They didn’t just dabble in country music, they wrote one of the most popular country songs of all time “Islands in the Stream”

In 1983, the Bee Gees didn't only present Kenny and Dolly with the global glory of “Islands In The Stream.” They gave Rogers a whole album of songs, produced by Barry as Eyes That See In The Dark, a country No. 1 LP on which all three brothers also sang.

@heather6668

5 ай бұрын

Barry also had his own demo version of the entire album. Used to be available on iTunes. I actually like his demo version better than the Kenny Rogers release but I do love both albums.

@kthor

5 ай бұрын

Barry helped write all 10 tracks of Eyes That See in The Dark, whereas Mo helped write 8 & Robin only 5. Also, Barry sang backing vocals on 9 tracks (including Islands in the Stream), but Mo only sang on 2 & Robin on 1.

@kthor

5 ай бұрын

@@heather6668Love Barry's demos!🎶

The late great Conway Twitty recorded this wonderful song. Great cover! Great reaction Harri!

@leeyaferguson9019

5 ай бұрын

Yep.

This song was Conway Twitty's 25th number 1 hit on the Country charts. His version was released in 1980.

Try, Come on Over.

@dp3396

5 ай бұрын

Which version? Theirs or Olivia Newton Johns???

@susieq9801

5 ай бұрын

@@dp3396 - Theirs preferably.

@ginap5148

4 ай бұрын

The Bee Gees, but Olivia's is excellent, also.

Barry and Maurice liked Country music. They did an album for Kenny Rogers "Eyes That See in the Dark." All of the songs are fantastic.

Country album? Barry's duet album Greenfields, a tribute to his brothers, was a country style album presenting the bee gees many hits sung by Barry and Dolly Parton (words), this song with Olivia Newton John, and many many more. It was released in 2020 or 21, not sure, and topped the charts in the UK and Oz, among others, and won the UK best Americana album for the year. Only great stuff from these musical wonders.

Andy sang a duet of this song with Olivia Newton John.

@reneemanning5194

5 ай бұрын

Just beautiful this version goosebumps and tears 💜 Andy and ONJ is such an amazing duet and gives the song a def feeling of love because of their chemistry 😍 Always hoped that the two would of been a couple 💟 😮 A must see Harri when you get a chance and also please react to midnight special of bee gees - Beatles medley it is So Amazing ! Take Care

@LizzieRD

4 ай бұрын

@@reneemanning5194 ONJ was more like an older sister I think. She was the same age as Mo and Robin, so 9 years older than Andy

@reneemanning5194

4 ай бұрын

@@LizzieRD I surely know how old they both were and age has nothing to do with romance if two people are in Love and choose to be together ! Obviously they were close friends and I said I hoped he would of had her as a partner because she was an amazing person - maybe things would of been different for Andy

@LizzieRD

4 ай бұрын

@@reneemanning5194 No prob.

Don’t Forget To Remember, Sweetheart, Come Home Johnny Bride, Marley Purt Drive, Give Your Best , Buried Treasure, South Dakota Morning , Come On Over, I'll Kiss Your Memory.

@FranckMontgar

5 ай бұрын

There is also King And Country (sung by Barry), Railroad and Hold Her In Your Hand (sung by Maurice)

@carolinasbeauty

5 ай бұрын

@nelerhabarber5602 - Oh, yes! "Come Home Johnny Bride" was my favorite off of "Life In A Tin Can" - well, in truth I loved the whole album! Let the critics pan it, I don't care.

@buchholtzmathieu1810

5 ай бұрын

Oh ! I totally agree. Love the album "Life in a tin can". My favs of it are "Method to my madness (with Robin's terrible rendition) ", "Living in Chicago", "While I play", "Dakota morning" . @@carolinasbeauty

@buchholtzmathieu1810

5 ай бұрын

@@FranckMontgar And also "Country lanes", "Wildflower", and some other tracks on unreleased albums by Barry or Mo.

@carolinasbeauty

5 ай бұрын

@@buchholtzmathieu1810 Those are some of my favs on that album, too! Don't know why the critics panned it (or how it sold) but I thought it was one of their best albums! Love your choices, btw.

