Bee Gees (1976) Lovers - LOST 70s GEMS

The definitive track of the Children of the World album and the Bee Gees discography in the 70s with it's lush soft rock ballad structure call and responding with a stop and go funk beat. The overlapping chorus vocals that first featured in the chorus of Heavy Breathing from 1974's Mr Natural album with the echo of 'Heavy Breathing in the dark' and would also feature to an extreme fashion in Stop, Find from 1979's Spirits Have Flown album. It's sweet and caressing here with the lovely triple echos of 'we'll be lovers, lovers, lovers' with a beautiful sentiment delivered with special emphasis as opposed to the incandescent shrieking of "Search..Fiiind!". Here we Barry's growling white boy blues voices for some faux funk verses and Robin's falsetto loveliness trade back and forth through out verse and chorus but the reverbed, overlapped chorus is something of true vocal and studio splendour; so romantic sounding.

 Some serene keyboard lines open the song with some equally smooth wah wah funky guitar; this mix of funk and ballad, disco and pop and white and black styles were the key to the Bee Gees' appeal bringin their orchestrated romantic Soft balladry to Funky mid-70s disco of the order of KC and the Sunshine band and Kool and the Gang.