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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 13:12:19 -0400
From: Edward Vlasov <middleear@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Nights On Broadway
It's almost funny how with the most of (Lennon-McCartney) songs it's so obvious who wrote what musically. Of course the dead giveaway
is who sang what. That fact alone had some ears trained and fooled at the same time. I'm talking about the "ahhhhhh" part in "A Day In The Life"
that was sung by John, not Paul.
With the Bee Gees material I am certain only once in a while. And even in those cases I admit I might be all wrong, but to me
I think I know it was Barry in those cases. "Someone Belonging to Someone", doesn't it sound like it was Barry alone from start to finish?
But, was Barry writing those pieces in a vacuum, or did he have an uncredited input from people like Blue and others?
We'll never know.
Eddy
> It would also be another factor in why Robin was so adamant that he had a right to sing those late 70s Barry leads in solo concerts. If he was indeed more heavily involved in the songwriting at that time, then they really would be as much his songs as B
> (Actually, even without that justification, I would say that, when it came down to it, they were still *Bee Gees* songs and anyone who was/is a Bee Gee had the absolute right to sing them.) I believe there were a number of things Robin ended up acquiesc
> Michelle
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