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Bee Gees documentary

AlanAldaClone

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I was watching "How can you mend a Broken Heart," a documentary about the Bee Gees and was fascinated to learn how performing in falsetto began. It was while they were recording "Nights On Broadway" that the producer asked them to do some fill-in, the part at the end of the record where the music fades and the singers repeat some phrases from the song as the record slowly winds to a stop. Barry Gibb, fooling around, mostly, started singing in falsetto for the very first time in his career, something he never knew he could do.

“I was thinking, my god, where is this coming from? I can do this. My whole life I never knew I could do this,” Barry joked.

And of course, the rest is history. After years of performing and numerous hit records, that falsetto became their signature sound. Anytime you heard it, you knew it was the Bee Gees. After learning he could do that, Barry Gibb started writing songs that would take best advantage of his newly discovered falsetto voice. I just found it fascinating that their signature sound was discovered by accident. Of course, that, unfortunately, led to the disco era, but I always thought the Bee Gees got a bad rap as a disco group. Their version of disco was so much better than the other technical sounding crap with beeps and whistles that passed for disco.
 
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