How Deep Is Your Love
| How Deep Is Your Love | |
|---|---|
| Bee Gees | |
| publication | September 1977 |
| length | 4:06, 3:36 (7 "version) |
| Genre (s) | Contemporary R&B , Pop |
| Author (s) | Barry , Robin , Maurice Gibb |
| album | Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track |
| Cover version | |
| 1996 | Take that |
How Deep Is Your Love is a pop - and R & B - Ballad of the Bee Gees . The piece was released in September 1977 as a single from the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track . It reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on December 24, 1977 .
At the 1978 Grammy Awards , the Bee Gees received the "Best Pop Performance by a Group" award for the song. The piece was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1978 .
It was ranked 375 of the 500 best songs of all time by the music magazine Rolling Stone .
Along with many other versions, there is a particularly successful version of Take That , which became a number one hit in many countries in 1996.
The original version of the Bee Gees
The love ballad How Deep Is Your Love was written by the Gibb brothers and recorded in the spring of 1977 at the Château d'Hérouville , Hérouville , France with producers Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson , but initially only a demo recording , the actual recordings then took place in the Criteria Studios held in Miami . Barry Gibb worked out the keyboard melody with keyboardist Blue Weaver , who is not specified in the credits.
Music video
There are two different music videos for the piece. The first version shows the Gibb brothers singing with a picture of a woman. Barry Gibb has no beard in this version, but he does in the second version, in which the singing brothers can be seen in rays of rainbow-colored lights.
The version of Take That
In 1996, the British boy band Take That released a cover version, which was decoupled from their album Greatest Hits and achieved great success in many countries. So the piece became a number one hit in Great Britain. It also achieved platinum status there. In Germany this version reached number 7 in the charts.
Movie
The song that runs from the cassette in the Danish film "Adam's Apples" is "How Deep Is Your Love" in the version of Take That.
Music video
The music video with actress and model Paula Hamilton in the leading role shows how a blonde woman first holds the band members prisoner in the basement, then loads them into a van and drives them away. On a slope where the musicians are sitting, the actress finally pushes Gary Barlow down with a smile .
More cover versions
How Deep Is Your Love is one of the most covered songs by the Gibb brothers, and the covering artists include:
| Interpreter | year |
|---|---|
| Aberdeen | 1997 |
| Adeaze | 2004 |
| B3 | 2002 |
| Baby lemonade | 1994 |
| Backstreet Boys | 2003 |
| Bad plus | 2009 |
| The Bird and the Bee | 2009 |
| Blaze | 2002 |
| Paul Brett | 1980 |
| Brotherhood of Man | 1978 |
| Richard Clayderman | 1984 |
| Ray Conniff | 1978 |
| En Vogue | 2003 |
| Ferrante & Teicher | 1978 |
| The 5th dimension | 1995 |
| Adam Garcia | 1998 |
| Lionel Hampton | 1978 |
| David Hasselhoff | 1987 |
| Marcia Hines | 2004 |
| Guildo Horn ("I like Steffi Graf") | 1994 |
| Jam Hsiao | 2012 |
| Billy Jenkins | 1999 |
| Jeff Johnson | 2011 |
| Johnny Mathis | 1978 |
| Paul Mauriat | 1978 |
| Mina | 1985 |
| Peter Nero | 1998 |
| N'Sync | 2003 |
| portrait | 1995 |
| Real McCoy | 1994 |
| Red hot chili peppers | 2006 |
| Martin Rolinski | 2007 |
| Take that | 1996 |
| Ultra Naté | 2001 |
| Luther Vandross | 1993 |
| Dionne Warwick | 1978 |
| Hayley Westenra | 2000 |
| Peter White | 1994 |
| Ann Wilson | 2000 |
| David Choi | 2008 |
| Lea Michele (Rachel Berry, Glee) | 2012 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees) in the US charts
- ↑ http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=bee+gees&title=how+deep+is+your+love&year=All&genre=All
- ↑ 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 375 Bee Gees, 'How Deep Is Your Love' (Rolling Stone) ( Memento from July 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/77.html
- ↑ Take That in the UK charts
- ↑ http://beegees.wikia.com/wiki/Bee_Gees_songs_Covered_by_Others