"Georgie Fame in an arrangement by Bill Shepherd. ""Words"" debuted at No. 67 in ""Cashbox"" in the United States in the week of 20 January 1968. It was the Bee Gees' second UK Top 10 single after ""Massachusetts"". ""Words"" became the first single from Irish Boyband Boyzone's album ""A Different Beat"". The single was their seventh single overall, becoming their first number one hit in the UK. It received a Gold certification. Weekly charts Year-end charts Words (Bee Gees song) Words is a song by the Bee Gees, written by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb. The song reached No. 1"
"a concerted campaign to break the Bee Gees in the UK, assiduously wining and dining TV producers and DJs; according to the MusicWeb Encyclopedia, he spent £50,000 promoting the group in 1967. It paid off – within months their first international single, ""New York Mining Disaster 1941"", had become a major British and American hit reaching the top 20 in both markets, while ""Massachusetts"" reached number 1 in the UK and number 11 in the US, continuing a string of Bee Gees hits through the late 1960s. Stigwood's future with NEMS may have been uncertain, but it was decided in"
"One (Bee Gees song) ""One"" is the second international single (and lead single in the U.S.) from the Bee Gees' album, ""One"". This was the song that returned the Bee Gees to American radio and would turn out to be their biggest US hit in the 1980s, and their last hit single to reach the US top ten. It peaked at number seven on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in September 1989, and it stayed in the Top 40 for ten weeks. It also topped the American adult contemporary chart that same month, remaining at number one for two weeks."
"Bee Gees Gold Bee Gees Gold was a compilation album, released in America and Japan only (was also released in the UK), that focused on the early hits of the Bee Gees. Labeled as ""Volume 1"", it featured their U.S. Top 20 hits between 1967 and 1972 (plus ""I Can't See Nobody"", an album cut from ""Bee Gees 1st""). The album was intended to replace the two previous hits compilations, ""Best of Bee Gees"" and ""Best of Bee Gees, Volume 2"". It reached #50 on ""Billboard""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s album chart during a time when the Bee Gees were topping the charts with"
"first No. 1 hit. The Beatles later recorded a cover of it in 1965, with Ringo Starr as lead singer. Ringo Starr later re-recorded the song as a duet with Owens in 1988. The 1966 album ""Carnegie Hall Concert"" was a smash hit and further cemented Buck Owens and the Buckaroos as more than just another honky tonk country band. They achieved crossover success on to the pop charts. During that year, R&B singer Ray Charles released cover versions of two of Owens' songs that became pop hits: ""Crying Time"" and ""Together Again"". In 1967, Owens and the Buckaroos toured"
"reached No. 3 in the US, and ""Boogie Child"" reached US No. 12 in January 1977. The album peaked at No. 8 in the US. A compilation ""Bee Gees Gold"" was released in November, containing the group's hits from 1967 to 1972. Following a successful live album, ""Here at Last... Bee Gees... Live"", the Bee Gees agreed with Stigwood to participate in the creation of the ""Saturday Night Fever"" soundtrack. It would be the turning point of their career. The cultural impact of both the film and the soundtrack was seismic throughout the world, prolonging the disco scene's mainstream appeal."
