![]() ![]() It was when they shifted to the more contemporary R&B sound with the album Main Course that placed them in the right direction. and came back with How Can You Mend.(first US No.1 hit) & Lonely Days. ![]() After their initial worldwide success of Mining Disaster, Massachusetts,Words, To Love Somebody, etc. This era of their career was their 2nd Comeback. ![]() Of course Barry can also belt it out on the other end of the spectrum with smooth, airy, & silky ballads. And that's what made it refreshingly new, exciting & interesting Then The Gibbs came in, and gave the sound the definitive musculine, kick-a$$, bombastic personification. and they were embraced more as a soulful, velvety-tailored for mellow ballads type of songs. Before their time,all falsetto sound were more stygmatized as a female-ish comical sound then came the Philly Sound with the Stylistics, Blue Magic, etc. The BEE GEES / Barry Gibb actually introduced a unique falsetto sound that is very difficult to emulate. So they went with falsetto singing because they were good at it, it gave a distinctive sound, and it was popular with their audience. They were all falsetto lead singers,” he said, referencing top Black ensembles at the time. “We loved The Stylistics, The Spinners, The Delfonics. " brought it out of us, you know we weren’t the first to sing in falsetto,” Maurice said. “Everybody was saying the same thing: ‘Do that falsetto again, do that falsetto again.’ It was fine for me I was having a ball.”Īnd falsetto singing was already a thing: I came up with a lot of new ideas to suit the falsetto,” Barry remembered. The producer asked for harmonized background screaming for a recording, it was the first time Barry sang falsetto, and he discovered that he was good at it. The Bee Gees falsetto apparently came about more or less by accident. In principle a distinctive trait can be anything, but it's frequently something in the overlap between what the artist is good at and what is popular with the audience. Having some form of distinctive sound/trait/style helps in getting people to recognize you on the radio and selling your music. Why does any artist do anything different from everyone else? Generally because they want to stand out in the crowd of other artists. ![]()
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