15 minutes ago, I Am A Swede said:

 

I’d become obsessed with “Heartbreaker” all of a sudden earlier this year. It was never a huge radio staple when I was growing up, so it wasn’t overly familiar. Dionne was rarely one to go overboard with the melismas and hooting and hollering (like some of her contemporaries and followers), but she imbues the song with such feeling. Probably her best not written by Bacharach.

 

13 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

I’d become obsessed with “Heartbreaker” all of a sudden earlier this year. It was never a huge radio staple when I was growing up, so it wasn’t overly familiar. Dionne was rarely one to go overboard with the melismas and hooting and hollering (like some of her contemporaries and followers), but she imbues the song with such feeling. Probably her best not written by Bacharach.

I've always loved "Heartbreaker". I'm not a big fan of the Bee Gees, but they've written some great songs for other artists, including this one. (Not to mention Streisand's "Guilty" album )

Edited July 30, 20232 yr by I Am A Swede

22 minutes ago, I Am A Swede said:

 

I've always loved "Heartbreaker". I'm not a big fan of the Bee Gees, but they've written some great songs for other artists, including this one. (Not to mention Streisand's "Guilty" album )

I love “Guilty”! I also loved The Bee Gees, both their early pop stuff and the disco era. This song from a few years back sort of reminds me of a Bee Gees song:

 

I just have a major problem with their falsetto singing. It sounds awful. That's why I prefer when they write for other artists, or when other artists makes covers of their songs. Like this one:

 

16 minutes ago, I Am A Swede said:

I just have a major problem with their falsetto singing. It sounds awful. That's why I prefer when they write for other artists, or when other artists makes covers of their songs. Like this one:

 

Do you like the older Bee Gees stuff that isn’t Alvin and the Chipmunks? 

 

It's perfectly fine. Perhaps not something I would actively seek out, but not something that would make me turn off the radio. For some reason I've always preferred female voices though, so most of what I listen to are female singers.

Now I just had to put this album on.....

 

35 years since this New Jack Swing classic album dropped