#67

67. How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees

Stats:

• #1 for 3 Weeks in 1977 - 1978 (December - January)
• Replaced: You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
• Replaced by: Baby Come Back
• Sample Headline from its Reign: Copyright is extended to 75 years or life of the author plus 50 years.
• #2 Hits It Prevented from Reaching #1: None
• Top 200 #1 Hits 1955-2000 Rank: #133

This is the highlight of the Bee Gees' slow music.  True and heartfelt, it asks the male version of the How Will I Know/Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow questions, which feels less important, but also more emasculating.  That's probably why it took the High Voiced Three to ask it in the first place.  The production, which is standard late 70s AC pop, rises above that by being neither grating, nor overwrought.  They don't kick up the last chorus a half-step; they don't pretend the song is more exciting than it is.  And it ends up being a delicate love letter at a time when the overwrought (See: Boone, Debby) was the currency of the day.

Coming up: #66 -"I don't know where but she sends me there"