BRIDGET'S SPY SONG PLAYLIST: NEW YORK EDITION

Here's a bunch of New York-based songs written and/ or performed by one or all of the Bee Gees.

Hard to believe in an era when playlists are filled with self-esteem anthems, but pop music, especially in the late sixties and early seventies, used to be really depressing. The Bee Gees first hit was called New York Mining Diaster 1941.  Thirty-three Chilean miners were trapped underground a while back and no one wrote a song for them.

From just before their disco period kicked into full Saturday Night Live monstrousness, this is Nights On Broadway:

 

 

 That song was also a hit for Candi Staton:

Solo Bee Gee Robin Gibb had a hit with Another Lonely Night In New York:

...and obviously their defining New York song sounded like this: