Post by RINGO on Sept 26, 2019 18:30:10 GMT
Maurice Ernest Gibb (22 December 1949 - 12 January 2003)
Member Of: Bee Gees (1958 - 2003)
Vocal Range: D2 - E5
{Vocal Summary}Known as the "quiet Bee Gee", Maurice Gibb might have been the Bee Gee with the least amount of lead vocals (generally singing no more than a song per album), but he was also the band's musical anchor, being their most talented musician. And despite his lack of leads, in some ways Maurice may have been the band's most talented singer. While he was the lowest-placed of them vocally (slightly below Barry), he almost always sang the high harmonies in their earlier material, stretching all the way to the mid-'70s. After Barry's falsetto began taking more prominence, Maurice usually sang lower harmonies, occasionally dipping into the lower second octave without much difficulty. Think of him as the band's utility man: often overlooked, but always essential.
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Significant High Notes:
E5 ("How Many Birds", "Overnight", "Please Read Me")
D5 ("Baby As You Turn Away", "Harry Braff", "How Many Birds", "I Surrender", "Melody Fair", "Suddenly")
C♯5 ("Anything for You", "Bad Bad Dreams", "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart", "I Lay Down and Die", "Overnight")
C5 ("Completely Original", "Down the Road", "Embrace", "Had a Lot of Love Last Night", "I Can't Let You Go", "I've Gotta Get a Message to You", "Indian Gin and Whisky Dry", "Jive Talkin'", "Let There Be Love", "Lonely Days", "Man for All Seasons", "Mr. Natural", "My Thing", "Nights on Broadway", "Odessa (City on the Black Sea)", "Ring My Bell", "Something's Blowing", "Songbird", "Wildflower", "Wish You Were Here", "With a Little Help from My Friends")
B4 ("Back Home", "Bad Bad Dreams", "Bridges Crossing Rivers", "Come Home Johnny Bridie", "Come on Over", "Country Woman", "Edison", "Give a Hand, Take a Hand", "Harry Braff", "I Laugh in Your Face", "Laughing Child", "Massachusetts", "My Thing", "Out of Line", "Paper Mache, Cabbages & Kings", "Please Read Me", "Portrait of Louise", "Tomorrow Tomorrow", "Trafalgar", "Turn of the Century", "We Lost the Road")
B♭4 ("How Deep Is Your Love", "I Can't Let You Go", "Let There Be Love", "Throw a Penny")
A4 ("Alone Again", "Close Another Door", "Country Woman", "Don't Forget to Remember", "Down to Earth", "Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You", "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart", "I Can't See Nobody", "In My Own Time", "Indian Gin and Whisky Dry", "Kitty Can", "Mrs. Gillespie's Refrigerator", "Never Say Never Again", "Nights on Broadway", "Please Don't Turn Out the Lights", "Portrait of Louise", "Railroad", "Run to Me", "Somebody Stop the Music", "To Love Somebody", "Wish You Were Here", "You Know It's for You")
G♯4 ("Overnight", "Saw a New Morning", "She's the One You Love", "Walking on Air")
G4 ("Bridges Crossing Rivers", "Closer Than Close", "Daytime Girl", "Déjà vu", "Give Your Best", "House of Shame", "I Close My Eyes", "Out of Line", "Railroad", "Sinking Ships", "Somebody Stop the Music", "Something's Blowing", "Sun in My Morning", "Sweetheart", "Trafalgar", "Wish You Were Here", "You Know It's for You")
F♯4 ("Above and Beyond", "Dimensions", "House of Lords", "If I Only Had My Mind on Something Else", "It's Just the Way", "Kitty Can", "Monday's Rain", "Omega Man", "Wildflower")
F4 ("Above and Beyond", "Giving Up the Ghost", "House of Shame", "I.O.I.O.", "In and Out of Love", "Please Lock Me Away")
E4 ("Closer Than Close", "Country Woman", "Dimensions", "It's Just the Way", "Laughing Child", "Love Never Dies", "Omega Man", "Wildflower")
Significant Low Notes:
E3 ("Country Woman", "House of Shame", "It's Just the Way", "Man in the Middle", "Melody Fair", "Omega Man", "Overnight", "She Keeps on Coming", "Soldier Johnny", "You Know It's for You")
E♭3 ("Closer Than Close")
D3 ("Alone", "I've Come Back", "Man in the Middle", "More Than a Woman", "Rings Around the Moon", "Run to Me", "Soldier Johnny", "Somebody Stop the Music", "Where Are You", "Wildflower")
C♯3 ("Marley Purt Drive")
C3 ("Above and Beyond", "Déjà vu", "Dimensions", "Please Lock Me Away", "Railroad", "Sun in My Morning", "Then You Left Me")
B2 ("I Still Love You", "I've Come Back", "My Thing", "Party with No Name", "Walking on Air")
B♭2 ("The Longest Night")
A2 ("Dimensions", "Edison", "Giving Up the Ghost", "Lay It on Me", "The Loner", "Soldier Johnny", "Suddenly", "Voice in the Wilderness")
G2 ("Railroad", "Something's Blowing", "Suddenly", "Sun in My Morning", "Wildflower", "You Should Be Dancing")
F♯2 ("Edison")
F2 ("I Held a Party")
E2 ("Dimensions", "Lay It on Me", "The Lord", "Omega Man", "This Is Where I Came In")
D2 ("Man in the Middle")
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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.
