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).

Although they're best known as Graham Parker's long-time backing band, The Rumour toured on their own and released three albums: "Max" (1977),  "Frogs, Sprouts, Clogs and Krauts" (1979), and "Purity of Essence" (1980). They broke up in 1981, but reunited for a one-off reunion with Parker that turned into another run as his band.

The Rumour consisted of founding members Bob Andrews (keyboards), Brinsley Schwarz (guitar), Martin Belmont (guitar), Andrew Bodnar (bass), and Stephen Goulding (drums). The vocals were shared by pretty much every member of the band at some point.

"I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" is from the "Max" album, which was named as a weirdly obscure joke referencing the fact Fleetwood Mac had recently released their mega-hit album entitled "Rumours." Like most of the group's music, it's a tight and energetic piece of pub rock and unfortunately it's been long out of print. This is one of those songs that makes you want to crank up the music, down a couple of shots and drunk-dial an ex or two.

Singer Vyonne Elliman is best known for a string of hit singles she had in the 1970s, including "If I Can't Have You," "Love Me" and a remake of the Barbara Lewis hit "Hello Stranger." But she's had a much more interesting career than you might suspect from those familiar tunes.

Elliman's first recording came when she was living in London. She was a virtual unknown and still singing random gigs in clubs when she was hired sing Mary Magdalene's part in an double-album concept version of the new musical "Jesus Christ Superstar." That version is thought to be the best version of the show ever recorded and it led to a Top 30 single with "I Don't Know How to Love Him." She went on to play the role in the original Broadway production of "Superstar" as well as the movie.

While appearing on Broadway, she was hired to sing back-up vocals on the Eric Clapton song "I Shot The Sheriff" and that led to her touring and appearing on a string of Clapton's 1970s albums, including "461 Ocean Boulevard," "There's One in Every Crowd," "E. C. Was Here," "No Reason to Cry," and "Slowhand." In 1977, she released her fourth solo album and that included "Love Me," her first solo hit. By the end of that year, her Bee Gees written and produced single "If I Can't Have You" was her first and only solo hit.

"If I Can't Have You" is a cover of the song by The Who and comes from her 1973 solo album "Food Of Love." It was her second solo album and while it's wildly uneven, it also has some real high points. Thanks to some guitar work from Pete Townsend, this track is a great example of a fun 1970s rock single and it's a shame that it never received the airplay it deserved. A couple of pieces of trivia about the song. It was later sampled for Fatboy Slim's "Going Out Of My Head." And the "Food Of Love" album included the song "Happy Ending," which was the first commercially released recording of a song written by Jim Steinman. He went on to have a string of hits with Meatloaf, Air Supply, Bonnie Tyler and others.