Bee Gee's

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	Bee Gee's 1st Used - Vinyl - 33 223 1967 Blue And Brown Label Mono Original. Slight Edge Wear. Tiny Corner Rubs. "The Debut International Long-player By The Bee Gees May Shock Anyone Who Only Remembers Them For Their Mid- To Late-'70s Disco Mega-hits, Or Their Quirky Early-'70s Romantic Balladry. Up Until 1966, They'd Shown A Penchant For Melodic Songs And Rich, High Harmonies, In The Process Becoming Australia's Answer To The Everly Brothers. When The Bee Gees Arrived In London Late In 1966, However, They Proved Quick Studies In Absorbing And Assimilating The Progressive Pop And Rock Sounds Around Them. In One Fell Swoop, They Became Competitors With The Likes Of Veteran Rock Bands Such As The Hollies And The Tremeloes, And This Long-player, Bee Gees' 1st, Is More Of A Rock Album Than The Group Usually Got Credit For Generating. Parts Of It Do Sound Very Much Like The Beatles Circa Revolver, But There Was Far More To Their Sound Than That. The Three Hits Off Of Bee Gees' 1st, "To Love Somebody," "New York Mining Disaster 1941," And "Holiday," Were Gorgeous But Relatively Somber, Thus Giving Bee Gees' 1st A Melancholy Cast, But Much Of The Rest Is Relatively Upbeat Psychedelic Pop. "In My Own Time" May Echo Elements Of The Beatles' "Dr. Robert" And "Taxman," But It's Difficult To Dislike A Song With Such Delicious Rhythm Guitars And A Great Beat, Coupled With The Trio's Soaring Harmonies; "Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You" Was Close In Spirit To The Moody Blues Of This Era, Opening With A Gregorian Chant Backed By A Mellotron, Before Breaking Into A Strangely Spaced-out, Psychedelic Main Song Body. Robin Gibb's Lead Vocals Veered Toward The Melodramatic And Poignant, And The Orchestra Did Dress Up Some Of The Songs A Little Sweetly, Yet Overall The Group Presented Themselves As A Proficient Rock Ensemble Who'd Filled Their Debut Album With A Full Set Of Solid, Refreshingly Original Songs." Bruce Eder, AllMusic Guide more
	Bee Gee's 1st Used - Vinyl - SD 33-223 Beautiful 1967 Purple And Brown Label Stereo Original With The Original Atco Inner Sleeve. more
	Saturday Night Fever (The Original Movie Sound Track) New - Vinyl - B0026324-01 Sealed, Latest Run Of The 2017 2LP Gatefold Reissue. Features Tavares, Yvonne Elliman, MFSB, Trammps And Others. "Every so often, a piece of music comes along that defines a moment in popular culture history: Johann Strauss' operetta Die Fledermaus did this in Vienna in the 1870s; Jerome Kern's Show Boat did it for Broadway musicals of the 1920s, and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album served this purpose for the era of psychedelic music in the 1960s. Saturday Night Fever, although hardly as prodigious an artistic achievement as those precursors, was precisely that kind of musical phenomenon for the second half of the '70s. Ironically, before its release, the disco boom had seemingly run its course, primarily in Europe, and was confined mostly to black culture and the gay underground in America. Saturday Night Fever, as a movie and an album, plus a brace of hit singles off of it, suddenly made disco explode into mainstream, working- and middle-class America with a new immediacy and urgency, increasing its audience ten-fold overnight. The Bee Gees had written "Stayin' Alive" (then called "Saturday Night"), "Night Fever," "How Deep Is Your Love," "If I Can't Have You," and "More Than a Woman" for what would have been the follow-up album to Children of the World, and they might well have enjoyed platinum-record status with that proposed album. Instead, Robert Stigwood asked them in early 1977 to contribute songs to the soundtrack of a movie that he was financing, a low-budget picture called Tribal Rites on a Saturday Night. More out of loyalty to him than any belief in the viability of the film, they obliged. The group's involvement even survived the decision by the original director, John Avildsen, that he didn't want their music in the film. Instead, Stigwood fired him and brought in the very talented but much more agreeable John Badham, the movie's title was changed to Saturday Night Fever, the Bee Gees' music stayed, and the result was the biggest-selling soundtrack album in history, a 25-million copy monster whose sales, even as a more expensive double-LP, dwarfed the multi-million units sold of Children of the World and Main Course. Strangely enough, for all of the fixation of the movie and its audience on dancing, the Bee Gees' new songs were weighted equally toward ethereal ballads, which may be one reason for the soundtrack album's appeal -- it delivers what its audience expects, plus a "bonus" in the form of the soaring, lyrical romantic numbers that were, as with most ventures by the Gibb Brothers in this area, virtually irresistible. Despite the presence of other artists, Saturday Night Fever is virtually indispensable as a Bee Gees album, not just for the presence of an array of songs that were hits in their own right -- and which became the de facto soundtrack to a half-decade of pop culture history -- but because it offered the Gibb Brothers as composers as well as artists, with their work recorded by Yvonne Elliman ("If I Can't Have You"), and Tavares ("More Than a Woman"), and it placed their music alongside the work of Kool & the Gang and MFSB. In essence, the layout of the soundtrack was the culmination of everything they'd been moving toward since the Mr. Natural album. Even the presence of David Shire's "Night on Disco Mountain" and "Salsation," and Walter Murphy's "A Fifth of Beethoven," don't hurt, because these set a mood and a surrounding ambience for the Bee Gees' material that makes it work even better." All Music Guide - Bruce Eder more