| Author | Message | ||
     michael |
Sorry about this, but I thought you brain boxes out there might be able to help me. A friend of mind who likes the bee gees had her car broken into and lost her CDs, the one she most wanted back was the BGs, not to be confused with the GBs of course. Anyway I'm trying to put together an interesting BGs covers album for her. it is difficult to find interesting covers, I've found a good Stayin Alive and most of the other stuff is boyzone, destiny's child etc. I could see RF doing Massachucets or Grant doing More Than a Woman but what else? | ||
| david nichols |
Refer to the recent (2001?) five-authored Bee Gees book - there's a big appendix on cover versions. I particularly like Johnny Young's I Am the World. | ||
| Pete Azzopardi |
Al Green doing 'How Can You Mend A Broken Heart'. By the way, David, I picked up a copy of "Trafalgar" on your recommendation and I think it's great. | ||
| Craig Davis |
You might like to take a look at the All Music Guide site. A good source of info in general. A quick search reveals that To Love Somebody has been covered by The Flying Burrito Brothers, Roberta Flack, LaVern Baker, James Carr, Lulu, Janis Joplin amongst others. Can't vouch for the quality of any of them. | ||
| michael |
Thanks guys. I found Ozzy Ozbourne does Stayin Alive, Nina Simone To Love Somebody, I'm also including Chain Reaction by Diana Ross, i.e songs BG wrote for others. | ||
| pups |
The Flying Burrito Brothers version of To Love Somebody is heart-breaking. | ||
| Randy Adams |
Another of my guilty pleasures is Lulu. She does great versions of "Marley Purt Drive" and "In the Morning" on her Muscle Shoals album "New Routes." She also does a sucky version of "Melody Fair" on the album of the same name and a not bad version of "To Love Somebody" in 1967 during her Mickie Most period. I don't know what album it shows up on in the U.K. or Australia--it was on "To Sir With Love" here in the U.S. Marmalade did a great version of "Butterfly." | ||
| david nichols |
Well, Lulu had the hotline to the Gibbs in those days. In Australia some may have trouble taking an album called 'New Routes' seriously. | ||
| michael |
I found these + some BGs songs I liked mixed in. Will see if I can find some Lulu. This Is Where I Came In Beegees I Started A Joke The Wallflowers Zoolander Nina Simone - To love somebody How Can You Mend A Broken H. Al Green Notting Hill - Soundtrack Staying Alive (Dance Traxx Remix) Bee Gees Jive Talkin' Nsync Kung Fu Fighting Bee Gees Bee Gees - Spicks and Specks Holiday Bee Gees Hard Day's Night I Want to Be Your Everything Andy Gibb/Bee Gees Emotion Destiny's Child Survivor Beegees Medley Nsync NSYNC Words Boyzone Chain Reaction Diana Ross If I Can't Have You Kim Wilde Alone Bee Gees Still Waters Saved by the bell Robin Gibb Bee Gees & Dionne Warwick - Heartbreaker Stayin Alive (Oz Remix) Ozzy Osbourne | ||
| Randy Adams |
David, unfortunately the comment about "New Routes" is lost on me. But don't dismiss the album; it was Lulu's answer to "Dusty in Memphis" recorded in Muscle Shoals and produced by the classic Atlantic triumvirate of Wexler, Dowd & Mardin. I'm not a Duane Allman freak, but he's one of the sidemen on the album. It's probably Lulu's best album, being the most coherent and produced by the most sympathetic people she ever encountered. In spite her still very young age, she put in a wonderfully mature balladic performance on "Is That You Love?" her trademark angry hornet fury on "Feelin' Alright and a nicely rephrased interpretation of "Mr. Bojangles." Ignore Richie Unterberger's slam of the album on the Allmusic website; he must have had indigestion when he wrote that one. | ||
| jerry |
You've got to have the classic duet 'Islands in the stream' by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. | ||
| Robert Vickers |
I picked up 'New Routes' at yard sale last year and I would have to agree it is a great album. Was Barry Gibb going out with Lulu at the time? He would have known that the title was a double-entendre. Maybe he suggested it? | ||
| Randy Adams |
She married Maurice Gibb somewhere around that time. Ok, folks, let me in on it, what is the significance of the title "New Routes?" I am clueless here. | ||
| jerry |
Could it be a reference to highlights? | ||
| Anonymous |
Routes is pronounced roots in Australia. Root is a slang word for sexual intercourse. | ||
| Randy Adams |
Ahhhh. | ||
| Anonymous |
I apologise on behalf of those (Australians) who didn't get back to you earlier. I should also mention that "randy" has dodgy connotations. It is a slang word for those looking and yearning for a root. Sorry to be so blunt but that is part and parcel of being Australian. David N. and Robert V. what can I say other than that you are both gutless. | ||
| Robert Vickers |
My mistake. Of course it was Maurice not Barry. I had an Aunt used to see the Bee Gees playing at a pub down the coast when they were still children. She said she thought they were great singers but the little ones were really ugly. Obviously Lulu didn't share her opinion. And it didn't stop them writing some of the best songs of the last 50 years. | ||
| todd slater |
Robert Vickers is right. As an ex Bris vegan myself, my Mum told me she used to see those little Cribb Island (The Brisbane suburb where they grew up) boys down the Gold Coast when they were kids performing. Good voices, but ugly kids. But hey they sure knew how to penn a tune. 'Spicks and Specks' by the way is a classic and would make a great Go Betweens cover if the boys ever decided to give it the treatment. As an aside though it would be great for someone to put out a Bee Gees cover album called "New Roots' from Cribb Island to Massachucets" | ||
| Randy Adams |
Robert's entry gave me a belly laugh only to be followed up by Todd's. God, Australians can be unsparing! I think their big problem was their teeth; it looks like they were still sucking their thumbs. | ||
| Gareth |
There's a great version of 'I Started A Joke' on Kathryn Williams' new-ish album of cover versions. Easily the best thing on the album. What a song though. Such a depressing lyric to such a great tune - Morrissey never wrote anything to compare to this. Further proof how utterly talented the songwriters are. I love them more with each year. | ||
| michael |
Got the Wallflowers version which is quite brilliant, maybe it's the song. |