Today's Song You Should Know: 'To Love Somebody' By The Bee Gees

If you're already familiar with this song, you might think including this as today's choice is a bit insane. But there are plenty of people who only know The Bee Gees for their disco years. However, the trio also had a run in the late 1960s and early 1970s cranking out Beatles-infused pop hits.

"To Love Somebody" was originally written for soul singer Otis Redding and it's easy to imagine his vocals wrapped around these lyrics. The Bee Gees recorded and released the song themselves and it became a modest hit in 1967, reaching #18 on the charts in the U.S and #39 in the U.K. But the tune has been covered in the years since by everyone from Janis Joplin to Michael Buble. And in a 2017 interview, when Barry Gibb was asked if he could pick one song he'd written as his favorite, he chose "To Love Somebody" (which he co-wrote with his brother Robin).