This was sung by their youngest brother Andy Gibb. It was originally done by Andy and Olivia Newton John for the Eurovision song contest. Andy had a solo carrier and was not a part of Bee Gees

The boys could do anything they wanted, they were just that talented. They did several country type songs.

From 1979, this was the B side of "Too Much Heaven" written by Barry for his wife. His beautiful vocals deliver the lyrics of unconditional love that are poetic and heartfelt. Stephen Stills on bass and the beautiful orchestral arrangement adds to the grandeur of this tune. The strings, the horns, the percussion supply the emotional weight to this love song. Always so beautiful. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Brandon. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada. 🇨🇦

@chrisoakley5830

5 ай бұрын

You're right, I have that old 45 single of this song 🎵

@kthor

5 ай бұрын

Great comment but I believe it's just Barry on vocals.🎼

@marybaillie8907

5 ай бұрын

@@kthor Thanks. 👍✌️🎶🇨🇦

Harri listen to Lay it on me, Maurice Sings and Barry is his backing singer, Robin is the dancer, if you can concentrate on the song for Robins dancing you are doing well..😂

This is a beautiful song! You need to listen to the version that's a duet with Andy Gibb and Olivia Newton-John, absolutely stunning and touching!

@mocknburd23

5 ай бұрын

And to answer your question, they did some country-flavored songs here and there, especially early on, but not a full country album as a groupi. But Barry put out an album a couple years ago called Greenfields, of duets that are covers of Bee Gees songs in bluegrass/country style. It includes this song with Barry and Olivia. Also includes Words with Barry and Dolly Parton. Some real gems in there!!!

@kthor

5 ай бұрын

@@mocknburd23Think Andy's duet with ONJ singing this song is my fave version of it!🥰

@heather6668

5 ай бұрын

@@mocknburd23 I've Got To Get A Message to You with Keith Urban is also a great track from Greenfields. Love the Barry/Dolly version of Words.

I didn't know Barry wrote this. I knew Conway Twitty recorded it. But the beegees wrote it damn. I need to go back and research

@LizzieRD

5 ай бұрын

Seems like the Bee Gees h ad a finger in almost every top song for that decade

I guess you never heard "Marley Purt Drive" from 1969 🤔...give it a listen!

@dp3396

5 ай бұрын

It’s in the style of The Band’s The Weight.

Andy and Olivia Newton John sang this as a duet as well! Barry and Andy really sound similar with this song!❤❤❤❤

Harri, Andy Gibb, and Olivia Newton-John recorded the song in 1989 from his album "After Dark "

Fantastic

@user-tm7qy7zm6g

5 ай бұрын

I never heard this song before today but I really like it!! 😁👍

I think that they would have been successful whatever they sung, they were just great, they got a little hung up with the disco music but they were very successful, I loved it after things went a little flat and they came up with I don't want to be alone and when the bell tolls,

Barry's pronunciation of the word "pocket" gives me the chills. I love this song. He and Olivia Newton John did this as a duet on his Greenfields album (an anthology of Gibb Brothers songs re-imagined and done with country artists) in 2021. Their "Marley Purt Drive" from the 1969 "Odessa" album is total fun with a country rock sound. You mentioned classical music. Try listening to "Be Who You Are" from the "Living Eyes" album. The long intro is a lovely orchestral section, and Barry's natural voice throughout is magnificent. The lyrics make you sit up and take notice. To me, it feels like singing about the anguish of what happened to them with the crazy backlash from "Saturday Night Fever."

@chrisoakley5830

5 ай бұрын

Andy Gibb and Olivia also recorded a version of this song together.

@janicetrimmell6897

5 ай бұрын

@@chrisoakley5830 It was also lovely.

I don't think they did a country album but they wrote for country singers such as Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton and Celine Dion. By the way they wrote 'Islands in the stream.' Oh as for Classical have a listen to 'The lonely Violin' also ' The 'Seven Seas Symphony'.

There are so many awesome things about these boys, but I think my favorite thing about them is their versitility. 24/7 Bee Gees and you'd never get bored with the variety of music.

Look up the video of The Bee Gees singing with Glenn Campbell and Willie Nelson.

