Word: bee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HORIZONTAL (ATCO). In the vast electronic underbrush in which many musicians operate today, along come the Bee Gees with their crystal-clear voices, sounding as if they were plucked right out of a church rock group. Three of their best numbers: Lemons Never Forget, in which the group displays some nice, tight vocal work; With the Sun in My Eyes, a gentle solo backed by organ; and the poignant Really and Sincerely, which starts with a lone French accordion...
...generation and more, many a hale male has dreamed of beating the draft by persuading the psychiatrist at the induction center that he was some kind of nut. That, however, is going about it the hard way. Men are rejected if they are hypersensitive to bee stings, have a severe ingrown toenail, or even if they have too many-or too obscene-tattoos...
There are nights on the tube when Scourby (pronounced Score-bee) seems to be the only voice in town. He has sold Excedrin and Bufferin, touted Mrs. Filbert's Margarine and eulogized the Peace Corps. He has lent his narrative authority to TV documentaries from the classic Victory at Sea to the National Geographic special "Amazon" on CBS last month. And even when he is not available, Scourby remains a resident genus on Madison Avenue. Creative directors are constantly demanding of their casting departments, "Get me a Scourby voice," or "I need the Scourby sound." The commercial business being...
Indeed, much of the Bee Gees' style (the name, coined by an Australian disk jockey, stands for Brothers Gibb) harks back to the days long past -1964, say-when love and idolatry dogged the Beatles' every step. The songs are simple, the beat steady, the tune up on top for easy listening. The words, too, push back the calendar a few years: unabashed love epics spiced with just a pinch of social awareness. "Oh, how I tried, really and sincerely I tried," quavers Robin in one song, as background strings swirl up in Pucciniesque supplication...
Today, two LPs later (on the ATCO label) the Bee Gees' brand of straight-forward sentimentality is winning a surprising response from listeners who are either too young or too bored to investigate the rolling, stoned Beatles' milieu. The older boys smoke cigarettes, try a little wine now and then, nothing more. With a bit of luck, it might become a trend...