"The track reached No. 71 in the UK Singles Chart. One (Bee Gees song) ""One"" is the second international single (and lead single in the U.S.) from the Bee Gees' album, ""One"". This was the song that returned the Bee Gees to American radio and would turn out to be their biggest US hit in the 1980s, and their last hit single to reach the US top ten. It peaked at number seven on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in September 1989, and it stayed in the Top 40 for ten weeks. It also topped the American adult contemporary chart"
"Waters"" would be the band's most successful US release of their post-RSO era. At the 1997 BRIT Awards held in Earls Court, London on 24 February, the Bee Gees received the award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. On 14 November 1997, the Bee Gees performed a live concert in Las Vegas called ""One Night Only"". The show included a performance of ""Our Love (Don't Throw It All Away)"" synchronised with a vocal by their deceased brother Andy and a cameo appearance by Celine Dion singing ""Immortality"". The CD of the performance sold over 5 million copies. The ""One Night Only"""
"the best-selling singles of all time, selling over five million copies worldwide. When the brothers wrote the song, they had never been to Massachusetts. In a UK television special on ITV in December 2011, it was voted third (behind ""How Deep Is Your Love"" and ""You Win Again"") in ""The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song"". The song was written in the Regis Hotel, New York City during a tour of the United States. The song was intended as an antithesis to flower power anthems of the time such as ""Let's Go to San Francisco"" and ""San Francisco (Be Sure to"
"After they arrived in Britain, The Bee Gees signed with Stigwood's RSO Records (distributed by Polydor) for the UK, and Atlantic Records in the USA, but Spin (and therefore Festival) retained the exclusive rights to distribute The Bee Gees' recordings in Australia for the better part of a decade. The first Bee Gees single released under this arrangement was their international breakthrough hit ""New York Mining Disaster 1941"" (1967). Spin released some of the best local and international singles of the late Sixties, including all of The Bee Gees late '60s UK recordings. Artists on the Spin roster included former"
"No. 1. ""Act Naturally,"" a No. 1 single for the Buckaroos in 1963, was covered by The Beatles on their 1965 album ""Help!"" Other hits included ""I've Got A Tiger By The Tail,"" ""Together Again,"" and ""Love's Gonna Live Here,"" which occupied the top position on the country chart for 17 weeks near the end of 1963. The Buckaroos recorded a live album, Carnegie Hall Concert in 1966, which Holly said was his favorite recording as a Buckaroo. At the time, it was only the second album recorded at Carnegie Hall by a country music group, and it is widely"
"Best of Bee Gees Best of Bee Gees is a 1969 compilation album by the English rock band Bee Gees. It was their first international greatest hits album. It featured their singles from 1966-1969 with the exception of the band's 1968 single ""Jumbo"". The following songs in this compilation from 1966-1969 was very popular worldwide and was picked up by many casual fans who owned no other Bee Gees album. It includes the US singles ""Holiday"" and ""I Started a Joke"". But the 1968 song ""Jumbo"" which was also released as a single, was not included. This was the first"
"from one of Carter's previous compositions (""Let's Go to San Francisco"", a hit in 1967 for The Flower Pot Men). In the song, lead singer Burrows attempts to sing in an American accent, reflecting the song's setting in California. Because of the song's length of being over 5 minutes, several AM radio stations edit the song by fading it out during the second instrumental Bridge. In 1974, the song became a hit in the UK (where it peaked at #13), and in the US, where it peaked at #4. In Canada, ""Beach Baby"" was a #1 hit. Although the band"
"Bee Gees ('Falling in Love With You' and 'Don't Forget to Remember Me') which she recorded in Music City, Nashville, TN, but were never released. April left Australia with her family in 1978 to pursue a film career in the US. April continued her singing career, touring the US, playing the Stardust Hotel (Las Vegas), the Sheraton Resort Hotel (Miami Beach), and the Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie Bar (Nashville), among other venues. April is the 9th great niece of Roger Williams, founder of Providence, Rhode Island and the First Baptist Church in America and is the great-great-granddaughter of Lady"
"New York Mining Disaster 1941 ""New York Mining Disaster 1941"" is the debut American single by the British pop group the Bee Gees, released on 14 April 1967. It was written by Barry and Robin Gibb. Barring a moderately successful reissue of their Australian single ""Spicks and Specks,"" it was the first single release of the group's international career and their first song to hit the charts in both the UK and the US. It was produced by Ossie Byrne with their manager Robert Stigwood as executive producer. The song was the first track of side two on the group's"
"matched by The Beatles with six consecutive number one singles, when ""Love You Inside Out"" topped the charts in June, setting the stage for the hottest summer tour since The Beatles in 1964. Considering the group's popularity was at an all-time high, stringent security precautions were taken, though The Bee Gees themselves setup base in only five cities. They would fly to the next venue and return to their home base immediately following the show. They leased a custom 55-seat Boeing 720 jet at a cost of over one million dollars with a specially designed logo on the exterior of"
"The Bees (American band) The Bees were an American garage rock and psychedelic band from Covina, California who were active in the mid-1960s, and are best known for the 1966 paranoiac anthem ""Voices Green and Purple"". The song has been mentioned as an innovative example of early protopunk and has become highly prized by various garage rock collectors and enthusiasts. The Bees, who recorded ""Voices Green and Purple"" are not to be confused with another band of the same name who were also active in the Los Angeles area at the time, who recorded on the Mira and Mirwood labels."
