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BASKING RIDGE, N.J., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Verizon Wireless released a list of the top ten V CAST Music songs from the Bee Gees that customers have downloaded since the service launched in early 2006. With V CAST Music mobile music service from Verizon Wireless, customers can download their favorite Bee Gees songs over-the-air, directly to their V CAST Music- enabled phones. Verizon Wireless offers more than 1.8 million songs for sale, right over-the-air, through V CAST Music -- from both well-known and independent artists. V CAST Music runs on Verizon Wireless' award-winning broadband network, and customers can ... purchase and download songs to Windows(R) XP PCs, plus sideload -- or transfer -- their existing compatible digital music collections for free to their V CAST Music-enabled handsets or memory cards.
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If there's a big change, it's in that the Bee Gees finally dump psychedelia overboard. When a song on Idea is not a ballad, it's a roots-rocker, with folk and country motives prominently featured, but not yet wholly harnessed - that would come several months later with Odessa. On here, the Bee Gees were still adjusting to the times, sensing that overall change which led the rocking world from trippy incoherent acid-induced imagery (which the Bee Gees could formally master but which, as far as I seem to understand, was never really their own favourite cup of tea) to heartfelt sincere honest (variant: generic phoney boring) country rock a la The Band, The Byrds (late period), James Taylor, The Eagles, you get my drift.
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In the month after the Beatles unveiled Sgt Peppers, the Bee Gees released their First LP in England on 14 July 1967. Colin Peterson, then the Bee Gees’ drummer, said these were "fantastic sessions in the studio…very, very inventive". The LP showed the band experimenting extensively with orchestrated arrangements, and tackling a diverse range of song subjects. Ossie’s production showed little evidence of any technical inadequacy. The sound was warm, even lush on occasions. On some cuts the orchestration approaches symphonic, yet always the voices, the harmonies and melodies, are the central focus, beautifully framed by Bill Shepherd and Phil Dennys’ fine arrangements.
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The big-lunged R&B songbird became the first artist to score seven consecutive No. 1 hits, beating the record of six held by The Beatles and the Bee Gees. She paved the way for Mariah Carey’s chart-topping vocal gymnastics and countless copycats.
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