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SAMANTHA SANG
“EMOTION”
(BARRY GIBB, Robin Gibb)
Private Stock 45178
No. 3 March 18, 1978
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“One thing I always have to make clear to people who only know me from … my association with BARRY
[GIBB] and his brothers–I am not a Bee Gee girl,” Sang declared to Vibe’s Kit Lachatte. “I have been a
performer for most of my life. My parents were performers. I love working with the Bee Gees. I love
singing their songs. But what they have always wanted for me was that I was a success. And that means
being able to stand on my own feet.”
Australian Samantha Sang was an experienced vocalist–having sung on the radio as eight-year-old
“Cheryl Gray” and having performed with her warbling parents–when she met Barry Gibb at the age of
16. He suggested that she record some material he had been concocting. Samantha recorded Gibbs’s
“Don’t Let It Happen Again,” but it flopped. A single or two was issued in the States that same year, but
not until “Emotion” did Americans hear from Sang again.
With the Bee Gees on top of the charts with their disco gyrations, Sam approached Barry about lending
her another number. Within an hour’s time, Gibb brothers Robin and Barry shaped up a smoothie with
more than a morsel of Bee Gee mystery magic encased therein. On “Emotion,” Samantha’s and Barry’s
vocals blended together so well that it was difficult to tell who was breathing and panting those passionate
words. With Gibb at her side, Sammi sounded like a virile Bee-Gee-ette.