![]() The group still managed hits by working with other artists as shown by their biggest post-disco success writing and producing Barbra Streisand’s 1980 album Guilty. It’s just that the Bee Gees name wasn’t on the record. Bee Gees songs were still getting big after the ‘70s. A far cry from the massive success just a couple years earlier.ĭespite their sudden fall from the top, music listeners weren’t as sick of the Bee Gees as they thought they were. (It’s a 6.) In the meantime, their sales tanked hard with their next album 1981’s Living Eyes failing to break the Top 40 and its two singles not doing much better. They wouldn’t get back into the Top 10 until a decade later with 1989’s “ One” which peaked at #7. When the American public turned on disco in late 1979, the Bee Gees fell with it. Thanks to Saturday Night Fever, the Bee Gees had come to represent disco for much of the public even though they were much more than disco if you know their whole career. In 1979, their hot streak continued with the album Spirits Having Flown which launched three more #1 hits for the group, “ Too Much Heaven,” “ Tragedy,” and “ Love You Inside Out.” The album was another hit with Billboard naming it as the #2 best-selling album of 1979 behind Billy Joel’s 52nd Street.īut after “Love You Inside Out” hit #1 in June 1979, the Bee Gees’ massive imperial phase would soon come crashing down. With this massive success, the Bee Gees became the most successful chart-dominating act since the Beatles in 1964.Īdding to their success, the Bee Gees were keeping busy as songwriters writing and producing many hit songs for other artists including their little brother Andy Gibb, Frankie Valli, and Samantha Sang. ![]() Barry’s falsetto and the group’s shiny suit and chest hair image were everywhere. The soundtrack spawned three #1 singles, “ How Deep Is Your Love,” “ Stayin’ Alive,” and “ Night Fever” as well as a fourth #1, Yvonne Elliman’s “ If I Can’t Have You,” written by the group. As the leader of the Bee Gees, Gibb helped bring the group to stratospheric levels of success in the late ‘70s thanks to the blockbuster Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, 1978’s best-selling album. That’s where Barry Gibb was at the beginning of the ‘80s. Now imagine Drake still finding a way to get onto the charts but by collaborating with another artist and producing their album that is in essence just a Drake album in disguise. Everyone is sick of him and the songs he puts out after the fall hardly make the huge impact they did at his peak. ![]() Imagine one of the biggest stars today say Drake all of a sudden falling out of favor on the charts. WEEK OF PEAK: John Lennon’s “ (Just Like) Starting Over“ ![]() To help make my site more interactive, if you like what I’m doing comment and let me know what random hit song you want me to review.īarbra Streisand- “Guilty” (feat. In my new column Random Tracks, I’m reviewing a random hit song from any point in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 going from the chart’s beginning in 1958. ![]()
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