Favorite Bee Gees Number One Song?

Not #1 but Nights on Broadway was their best.

I voted for 'How Can You Mend a Broken Heart', but my favorite is 'Fanny, Be Tender With My Love'.

My favorite is I started a Joke.

Fannie (Be tender with my love). One of my favorites ❤️

Night fever is such a great song. The brothers gibb wrote so many terrific tunes. Heartbreaker for dionne Warwick is my favorite gibb song written for someone else. We should have a thread for all the songs they wrote for other performers.

[quote] We should have a thread for all the songs they wrote for other performers.

An excellent idea. My favorite? ‘If I can’t have you,’ by Yvonne Elliman, and ‘You Stepped into My Life!’

On the list, i picked ‘Love You Inside Out, but ‘Fanny (be Tender), ‘Nights on Broadway, and their version of ‘You Steppped Into My Life’ are also favorites!

"How Can You Mend a Broken Heart", by a longshot.

It's probably one of my top 10 songs of all time.

Next on the list would be "Jive Talkin'", which I've always thought was a very unusual, unique sounding record. The Bee Gees themselves never went back to that sound, and I don't think anybody else ever imitated it successfully either.

Where the fuck is 'You Win Again,' the best song of the 1980s?

[quote]As songwriters, the Gibb brothers received the 1987 British Academy's Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 1988, the band received a Brit Award nomination for Best British Group. In a UK television special on ITV in December 2011, it was voted second (behind "How Deep Is Your Love") on The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song.

^agreed r8. I voted Jive Talkin’ from the 70s but my favourite Bee Gees song is You Win Again.

How Deep is Your Love? for me. It’s really easy and fun to jump between the different harmonic parts of the chorus. It’s also just a nice groove and holds fantastic nostalgia for me.

TA r1, not #1 but their best Nights On Broadway.

I really love The Bee Gees and am not even from a generation that grew up with them. I like the hits, but also the more obscure ones like Run to me, I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You and Heart Like Mine. I think they’re so underrated.

PS. More Than. Woman wasn’t a #1? That was actually my favorite song from SNF.

Stayin Alive should be on that list. God how many nights did I boogie to their music ! No wonder I was thin then,always out dancing!

It's there.

What r2 and r4 said.

Have to go with "Jive Talkin," not just because it's an incredibly cool track, but because it was the start of their mid-late 70s resurgence. They credited Arif Mardin with pushing them to go in that new direction, even though he couldn't produce their later records after RSO switched distribution.

As for "You Win Again," I assume the poll is using the Billboard (US) charts. That song was a smash in Europe but went nowhere here.

Oddly enough, the Bee Gees version of "More Than a Woman" was never even released as a single in the US. The Tavares version made it to #32.

YOU SHOULD BE DANCING!

I cannot hear that song and not get up and dance. That song IS the Bee Gees!

Wind of Change. Amazing!

Bee Gees - Spirits (Having Flown). Their most beautiful song.

So hard to choose but I picked You Should be Dancing. Nights on Broadway probably second.

I liked the songs Barry did with Streisand too.

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To Love Somebody!

Lindsey Buckingham's Second Hand News was inspired by Jive Talking, the beginning part (which is apparently the sound of a car driving on a bridge).

Probably 4 songs stand out the most. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart was huge back in 1970, spending 4 weeks at number one. Jive Talkin' changed their whole image and set them on their incredible disco run. Stayin' Alive is the Bee Gees/Saturday Night Fever anthem. But I think when you think of that era, you mostly think of You Should Be Dancin.

Strangely, the song at number one the longest , Night Fever (8 Weeks!) is not one that I even think of now.

R3 That's my favorite BeeGees' song too.

Of their hits in the 1970's, though, I like How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?

I like Al Green's of Mend a Broken Heart better than the BeeGees'.

Nights on Broadway is probably my favorite song. Also love the SNF soundtrack.

The one I loved most that they wrote is Barry Gibb's I Just Want to be Your Everything, which he wrote for his beautiful little brother Andy. It's so heartbreaking--one of the true really poignant disco songs, especially with that key change at the end of the chorus.

