"The Record - Their Greatest Hits"
Disc 1*:
New York mining disaster 1941 (1967), To love somebody (1967)
Holiday (1967), Massachusetts (1967),World (1967), Words (1968), I've gotta get
a message to you (1968), I started a joke (1968), First of May (1969), Saved by
the bell (1969), Don't forget to remember (1969), Lonely days (1970), How can
you mend a broken heart (1971), Run to me (1972), Jive talkin' (1975), Nights
on Broadway (1975), Fanny (be tender with my love) (1975), Love so right (1975),
If I can't have you (1977), Love me (1976), You should be dancing (1976)
Disc 2:
Stayin' alive (1977), How deep is your love (1977), Night fever (1977), More than
a woman (1977), Emotion (1978), Too much heaven (1978), Tragedy (1979), Love you
inside out (1979), Guilty (1980) ( Barry Gibb & Barbra Streisand), Heartbreaker
(1982), Islands in the stream (1983), You win again (1987), One (1989), Secret
love (1991), For whom the bell tolls (1993), Alone (1997), Immortality (1997),
This is where I came in (2001), Spicks and specks (1966)
*in same countries (i.e. in UK) are included 2 bonus tracks, "Jumbo"
and"My world".
Seven months after the studio album"This is where I came in", a brand
new Bee Gees greatest hits is released (in Italy on friday 9 november). Learn
more about this definitive collection with a help from the Bee Gees label, Universal
Records.
Official liner notes (from beegees.net):
"The Bee Gees ability to change with the times is remarkable. In the sixties,
they were classy harmonising popsters with a penchant for a big tuneful ballad;
during the seventies they completely re-invented themselves with contemporary
dance grooves, funky synths and falsetto vocals. In the wake of Saturday Night
Fever, the biggest selling soundtrack album of all time, the brothers turned their
attention to writing forother artists including the Woman In Love album for Barbra
Streisand (US and UK No1), Islands In The Stream for Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
(US No1), Chain Reaction for Diana Ross (UK No1) and Dionne Warwick’s comeback
smash Heartbreaker. Barry Gibb produced these records with his team earning him
the rating as All-Time No3 Record Producer with the most No1 Records (14) to his
credit. Since the 1967 release of their first international hit, New York Mining
Disaster, Bee Gees songs have topped the charts in five successive decades. They
are the only group to have placed five singles simultaneously in the US Top 10,
and to have monopolised the US charts with six consecutive No1s. Seven Grammies,
a BRIT Award for Outstanding Contribution To Music and 10 Lifetime Achievement
Awards have contributed to earning the band honoured places in both the Rock &
Roll Hall Of Fame and the Songwriters Hall Of Fame. Understandably, many top artists
reserve the utmost respect for the Brothers Gibb but the way in which their songs
have transcended generations is virtually unique. Megastars as diverse as Bono
of U2, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Noel Gallagher of Oasis, and Destiny’s
Child, have expressed their admiration for the trio of Man-cunian tearaways who
grew up to dominate the world’s music charts. Delivering another No1, You Win
Again, under their own name in the eighties, the Bee Gees proved they could still
keep pace with the latest sounds, and in the 90s and the new millennium their
flag was hoist aloft by a raft of younger acts who realised that truly great songs
never die. N-Trance took Stayin’ Alive to No1 in Canada, Pras Michel morphed Islands
In The Stream into Ghetto Supastar (US No1), Take That ended their career with
UK No1 version of How Deep Is Your Love, Boyzone covered Words (UK No1) and Steps
covered Tragedy (UK No1) and Chain Reaction. In 2001 Destiny’s Child released
Emotion, 24 years after Samantha Sang made it a worldwide No1. In all, more than
500 cover versions of Gibb songs have been recorded by other artists. Impressive
as all of this is, the Bee Gees music is about much more than sales and awards.
This group has provided the soundtrack to countless thousands of lives by writing
the songs which bring lovers together, console the heartbroken, lift happy spirits
even higher and cause young and old alike to get out on the floor, strut that
stuff and forget, for a few precious moments, whatever cares might be troubling
them."
Press Release , November 12, 2001 (from beegeesonline.com):
BEE GEES REINFORCE COMMITMENT TO UNICEF THROUGH FORTHCOMING "BEE GEES: THEIR GREATEST
HITS: THE RECORD" "TOO MUCH HEAVEN" ROYALTIES TO BENEFIT CHILDREN IN WARTORN AND
DISADVANTAGED PARTS OF THE WORLD SUCH AS AFGHANISTAN
In November 1978, the Bee Gees released the single Too Much Heaven as a flagship
for the UNICEF benefit concert, "A Gift of Song", which they instigated and organized
with Robert Stigwood. Since that time, the royalties generated from this #1 smash
have gone to UNICEF, along with donations from other "A Gift of Song" participants
such as ABBA, Olivia Newton-John, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac and other legendary
artists. UNICEF is one of the worlds largest international charities, it benefits
needy children around the globe. More than $15 million has been raised for UNICEF
in this effort. Today the effort continues, thanks in part to the forthcoming
November 20th release of Bee Gees: Their Greatest Hits: The Record, which includes
Too Much Heaven as one of the 40-track, 2 CD collection. As a result, the song
is expected to raise another huge sum for UNICEF’s fight to support the children
of Afghanistan and other disadvantaged areas. "While there are many victims in
the struggle that we find our world in today," said Robin Gibb, "my brothers and
I have always had a soft-spot for the children. UNICEF has been a great friend
and partner for us over the years and we’re confident that they can use whatever
monies are raised to provide the children of Afghanistan with food, shelter and
proper medical care." UNICEF works for the survival of, protection and development
of children worldwide through education, advocacy and fundraising. The organization
provides Afghan children with vital goods and services such as therapeutic feeding;
clothing, shoes and blankets; medicines; basic immunizations; educational materials;
family survival kits (utensils, tenting, cooking materials); and water purification
tablets. Over the course of their 5-decade long career the Bee Gees have sold
over 110 million records, had 19 #1 singles and have had a huge impact on popular
culture. Considered by many as pop music’s first family, their songs have provided
the soundtrack for generations. They have withstood the test of time by blazing
musical trails, creating a legacy of lush love songs to funky dance grooves, all
with the unique Bee Gees vocal signature.
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