Words@brothersgibb.com message digest 08/26/2022 15:01 (#2022-1957)

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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 12:05:01 -0400 From: Joseph Brennan <brennan@columbia.edu> Subject: Re: [Words] Barry Gibb’s Net Worth, Children, Wife What was the source of this item? It's written like a machine translation. > School/High School They missed his schools in Birmingham and in Australia, and yet have the precise Isle of Man schools (if those are correct). > He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, to a prosperous family. Well... actually more like dirt poor. Hugh's band on IOM worked for peanuts in warm months, and he had to find various jobs otherwise. > Barbara and Hugh Gibb are Barry Gibb’s parents. Hugh Gibb, a drummer by trade, is Barry Gibb’s father. Barbara Gibb is Barry Gibb’s mother. I have to admit, these days we have to be told that "Hugh" is a man and "Barbara" is a woman. But if this is a translation from another language, then I grant that the English names might not be familiar. I have trouble myself with names that are not of western European languages. > Robin Gibb, Andy Gibb, and Maurice Gibb are the brothers of Barry Gibb and are professional singers, songwriters, and musicians respectively. Not "respectively" ! Each was all three of those. Joe Brennan (famed podcast guest) Back to top
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 12:38:29 -0400 From: Joseph Brennan <brennan@columbia.edu> Subject: Re: Nights On Broadway On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 7:20 PM compoccia via Words wrote: > > > I've had two competing thoughts about that. The first one being what you > argue above. The second one is that Barry was largely the main writer on > those late 70's big hits and thus had a higher sense of propriety regarding > those songs and that may explain why Barry was so irritated when Robin was > performing those songs in his solo concerts after Mo died. (Unless, of > course, Barry was just annoyed with the idea of Robin performing concerts, > regardless of the material). Who knows? > > One time... and I wish I could find the source... they said that the one who was singing the song during songwriting would be the one who sang it in the finished version, and that they chose the words and phrases specifically to suit that voice. It was the same interview where they described writing the entire melody first, and then finding words to go with it. All of this goes well with the idea that in the late 70s Robin was active as a songwriter and involved in crafting songs for Barry's commercial voice. I can believe that. (Back in Australia Barry wrote a few songs that Robin sang.) I did not know about Robin as main writer on "Tragedy" so thanks for that insight. In my interviews with Albhy Galuten the Barry Worshipper, he did mention that when Robin stopped by the studio late in the day, he talked with them about the recording, and Robin was obviously very familiar with the song and spoke with Barry about details of how it should go, some good friendly critique that even Albhy admitted was useful. So he was sure Robin was involved with the songwriting, but they would not say anything to him about it. An illustration of the paper with the lyric to "Stayin' Alive" handwritten by Robin on an airplane was included in a book years ago, not a Bee Gees book but a picture book showing songwriters' manuscripts. Once again... sorry I do not recall what book that was. The instrumental track was famously recorded in the Chateau studio in France, but typically they probably tinkered some more with it in Florida and did the finished vocal track there. My guess is Robin was reviewing lyrics to prepare for recording them, but whether writing from scratch or just fine-tuning, who knows. Remember that was the last song, the one created specifically for the movie. That's it for now! Joe Brennan Back to top
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 13:52:36 -0400 From: <cmathis@brothersgibb.com> Subject: RE: [Words] Barry Gibb’s Net Worth, Children, Wife I believe the info was from here: https://theinformant247.com/barry-gibbs-net-worth-children-wife/ It was on the internet, so it has to be true. 😊 Chris… From: Words@brothersgibb.com On Behalf Of Joseph Brennan Sent: Friday, August 26, 2022 12:05 PM To: Words List Member Subject: [Words] Barry Gibb’s Net Worth, Children, Wife What was the source of this item? It's written like a machine translation. > School/High School They missed his schools in Birmingham and in Australia, and yet have the precise Isle of Man schools (if those are correct). > He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, to a prosperous family. Well... actually more like dirt poor. Hugh's band on IOM worked for peanuts in warm months, and he had to find various jobs otherwise. > Barbara and Hugh Gibb are Barry Gibb’s parents. Hugh Gibb, a drummer by trade, is Barry Gibb’s father. Barbara Gibb is Barry Gibb’s mother. I have to admit, these days we have to be told that "Hugh" is a man and "Barbara" is a woman. But if this is a translation from another language, then I grant that the English names might not be familiar. I have trouble myself with names that are not of w > Robin Gibb, Andy Gibb, and Maurice Gibb are the brothers of Barry Gibb and are professional singers, songwriters, and musicians respectively. Not "respectively" ! Each was all three of those. Joe Brennan (famed podcast guest) Back to top
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 14:07:45 -0400 From: <cmathis@brothersgibb.com> Subject: RE: [Words] Barry Gibb’s Net Worth, Children, Wife > Joe Brennan > (famed podcast guest) I finally listened to the podcast this week. (well almost finished) I never knew it existed until someone mentioned it a while back. It was very good. https://shows.acast.com/wordsbeegeespodcast/episodes/joseph-brennan Interesting on how your website started, and evolved into the encyclopedia / bible it is today. Very cool. Your voice sounds different that I expected. ( That’s Joe??? :) You know a hell of a lot of information! You really did not care for Greenfield’s? Gasp… You only met the Bee Gees once, (or one of them) Your description of Maurice, how he was just a regular guy. Who are the interviewers? Back to top
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