5. The Bee Gees - Marley Purt Drive
This'll separate the musos from the shameless...
I owe this one to the King of Music Bloggers, Any Major Dude, who included it on one of his mixes some time ago. From 1969, this is not your typical Bee Gees record. In fact, it owes quite a debt to The Weight by The Band, although the story it tells is entirely different. Apparently, Barry, Maurice and Robin were listened to a lot of country music at the time so they enlisted bluegrass banjo player Bill Keith for Odessa, the album this came from.
It's the lyrics that get me though (as is so often the case), the story of a guy with "fifteen kids and a family on the skids" who has to (quite understandably) "go for a Sunday drive". What he finds waiting on his doorstep when he gets home is another story entirely...
Well here it is, the first comment on a Bee Gees post! I loved all their incarnations but they do seem to irk the musos as you say. Will have to be braver this year and just "go for it" as the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack album holds oh so many happy memories for me.
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