ALL of their songs of the 1970's had varying levels of TACKINESS their best music/songs were from the 1960's.

Hard to pick, I would really say all of them but picked How Deep is Your Love. It’s astonishing how many perfect pop songs they created.

Like most kids in the 1970's, I had never heard of the Bee Gees until Saturday Night Fever. I liked pop music enough, but did not like disco. My older sister brought home the SNF soundtrack LP and played it nonstop for days. I'd had enough and yelled at her that the Bee Gees were horrible. My mom heard me and sternly told me that I should not use language like "hate" and then also told me that what my sister was playing was not the Bee Gees.

My sister confirmed that the song playing was indeed the Bee Gees, to which Mom said that she always liked the Bee Gees, but she did not like the "new" Bee Gees. I chuckle every time I remember that. Thanks to the OP for sparking the memory.

It wasn't until many, many years later that I found the 1960's Bee Gees.

I was always partial to "Love You Inside Out."

Shadow Dancing

Andy Gibb had three number one songs in a row. Most people remember I Just Want To Be Your Everything and Shadow Dancing. But my favorite is (Love Is) Thicker Than Water. Not because of the incredibly stupid title and lyrics, but the fadeout music of the song is really wonderful, unlike anything the Bee Gees ever did.

My favorite Bee Gees song changes every few years. Right now, it's "Too Much Heaven".

R27 The older brothers were slightly before my time. I loved Andy Gibb though. I remember how beautiful he sounded singing with Nell Carter on "Gimme A Break." He was at the height of his fame at that time!

Gone way too soon! 😢

Another vote for Fanny (Be Tender With My Love). Surprisingly it only made it to number 12. Not a flop but surprised it didn't hit the top 10.

Their period from 1975-to 1979 is truly amazing. Same deal with Donna Summer. They both racked up huge hits during this period and they probably never needed to record again and could have just toured on those four years alone. So many iconic songs that have stood the test of time.

Interesting how by 1981, people didn't want to hear songs from the Bee Gees themselves, but still loved their productions (Barbra, Dionne, Kenny and Dolly).

I loved how in 1989 both the Bee Gees and Donna Summer had top 10 hits.

First of May

Despite the title, Fanny Be Tender is a beautiful and yes, sexy song. It was the BeeGees' mom's favorite song.

Destiny's Child (Beyonce) did "Emotion" (Samantha Sang / BGs) but also did, IIRC, Fanny Be Tender.

Not my generation of music, but I do love Saturday Night Fever.

I think “How Deep is Your Love?” is beautiful.

I've always been curious about the Guilty recording sessions. I'm sure Barbra is no walk in the park but that album definitely sounds like it was guided by Barry, and by all accounts, they got along since they made a sequel to the album years later. I wonder if they had any differences.

I think Woman in Love is one of Barbra's best vocals.

Run To Me was my jam

My favorite B-side is "Edge of the Universe".' My favorite song of theirs is "Nights on Broadway".

However, to answer this #1s poll, I'd say "Broken Heart", though "Jive Talkin'" is a close second.

I went to see the Bee Gees in concert during their Spirits Having Flown tour. Probably the most fun I've ever had at a concert.

"First of May" was one of the very first songs I Napster'ed when I first got online.

I'd never heard it, but I was very curious about it, because I'd read that Robin was so angry that it was released as the "Odessa" album's first single instead of "Lamplight" (on which he sang lead), that he quit the band. So it loomed large in the Bee Gees legend, and I wanted to hear this song that temporarily broke up the band.

I loved it, it instantly became one of my favorites of theirs.

And I guess both Barry and Robin were both right and both wrong...it did flop in the U.S. (though a hit throughout much of the rest of the world). But "Lamplight" likely would have flopped much harder...it's got a somewhat catchy chorus, but not much else going on. It's kind of a mess of a song, in fact, and I'm surprised Robin thought it would be a good choice as a single, and probably would have done some damage to their career had it been the single. But then, their career was damaged anyway, because they broke up over it.

Massachusetts

Massachusetts reminds me of my childhood in the 70s, hearing my mom play songs she knew from the '60s. Beautiful melody.