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    FNM on Monday – Robin Gibb, the second of the three Brothers Gibb to pass

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    by maxwell edison ·

    Before the days of disco, the Bee Gees were right there; but, for some reason, disco is the only thing remembered about the Bee Gees. I remember their songs a dozen or more years before the disco era. Their very first studio album was in 1965: [i]Fourteen Songs of Barry Gibb[/i]. (As a record collector, I wish I had the first release of that album on its [i]Leedon[/i] Label. It’s quite rare and valuable.)

    The Bee Gees started something in the 1960s, well before disco, but it was no joke.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRNTQvXSsfA

    And hardly heard in the USA, [i]Spicks and Specks[/i] from 1966, their first International chart-topper, reaching number one in Australia.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7kbQyseI1I

    [i]All of my life
    I call yesterday
    The spicks and the specks
    of my life have gone away.[/i]

    (Gee, the TR Water Cooler has turned into the TR Obituaries. Maybe one day I’ll read my own!)

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