She should be huge in the future on the scale of Christina Aguilera or Amy Winehouse or even better.

Here is a cover of “I Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” by Angelina Jordan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROsmdDujDH8&list=PL2v8kgVeo4EbQD6l_WAVjOfItquzW7oEc&index=57

We older folk have a fondness for nostalgia and Ms. Jordan brings that in spades. She is the epitome of the jazz singers of a bygone age. This is her catalog. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2v8kgVeo4EbQD6l_WAVjOfItquzW7oEc

I owned the album, “Mr. Natural”- bought it sometime around 1982 or so along with “Main Course”. However, I don’t think I have seen the cover of that album since about 1988 or so (it was lost in a house fire that year). It was nice seeing it again in the video link above.

I think it’s a question of what touches the heart. When all I knew of the Bee Gees was their disco music, they didn’t touch my heart although I sort of liked their stuff. But once I learned more of their work, I found both the sound they made – the gorgeousness of their harmonies – and much of their music itself touched my heart as well as pleasing my ear.

I also like them as people and find them attractive too, but that would not have been nearly enough – it was their music.

Not everyone is going to react that way, obviously. A lot of people do, however, and that’s why they have many devoted fans all over the world.

Here’s an example of one of their obscure songs (it’s from 1974) that I really like and also find very moving both in terms of sound and sense:

It remains a mystery to me why I react so strongly to the Bee Gees. I assure you it’s not conscious. It’s not because I’m worried about my hip credentials. I still like Peter, Paul and Mary, the Monkees and Harry Chapin.

I freely acknowledge the good things you say about them. They write well, they sing well, and by what little I know and you have mentioned, they are more decent than most in the biz.

That’s okay, I didn’t think you meant it as criticism. I was just being cute with my answer.

More seriously, though – I can explain my own feelings although not yours. I really really like the Four Seasons and always did. I have fond memories of their songs from my youth and beyond. To me, though, their music is very light and never touches me deeply and never did. It’s the best of a certain type of music.

The Bee Gees also venture into that same territory at times, especially in their disco music. But there’s always a touch of sorrow in their voices, their music, and their lyrics, as with (not to be too pretentious about it) Arnold’s “Dover Beach”:

Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.

I especially like some of their lesser-known stuff, their early stuff, their slower stuff.

Do you have an answer? I don’t.

I didn’t mean that as criticism.

I love the “Four Seasons” who certainly sang high, but I don’t have a reaction to them like the Bee Gees.

I love the Bee Gees FAR more.

Food for thought.

I love the “Four Seasons” who certainly sang high, but I don’t have a reaction to them like the Bee Gees.

Food for thought.