WAIT! That's how much attention I paid to DISCO...got the name of the movie wrong.
I said "Saturday Night Live"
Should have been "Saturday Night Fever" or something like that.
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WAIT! That's how much attention I paid to DISCO...got the name of the movie wrong.
I said "Saturday Night Live"
Should have been "Saturday Night Fever" or something like that.
I'm not into the whole falsetto thing as a rule and it was a bit before my time, but there are some good disco songs - and "Stayin' Alive" is one of them, IMHO!
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Yeah... I can deal with Disco when the mood is right!
I'm a HUGE Bee Gees fan! I too went into mourning when Maurice died. :sad:
Disco just wasn't my thing. If the club didn't have live music, I just didn't go. I pretty much quit going to clubs all-together when Disco took over.
It wasn't the bands recording the music that I hated. It was the way it pushed live music out of the clubs. I preferred even the worst live bands in a club to all the flashing lights and polyester suits. Bee Gee's, Donna Summers.....sorry. Though I didn't hate them, they were just too much a reminder of the Disco Club scene for me to really get off on any of their music.
It's unfortunate that the Bee Gees are so linked to disco. As they say, it was only 5 songs that they did in Saturday Night Fever. They had already created a lot of great music before SNF.
And afterwards. You Win Again, anyone? You are so right. I was lucky enough to see them live twice and they put on a couple of the most awesome shows I ever saw. I mourned Maurice deeply as I always felt he was very underrated, giving that he didn't get to sing the number of leads his brothers did (a notable exception is House Of Shame from the One album; great track, also a song called Railroad which can be found on the Tales From The Brothers Gibb box set). Magnificent though Stayin' Alive & Jive' Talkin' are, they are just part of the picture. I cite Nights On Broadway, from Main Course, which Jive' Talkin' comes from. It is one of THE great songs.Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennLover
No word of a lie, Julie, I am listening to You Win Again right now on YouTube! This thread made me think of The Bee Gees and I thought I'd listen to a couple of my faves (You Win Again and To Love Somebody). Then I saw your post. :thumbsup:
You Win Again is one of the great songs too. I should do a Top 10:
1. Stayin' Alive
2. Nights On Broadway
3. Jive Talkin'
4. I Can't See Nobody
5. Holiday
6. To Love Somebody
7. You Win Again
8. Come On Over
9. E.S.P.
10 Lonely Days
(with an honourable mention for I Started A Joke, which is an extraordinary song).
I haven't even mentioned stuff like Mr Natural, Massachusetts, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, Another Lonely Night In New York, Edge Of The Universe, How Deep Is Your Love, Run To Me, etc etc.
Love all those songs, Julie. Railroad hasalways been favorite. I agree that Maurice didn't get the credit that he deserved. I saw them in concert one time. A real highlight for me. I met their father, as we were staying at the same hotel. Quite a thrill.
Wow GL!Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennLover
And you like Railroad too?!! I thought I was the only person in the world!!
Railroad is one of my favorites too!It's really a great song!
1962 Chubby Checker went back to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Twist'. The song first went to No.1 in Sept 1960 and became the only record in American chart history to top the charts on two separate occasions.
1967 Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr both went to the Bag O'Nails Club, London, England to see the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
1973 Aerosmith's self-titled debut is released. It contains the band staples "Dream On" and "Mama Kin."
1973 Eric Clapton made his stage comeback at the Rainbow Theatre, London, with Pete Townsend, Ronnie Wood, Stevie Winwood, Rebop, Jim Capaldi and support from The Average White Band. The night's two shows were recorded for the 'Rainbow Concert' album.
1979 the Y.M.C.A. sues the group The Village People over its song YMCA, but later drops the suit.
1990 New Kids On The Block had their second and last No.1 UK single with 'Hangin' Tough.' They had a further 7 Top 10 hits by the end of 1991. They broke up after that, but set the scene for numerous boy bands throughout the 90s.
2005 a report showed that more songs had been written about Elvis Presley than any other artist. It listed over 220 songs including: ‘Graceland’ by Paul Simon, ‘A Room At The Heartbreakhotel’ by U2, ‘Calling Elvis’, Dire Straits, ‘Happy Birthday Elvis’, Loudon Wainwright III, ‘There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis’, Kirsty MacColl, ‘I Saw Elvis in a UFO’, Ray Stevens. ‘Elvis Has Left the Building’ by Frank Zappa and 'My Dog Thinks I'm Elvis' by Ray Herndon.
