How bad could it be? Sea breezes, temperatures that gently swing from 65-76F and a studio that’s less than four miles away from the beach. That’s what was on offer when Blue Weaver got the call to join the Brothers Gibb in Miami in January of 1975. The Bee Gees were coming off the disappointment of their “Mr. Natural” album and drummer Dennis Byron (who he’d worked with in the band Amen Corner…) was looking to help reinvigorate the band’s output.

“Dennis had starting working with the Bee Gees when they were using an orchestra.” Weaver remembers. “It was September or October of 1974, and he was saying, ‘Look, the Bee Gees aren’t doing much, and it would be great if we could get a rhythm section together and try and take them in another direction.’”

The material the Bee Gees began to work up with producer Arif Mardin would be far more soul infused than they’d attempted before. To those proceedings Weaver brought some extremely funky Minimoog parts – particularly on a track called “Nights On Broadway.”

“It was just a riff I had,” Blue remembers. After we’d done ‘Jive Talkin’,’ when we realized that we could use a synth that way, the Minimoog was sitting there, and Arif said, ‘Try some Moog on this.’ So we recorded the backing track for ‘Nights’ in the afternoon, and then they did the vocals at night.”

Released as the second single from the “Main Course” album, the song went Top 10 in the U.S. and signaled the start of a golden era in the Bee Gees career.