Bee Gees – “New York Mining Disaster 1941”įor many Americans, “New York Mining Disaster 1941” was their initial introduction to the Bee Gees as the 1967 single marked one of the band’s first international hits. The orchestra-inspired, string synthesizers became a staple of the disco era with help from this Hot 100 No. Getting John Travolta flashbacks, yet? “Night Fever” is the subtle-yet-strong disco single that changed the course of iconic 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever - it was originally titled Saturday Night, but the band insisted the title was not good and the idea of their song “Night Fever” was incorporated into the title. While California was being romanticized as a final destination for the hippie generation, the Bee Gees took an opposing viewpoint with “Massachusetts.” Here, the song’s subject had joined the flower-power movement and traveled to San Francisco, only to want to return to the East Coast despite the fact that “the lights all went down in Massachsetts.” The soothing track helped the band donate more than $7 million to the charity and was recognized by then-president Jimmy Carter. While “Too Much Heaven” saw the brother band leaning more towards R&B style, the track is also notable for the fact that the band promised to donate all the royalties they received from it to United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, a.k.a. UNICEF. One of the Bee Gees’ most recognizable singles, also happens to be one that helped out those in need.
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