. 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶

I love when GiGi does reactions with y’all. I really get creeped out when guy’s called themselves daddy or papa 😬

@thomassamburgh5904

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Yes Kim,me too

@jackiegoodspeed1849

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Me too

@letitbesummer6536

Жыл бұрын

Me three! Lol

Alright mama, that song was before Saturday Night Fever!

Everything the BeeGees touched was gold. I miss them.

Mom gets it

Tony monero. I used to hang out with him at the cottonwood recording studio in Tacoma

I think John Travolta did that "fancy walk" at the beginning of Saturday Night Fever.