MY FIRST TIME HEARING BEE GEES “Too Much Heaven” Epic Reaction!

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• TC

  @tcat6133 · 1 year ago

  Best thing you’ll ever do musically is dive into the BeeGees.  It’s why their songs have lasted since the 60s!

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• PT

  @Pteetptoot · 1 year ago

  Give ya chills, doesn't it? I'm 77, this still thrills me every, single, time.

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• TH

  @TheNo1bucsfan · 1 year ago

  Lmao,  and there it is: the shock of hearing them for the 1st time! The Bee Gees were the greatest ever!!

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• HO

  @Hot-Tamale · 3 months ago

  Better, yes. MEANINGFUL is accurate. Tasteful, men were men who loved women and women were women who loved men and thats what was serenaded. Love

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• LO

  @looneygardener · 1 year ago

  They were an actual band, not just singers, played instruments and were genius and prolific songwriters.

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• JA

  @jayeginn5963 · 1 year ago (edited)

  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&apos;s fraternal twin brother Maurice (the balding brother with the beard, pronounced &quot;Morris&quot;) 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. <br> <br>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. <br> <br>Their musical career, which they had started as little kids, didn&apos;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 &quot;Mr. Natural&quot;. After that &quot;Main Course&quot; was the first album that moved them into a new direction: more rhythm&amp;blues, dance music like with great hits like Nights on Broadway and Jive Talkin&apos; (and was also actually the first album on which their logo was introduced). <br> <br>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&apos; Alive, How Deep is Your Love, Night Fever amongst them). You should react to the 1979 live version of Stayin&apos; Alive, too <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7niXSh7vWRI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7niXSh7vWRI</a> Other great songs to analyze: great album tracks from the 1979 Spirits Having Flown album, the title song: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH_j90fCIk4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH_j90fCIk4</a>. From their Still Waters album, Smoke and MIrrors: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT9vRHSWNbk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT9vRHSWNbk</a>. From the 1960&apos;s I&apos;ve gotta get a message to you <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA4CInDnTk8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA4CInDnTk8</a>. And from the 1990&apos;s the simple song Blue Island live in an accoustic version: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=162GlAEpfrY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=162GlAEpfrY</a>. <br> <br>Andy was kind of Barry&apos;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&apos;s. As producer Alby Galuten said in the book &quot;Tales of the brothers Gibb &quot;Andy&apos;s falsetto was nowhere near Barry&apos;s.&quot; Andy had a lower, huskier, sound to his voice and his range was not as big as Barry&apos;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&apos;s second son Ashley. Try listening to the song Dreamin&apos; on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KdBVKcSSSw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KdBVKcSSSw</a> which is kind of a duet with Barry. And here are the 4 brothers live on stage in 1979 doing You Should Be Dancing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6MR-E_Qzz0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6MR-E_Qzz0</a> <br> <br>And finally a few photos of Barry and Andy: https://i.postimg.cc/jS6n3Jkv/Barry-Andy.jpg and https://i.postimg.cc/TwnPh8M0/82c126fc42a35d3b737867af41338199.jpg and the 4 brothers with their mother https://i.postimg.cc/FRNMbwkD/b9b2561eadffee11347573c97063c2f8-zpsd89478eb.jpg

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• NA

  @nancyleo3987 · 1 year ago

  These fellows began singing and harmonizing since Barry was 9 and the twins were 5. Years of singing together produced perfection.

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• RF

  @rfletch6125 · 1 year ago

  This song was donated to United Nations Children’s Fund raising millions for UNICEF. That is who these brothers were. Oh yeah, they could harmonize and sing a little too. &nbsp;Great reaction.

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• KA

  @karenfindley0612 · 1 year ago (edited)

  One microphone, no auto-tune or pitch correction. Incomparable! In 1978 they had 5 of the top 10 songs and Barry had written 2 of the other 5 hits performed by other artists.

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• CH

  @charlesbishop4000 · 1 year ago

  The Bee Gees were relevant for decades. From the 60&apos;s to the 2000&apos;s.

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• LA

  @Laura_Martin42 · 1 year ago

  Music was better back then. &nbsp;The Bee Gees are brothers,, so they had been singing together all their lives, which created those amazing harmonies. &nbsp;There are a couple of videos of them singing when they were very young.

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• RE

  @rescuelover7891 · 1 year ago

  The Bee Gees were not only a great band and vocalists but probably the most prolific songwriters ever. I was so lucky to have been born in 1952 and heard all the wonderful music in the 60s, 70s and 80s. That will never happen again.❤

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