In my opinion, they're not generally acknowledged or placed at the top like they SHOULD be for a couple of reasons: musical snobbery (people who discount them because they wrote some great disco stuff in the 1970s); jealousy (they were so much better than most of the other bands on all levels--writing, performing, harmonizing, longevity, and the ability to play any style); and lastly pure talent (didn't need the "shock" lyrics to sell songs, didn't use enhancement tricks when that tech became available, and were truly nice guys which--at the time--was considered "square" or "uncool"). Us Bee Gee fans hung with them through every style, and recognized their phenomenal talent right from the start. No other band sounds like them or produced as much great stuff as they did. They are a once-in-a-lifetime talent.

@kthor

6 ай бұрын

Well said!

For me, they will always be up there, do not care what anyone says, they were it and are still it!!

At one point, the BeeGees soundtrack from this movie held the top five spots on Billboard. For weeks.

Bee Gee's.. the best ever.. love their harmonies, the songs, just so sad that Barry has lost all his younger brothers. those harmonies are gone forever.

To BeeGees fans they are always at the top.

When you say you haven't heard a song before, it's 100 percent believable. You've earned that trust because you're always honest & transparent. Much appreciated, and it differentiates you in this space.

Sweetie, I just love you..God, you make me smile...everytime...!! Saturday night at the disco..oh yeah, us girls..the bee gees WERE our men!

My favorite disco song by the Bee Gees is "You Should Be Dancing." It is also from Saturday Night Fever

@sandralee1276

6 ай бұрын

Love that song

I have to say as a current 68 year old baby Boomer that when we grew up we had it great. We had the best of times we were poor but my God, we were rich and friends and music and culture. We just had so much and we didn't realize it. Then, but boy, we realize it now. We can't help but go back to that time by listening to this. Great music that we grew up with. And you're starting to get a little taste of it. They're so so much more. There's probably 10000 salt. Great songs from the mid fifties to the mid to late eightdear.

The Bee Gees were the kings of Disco but KC & The Sunshine Band were a close 2nd with songs like Boogie Shoes, I'm You're Boogie Man and Get Down Tonight. Of course we knew the lyrics. We listened to this on repeat on our record players or mix tape cassettes we recorded. It also played at least once a night at the roller rink.

100 percent the best disco 🕺 song also you are right about Bee Gees being up there with the Beatles and all the rest of the greatest bands of that era

The BeeGees were: the tallest and oldest brother (with the big hair and beard), Barry Gibb, born September 1, 1946, the only surviving Gibb brother. Robin Gibb (with the long hair, no beard), born December 22, 1949-passed away May 20, 2012, and Robin's fraternal twin brother Maurice (the balding brother with the beard, pronounced "Morris") Gibb, born December 22, 1949-passed away January 12, 2003. They also had another, younger, brother Andy Gibb, born March 5, 1958-passed away March 10, 1988. The three oldest brothers were born on the Isle of Man (UK). Oldest brother Barry got seriously burned when he accidentally pulled boiling tea over himself at 18 months old. He was in coma for a while, nearly died and was in hospital for many months. Because of this, he did not learn to talk until after the twins were born. Later the family moved to Manchester and from there they emigrated to Australia in 1958, right after Andy was born. All 4 brothers are just natural musical talents. All of them dropped out of high school in their early teens and none of them could read or write music. All their compositions were created completely organically. Their musical career, which they had started as little kids, didn't lead to international success so they moved back to the UK in 1967. Then they had a string of big hits, until they temporarily broke up around 1970 for 15 months. Started back up, looking for a new sound which they first found in 1974 with the transitional album "Mr. Natural". After that "Main Course" was the first album that moved them into a new direction: more rhythm&blues, dance music like with great hits like Nights on Broadway and Jive Talkin' (and was also actually the first album on which their logo was introduced). From 1976 on they went all out with falsetto driven dance music which lead to their biggest commercial success as they provided classic songs for the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack (1977 Stayin' Alive, How Deep is Your Love, Night Fever amongst them). You should react to the 1979 live version of Stayin' Alive, too kzread.info/dash/bejne/aaKdurWhZ9m9gqw.html Other great songs to analyze: great album tracks from the 1979 Spirits Having Flown album, the title song: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iXyTzJtplqavm5c.html, the outrageously beautiful song Reaching Out kzread.info/dash/bejne/qJp8t7VufcmWYLQ.html. From their Still Waters album, Smoke and MIrrors: kzread.info/dash/bejne/f4ht2LSBg7q0ks4.html. From the 1960's I've gotta get a message to you kzread.info/dash/bejne/dXVopaundNG6m5s.html. And from the 1990's the simple song Blue Island live in an accoustic version: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y2pmqc56ddPMorw.html. Andy was kind of Barry's mini me, about half a foot shorter and 12 years younger but they were the only lefties of the family. However, his voice was nowhere near as broad in range or as strong as Barry's. As producer Alby Galuten said in the book "Tales of the brothers Gibb "Andy's falsetto was nowhere near Barry's." Andy had a lower, huskier, sound to his voice and his range was not as big as Barry's. I personally always thought his voice was much better suited to songs of his first album, Flowing Rivers. Andy died of myocarditis - which is an inflammation of the heart - on March 10, 1988, 5 days after his 30th birthday. His heart had been weakened by his drug addiction over the years which, by the way, was also the main reason for his split from Victoria Principal. He also had a congenital heart problem that was later also discovered in Barry and Barry's second son Ashley. Try listening to the song Dreamin' on kzread.info/dash/bejne/X3-YpLiEk7a5g9o.html which is kind of a duet with Barry. And here are the 4 brothers live on stage in 1979 doing You Should Be Dancing kzread.info/dash/bejne/kWqBtI9-j7TgqpM.html And finally a few photos of Barry and Andy: i.postimg.cc/jS6n3Jkv/Barry-Andy.jpg and i.postimg.cc/TwnPh8M0/82c126fc42a35d3b737867af41338199.jpg and the 4 brothers with their mother i.postimg.cc/FRNMbwkD/b9b2561eadffee11347573c97063c2f8-zpsd89478eb.jpg

First time a drum loop was ever used. They also use the beat of this song in CPR training. What's crazy is they had written the songs on the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack for the album they were working on in France when they were asked to write songs for the movie. Pretty awesome.

@robbob5302

6 ай бұрын

I just did CPR training a few months ago! You are right!

I hope Barry sees these reaction video's and knows how much him and his late brothers are loved.

I loved getting to see them do this live back in the 70s. My first concert!

I still put this on and dance to it! It’s such a big energy burst! I was going out when this was just out. When it came on EVERYONE would jump up and get on the dance floor fast. Damn! Those were some of the best days!❤

@saturnnet1627

6 ай бұрын

There's nothing to be proven wrong because this is the no.1 disco song of all times.

They are up there and are very respected. They are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Agree! This is the most iconic disco song. Barry said it has been used in over 15 different movies!

Kc and the Sunshine band “That’s the way I like it” one of the most iconic disco songs.

I knew the lyrics because I would sit and read the lyrics on my mum's record, cross legged in pigtails and the most MASSIVE headphones you've ever seen!

Hope you have seen Barry & his late brothers being honored at the Kennedy Center on Dec 27 on CBS!!

really enjoyed your disco moves from the chair!

“You should be dancing “ by The Bee Gees as far as a dancing song this one worked for me and no need to understand what they were saying it was a groove

This was so soft in high school compared to what I was listening to, but man, it was interwoven into the fabric of lifev then, and I still love this song to this day.

Yes! You should do Saturday Night Fever!!!!

So happy you are well and love watching you dance!

Great song ❤ enjoyed watching you get into it, too 😊 Barry was recently awarded the Kennedy Center Honor!

ABBA and Donna Summer were the next groups on the best disco groups of the 70's.

@laurakali6522

6 ай бұрын

And KC and The Sunshine Band.

@MrJohnw2454

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, they would be next. @@laurakali6522

You definitely need to watch "Saturday Night Fever" - feel good music but not a feel good movie! Great reaction!! 🙂❤

Mo, or maurice, called Barry a hit machine. They were active since the 60's, and after the record burnings to kill off disco, they just sold songs to others. Recently Barry put out a duets album, during covid. Have you heard Jive Talking?

