RIP: Robin Gibb

I can remember clearly bouncing on a trampoline at a holiday park to the tune of Spicks & specks in the late 60's - weird the things you remember - if you go through the songs over the years, there are so many that I remember .. I'll just put my teeth in and we'll have a singalong
 
Terry_Lasater said:
He's done Staying Alive.

http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/chart-watch-extra-brothers-gibb-230010301.html
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David Jimerson said:
Dude. Recycling from when Maurice died.
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I guess David had a strong sense of "Deja Vu". But Terry, the "Man In The Middle", said "I Can't Help It", because even though it's a "Tragedy", he's still "Jive Talkin'".

And then there was one...
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So Barry is "All by Myself" and " Alone Again", and while "I Believe in Miracles", these must be "Lonely Days" for Barry...

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That's pretty good/bad there Chuck!

The only disco song by them I really liked was You Should be Dancing, as it had such energy. But a lot of people are unaware of their earlier folk/pop works until they hear them. Great songs like I Started a Joke, Massachusetts, NY Mining Disaster, etc.
 
Very sad to hear that this morning.

Those 3 certainly put an all time positive stamp on pop music and gave other artists the benefit of their talents, John Travolta included.

When they started in Australia, I was an 19yr old panel operator at 2UE here in Sydney. UE was the top rating Top 40 station and Bob Rogers was one of their top announcers. As kids the Bee Gees used to come in to record station promos for Bobs' nightly 'Bob Rogers at 6' program.

I remember one time when they came in to Studio E to sing and record in their distinctive sound ..
'hullo Hullo, HULLOOOO we're the BeeGees and we're on the Bob Rogers Shoowww' It was all on one mic and they sounded great.

But their father stood behind them and if anyone got out of tune, he'd smack him over the head.

I always used to keep the tape running, standard procedure in those days.

Another time after a very funny break up, Rogers says 'we'll play all of it on the show tonight' The next morning, their father rang the station manager and threatened to call the whole deal off. He was a hard task master but nowhere near the managerial style of Robert Stigwood.

2UE was great, you could bottle the adrenalin. Later as permanent breakfast operator with 6 turntables, I was collected by a cab at 4am, breakie 5.30-9am with about 200 commercials, go to the Green Parrot for breakfast, then back to station and stay ALL day till after the Rogers show at 7PM. There was 8 operators and we raised h*ll at times.

UE was also very strict with their Top 40 policy, one time I played 30secs of Miles Davis/Gil Evans 'Springsville' out to the news at 6am. At 9AM the program manager stormed into my booth and the roof fell in. 'Do it again and you're off the air!"

Another time a bulldozer went through the buried line cable out to the transmitter and next morning we did the breakie from the transmitter shed about 15miles away at Homebush. It was in a field with about 200 sheep.
With no aircon, I opened the window and when the sheep heard the music, they flocked around the shed. When they heard the announcer, they started to bleat, on air, and the listeners went nuts, ringing us to laugh about the sheep etc. Our ratings went through the roof.

Years later I worked at Col Joys studio in Glebe here, if you've got time here's a bit more stuff, 2nd story .. http://www.buddyrich.com/legacy/stories12.html

I got to meet some wonderful talent and they were real talent, all analogue with no digital support. Time moves on but their music will be with us always.
Thx for reading.

Cheers.
 
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