Vince Melouney Puns

For the last few months, I've been interested in the origins of this CD.

I had this image of the band going into the BBC building and sitting there with the DJ, live, during a show. And that when people on the radio heard them, they were singing in that moment.

Everyone else probably already knew this, but I discovered the BBC Transcription service. The BBC would have bands come in for recording sessions. Then they would compile all the songs onto an LP with DJ Brian Matthew kind of narrating. Brian Matthew would pretend like everyone was in one big room when he was actually just narrating between previous recordings.

The BBC sent the transcription service LPs out to other countries and foreign radio stations to play. It's kind of amazing.

So I'm pretty sure that the CD that purports to be The Bee Gees singing during radio shows, is actually a compilation of the BBC recording sessions, as captured for the BBC Transcription service. It's even more confusing because the title of the show for The BBC transcription service was "Top of the Pops" even though it has nothing to do with the TV show and was never televised.

I put what I could find into a kind of repetitive timeline, in case anyone else is interested. If you just want to listen, and the genesis of these recordings doesn't really interest you, I put the music in bold. Sorry in advance for all the repetitive entries but it helps me to see the recording dates and air dates.

• Monday, April 17, 1967: BBC Radio Recording Session

> First BBC recording session. Bee Gees recorded at Playhouse Studio, London 1967-April-17 and broadcast on Saturday Club 1967-April-22. These recordings were also used for the BBC Transcription Service and other shows like Top Gear. According to Andrew Sandoval, this was The Bee Gees "BBC audition" and they received "rave notices from the panel." During the session, Bee Gees sang backing vocals for Gnomes of Zuruch's single, High Hopes.

> According to Andrew Sandoval, they recorded:

>> New York Mining Disaster, 1941 (recorded April 17, see July 21)

>> Cucumber Castle (recorded April 17, see July 21)

>> [One Minute Woman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?

I wanted to take this opportunity to discuss the Gibb brother’s discography beyond Saturday Night Fever and want to highlight other songs that don’t have the same universal recognition. Some of these songs did have some commercial success at the time of their release, some had very little, but these are not songs that are typically mentioned when the group’s legacy is discussed. Even though the group had worldwide success and have written over 3000 songs for themselves and other artists, they rarely got the respect from their contemporaries and many critics, especially at Rolling Stone, treated them harshly and brushed off their music as being ‘syrupy,’ ‘banal, trite, and without grace,’ and ‘melodramatic.’ One reviewer even said that they came off as ‘unflaggingly moronic on television,’ and were simply ‘imitators.’ (The same publication later referred to them as ‘Earthly Angels,’ so all’s well that ends well?) John Lennon even famously refused to turn around to greet Barry during an introduction in London in 1968. It probably took until their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 1997 for their reputation in the US to begin to bounce back from being so unfairly maligned in the early 80s, but there are still many people who have negative feelings towards that era and their music of the late 70s.

 

A side note—in his later years, Barry has been very humble about his talent and ambition, and even the HBO doc leaned into the narrative that Robin was the one who was much more driven for success. In earlier interviews, Barry talks about how as a child, he listened to the radio constantly, focused on what music was being played, what music was charting and what music sold records. He always informed his song writing and song writing of the group with his eye on achieving and maintaining commercial success. Even as a young man in his early 20s, he talked about wanting to discover and manage new talent out of Australia, wanting to produce for the Bee Gees and other artists, wanting to pursue other ventures such as acting and poured his heart and soul into the group projects.

 

One last comment before I get to the music,

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Buenosdillas

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

[Removed]

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

I was just sitting there doing nothing.

“BOOM”?!

free