#To love somebody series

Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn July 9th 1967, 'To Love Somebody' by the Bee Gees entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #79 and on August 20th, 1967 it peaked at #17 (for 1 week) and spent 9 weeks on the Top 100.They'd been trying to write songs in which people living in the US had known. If you doubt it, try to check where those ideas of their big hit songs in 60' came from. I also think that they thought it was very disadvantage for them to make a big hit in the US at that time and was not difficult for them to use that way to make a hit. Because they were not form US or UK, but from Australia. I think that it was one of the Bee Gees' strategy that they used to use at that time. Kawa from Tokyo, JapanI think that the first idea of the lyrics of the song, To Love Somebody, came form the tittle of the song, Somebody To Love, by Jefferson Airplane, Because its tittle is very similar to Jefferson's.After all, isn't the challenge or even the prerequisite for a cover is to surpass the original? Growing up as a teenager in the 90s, I could not just forget such cover and be convinced that Bee Gees first sang it. Romanong Kurong from PhilippinesMichael Bolton's version in the 1990s is a soulful rendition.Arthur from New JerseyThe Bee Gees performed the song with Helen Reddy on 'The Midnight Special.'.Tom from U.s.In an interview The Bee Gees stated that the song was written for Otis so it’s more than legend.Kawa from Tokyo: You make a fair point &, yes, definitely a clever idea if it was the reason. I love them both! & 'most everything in between. Compare this soulful ballad with the bopping Stayin' Alive. George from Vancouver, CanadaLove, love, LOVE the Beegees - such range.Steven Phillips from MaineOne of the greatest songs ever written.very JJ! I could only tell the song by the chords. Peter In Ma from BostonI have heard this song by 3 entertainers: the Bee Gees, Keith Urban.very soulful as a tribute to BGs.and Janis Joplin.He was a little.not crazy, but somebody with that kind of thinking must be somewhere else, in another zone sometimes. He's somebody that would use pliers and a screwdriver to create percussion he wouldn't hesitate to experiment. The approach he has to music and to recording, I think the music nowadays lack that kind of intuition. As he explained, 'It was so simple that it became complex. Looking back on the sessions documented on this LP, Rugs said that Perry's creativity taught him that music could be limitless. Somehow the sublime rendition of William DeVaughans' 'Be Thankful', recorded during the same session, was left off the LP - but appears here as a bonus track on the CD along with I Never Had It So Good & Hip Harry + it's version track. while the broken-hearted 'What's The Use' was cut at the request of Sonia Pottinger, who ultimately failed to release it. The Bee Gees' evergreen 'To Love Somebody' takes James Carr's soulful rendition as its reference and 'Big May' re-works the 'Return Of Django'/'Sick And Tired' rhythm, with a new drum part.

#To love somebody series

Highlights include the sought after Blaxploitation-influenced funk track 'Kinky Fly' featuring members of The Chi-Lites' backing band, passing through Perry's infamous studio whilst in Jamaica for a series of shows - their horn section and Chinna Smith's wah-wah guitar give the track its outstanding difference as synth overdubs add to the moody feeling, underpinned by the ghostly click tracks of the Conn Rhythm Unit (constituting one of Perry's earliest experiments with drum machines).īreakup track 'Second Avenue' shows how suited Rugs' powerful, deep tenor was suited to a soul framework, the Chi-Lites' horns again making a striking difference.

The album captures the laid-back sessions of the early Black Ark, with a few surprising innovations lurking amongst the soul covers and love ballads. The late Bunny Rugs was best known as the frontman for legendary reggae band Third World, but prior to that he completed an apprenticeship at Lee Perry's Black Ark resulting in this solo LP, originally released in 1975 and credited to Bunny Scott. Both formats feature liner notes from author of the acclaimed People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee 'Scratch' Perry and Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae, David Katz. Freestyle Records are proud to present the first ever reissue of this rare Black Ark-era Lee 'Scratch' Perry production on LP & CD w/ bonus tracks.