We never said 'no' to a gig, no matter how much driving or begging or lack of sleep, and if the Reeperbahn couldn't stop us, what makes you think YOU will?" And their genuine love of Black music somehow broke the barriers for generations of singers, players, etc. Because they had the shocking temerity to say "Nope, we're not doing that song.", it was like saying to someone with a gun In your face, "Go ahead. None of them tried to make The Beatles pick a lead singer, so, like their live act, all four would do it. A producer and a manager (and record company) that didn't really know what they were supposed to do with these four tough guys. But their fame was also born of withering luck. The Beatles were preternaturally gifted with a work ethic that would kill the musicians of today. It was the success and the playing it safe in the movie's wake that doomed them. Combine Travolta's white-hot star power with the zeitgeist of Disco and the very odd recordings the Bee Gees were doing at that time.
WHEN I SEE YOU AGAIN SONG LYRICS EMERSON DRIVE MOVIE
While the Bee Gees were not a disco group, the Saturday Night Fever movie was a perfect petri dish. People like rap, but with a melodic vocal hook. People like dangerous white music and safe black music. To me, pop music is styles and the biggest records tend to be styles smooshed together. A Prince song with Stevie Wonder playing harmonica over his own voice being sampled. From the strange singles of Freddie Cannon and Lou Christie to the occasionally wonderful singles of Les Humphries Singers, Doris, Os Mutantes, to the strange paths to fame like The American Breed ("Bend Me Shape Me") evolving into Rufus, and then Chaka Kahn, and then "I Feel For You", her biggest hit, written by Prince, but the Kahn version was actually the 4th release and, had Patrice Rushen opted to try it (she turned it down), the 5th.
This makes me happy, and the topics are inexhaustible. There are enough people out there who yearn for the arcane, the odd, the unsuccessful, the strange, and the historically overlooked to justify 200 podcast episodes of D-Sides, Orphans, and Oddities.
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