Barry Gibb Mentor on American Idol may 2007

[@valie2254]

Bee Gees and Barry Gibb greatest Forever ❤❤❤

[@victoriahanson81]

Randy nailed it when he said ," These songs are great melodies and don't meed to be changed that much." Each contestant has a great voice and a wide range but changing each song so much was not necessary.

[@karin10987]

Loved seeing Barry guiding these people.. He is so empathic, caring and showing his love for the music and so friendly helping all off them to go for the best.. Eventhough he is NOT replacable. As we all know!!😅 ❤😮❤

[@dashriprock8596]

Barry was too nice.

[@saminaroiballove1430]

Bee Gees’s melodies are engraved in stones, so beautiful, incomparable, if unable to keep up please don’t change it to your comfort. I agree with Randy, the original melodies are great no need to change, they made the hype songs so boring with their unnecessary extra effort.

[@GeorgeTeixeira-st7jd]

É impossível cantar Bee Gees se não mudar o ritmo da música.

[@MariangelaGuimaraes-zz1by]

Bee Gees perfeitos. Não existe substituição.Unicos❤

[@eaccristo]

What a wonderful man Barry is.

[@lisascott7180]

I agree with Randy, you have to give props to Barry Gibb for so many hot/ amazing songs. In my opinion, only Barry and his brothers can sing these songs. Bee Gees forever 💕💕💕

[@dashriprock8596]

Barry did not usually write by himself! It was a collaboration amongst the brothers.

[@kthor]

@@dashriprock8596Of the Gibb brothers, Barry was the principal songwriter.

[@cababyboomerq6012]

@@kthor Correct. George Martin said “everyone knows Barry was the idea man.”

[@deewhite8947]

These songs are classics. There's no need to change them so much. It just doesn't work.

[@patricialegge2482]

They leave a lot to be desired, no one can imitate the best.

[@marygriffiths2950]

Kudos to you 01livingeyes for bringing this to.your followers 🤗💗 I can appreciate these contestants for trying but my pick is for Jordan Sparks. The other ones didn't cut it. Don't mess with Barry Gibb and his brothers music 🎶🎵.

[@irinaarcher325]

It is very strange that some judges didn't know the songs they must judge. The contestants really didn't do justice to themselves, songs was unrecognizable. It takes the Bee Gees' talent and ability to harmonize and to sing their songs. Bee Gees you are the BEST!

[@indigo2go]

I have the album "This Is Where I Came In" and that album is INCREDIBLE! I LOVE EVERY SONG! THOSE SONGS SHOULD'VE CHARTED BETTER THAN THEY DID!❤❤❤💯💯💯

[@dashriprock8596]

It's a fabulous song.

[@MsMommom2]

As much as the disco songs were good but you are correct This is where I came in is the best@

[@indigo2go]

@@dashriprock8596 I agree 100%!

[@lynneg8874]

I was disappointed that every contestant changed the songs so much they were almost unrecognizable. Lesson: Don't mess with PERFECTION!!

[@annabirch5625]

I absolutely agree with you, Lynne! They could have chosen so many other songs that the BeeGees wrote that would have been more suitable. Like you say “Why mess with perfection “.

[@hadasfruchter4953]

The first one was good

[@laveaniadixon1863]

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[@TurkeyCreekGal]

I thought Jordin did great!!

[@karin10987]

Sorry I do not agree ... It is still a privilege to sing and making their own Beegees songs..Advised by Barry is just phenominal.. Of course the music of the Beegees is obviously the best.. But come on, give them a chance making their own dicisions about singing these marvellous songs. As Barry says: you all do have a gift...❤

[@cababyboomerq6012]

They didn’t listen to a GREAT song writer and producer who knows his stuff. And they paid the price……. Guess they forgot Barbra Streisand’s “Guilty” Album. He knows how to advise women.

[@marvy8361]

The melody became "unrecognizable"😢

[@TheRealdeel73]

God I'd do anything to meet Barry Gibb.

[@MsMommom2]

Me too

[@karin10987]

But honestly, when the three of them sang exactly the same like the BEEGEES sang, it would be damaging for them all The Beegees CANNOT be replaced.. No way.. But they did a marvellous thing under the guidance of Barry.. I really think so.. Chapeaud to all three of them!!! Especcially to Barry, stimulating each one of them to a higher experiance and leven.. 😮❤ Thank you so much sharing this with me..!

[@brianlogan4243]

Curious to why they picked the hardest faulcetto hits of the Bee Gees. It's shows how good the Gibbs really were all together and their versatility. Barry was cringing during the contestants first song.

[@allantaylor1758]

Love you Barry u da man,❤😂

[@Lora-qw2rz]

❤❤❤❤Barry 4 ever.

[@willow_wise]

I mean, it's a little unfair - noone can compare to the Bee Gees. They should have just stuck with the original melodies since that is one of the hallmarks of Bee Gee songs. Also, there are so many hidden gems in the Bee Gee catalog they would have been better off going with lesser known songs (although maybe they had no choice).

[@zoo9830]

I think she did great. Barry even said she pulled it off. Who better than to say? A great song by the BG’s lives on!

[@philadogtrainer]

He is a kind man.

[@indigo2go]

Jordin Sparks did the 2 best songs with her vocals. Make no mistake about that!❤💯

[@KikiKCelbar]

Rather hear The Bee Gees.

[@EdeltrudMcCloskey-e1i]

No no what a mess. Nobody can Sing better than the Bee Gees

[@cathymcinerney4609]

If they would have sang the songs with more or closer sound to the Bbe jees it would have been better but let's face it no one could ever top the Bee jees sound. They were and always will be the absolute best but I give those singers credit for trying. They were ok

[@brianlogan4243]

TO LOVE SOMEBODY was written by Barry for Otis Redding. Simon said it best. It fit her voice

[@Lora-qw2rz]

Bring out Barry to sing.

