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Post by chrislc on Jan 1, 2013 9:17:35 GMT -5
Dukedeb reminded us recently that Tony Burrows sang on four Top 40 hits in 1970. I noticed that three of those songs came in between #16 and #11 on the very first AT40.
Did that ever happen again? Appearing three times in a six-song span? Maybe in the winter of 1978?
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Post by tarobe on Jan 2, 2013 7:31:20 GMT -5
I think 1978 is it. Barry Gibb sang on a number of hits. The Bee Gees had three hits in the Top 10 - "How Deep Is Your Love," "Stayin' Alive," and "Night Fever" - and Samantha Sang's "Emotion" prominently featured him (and maybe Robin and Maurice too, I can't tell the others from Barry's falsetto). I don't have Andy Gibb's "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" handy, but I know Barry Gibb co-wrote it and probably sings on it too.
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Post by pgfromwp on Jan 2, 2013 10:51:32 GMT -5
Diverting the topic from Tony Burrows to the Bee Gees chart prominence in early 1978, I found an interesting accomplishment: Night Fever and Staying Alive were 1-2 for five consecutive weeks (chart dates 3/11/78 through 4/15/78). Did that occurrence ever happen again (two singles by the same recording act)? (Perhaps this may have been discussed on another thread.)
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Post by chrislc on Jan 2, 2013 10:56:03 GMT -5
I think 1978 is it. Barry Gibb sang on a number of hits. The Bee Gees had three hits in the Top 10 - "How Deep Is Your Love," "Stayin' Alive," and "Night Fever" - and Samantha Sang's "Emotion" prominently featured him (and maybe Robin and Maurice too, I can't tell the others from Barry's falsetto). I don't have Andy Gibb's "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" handy, but I know Barry Gibb co-wrote it and probably sings on it too. Looks like in mid-March Barry was not only singing on three songs within a six-song span, but on the top 3 songs period - and falsetto on all of them, unlike the one-out-of-three that Tony Burrows was singing falsetto!
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Post by tarobe on Jan 3, 2013 9:01:57 GMT -5
Tony Burrows sang the falsetto on "Gimme Dat Ding"? I always thought he sang the gruff part. The gods have revealed to me why I hated the disco period Bee Gees so much. It was that falsetto! The classic Bee Gees (1967-1974) had that fabulous harmony. Later records just seem to have that falsetto part double-tracked (although probably not, as all the Gibbs are credited on vocals). When I seen them in concert, they all sang.
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Post by winfield on Jan 16, 2013 21:48:49 GMT -5
Tony DID sing the gruff part on 'Gimme'. The falsetto was done by songwriter Roger Greenaway.
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Post by chrislc on Jan 19, 2013 8:02:42 GMT -5
Tony DID sing the gruff part on 'Gimme'. The falsetto was done by songwriter Roger Greenaway. I stand corrected. And I am the only one who thought he was trying to sound like Arte Johnson's dirty old man on Laugh In? Or maybe he was in fact trying to sound like that.
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Post by tarobe on Jan 19, 2013 11:25:34 GMT -5
Laugh In was a very popular program (at least in the U.S.) when "Gimme at Ding" was recorded, so I wouldn't be surprised.
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Post by Ponderous Man on Jan 23, 2013 8:24:45 GMT -5
Tony DID sing the gruff part on 'Gimme'. The falsetto was done by songwriter Roger Greenaway. I stand corrected. And I am the only one who thought he was trying to sound like Arte Johnson's dirty old man on Laugh In? Or maybe he was in fact trying to sound like that. Are you guys talking about the falsetto voice? To me, the falsetto on "Gimme Dat Ding" sounds like Herbert from Family Guy.
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Post by mga707 on Jan 23, 2013 13:24:18 GMT -5
I stand corrected. And I am the only one who thought he was trying to sound like Arte Johnson's dirty old man on Laugh In? Or maybe he was in fact trying to sound like that. Are you guys talking about the falsetto voice? To me, the falsetto on "Gimme Dat Ding" sounds like Herbert from Family Guy. No, the low voice. Which was indeed an Arte Johnson homage, even to my then-12-year-old-ears. Especially when Tony B says "gotcha", which was one of the Johnson character's catch phrases.
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Post by erik on Jan 23, 2013 20:55:20 GMT -5
Over the holiday weekend, I decided to listen to AT40's Top 80 of 1970 again. Three of Tony Burrows' four hits from that year made the Top 80 countdown. "Gimme Dat Ding" just missed the Top 80 coming in at # 86 in Billboard's official ranking.
Here's a surprising chart stat given the information above, Tony Burrows actually tied Michael Jackson for singing lead on the most songs in the year-end top 100 for 1970.
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