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How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees song)

"How Deep Is Your Love" is a pop ballad written and recorded by the Bee Gees in 1977 and released as a single in September of that year. It was ultimately used as part of the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever. It was a number-three hit in the United Kingdom and Australia. In the United States, it topped the Billboard Hot 100 on 25 December 1977 and stayed in the Top 10 for 17 weeks. It spent six weeks atop the US adult contemporary chart. It is listed at No. 27 on Billboard's All Time Top 100.[2] Alongside "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever", it is one of the group's three tracks on the list. The song was covered by Take That for their 1996 Greatest Hits album, reaching No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks.[3]

"How Deep Is Your Love"

"Can't Keep a Good Man Down"

September 1977 (US)

1977

4:02

RSO

"How Deep Is Your Love" ranked number 375 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In a British TV special shown in December 2011, it was voted The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song by ITV viewers.[4] During the Bee Gees' 2001 Billboard magazine interview, Barry said that this was his favourite Bee Gees song.[5]

– lead, harmony and backing vocals, rhythm guitar

Barry Gibb

– lead vocals, harmony and backing vocals

Robin Gibb

– bass guitar, harmony and backing vocals

Maurice Gibb

Bee Gees


Additional musicians


Technical

"How Deep Is Your Love"

26 February 1996 (1996-02-26)[56]

Pop

3:40

RCA

  • Take That
  • Chris Porter

– lead vocals, backing vocals

Gary Barlow

– backing vocals

Howard Donald

– backing vocals

Jason Orange

– backing vocals

Mark Owen

1995: American R&B group , on their album All That Matters (The single reached No. 93 on the Billboard Hot 100,[98] No. 15 in Australia,[99] and No. 1 in New Zealand for 3 weeks,[100] where it was certified Gold[101] and ranked No. 6 on the year-end singles chart)[102]

Portrait

2017: , on his album Gumbo, featuring Yebba (The song won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance)

PJ Morton

A version of this song played at the Austin J. Tobin Plaza of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks, as observed in footage recorded by camera operator Jack Taliercio, which filmed the song playing as the twin towers of the complex burned.[103]

Muzak