No comments so far, be the first to comment. Samantha Sang never did have another major hit record in the United States. In all, it spent more than six months on the best-seller list.Īnd Robert Stigwood was right. It broke in America in mid-November 1977, and peaked on the charts in March 1978. The master was finally placed with Private Stock, a company famed for its skill with singles. She wanted to sign with RSO, but owner Robert Stigwood, her former manager, doubted Sang's ability to sell records without a Bee Gee connection. "Emotion" wound up sounding just like another Bee Gees record, and for that reason, many labels eagerly bid for it, including those who had rejected Samantha in the past. It did, but it's only one of many styles I use." "Barry just thought that soft and very sensuous sound would work best on that record. "We didn't set out to do it that way," she said. Their voices blended so well that critics called her "the female Bee Gee." At first, she was flattered, but later grew to resent that term. Originally, Emotion was recorded by Samantha Sang for the Private Stock. "Emotion" was produced as a duet, with Barry and Samantha each singing eight harmonies. Best Of My Love by the Emotions was the number 1 hit song on September 10. Samantha was actually given her choice of that song or "Our Love (Don't Throw It All Away)." When she chose "Emotion," "Our Love" was given to Andy Gibb, who had a Top 10 hit with her reject in 1978. The Bee Gees wrote "Emotion" in about an hour's time. So I said, 'Let's see if we can fit it in.' She came to Miami for a week, we cut it, and that was it." "She flew in with her manager, not to my knowledge, confronted me, and said, 'Would you write me a song?' I said, 'Great, would love to, but that's as far as it can go.' Six months later, she rang up and said nobody would produce the song, because it was so Bee Gees influenced. "We were in the middle of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack," he recalled. Then, in 1977, she heard that Barry was back in Paris. Samantha's real dream was to crack the American market, but somehow, her plans always seemed to fall through. She kept on singing, though, and the wasp was blown out. At one show, a wasp flew into her open mouth and down her throat. Samantha continued performing in Europe and Australia, cutting four albums, and playing clubs and outdoor concerts. To demonstrate, he wrote and produced her on a single, "Don't Let It Happen Again." Unfortunately, that record bombed. Samantha started a recording career, and in 1969, had a European hit with "Love of a Woman." The same year, she met Barry Gibb, who suggested that she try a softer vocal approach. She earned a reputation as "the little girl with big voice," because of her robust, dramatic singing style. When she was fifteen, Samantha began to tour with her parents, who were kind of the Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme of Australia. She became hooked on music by the age of eight, and sang on the radio as "Cheryl Gray." Her father, a vocalist, was known as "Reg Gray" professionally, because he thought his real last name, Sang, sounded "too stagy." Amantha Sang was born in Melbourne, Australia, where her father ran a singing school.
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