"and the Hornets, a teen/pre-teen male band from Franklin, Ohio whose version—entitled ""A Kind of Hush"" produced by Lou Reizner—became a regional success and showed signs of breaking nationally in January 1967; the single would reach No. 4 in Cincinnati and No. 3 in Erie PA. However an expedient cover by Herman's Hermits was released in the US in February 1967 to reach the Top 30 of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in three weeks and proceed to a peak of #4—affording the group their final US Top Ten hit—with Gold certification for US sales of one million units awarded that"
"same time, he worked as producer with successful Australian pop singer Ronnie Burns. In November 1966 the Bee Gees had their first major success, ""Spicks and Specks"". The group decided to develop their career in England, and Byrne accompanied them. Arriving in England in February 1967, the group immediately won a recording contract with Robert Stigwood, and Byrne recorded the single ""New York Mining Disaster 1941"" with them at the IBC Studios in Portland Place. It became a hit in the UK, and internationally, and Byrne then produced the group's album, ""Bee Gees' 1st"" (although the group had released two"
"streak until November 1971, when Capitol Records labelmate Sonny James scored his 16th straight No. 1 hit with ""Here Comes Honey Again."" In the years since, only Earl Thomas Conley and Alabama have had lengthier No. 1 streaks, with 16 and 21 straight No. 1 songs in a row, respectively. Your Tender Loving Care (song) ""Your Tender Loving Care"" is the title track from Buck Owens' 1967 album. The single was number one country hit spending one week at the top and a total of fourteen weeks on the chart. When ""Your Tender Loving Care"" reached No. 1, it established"
"their international hit ""Friday on My Mind"" (1966) in London and remained there for their forays into psychedelic-tinged pop until they disbanded in 1970. A similar path was pursued by the Bee Gees, formed in Brisbane, but whose first album ""Bee Gees' 1st"" (1967), was recorded in London, and gave them three major hit singles and contained folk, rock and psychedelic elements, heavily influenced by the Beatles. Two bands that formed in Adelaide in the mid-1960s also figured prominently in Australian psychedelic pop/rock. The Masters Apprentices started out as a gritty R&B band in the style of the early Rolling"
"1 hit for Yvonne Elliman, while the Bee Gees' own version was the B-side of ""Stayin' Alive"". Such was the popularity of ""Saturday Night Fever"" that two different versions of the song ""More Than a Woman"" received airplay, one by the Bee Gees, which was relegated to an album track, and another by Tavares, which was the hit. The Gibb sound was inescapable. During a nine-month period beginning in the Christmas season of 1977, seven songs written by the brothers held the No. 1 position on the US charts for 27 of 37 consecutive weeks: three of their own releases,"
"The Beatles in 1966 for shortest span between first weeks at number one. This record was yet again beaten by ""Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals"", when it reached number one in the US three weeks later; it also reached number one in Ireland. ""Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers"" also reached number one in Australia, Ireland, and Scotland, acquiring a platinum certification by the ARIA and gold certifications by the BPI and RIAA; ""Glee: The Music, Volume 4"" acquired the same three certifications. ""Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album"" reached number one in Canada, and was given platinum certification"
"1967 in music The year 1967 was an important one for psychedelic rock, and was famous for its ""Summer of Love"" in San Francisco. It saw major releases from The Beatles (""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" and ""Magical Mystery Tour""), Small Faces (""Itchycoo Park""), Eric Burdon & The Animals (""Winds of Change""), Big Brother and The Holding Company (""Big Brother and The Holding Company""), The Doors (""The Doors"" and ""Strange Days""), Jefferson Airplane (""Surrealistic Pillow"" and ""After Bathing at Baxter's""), Moby Grape (""Moby Grape)"", Traffic (""Mr. Fantasy""), Pink Floyd (""The Piper at the Gates of Dawn""), Love (""Forever Changes)"","
"United States and around the world. After the January 14, 1967 Human Be-In in San Francisco organized by artist Michael Bowen, the media's attention on culture was fully activated. In 1967, Scott McKenzie's rendition of the song ""San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)"" brought as many as 100,000 young people from all over the world to celebrate San Francisco's ""Summer of Love."" While the song had originally been written by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas to promote the June 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, it became an instant hit worldwide (#4 in the United"
