The song won Best Pop Performance by a Group at the 20th Grammy Awards which were held on 23 February 1978. A second video was later made in which the brothers sing while passing by a stream of rainbow lights. Barry Gibb had his beard shaven off in this video, as in the " Night Fever" video. In one, the brothers are singing while an image of a woman shows throughout the video. Two music videos were made for this song. A demo was made at Le Château d'Hérouville in France, with the additional recording done at Criteria Studios when they got back to Miami. Barry worked out the melody with keyboard player Blue Weaver, though he is not credited officially as a songwriter here. Recordings for all of the tracks for Saturday Night Fever, including "How Deep Is Your Love", were done in the Spring of 1977. Despite this, Robin sings the melody for the chorus and audibly sings various ad libs during this song. Even most of the backing vocals were done by Barry, such that Robin and Maurice are barely heard in the mix, even though they are there. The Bee Gees obliged and gave him five songs, one of which was "How Deep Is Your Love".īy the time Children of the World was recorded, it was pretty much established that Barry was now the primary vocalist of the group, mostly being falsetto leads with the occasional natural breathy voice.
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Then the call came from Robert Stigwood requesting songs for a movie he was producing. Live, they began recording songs for what was to be the follow-up studio album to 1976's Children of the World.
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In a British TV special shown in December 2011, it was voted "The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song" by ITV viewers. The song was ranked number 366 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song was covered by Take That for their 1996 Greatest Hits album, reaching number-one on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks and in 2018 to celebrate 30 years of Take That, they recorded a new version as a duet with Sir Barry Gibb himself for their new album. Alongside " Stayin' Alive", it is one of the group's two tracks on the list. It is listed at number 20 on Billboard's All Time Top 100. The single spent six weeks atop the US adult contemporary chart. In the United States, it topped the Billboard Hot 100 on 24 December 1977 (becoming the first of six consecutive US number-one hits) and stayed in the Top 10 for a then-record 17 weeks. It was a number three hit in the United Kingdom and Australia. Originally intended for Yvonne Elliman, it was ultimately used as part of the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever. Morton will tour in support of the LP, with dates forthcoming, check out our Facebook live with him below in case you missed it." How Deep Is Your Love" is a pop song written and recorded by the Bee Gees in 1977 and released as a single in September. Gumbo Unplugged is out 3/9, and features contributions from the Matt Jones Orchestra, BJ The Chicago Kid, Anthony Hamilton, the Hamiltones, Lecrae, and Keyon Harold.
Everyone seems to be having a wonderful time in the studio, with fellow performers cheering as members of the band take solos. Today, we are happy to be exclusively premiering a video from Gumbo Unplugged, which features Morton and his band covering the Bee Gees’ classic track “How Deep Is Your Love.” Backed by strings and an arrangement of vocalists, it’s a soulful, funky rendition.
I finally got a chance to do the version that I’d always done in my head.” ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ is one of my favorites of all time. So I thought it only right to do a live version of in front of an audience. “And after touring all last year I realized how much it connected with the fans. “This album meant so much to me,” Morton said in an email. Morton certainly has gotten around in the first two months of 2018, and now he is ready to celebrate with the release of Gumbo Unplugged, which sees him performing his critically acclaimed Gumbo in its entirety, live in the studio. Just before that, he came through the Uproxx studios for a Facebook live performance and interview. In the month since, you might have seen him performing with The Roots on The Tonight Show or with Maroon 5 on Jimmy Kimmel Live, kicking off the NBA’s MLK Day matchup with “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and a variety of other appearances. Last month at the Grammys, multi-faceted performer and musician PJ Morton found himself nominated for two awards for his album Gumbo.
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