Sounds Like You Win Again Bee Gees
"You lot Win Again," a global hit that sparked a Bee Gees revival in the late 1980s, contained one of the band's catchiest melodies – one that supposedly came to Barry Gibb in a dream. "Some of my best grooves usually come in the dark, in a dream, and so I proceed a lilliputian recorder nearby," he told the BBC in 2016. "The chorus of 'You lot Win Once again' came that way, just I didn't have the recorder, so I had to run around the firm and find something, because like a dream those things will disappear. You have to catch them."
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When Barry told his brothers Maurice and Robin about his chorus, they immediately got together to write lyrics to accompany the tune, about a man losing "a boxing of dear." "We had no idea how it might turn out as a song. It ended up as a large demo in my garage," Maurice recalled in 2001. In the terminate, they chose the title "Yous Win Again," even though it was the same as the Hank Williams classic from 1952. (Robin claimed he had non heard that vocal and was more worried that the title was also shut to the Hot Chocolate hitting "So Yous Win Again" from 1977.)
The Recording
For the song, the Bee Gees reunited with producer Arif Mardin – a human being who engineered and produced an incredible array of archetype records from artists such as Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Diana Ross, and Barbra Streisand – who said that he was "inspired" past working once again with such "incredible singers."
When the band worked on a demo of the vocal in Maurice's garage, they went for what Maurice called the distinctive "stomps" at the start. The grouping retained the steady, pounding opening beat for the final recording of the rail at the Middle Ear studio in Miami Beach, with a new pulsate programme devised by Maurice and celebrated producer Rhett Lawrence. "As soon every bit you hear that 'jabba-doomba, jabba-doomba' on the radio, yous know information technology'due south u.s.. It's a signal. And then, that's i lilliputian secret – requite people an automatic identification of who it is," explained Maurice.
All three brothers sang on "You Win Once more" (Barry likewise played guitar and Maurice was on keyboards) and Robbie Kondor was featured on keyboards and synthesizer bass. Robin recalled that the brothers were so convinced that this was going to be a huge hit that they spent a calendar month recording it and re-mixing information technology (including at Criteria Studios in Miami) to try to get it as perfect as possible, despite problems with the technology of the time. They used a 32-runway recorder that Mardin described as "very, very brittle" and, in the final version, the vocal was sped upward, raising it about a quarter tone, to ameliorate the sound.
The Reception
"You Win Again" was released on September vii, 1987, as the lead single from their studio album Eastward.South.P., and it chop-chop climbed to the top of the UK charts, making the Bee Gees the first ring to score a No.1 hit in each of the three decades, the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Information technology was the band'due south offset hit single in eight years. Although it did well throughout Europe, the lack of radio play in America impacted sales and the single never went higher than No. 75 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Still, the emotive lyrics ("you win again, so little fourth dimension, we do nothing but compete") struck a chord with the public and helped the Gibb brothers win the prestigious 1987 British Academy Ivor Novello honor for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.
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