"reaching number 4 on the music chart in the United States and number 1 in the United Kingdom and most of Europe, and became an unofficial anthem for hippies, flower power and the flower child concept. After the January 14, 1967 Human Be-In organized by artist Michael Bowen (among other things, announcements told participants to bring flowers), as many as 100,000 young people from all over the world flocked to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, Berkeley, and other Bay Area cities during the ""Summer of Love"" in search of different value systems and experiences. The ""Summer of Love"" became a watershed"
"the demo tapes to Robert Stigwood, who had recently joined NEMS. After an audition with Stigwood in February 1967, the Bee Gees signed a five-year contract whereby Polydor Records would release their records in the UK, and Atco Records would do so in the US. Work quickly began on the group's first international album, and Stigwood launched a promotional campaign to coincide with its release. Stigwood proclaimed that the Bee Gees were ""The most significant new musical talent of 1967"", thus initiating the comparison of the Bee Gees to the Beatles. Before recording the first album, the group expanded to"
"Bee Gees, a group near the top of the all-time top-sellers list. When the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, their citation read ""Only Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees"". The trio's contribution to ""Saturday Night Fever"" pushed the film's soundtrack past the 40 million mark in sales. It reigned as the top-selling album until Michael Jackson's ""Thriller"". They are the only group in pop history to write, produce and record six straight No.1 hits. They have 16 Grammy nominations and nine Grammy"
"and Maurice Gibb, Durham learned that ""Massachusetts"" was originally intended for her group and in 2003 the Seekers recorded the song as a tribute to Maurice following his death earlier that year. The Bee Gees had never actually been to Massachusetts when they recorded this; they just liked the sound of the name.<nowiki> </nowiki>Robin Gibb explained about ""Massachusetts"" in ""1000 UK #1 Hits"" by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh: ""Massachusetts"" was recorded on August 9, 1967 along with ""Sir Geoffrey Saved the World"" at the IBC Studios in London and finished on August 17. Barry feels Bill Shepherd's orchestral score"
"at number four. Further demonstrating the Bee Gees's US chart domination in 1978, ""Stayin' Alive"" was replaced at number one with the group's younger brother Andy Gibb's single, ""Love Is Thicker Than Water"", followed by the Bee Gees's ""Night Fever"" for their longest run, seven weeks. This was then replaced by Yvonne Elliman's ""If I Can't Have You"". Barry Gibb had a hand in writing all four of these songs, becoming the only person in history to write four successive US number-one singles. Besides the version that appeared on the soundtrack album and the edited 45RPM single for Top 40"
"Bee Gees The Bee Gees were a pop music group formed in 1958. Their lineup consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were successful for most of their decades of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a popular music act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as prominent performers of the disco music era in the mid-to-late 1970s. The group sang recognisable three-part tight harmonies; Robin's clear vibrato lead vocals were a hallmark of their earlier hits, while Barry's R&B falsetto became their signature sound during the mid-to-late 1970s"
"Angeles. He had suffered from Guillain–Barré syndrome from 2010 until his death. ""NME"" - August 1967 Scott McKenzie Scott McKenzie (born Philip Wallach Blondheim III; January 10, 1939 – August 18, 2012) was an American singer and songwriter. He was best known for his 1967 hit single and generational anthem, ""San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)"". Philip Wallach Blondheim III was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on January 10, 1939, as the son of Philip Wallach Blondheim, Jr. by the former Dorothy Winifred Hudson. His family moved to Asheville, North Carolina, when he was six months old."
"In a UK television poll on ITV in December 2011 it was voted fifth in ""The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song"". On its release, ""Stayin' Alive"" climbed the charts to hit the number one spot on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 the week of 4 February 1978, remaining there for four weeks. In the process, it became one of the band's most recognisable tunes, in part because of its place at the beginning of ""Saturday Night Fever"". In the US, it would become the second of six consecutive number-one singles, tying the record with the Beatles for most consecutive number ones"