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1. #Bee gees saturday night fever on charts for 24 weeks movie#
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#Bee gees saturday night fever on charts for 24 weeks tv#

In 2003 the TV network VH1 named it the 57th greatest album of all time, and it was ranked 80th in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time. 1 spot on Billboard Music Chart's Pop Album and Soul Album charts. 132 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It is the only disco album to do so, and one of only three soundtrack albums so honored (the others being The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album and the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack). The soundtrack also won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Other previously released songs from the disco era round out the music in the movie. Template:Fix Two previously released Bee Gees songs – ] and " You Should Be Dancing" – are also included on the soundtrack. They had no idea at the time they would be making a soundtrack and said that they basically lost an album in the process.

#Bee gees saturday night fever on charts for 24 weeks movie#

The Bee Gees had originally written and recorded five of the songs used in the film – " Stayin' Alive", " Night Fever", " How Deep Is Your Love", " More Than a Woman" (performed in the film in two different versions – one version by Tavares, and another by the Bee Gees) and " If I Can't Have You" (performed in the movie by Yvonne Elliman) as part of a regular album. Saturday Night Fever had a large cultural impact in the United States.

#Bee gees saturday night fever on charts for 24 weeks professional#

Legacy Professional ratings Review scoresĪlong with the success of the movie, the soundtrack, composed and performed primarily by the Bee Gees, was the best-selling soundtrack album of all time (it was later surpassed by Whitney Houston's soundtrack to The Bodyguard). In 2006, the album was re-released on Reprise Records as part of the Bee Gees' regaining control of their master tapes. In 1994, the soundtrack was re-released on CD through Polydor Records. Five additional cues – "Tony and Stephanie", "Near the Verrazano Bridge" (both adapted from the Bee Gees' song "How Deep Is Your Love"), "Barracuda Hangout", "Death on the Bridge" and "All Night Train" – while heard in the film, remain unreleased on CD. Three of Shire's cues – "Manhattan Skyline", "Night on Disco Mountain" (based on the classical piece " Night on Bald Mountain") and "Salsation" – are included on the soundtrack album as well. In addition to the Bee Gees songs, additional incidental music was composed and adapted by David Shire. "Jive Talkin Template:'" was to have been used in a deleted scene taking place the day after Tony Manero's first Saturday night at the disco, but as the sequence was cut for the final film, the song was cut as well. All CD releases have included the original "Jive Talkin Template:'". The original issue of the album included the original studio version of "Jive Talkin Template:'" later LP pressings included a version culled from Here at Last. He asked if we could write it more discoey" Releases Maurice Gibb recalled, "We played him demo tracks of 'If I Can't Have You', 'Night Fever' and ' More Than a Woman'.

We still had no concept of the movie, except some kind of rough script that they'd brought with them. They flipped out and said these will be great. The first song they recorded was " If I Can't Have You", but their version was not used on the film.īarry Gibb remembered the reaction when Stigwood and music supervisor Bill Oakes arrived and listened to the demos:

The brothers wrote the songs "virtually in a single weekend" at Château d'Hérouville studio in France. Would you have any songs on hand?', and we said, 'Look, we can't, we haven't any time to sit down and write for a film'. And we'd written about and recorded about four or five songs for the new album when Stigwood rang from LA and said, 'We're putting together this little film, low budget, called Tribal Rites of a Saturday Night. We were recording our new album in the north of France. Producer Robert Stigwood commissioned the Bee Gees to create the songs for the film. I was dancing to Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs." As John Travolta asserted, "The Bee Gees weren't even involved in the movie in the beginning .

The Bee Gees's involvement in the film did not begin until post-production. However, this track does not appear on the movie's soundtrack. Composer David Shire, who scored the film, had to in turn write a song to match the dance steps demonstrated in the scene and eliminate the need for future legal hassles. However, representatives for Scaggs's label, Columbia Records, refused to grant legal clearance for it, as they wanted to pursue another disco movie project, which never materialized.