[@juliamaciejewska8576]

Damn, it only made me realise how good Bee Gees were. No one (well, except Jordan) came close to giving these songs justice. They say covering the artist is the highest form of praise, but Bee Gees are like the Beatles. No cover will ever do.

[@dashriprock8596]

Just like the Kennedy Centre honors - mediocre talents trying to do bee Gees. We would have been happier if they just played videos of bee gees performing their own music.

[@laveaniadixon1863]

If it ain’t broke then don’t fix it!

[@debharrell]

All was disappointing😢 They all messed with perfection and shouldn't be changed. If I could pick a winner, it is Jordan

[@bailatwerski2951]

I agree

[@dashriprock8596]

Not much of a choice

[@dktwilsonwilson5334]

No need to change the songs

[@Lora-qw2rz]

Melinda girl stop singing you ruined How can you mend a broken heart. Nobody sings that like my Beegees. Barry they are doing your songs justice. She changed this way to much.

[@Lora-qw2rz]

Nobody can truly cover the Beegees.

[@trishafaulk2067]

Melinda changed things too much and it insulted the songs. Blake, was not feeling the songs as they were written and his tempo changes hurt the performances. They were dance songs for crying out loud. Lakeisha should have taken Barry's advice, then she'd have done much better. She's got range but doesn't use it well. Jordan did the first song better than anyone other than the Bee Gees, she should have chosen a different song other than Woman In Love for her second song, it didn't suit her, Barry was right there. She's a very good singer but there were so many other songs that would have worked better for her. I still think she won it for the night because the others did worse. And I don't watch these kinds of shows, I only watched it because I am a fan of Barry Gibb. (I've listened to the Bee Gees my whole life.)

[@bailatwerski2951]

That's actually the only reason I watched this!!! I'm a huge Barry Gibb fan & of course when Maurice & Robin were alive the Bee Gees!!! I can't believe Simon and the rest of the judges did not know this is where I came in song by the Bee Gees. One of my favorites

[@dubivxler]

👍👍👌

[@ibonposuma6662]

Semua Kereennn... ❤

[@DennisHolmberg-sl1hz]

We tend to want to hear music the way we first hear it; if you heard some of the demos for other artists before hearing their version you probably prefer the BGs version. Thing is some artists that have covered their songs and done a fine job because they interpreted it without trying to rework it and give their own spin to it as well, and yet did not copy the brothers doing so. In this case most of the songs were poorly fitted to a single performer as the BGs wove a lot of the back and forth between the brothers and a single performer is left to fill in that gap. Except for "mend a broken heart", most of the songs don't easily translate to solo performances. If they had chosen some of the other, arguably solo songs, and added their own take to those without going overboard they might have been better across the board; however, in America some of the better songs that work better for a solo singer were dissed and never got any real air time, and thus less recognizable. Now, if they had the option to choose from their solo albums (more for Robin, fewer for Barry, IIRC one for Maurice?) the range for interpreting them would have been wider, but maybe lesser known today songs. None of the bands that have covered their music did so with a few minutes or days thinking about it, they worked on how they wanted to play them; maybe there just wasn't enough time to get the selected songs wrapped around their thinking in such a short period of time for them to work out how it sounded best for them.

[@MsMommom2]

Words is a fantastic solo song

[@eaccristo]

Blake was cringey

[@mamaesalwa1776]

❤

[@beularajakumari8328]

What an insult to the creator 😒. Messed all the songs.

[@Lora-qw2rz]

Wonder what Barry was really thinking

[@gwenmorantz7767]

They destroyed these songs, not in a good way. The melodies were not meant to be changed.

[@sinsinnatibabe8222]

WHAT A MESS! Didn't like any of it! Did a disgrace to the Bee Gees. Exactly why artist don't like people changing their songs.

[@Lora-qw2rz]

Agree

[@Lora-qw2rz]

Girl butchered love you inside and out. Horrible.

[@GeorgeTeixeira-st7jd]

Ou muda a batida da música ou não vai conseguir. Até hoje é quase impossível cantar Bee Gees.

[@Jaisee14]

No no no. HE is way off key on you should be dancing. I don't like it at all.

[@timmangosphotography]

The first round I would say was pretty average but the second round was much better. I would say those judges had very little experience in those songs which should they should've researched before this and some of the comments were not on point for those songs.

[@dashriprock8596]

All those songs were very well known so i expect the judges would know them -- except for "this is where I came in" -- which was done badly by Blake.

[@Jaisee14]

None of them can sing any of the Bee Gee songs. They change the songs way too much.

[@raymondnguyen5813]

Where’s Robin?

[@brianlogan4243]

He is dead. Only Barry is left

[@raymondnguyen5813]

@@brianlogan4243 Robin died in 2012 not 2007

[@kthor]

Robin was a guest judge in 2003.

[@rosarioespino7792]

Robin was a judge in AI2 where Clay Aekin did an awesome version of To Love Somebody.

[@Lora-qw2rz]

Guy screwed up you showed be dancin bad.

[@Lora-qw2rz]

Barry was just being nice here. They all messed up the songs.

[@donnapalmisano8307]

All modern day music was in some way influenced by this marvolous trio!!! Sorry BEATLES YOU DON'T COMPARE !!! They saturated every aspect of our listening life, the Beatles. that is.!!! It was like "please let me off their "magical mystery tour". I'll go anywhere with the BEEGEES!!!

[@Jaisee14]

Didn't like the way she sang the song. She changed it way too much for my taste.

[@philadogtrainer]

Barry even told her to go high and she didn't.