And the Sun Will Shine

When you dive into And the Sun Will Shine, you encounter a piece that the Bee Gees included on their album Horizontal. What's interesting about this song is that, although it was released as a single, its distribution was limited, appearing only in France in 1968. The lead vocals fall to Robin Gibb, and his performance is one of those that stays in your memory. It's a track they used to incorporate into their concerts, often forming part of a medley in the middle of the show, demonstrating their versatility and how they connected different musical moments.

This song had a particular moment on American television. It was the first time the Bee Gees performed on television in that country, on February 4, 1968, on the show The Smothers Brothers. The recording of that performance became a promotional music video for the song, giving it special visibility. Later, in 1969, the artist José Feliciano recorded his own version, which managed to reach number 25 on the UK charts. The album Horizontal, released in early 1968, showed influences ranging from the Beatles to baroque pop. The Gibb brothers, Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb, founded their group in 1958. Throughout their careers, they had two notable peaks of success: one in the late sixties and early seventies as a pop act, and another as protagonists of the disco era in the late seventies. Their distinctive style of three-part vocal harmonies, with Robin's characteristic vibrato in their early hits and Barry's falsetto in later stages, made them instantly recognizable.