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Jive Talkin'

"Jive Talkin'"
Single by Bee Gees
from the album Main Course
B-side"Wind of Change"
ReleasedMay 1975
Recorded30 January – 19 February 1975
StudioCriteria, Miami
Genre
Length
  • 3:44 (album version)
  • 3:33 (single version)
LabelRSO
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Arif Mardin
Bee Gees singles chronology
"Charade"
(1974)
"Jive Talkin'"
(1975)
"Nights on Broadway"
(1975)
Music video
"Jive Talkin'" on YouTube

"Jive Talkin'" is a song by the Bee Gees, released as a single in May 1975 by RSO Records. This was the lead single from the album Main Course (as well as a song on the 1977 Saturday Night Fever soundtrack). It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and top-five on the UK Singles Chart in the middle of 1975. Largely recognised as the group's comeback song, it was their first US top-10 hit since "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" (1971).

Barry Gibb re-recorded the song as a duet with country music star Miranda Lambert for his 2021 album Greenfields.

  1. ^ Brennan, Joseph. "Gibb Songs : 1975". Columbia University. Retrieved 29 January 2014. 'Jive Talkin'' now continues on from 'Nights on Broadway' as another funk song, but there is no falsetto.
  2. ^ DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James; George-Warren, Holly, eds. (1992). The Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely New Reviews : Every Essential Album, Every Essential Artist (3rd ed.). Random House. p. 833. ISBN 0-679-73729-4. Collecting the best of the Gibb brothers' born-again funk phase (like the itchy "Jive Talkin'") and some authentic dance-floor jams (like the Trammps' blazing "Disco Inferno"), Saturday Night Fever deserves its preeminent status.
  3. ^ Guarisco, Donald A. "Jive Talkin' – Song Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  4. ^ Breihan, Tom (11 September 2019). "The Number Ones: Bee Gees' "You Should Be Dancing"". Stereogum. Retrieved 30 June 2023. ..."Jive Talkin'", their 1975 comeback hit, had basically been a rhythm-charged white R&B song...
  5. ^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (15 October 1996). "Color Blind: Blue-eyed Soul". Precious and Few - Pop Music in the Early '70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 42. ISBN 031214704X.

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