Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing

What this video is

Released in June/July 1976, 'You Should Be Dancing' arrived at the precise inflection point when American disco was crossing over from Black urban dance clubs to mainstream pop radio. The Bee Gees — a British-Australian act recording at Criteria Studios in Miami — embodied the internationalization of the genre. The song marked Barry Gibb's first chart-topping use of his falsetto register, a vocal choice that would…

Why it matters

Represents the pivotal transition from blue-eyed soul to falsetto disco within the Bee Gees' catalog and within mainstream pop at large. The song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent seven weeks atop the US Hot Dance Club Play chart, making it one of the era's defining crossover disco…