Music: A Bee Gees tribute

One of my Mom's favorite groups is the Bee Gees, and for good reason - the "Brothers Gibb" have withstood the test of time. In the pop pantheon, where having a few hits can make someone a star, the Bee Gees have written and recorded a whole albumful of memorable songs, including the perenially covered "How Deep is Your Love." Of course, her taste for the Bee Gees rubbed off on me...

It's telling that in this week's "American Idol" shows, the four young contestants' performances paled in comparison to a 60 year-old Barry Gibb, whose penetrating falsetto was still poignant even with the pall of age. To think you can find talent like Gibb every year in a canned annual competition voted on by the public is ludicrous at best and insulting at worst.



Of course, the Bee Gees themselves were always strongest as a group, with brothers' rendering pop ballads and disco tunes with harmonic aplomb: