I love the Bee Gees; they had so many good songs from 1963 to 2001, and it is hard to keep this list down to a half dozen or so songs, but I am going to start at the beginning and pick a few songs down the line.

They were so good that they had a string of hits with songs they wrote for others to use, it got to a point in the 1970s that if they weren’t close to the top with their own songs, they were close with songs written by them but were sung by others.

The Battle of the Blue and the Grey

This song was released in Australia in 1963 and is about the American Civil War, an interesting choice from the boys from the Isle of Man who were living in Australia and even more interesting it is a Confederate story, perhaps Stonewall Jackson was easier to sing than Ulysses S. Grant.

Spicks and Specks

This is the song that the band really started to make an impact on the Australian music scene; the next year would be the year they would hit the charts in America and the UK, but ‘Spicks and Specks’ was their first top 10 single, it peaked at No. 2 in the Netherlands and No. 5 in Australia.

Heard this song before on TV? It is likely that you heard it on ‘The Walking Dead’ as the lead character Rick is walking around a compound.

World

‘World’ was released in 1968 right after ‘Massachusetts’ and was No. 1 in Germany, the Netherlands and Singapore, it was Top 10 in Australia and the UK.

I really love this song, it may actually be my favourite song of all time, if such a thing is possible, there is plenty of great songs out there.

Tomorrow Tomorrow

Tomorrow Tomorrow was released in 1969; it was the first single released that did not feature Robin Gibb who had quit the group.

The song peaked at No. 28 in Australia, No. 23 in the UK and No. 54 on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as charting in fifteen other charts around the world.

Run to Me

‘Run to Me’ was a big hit in 1972, it peaked at No. 3 in Australia, No. 9 in the UK and No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Stayin’ Alive

‘Stayin’ Alive’ was a big hit for the Bee Gees, it was Top 10 in ten markets around the world including No. 1 in Australia and the United States

The interesting part about the music video is that it was done on backlot No. 2 at MGM

Immortality

Celine Dion and the Bees Gees combined in 1998 to release ‘Immortality’, surprisingly this song only peaked at No. 38 in Australia making it their last Top 40 hit in the country.

However, the album it came from, Celine’s ‘Let’s Talk About Love’ was No. 1 on some twenty-six charts so there was no shortage of listeners of the song.

This Is Where I Came In

This song was the Bee Gees last single, the song done reasonably well peaking at No. 18 in the UK, it was enough to give the group a Top 20 single in five decades (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s) in the UK.

It only peaked at No. 76 in Australia and charted in nine other markets around the world, it wasn’t all bad news for the group as the album of the same name peaked at No. 6 in the UK, No. 16 in Australia and No. 16 in America.