So have you reacted to Wild Cherry’s Play that Funky Music?? I’d love to see that reaction

Maybe...KC and the Sunshine Band...get down tonight..is top rank disco song

@polocash11

6 ай бұрын

they also sing ... Get Down Tonight ... That's the Way I Like It .... Boogie Shoes ... Boogie Man …. these were our disco songs

@highendservicesbarrieont8347

6 ай бұрын

@@polocash11 yes..what I loved about KC..they were a band...not Goirdio Moroder program...peeps live..yet Georgio was genuies...love Donnah summers singing...but KC..and band...could thrill it live...agree my friend

@JenSell1626

5 ай бұрын

@@highendservicesbarrieont8347I haven’t seen Donna reactions. She came up through the pink and psychedelic scenes before going Disco Goddess from Roxbury 🤩

How about "Night Fever" by The Bee Gees?

I was dancing 💃 in the NYC Discos to Bee Gees... Of course I knew the lyrics!

Darum liebe ich die Bee Gees. Man bekommt sofort gute Laune und muß tanzen ❤❤❤

BEST DISCO SONG; September by Earth Wind and Fire. I would say this song is quintessential disco.

@surfersilver6610

6 ай бұрын

More R&B than Disco but a lot of songs started crossing over mixing genre elements.

You will love the movie. It puts the music in real life perspective and historical perspective. Now, there are plenty of non PC and social issues hit on the 70's nose. Early 70's. It gets raw, emotional and is too true. Let us know when you can it. Btw they started in the 50's. Happy 2024.

You should be dancing is also one of their best ❤

bee gees emotion

Dude, you are just killing me with your reaction.😂

I think is You Should Be Dancing, but this is a good one also.

Nice moves 🕺😂 Epic disco song for sure 😁

Of course I did :) I went to the theatre three different time to watch it.

I saw an old interview with the Bee Gees and the host asked almost exactly what you did. Barry said that Robin mainly but Maurice were real cut ups growing up. They were on the side of a movie set shooting a different video. when they took a break Barry said Robin & Maurice found this run down set so naturally they started goofing off. They told Barry & the director they found the perfect place for Staying alive. They never knew they'd take them seriously. 😂😂😂 5:34 5:34

Need some love for those horns…

Dance like the Queen U R!

Barry just received a award on behalf of the Bee Gees.

A top disco song: Love Hangover by Diana Ross.

You started singing out 'Night Fever'. While recording 'Staying Alive' the Bee Gees were short one drummer. So their genius producer Albhy Galuten took a few drum beats from from 'Night Fever' looped the tape (its the seventies) halfway across the studio over microphone stands back into the recording console to have a temporary drum track. When their drummer returned and listned what they had done in his absence they all agreed that there was really no need to re-record the drumtrack.

That's a funny reference, you should check out the Bay City Rollers doing Saturday night. It was just something that my younger sister was into before she got into harder rock. But it was so popular,. That song got performed at so many football games and whatever, because they spell out the letters to Saturday night and then they hit it with the simple driving 70 thing. Not to mention that Elton John had a huge hit with Saturday Night Is All Right For Fighting. And then you've got something as innocuous as very early Chicago in the early seventies, doing Saturday in the park. But late in it like so many Chicago early jams, it picks up and they're going nuts and then they're chanting in Perfect Harmony about Saturday Saturday Saturday, lol.

I absolutely LOVED your reaction - why aren't blown up!!!!!!

Disco was fun. Gotta admit. But I never dressed that way. No way. I think ‘Get Down Tonight’ by KC is up there as one of the best.

So good to see a genuine, joyful reaction to this. At the time it was e v e r y w h e r e. I was too young but went to a disco for kids (yes) and to me it seemed that other than Saturday Night Fever a lot of disco wasn’t so clean and engaging. It was smoky and over the top and kind of cheesy but still just as irresistible. Songs like I Feel Love by Donna Summer Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood by Santa Esmeralda (long version hut nobody has time for that on KZread haha) Rasputin by Boney M If you were there you can almost smell the Jovan Musk Oil on these songs

DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND WATCH SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER WITH JOHN TRAVOLTA A TON OF BEE GEES SONGS IN THAT MOVIE INCLUDING STAYING ALIVE WHILE JOHN TRAVOLTA WALKS DOWN THE STREET WITH A CAN OF PAINT

It's just getting started but I can't help but thank shortly later in time and I would say Cameo from their album feel me, before they paired it all down to like a three-piece and achieved massive pop stardom. But the songs from this album is what everybody was listening to at black parties in high school and it was so fun. Roller skates, Your Love Takes Me out, keep it hot, it has all that attitude but this came out around 1980 so it added a bit of that bit more modern Funk to it and it was like 10 guys just going off doing all kinds of stuff and it was so compelling. The best dance music ever. That and the Gap Band, Humpin' People

Since you are on the Disco train, Shirley & Company “Shame, shame, shame” is another great disco song, not to compare them with the BeeGees.

The stigma that they were a "DISCO" group kept them from the level of The Beatles, Stones,etc.... Even though they were making music way back in the 60's..

KC and the Sunshine band was also 70s royalty. The huge band actually played all the instruments, so it is different than the BeeGees somewhat.

You havent reacted to the Queen of Disco yet so I can understand why this is the Disco song for you!! please check out Donna Summer I love to love you or I feel love. You will definitely change your mind when you hear Donna Summer.

If you do the movie "Saturday night fever" then you have to watch the movie Travolta did 3 years later, URBAN COWBOY. Another music and dancing movie.

Glad you're feeling better! A fun time spending with you today!

You got the moves!

Maurice is pronounced Morris. I liked Barry's chest voice better than the falsetto.😊

You mentioned that you like Janis Joplin: Have you seen 'Tom Jones & Janis Joplin - Raise Your Hand - This is Tom Jones TV Show' on Tom Jones channel? WoWza !!! Not only do they sing ... they ... DaNcE 🎉🎉🎉 (and the background dancers are stellar)!!!

@surfersilver6610

6 ай бұрын

That was HOT, he needs to see it, I never knew Tom had his own show, that man is a beast and can hang WITH ANYONE! and ENJOYS doing it, he loves other artists, no jealousy just 1,000% appreciation.

@karyn1147

6 ай бұрын

@@surfersilver6610 Absolutely !!!

Please please please 🙏 check out the DEE GEES version of You Should Be Dancing. The Foo Fighters do a phenomenal job covering Bee Gees songs! You won't be sorry.

@TheBrownlj

6 ай бұрын

Omg no. Nothing is better than the Bee Gees

@marcyw922

6 ай бұрын

@@TheBrownlj No, not better, but he loves the Bee Gees and is currently on his Foo Fighters journey. I just think he will really, really enjoy it. My favorite Dee Gees is Taylor Hawkins singing Shadow Dancing. I can't watch it without tears after his untimely death. I grew up in the 70s and will always love the Bee Gees.

@TheBrownlj

6 ай бұрын

@@marcyw922 wouldnt it be better to watch Shadow Dancing with Andy actually singing it then? I personally think a group called Dee Gees is insulting.

Another movie with a good disco soundtrack you should watch, is The Martian with Matt Damon.

You still haven’t reacted to “ Love you inside out” another R&B 1# hit 1979.

You should be dancing🎉

I always loved - Call Me by- Blondie 1980 and Gloria - Laura Branigan 1982 one of the last Disco hits. The song - Fame in 1980 had key elements of Disco also for - Irene Cara. Of course the Queen of Disco was Donna Summer with a few hit songs. With guys there is the song - Super Freak - Rick James in 1981 had Disco elements. Can't forget KC and the Sunshine Band - That's the Way I Like It 1975 had a few hits in the 70s. Many others, but the Bee Gees ruled.

@surfersilver6610

6 ай бұрын

Rapture - Blondie 1st female rap to chart and at #1 iirc. The video is a snapshot of NYC 1970's goat and all. No cap.

I think I love ABBA more than the BeeGees as my favorite pop group of that era, but I can't dispute "Stayin' Alive" as the best disco song.

LOL😁

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Best disco song, best CPR song, first song with a drum loop in history and most airplayed song of all time on all radio stations around the globe since 1975 (survey 2017) - immortal classic, Sir Barry Gibb - awarded Kennedy Center Honors last month from President Joe Biden, now knighted in 2018 and three memorials on three different continents and even a stamp series from his birth place Isle of Man he is bigger than life

Yes. Best disco song!

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Please react to BOOGIE CHILD!!!

Backwoods stereo systems were new in the seventies, my parents bought the cheapest crappiest economical stereo system they could from kmart. But we got a handful of 8-track cassettes to start off with and for me it was Boston in the first and second album, but more in the family since my sister and I got off on the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever. It was kind of cheesy but really it was representative of all the really amazing stuff that was starting to go down at the time. And it was certainly not limited to disco by any means. I can't remember the name of the band but I want to say it's called Tramp, and it was on that same soundtrack to that movie and it was called Disco Inferno. As a budding young rocker I really wanted to dislike it infectious. Just like this song.

The best reaction to the Bee Gees I have ever seen!

Bee Gees = Kings of Disco Donna Summer = Queen of Disco It's not really a question or debate. I will say there were plenty of Princes(not Nelson Rogers) and Princesses in Disco though.

That movie is so so but music is seosam.

Watch the movie Saturday Night Fever!!!!!!!

Did you know Foo Fighters have an alias band “Dee Gees” and it’s all Bee Gees covers? You should really check those out. Lol. You’ll be shocked. I know you said you really think Dave can sing…you have no idea. lol.

Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant can go in the voices category. Love ya man😊

Just the Once by Metric, music video request plz 😊

Have you heard The Fugees version?

I just watched one of your Led Zeppelin videos and I was wondering if you would still if you would react to babe I’m gonna leave you at one of my favorite songs led zeppelin songs

Nice moves! You just need more room to dance in.

I may easily be wrong on this. But by my understanding, The Bee Gees are the most successful disco band ever, by US sales. But ABBA is the most successful, in overall sales.

@Zlata1313

6 ай бұрын

FYI they hated the word disco. They called their music contemporary r&b and blue eyed soul. The disco label became a backlash against them and they couldn't even get their music played on radio. They turned to writing and produced for other artists for a few years and Robin released solo stuff

@robbob5302

6 ай бұрын

@@Zlata1313 Yes. They knew disco’s days were numbered. The bus was heading for a cliff. But let’s be honest. If The Bee Gees weren’t disco, nobody was. To answer the question “Is this group disco?” we must ask “Does this group sound like The Bee Gees?” They might not have liked it. But they came to define it, like it or not.

@Zlata1313

6 ай бұрын

@@robbob5302 they weren't and said so, repeatedly. Have you seen interviews with them? Do you know the story behind Saturday Night Fever and how those songs ended up on the soundtrack? They had the disco tag hung on them only because SNF was such a stratospheric success.

@TheBrownlj

6 ай бұрын

​​@@robbob5302no they were not a disco band. A hand full of songs in a 50 years does not make them a disco band. Actually apart from You Should be Dancing and maybe Night Fever all the other songs are R&B, not disco.

@surfersilver6610

6 ай бұрын

@@TheBrownlj correct they weren't a band, they were a Trio, and made a few Disco Hit Songs that came to DEFINE DISCO because of the movie and timing all converging in a barrel of lightning.

For me You should be dancing from the Bee Gees is a little bit better disco song! And I also love Barrys voice most of all, the chest voice AND his falsetto voice!

Greatest Disco song? Yes and no, I say TIED. One name only needed: Donna Summer 🎤drop. Last Dance is just 1 of many you could chose from her collection. Wait till you research her 1st time ever accomplishments as a female artist & POC.

@surfersilver6610

6 ай бұрын

Note they close many Discos/Clubs with "Last Dance" to this day.

You can't sing along if you've never heard it before.