I saw them live at Wembley Arena and they were amazing. :yay: Confession time. :laugh: I was in Andy Gibb's fan club. Mourned him after he died. :( He was cute. :smitten:Quote:
Originally Posted by Freypower
You've convinced me!! To be honest, I don't have any Bee Gees music downloaded and I had forgotten most of these songs above. I have now but that on my agenda for the day. Thanks for the reminder that they had some really good stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freypower
1960 Elvis Presley's' 'GI Blues' started a seven-week run at No.1 on the UK chart.
1963 Charlie Watts made his live debut with The Rolling Stones at The Flamingo Jazz Club, Soho, London.
1967 Cliff Richard told the music paper the NME that he was retiring from show business to teach religious education in schools.
1978 The Sex Pistols played their last live gig at Winterland, San Francisco, (they re-formed in 96).
2005 a $100,000 (£58,823) statue honouring the late punk guitarist Johnny Ramone was unveiled by his widow Linda at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Johnny died from prostate cancer in September 2004 at the age of 55. Hundreds turned out for the ceremony, including Tommy Ramone – the only surviving band member. Dee Dee Ramone died of a drugs overdose in 2002 and Joey died in 2001 of lymphatic cancer.
There was an article in the Phx paper called "Walk among Stars in LA Cemetery. One of the pictures in the article is of the statue of Johnny Ramone. It looks in the picture like it would worth seeing if I was ever to get over that way. It stands in the Garden of Legends part of the cemetery. One thing the writer mentions is, I guess it is the custom there for people to kiss the headstone of DeeDee Ramone for some reason. He said it is covered with lipstick "smacks".
1964 The Beatles played two shows at the Olympia Theatre, Paris, France, the first of an 18-night engagement. This first show was attended mostly by Paris' "top society" members (all dressed in formal evening attire). The French press had little good to say about The Beatles in the next day's papers, but The Beatles didn't care, because they'd just received news that their single ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ had hit No.1 in the US, selling 10,000 copies an hour in New York City alone.
1992 Eric Clapton performs an all-acoustic set for that is taped for the MTV series Unplugged. It airs on March 11, winning a record audience for the show, and is released on CD and videotape in August. The 70-minute live set, which includes an acoustic arrangement of "Layla," reaches #1. It goes on to sell three million copies and earns a Grammy for Album of the Year.
1996 Pink Floyd is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the eleventh annual induction dinner. Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins is their presenter.
1969 Fleetwood Mac, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Albert Collins all appeared at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California.
1970 John Lennon's London Art Gallery exhibit of erotic lithographs, 'Bag One' was closed by Scotland Yard.
This was the same MTV "Unplugged" show that Clapton also did "No More Tears In Heaven".Quote:
1992 Eric Clapton performs an all-acoustic set for that is taped for the MTV series Unplugged. It airs on March 11, winning a record audience for the show, and is released on CD and videotape in August. The 70-minute live set, which includes an acoustic arrangement of "Layla," reaches #1. It goes on to sell three million copies and earns a Grammy for Album of the Year.
And if you've ever seen the display at the HOF, you'll know it is one of the best there. So very awesome to see The Wall!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
I've been to the RnRHOF but it's been several years...around 8 I guess. My, where does the time go. We went there one morning but had to be back in Columbus that same night for an Eagles concert.
As you know, you simply cannot blitz through that enormous collection of memoribilia in a couple of hours! And that's all we had! I so wanted to spend more time there!
1956 Paul Young is born.
1964 The Rolling Stones released their first EP, which included, ‘You Better Move On’, ‘Poison Ivy’, ‘Bye Bye Johnny’ and ‘Money’. It peaked at No.15 on the UK chart.
1967 Genesis is formed by Charterhouse School mates Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford, Anthony Phillips and Tony Banks. :razz::partytime::inlove:
1969 The first Led Zeppelin album (self-titled) is released.
1976 Sweet hits #5 in the US with "Fox on the Run."
1998 Savage Garden started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Truly Madly Deeply'.
2003 a long-lost recording featuring John Lennon and Mick Jagger was set to spark a biding war at a London auction. The acetate record was recorded in 1974 with Jagger singing the blues song 'Too Many Cooks' and Lennon playing guitar. The track had never been release because the two artists were both signed to different record
You all have to expect this by now!Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
You hear the opening of this song (you have to turn it waaaay up) and you just get goose bumps!!! LOVE IT!!
