Dave Spins: Andy Gibb!

Taking you back to the days when Barry Gibb and his fabulous chest hair had the tightest grip on the pop charts since the Beatles...really, no foolin'! He even tossed his little brother a bone.

Maybe it was the cocaine, but I don't think Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees ever slept  between 1975 and 1980. The man absolutely ruled the pop charts. If it wasn't songs from his band, it was massive hits for other artists, all with that signature bloody high girly voice trilling high and mighty in the background. And none were more lucky to be gifted with the aura of Barry than his wee brother, the toothsome Andy.

According to the story on Wiki, this song was written in about ten minutes while Andy and his big brothers were working on the ill fated movie version of Sgt Pepper. That ten minutes was parlayed into a massive number one hit and, according to Billboard, the biggest selling single of 1978, clocking in at a nice TWO MILLION COPIES.

From the golden age of disco, we now offer up to you our-

-K-101.7 SONG OF THE DAY!

P.S: Listen, it's easy to knock the Bee Gees, you know, break out the point at the floor, point at the ceiling dance, but the truth is they were really really good at the whole songwriting thing. You know who else was good? Pink Floyd. So here then are two great tastes that taste great TOGETHER.