Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. New York Mining Disaster 1941
2. To Love Somebody
3. Holiday
4. Massachusetts
5. World
6. Words
7. I've Gotta Get A Message To You
8. I Started A Joke
9. First Of May
10. Saved By The Bell
11. Don't Forget To Remember
12. Lonely Days
13. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
14. Run To Me
15. Jive Talkin'
16. Nights On Broadway
17. Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)
18. Love So Right
19. If I Can't Have You
20. Love Me
21. You Should Be Dancing

Disc 2:

1. Stayin' Alive
2. How Deep Is Your Love
3. Night Fever
4. More Than A Woman
5. Emotion
6. Too Much Heaven
7. Tragedy
8. Love You Inside Out
9. Guilty -- Barbra Streisand With Barry Gibb
10. Heartbreaker
11. Islands In The Stream
12. You Win Again
13. One
14. Secret Love
15. For Whom The Bell Tolls
16. Alone
17. Immortality
18. This Is Where I Came In
19. Spicks & Specks

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3164 in Music
• Released on: 2006-06-06
• Number of discs: 2

Album Description
The individual voices of the legendary Brothers Gibb—Maurice, Barry, and Robin—are each wonderfully distinctive in their own right. In combination, they lock together for extraordinary harmonies, perfectly blending and magically complementing each other. This vocal wizardry is at the heart of their phenomenal success, which spanned five decades and transcended multiple genres with chart-busting glory. From their Beatles-esque ‘60s roots and the subsequent flowering of their own progressive pop-rock songwriting and performance style through their blue-eyed R&B superstardom and Saturday Night Fever disco-era domination, the Bee Gees constantly evolved and never stopped delivering timeless hits. The trio’s beautifully crafted, sonically enchanting work is one of the cornerstones of contemporary popular music, and this hit-packed compilation spotlights their career-spanning best.

Customer Reviews

Beware of New Versions of Old Songs
I was disappointed by new versions of Islands in the Stream and Heartbreaker versions that appear on this CD. I was hoping to hear the originals with Dionne Warwick and Dolly Parton.

As Complete A Greatest Hits Compilation As You're Apt To Get
The Bee Gees, inducted as a group into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 1997, were one of those acts with little middle ground insofar as music fans were concerned: they were either loved or were reviled.

One thing is certain though, as both songwriters and performers they knew what the masses liked in their heyday, which ran from mid-1967 to 1979, putting 34 songs into the North American Billboard Pop Hot 100, with eight cross-overs to the R&B and 17 to the Adult Contemporary (AC) charts in that period, in addition to three more that made only the AC charts or the Hot 100 "Bubble Under" listings. They even managed to get one onto the Country charts (1978's Rest Your Love On Me. a # 39 Country as the flip of the # 1 Hot 100 Too Much Heaven - unfortunately, that B-side is not here).

After 1979 they added another nine to the Hot 100 from 1981 to 1997, one more R&B cross-over in 1983, and 10 more AC entries, including three that made only those charts or the "Bubble Under" list.

Here you get, with excellent sound reproduction, 23 of those Hot 100 hits registered between 1967 and 1979, three (tracks 12, 13 and 16 on Disc 2 that charted in 1987, 1989 and 1997) and one featuring Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb from 1980. In terms of the "best" in the period covered this fills the bill as nine were # 1 Hot 100 hits and, with one exception (Don't Forget To Remember which was a # 73 Hot 100 in 1969), all the rest were Top 40.

Significant missing hits, and perhaps better selections in place of the several album cuts and failed North American singles included, are: My World - a # 16 Hot 100 /# 19 AC in 1972); Alive (a # 20 AC/# 34 Hot 100 in late 1972/early 1973); Boogie Child (# 12 Hot 100 in 1977); and Edge Of The Universe (# 26 Hot 100/# 43 AC in 1977).

The insert contains brief liner notes and several more photos of the brothers at various stages of their lives, but no proper discography in terms of label/album details and chart performances.

Excellent!
What can I say? They are the Bee Gees afterall. Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb have been making great music for five decades and they are still a force in the music business in the 21st century. Although Maurice left us way too soon, I know that Barry and Robin will still continue to write great music for themselves and others. Barry Gibb is not just a song writer he is a poet. His lyrics make sense and they touch your heart. When most think of the Bee Gees they think Disco and Saturday Night Fever...how wrong they are just to limit this dynamic group to that era. I am only 38 years old and it wasn't until I turned 30 that I truly discovered who this group was and what they had done. They have forever changed the landscape of music. In one word, the Brothers Gibb are amazing.