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I love it too! I was a big fan of the synthesizer back in the day!
Gotta love Sweet. :yay: Even with the bad miming. :laugh:
Melanie, are you a Sweet fan? They are one of my top 4 fave bands ever!!!!
Hmmmm, how to put this delicately. Not as such (now), but I really liked them when I was a teen. I think you could say I was a fan then. They were always good sing along songs. :singer: I could remember almost every word of that one you posted. :D
Wig wam bam was another goodie and Ballroom blitz and Teenage rampage and ...... you get the picture. :laugh: They quite often turn up on my local radio station when they do the golden hour (twice a day am and pm) and the year is in the 70's. Helps get the dusting done a bit quicker ;)
1964 The Beatles made their US chart debut when 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' entered the chart at No.45 just ten days after its release, making it the fastest-breaking and the fastest selling single in Capitol Records history. It went on to spend seven weeks at the No.1 position.
1975 Barry Manilow scored his first US No.1 single when 'Mandy', (originally titled 'Brandy' when it was recorded in 1972 by Scott English), went to the top of the charts.
1975 Status Quo were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Down Down', the group's only UK No.1 from 52 hits between 1968 and 1996.
1986 'That's What Friends Are For' by Dionne Warwick began a four-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart, all company and artists profits were given to aids charities.
1989 At just 38 years old, Stevie Wonder became the youngest living person to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. At a ceremony held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, other inductees include The Rolling Stones, The Temptations, Otis Redding and Dion DiMucci.
Maybe they didn't want people to think it was an ode to alcoholism!Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
"Oh Brandy, well you kissed me and stopped me from shaking, and I need you today...oh, Brandy!"
:hilarious:
Lol!
1967 The Monkees were at No.1 on the UK singles with 'I'm A Believer', the group's only UK No.1.
1980 Pink Floyd's 'The Wall', started a 15-week run at No.1 on the US album chart. The group's third US No.1, it went on to sell over 8 million copies.
1993 Fleetwood Mac re-formed to perform at Bill Clinton's inauguration. The band's "Don't Stop" was used as the theme for his campaign.
2001 It was reported that Paul McCartney was set to become the world’s first pop star billionaire. McCartney was said to be worth £725 million ($1,233) and was expected to become a billionaire after huge sales from The Beatles compilation hits album.
1994 Paul McCartney inducts John Lennon into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "I love him to this day and I always did love him," says Paul McCartney
Thank you, President Clinton, for the best inauguration celebration in the history of the United States of America. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
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:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by sodascouts
Awww... :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
1966 The Spencer Davis Group were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Keep On Running'.
1969 Bruce Springsteen had two of his poems published in the Ocean County College Literary Yearbook Seascapes. Springsteen was in his second semester at the Toms River, New Jersey College.
1972 on the first date of a UK tour, Pink Floyd premiered their new album Dark Side Of The Moon at The Dome, Brighton, England.
1982 during a Ozzy Osbourne concert in Des Moines, Iowa, a member of the audience threw an unconscious bat onto the stage. Thinking it was one of his rubber fakes, Ozzy picked it up and bit off its head. The singer was taken to hospital to be given a rabies injection.
1985 Foreigner had their only UK No.1 single with 'I Want To Know What Love Is'. London-born Mick Jones wrote the song and sang lead vocals with the British-American rock band.
1988 The Beatles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Yoko, Sean, and Julian Lennon all attend. Paul McCartney does not attend, sending instead a letter stating that continuing business differences with the other ex-Beatles was the reason for his absence.
1990 Michael Bolton started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'How Am I Supposed To Live Without You', the singers first No.1 and the first No.1 single of the 90's in the US.
2002 George Harrison had the posthumous UK No.1 single with the re-release of the 1971 former No.1 'My Sweet Lord'. Harrison's single replaced Aaliyah's 'More Than A Woman', the only time in chart history that one deceased artist had taken over from another at No.1.
How many times have we all heard this story yet every time I hear it, I still say ooooooh!!!:nausea::ack::yuck::puke:Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
Ewwwwww! Puey! Ick! Uhg!Quote:
Originally Posted by TimothyBFan
Seriously! And I don't buy that whole "he thought it was fake" excuse. He did the same to a bird that he knew very well was not fake. I'm glad he had to get a rabies shot - those things hurt! Serves him right.
I think Ozzie has paid dearly for anything he did in the past. The man is practically a walking vegetable! :headshake: