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!)
