The Bee Gees: One Night Only DVD Musicals & Broadway (1997) Barry Gibb

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1997 was an amazing year for the Bee Gees, with inductions into THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME and SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME, plus Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Brit, American and World Music Awards the Australian Record Industiy, and the German Bambi Awards topped off by a “One-Night-Only” concert at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, their only live concert in 1997 and first US concert in nearly 10 years.
The brothers Gibb perform their greatest hits from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, including many songs written for the made hits by other artists but never recorded by the Bee Gees themselve, including ISLANDS IN THE STREAM, GUILTY, HEARTBREAKER, OUR LOVE (DON’T THROW IT ALL AWAY) (a special duet with their late brother Andy Gibb) and IMMORTALITY featuring a guest appearance by multiple Grammy – award winner Celine Dion.
Tracklisting:
01 You Should Be Dancing
02 Alone
03 Massachusetts
04 To Love Somebody
05 I’ve Gotta Get A Message To You
06 Words
07 Closer Than Close
08 Islands In The Stream
09 One
10 Our Love (Don’t Throw It All Away)
11 Night Fever
12 More Than A Woman
13 Still Waters
14 Lonely Days
15 Morning Of My Life
16 New York Mining Desaster 1941
17 Too Much Heaven
18 I Can’t See Nobody
19 Run To Me
20 And The Sun Will Shine
21 Nights On Broadway
22 How Can You Mend
23 A Broken Heart
24 Heartbreaker
25 Guilty
26 Immortality
27 Tragedy
28 I Started A Joke
29 Grease
30 Jive Talkin’
31 How Deep Is Your Love
32 Stayin’ Alive
33 You Should Be Dancing
Taped as a lavish cable television special in 1997, One Night Only trades on the Bee Gees’ shape-shifting career as pop survivors. Over the course of 111 minutes, this straightforward concert, produced at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and groomed for both video and CD posterity, sprints through 31 songs from their past three decades. Even after the inevitable disco jokes are expended, and the jaundiced viewer contemplates the role hats, hairspray, and comb-overs now play in dressing the once stylishly long-haired troika, the Gibb brothers’ signature vocal harmonies and hook-laden song craft beg respect.
Casual listeners can’t be blamed for equating the Bee Gees with the dance floor bonanza they reaped through 1978’s Saturday Night Fever, yet that commercial zenith was actually the culmination of a comeback for a group that had seemed washed up by the early 1970s. One Night Only thankfully takes an even-handed view of both their original late 1960s hits (“Massachusetts”, “To Love Somebody”, “Lonely Days”), building from a cannily Beatle-browed vocal sound, and the 1970s blue-eyed soul (“Jive Talkin'”, “Nights on Broadway”) that led them naturally into disco. The Fever hits are here, as are Gibb originals that clicked for other acts; the family circle also widens for a posthumous duet with their late brother, Andy Gibb, while Celine Dion gets star billing in the collaborative “Immortality”.

From the Back Cover
1997 was an amazing year for the Bee Gees, with inductions into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame, plus Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Brit, American and World Music Awards, the Australian Record Industry, and the German Bambi Awards topped off by a ‘One Night Only’ concert at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, their only live concert in 1997 and first US concert in nearly 10 years.
The brothers Gibb perform their greatest hits from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, including many songs written for and made hits by other artists but never recorded by the Bee Gees themselves, including Islands in the Stream, Guilty, Heartbreaker, Our Love (Don’t Throw It All Away) (a special duet with their late brother Andy Gibb) and Immortality featuring a guest appearance by multiple Grammy-award winner Celine Dion.See more