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Award Show Sundays: You Should Be Dancing

by MJ on Mar 20, 2011 • No Comments

For this week’s edition of Award Show Sundays, I’ve decided to not only travel back in time to 1997, but we’re going across the pond to the U.K. for the Brit Awards. That year, the people who organize that particular ceremony saw fit to honor Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, AKA The Bee Gees. I believe this marks two consecutive Sundays (or at least two out of three) that we’ve done a piece on the Gibb brothers, but this performance […]

Award Show Sundays: From One Set of Blue-Eyed Soul Boys to Another

by MJ on Mar 6, 2011 • 2 Comments

award shows / music / Pop Music

It just struck me…maybe Jimmy Fallon got the idea for the Barry Gibb talk show from this performance? The year was 2003. After a three year run as America’s best-selling act, *Nsync had already splintered, and singer Justin Timberlake was well on his way to solo superstardom via his album, Justified. Even with that in mind, no one could have known that the group’s appearance on that year’s Grammy Awards show would wind up being their last televised appearance as […]

Hump Day Flashback: Samantha Sang

by MJ on Jul 7, 2010 • No Comments

Hump Day Flashback / Pop Music

For a time in the late Seventies, EVERYTHING the Bee Gees touched turned to gold. In late 1977/early 1978, songs written or performed by Barry, Robin and Maurice held the top spot on the Billboard Top 100 for half a year! “Night Fever”, “How Deep is Your Love”, “Stayin’ Alive”, “(Love Is) Thicker Than Water”, “Shadow Dancing” (both hits for younger brother Andy) and “If I Can’t Have You” by Yvonne Elliman were all chart-toppers. Plus, there was Frankie Valli’s […]