Conway Twitty had a hit with his version of this song in the early 80s.

I think that Andy Gibb and Olivia Newton John sang this as a duet. Was a hit for both. Andy Gibb is the Bee Gees little brother.

Check out Greenfields released in 2021, Barry sings with all country singers, BeeGees songs interpretation by country artists and Barry Gibb

They Lay it on me, Country roads, Hold her in your hand to name a few. Barry did Greenfields 2021 where songs from Bee Gees catalog were sang by him and several country artists including Dolly Parton on Words. ❤❤❤

Song from my youth during my country faze. Always a favorite

This was a number #1 hit on the country charts for Conway Twitty.

This was a B side to the song Too Much Heaven, and Barry wrote it, but the first time I heard it was a duet with Andy Gibb and Olivia Newton John, and that is a beautiful track also. The Bee Gees were very versatile. Their early work in the 60s, and then their reinventioin in the 70s and then, they just did whatever they wanted and wr ote songs for other artists too. Fantastic.

Mo's amazing solo country singles "Railroad" and "Lay It On Me"!!❤❤❤ are my favorites. And Barry's 2016ish album "Greenfields" made with a bunch of Nashville Country music stars! Barry & Mo were bigger fans of country music than Robin. And Mo dabbled in writing scores for movies while Robin wrote a "The Titanic Requiem" with his son before Robin Sr. died. So yes!- they did create in the classical genre!!

They have done a few C/W style songs. "Come on over" is very nice. "Home again Rivers", "Road to Alaska" (The "Soundstage" live version is best.) Mo's "Hold her in your hand", Robin did a version of "Islands in the Stream". Mo and Barry seemed to tend more to country style music. They could write and sing any genre. Of course none could read music. Speaking of "classical" songs, Robin and his son wrote "The Titanic Requiem" for the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster in 2012. It was played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (in April 2012 the anniversary of the sinking) but Robin was too ill to attend dying only a month after the performance. He said finishing it helped keep him alive. I believe "Islands in the Stream" was the biggest selling country record of all time at the time when they wrote it.

Barry Gibb wrote this song. Andy Gibb and Olivia Newton John did a beautiful duet of it and it was Conway Twitty’s 25th number 1 song. Love the song, had never heard Bee Gees doing it, everything they do is great. Thanks for this one

@chrisoakley5830

5 ай бұрын

The Bee Gees version of this was on the B side of their hit ... Too Much Heaven in 1978.

@kthor

Ай бұрын

@@chrisoakley5830Yep, leave it to Sir Barry to have a solo penned song as the B Side of Too Much Heaven!

The Osmonds also covered this, as did Conway Twitty, whose version hit number one on the country chart. Edit: Actually, I just read that the Osmonds recorded it first, on an album produced by Maurice Gibb.

I think Barry sang this song for his pretty wife.Somehow there is a little bit like what he said in the documentarythat the first sight he saw Linda and fell in love with her.😊❤

Lost In your Love is another great country ish one

@kthor

Ай бұрын

I love Lost in Your Love, a song written & sung by Barry!🎵

Regarding classical music: Robin and his son RJ wrote a tribute for the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The Titanic Requiem premiered just a month before Robin’s death. He was to have been one of the performers but was to ill, so Robin-John (RJ) introduced a recording in his place. (Reviews were not very good, but what little I heard of it online in 2012 I liked.

@susieq9801

5 ай бұрын

How often were reviews good for The Bee Gees and where are all of those reviewers now, LOL? It's like any art form, if someone likes a painting or a song or an LP, who cares about the reviews? 😁

Maurice is at his best doing Country!!! Try HOLD HER IN YOUR HANDS and WILDFLOWER. Barry released his album of demos for the album he wrote and produced for Kenny Rogers called Eyes That See In The Dark. I prefer his demos to Kenney’s finished songs. Another of Barry’s Country demos that I love is LOVE IS BLIND. He released DADDY’S LITTLE GIRL as a bonus on his 2016 album, and had a #1 album in 2021 with GREENFIELDS, an album of Gibb songs recorded as duets with top Country artists. Another of his hidden gems is the Roy Orbison - Larry Gatlin duet INDIAN SUMMER. If I could get a message to Barry, I would request a compilation album of the Country songs with a booklet full of info on all the covers by others, etc. Thanks for another wonderful reaction!!

@kthor

5 ай бұрын

Great suggestions with Mo on lead! I also prefer Barry's demos over Kenny Roger's studio recordings. So glad all Barry's demos were finally released.🎼

Classical…try Make it like a memory with Barbra Streisand. Barry wrote and produced it and that song goes from one end of the spectrum to the other with classical music at the end….

I love the BeeGees and miss them a lot. Love this song - I've never heard this.

Maybe I will start a run on Bee gees country music 🤔🤔🤔🤔

@anniebubls1

5 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. I'd love to know if they had a Country album. I'll have to investigate. 😊

@Cynthia...

5 ай бұрын

I don’t think I’ve ever heard this but may have to look into it a bit more. thank you Brandon and Harri.

First time hearing this one for me; sounds great. Thanks much for such a nice reaction.

They wrote some nice country songs in the 60's & early 70's. "Marley Purt Drive" & "Give Your Best To Your friends" are my favs.

@kthor

5 ай бұрын

Love Marley Purt Drive.🎼

They did do classic "Seven Seas Symphony" by the Bee Gees on Odessa album. Barry did Greenfields which was duets with country artists where they did more country versions of Bee Gees songs.

One country song the I really like is Country Lanes with Robin on lead. And regarding classical Music, yes they made at least one called Seven Seas Symphony from 1969. Robin made the Album Titanic Reqieum just before he died hwich is also a classical album.

You should here the Bee Gees sing a capella on the song Children of the World.

Classical song was 'The Seven Seas Symphony'. Odessa album.

I like Butterfly and Words of a Fool on the Greenfields album the most.

Barry and Maurice were fans of country music, Robin not so much. You could put together a compilation album that leaned country, but there never was a Bee Gees release of a country music album. Maurice did a solo album, The Loner, around 1970 that leans country/country rock but it was never released, available on KZread. Maurice also Check out Love is Blind, written by Barry and Maurice, but never released. It’s lovely. A good demo version is here on YT. Maurice’s single Hold Her In Your Hand is a country waltz. Barry’s album Greenfields, which came out a couple years ago, reworks Bee Gee songs as duets with major country artists. After Johnny Cash died, Barry owned his house for a few years and was renovating it, but it was destroyed in a fire.

@kthor

Ай бұрын

I love the song Love is Blind!

Oh my, what they could have done if only time permitted. What gifted boys they were, all the way through their time on earth. I thank God I was able to hear their songs, see their handsome faces, and be so fortunate to have watched the many videos that I have. I am one blessed gal. Thank you! Deme in Bama.😊

This may be my all-time favorite!

@janicetrimmell6897

5 ай бұрын

And Johnny Rodriguez's cover is a close second!

@chrisoakley5830

5 ай бұрын

​@@janicetrimmell6897Conway Twitty has a version also.

Kenny Rogers recorded quite a few songs they wrote and they recorded some country themselves. They could do anything. Please react to Alive. Kiss Of Life.

Do this song with Barry and Olivia which is probably the last thing she ever did musically

Patty-To answer your question, they have a piece called Seventh Seas Symphony. That's what it is, a symphony. Mo wrote it. Robin and his son composed a piece called Titanic Requiem. It was released posthmusly. There is one song that is sung by Robin called Don't Cry Alone. You may cry. Robin at his finest.

Omgoodness! Another gem for my country playlist. I have never heard this before😮. Thank you, Harri and Brandon. I would have been totally in love with this & would have played it continuously! ❤The harmonies are so sweet, tender, and soft. 😊

So the reason they would have never aone a whole country album is that Robin wasn't really into it even if maurice and barry like it so i believe they had sprinkling country song in some of their early albums and the last album recorded by Barry was duets with several different country artists artists it's called greenfields and its a recording of some of the bee gees songs done in a country vibe .

@susieq9801

5 ай бұрын

They could have done a C/W LP regardless of whether Robin liked it or not. Actually Robin sang lead or co-lead on a few C/W style songs "Home again Rivers", "Come on over", "Road to Alaska" but I think Mo's style and voice was best suited to country (loved "Hold her in your hand") and Barry certainly loved C/W.

Didn't hear you say, but Barry wrote this song. Great reaction, as always.

It would've been so much better if Robin had sung this song with his beautiful vulnerable voice.

@kthor

5 ай бұрын

It's a Barry ballad through & through!

Beautiful

Unfortunately, the Bee Gees did not produce a country album, but did produce a few country songs from various albums: "Sweetheart" and "Dont Forget to Remember" from the 1970 album Cucumber Castle; "South Dakota Morning", "While I Play" and "Come Home Johnny Bridie" from the 1973 album Life in a Tin Cann; "Home Again Rivers" from the unreleased album A Kick in the Had Is Worth Eight in the Pants, which should have been released in 1973; "Come On Over" from the 1975 album "Main Cource" and "Hold Her in Your Hand", a single by Maurice Gibb from 1984. ​

While on the subject of country music and the beegees maybe you could try Hold Her In Your Hand by Maurice Gibb......it's definitely worth a listen in my book......

Great reaction. You're becoming the go to BEE GEES Channel! Love it. Get time check out Happy Ever After and Secret Love, some Wow! Bangers! Thanks

Love this song But my song is Home river and that was sang by Robin ❤❤❤

Greenfields are new releases of old songs in country style with other artists. Classical? Robin Gibb wrote Requiem for the Titanic with his son. Great reactions to the greatest group

They also wrote "Come on over" for Olivia Newton John. As far as classical? "Be Who You Are" is right there and I think it was on the Odyssa album they had a song with no singing just classical music.

@kthor

Ай бұрын

Be Who You Are is a great song, written & sung by Barry!

Actually Robin was working on a Requiem, (I think for a church?)which his son finished after Robin’s death.

That was with Conway Twitty a huge #1 hit in the US Country Charts 1979 - Barry is a multiversum genius 👍🔥the Brothers Gibb Songbook Volume 1 Greenfield recorded in 2021 from Barry with Americas biggest country stars my favorite there was kzread.info/dash/bejne/e2VmsMlplt2Ykc4.html 🔥

Yes, they have classical music, quite a bit, listen to "seven seas symphony" or Robin's musical titanic

@kthor

5 ай бұрын

Or from their Living Eyes album, Be Who You Are....which is a masterpiece written & sung by Barry.🎼

The Bee Gees sang background vocals on one Kenny Rogers albums

@kthor

5 ай бұрын

Barry sang background vocals on all tracks (including Islands in the Stream), whereas Mo sang on 2 & Robin on 1.

Bee Gees "I'm satisfied".

Another tender and lovely song sung by Barry,our great singer and songwriter 😊❤❤ handsome eldest Gibb brother.❤❤

Beautiful Song

Hi Harri! To say that the BeeGees had a range in style is definitely an understatement. You spoke of classical, there is the Odessa album, which was originally going to be titled "An American Opera" gorgeous! Then they had some psychedelic music, try "Deeply Deeply Me" it's amazingly wild! Have fun!

❤❤❤please react to CHILDREN OF THE WORLD by the BEEGEES thanks

Conway Twitty covered this song in 1980

Yes they did. Plus they wrote Kenny Rogers album Eyes that see in the dark. And you asked about classical. Robin and his son RJ wrote the Requiem for the Titanic amazing. I can't remember the name of their album but mo did a lot of country solos on their early albums.

Thanks Harri I haven’t heard this song in years, I had forgotten all about it. Shame on me

Barry said that Country Music is one of his loves.Andy also did this song with Olivia Newton John. After writing "Islands in the Stream"for Dolly Parton and Kenny Roger's The BeeGees also did their version. Their voices works well singing country music. Lionel Richie also does country songs well. Check out the Commodores "Sail On".

Sound like the top pros they were but right out of Nashville here

They sing lots of types of songs ,,...disco is one a tiny part of their catalogue

They wrote it

👏👏👏

Sounds like a Conway Twitty song

@dp3396

5 ай бұрын

Conway Twitty had a #1 hit with it!!!

Conway Twitty did a cover of this song, you should check it out ❤❤❤

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