By the way the ‘Tango Hustle’ – the dance to on this song – isn’t really a proper dance. The dancing on this is interesting…you wouldn’t catch any guy doing these steps in real life. I mean the song is called ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ – what the hell does that have to do with a “summer breeze”?Īnyway, this is # 375 on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”. It was #1 all around the world – in fact At one point, this was #1 and Stayin’ Alive was #2 on the Billboard charts.Ĭome on, the right lyric has to be “you come to me on a submarine” and not “you come on a summer breeze”.
#How many albums were sold for bee gees saturday night fever movie
This was the song that the Bee Gees felt captured the movie it definitely deserved to be the title track of the entire soundtrack. This is #183 on Rolling Stones’ 500 Greatest Songs of All Time And the old lady at the end who is waiting for her paint can, is his mother. Interestingly there are two cameos in this opening sequence of the movie – the girl at the pizza parlour asking “Tony, two or three ?” is Travolta’s sister. The strut on the guy – he makes it cool to walk with a can of paint! The walk and those shoes are etched in our memories. I’m going to add a bunch of videos here…enjoy!! Tonight is Saturday Night after all !! There are so many fantastic songs in addition to the ones I’ve already listed – “How Deep Is Your Love” “More Than A Woman”, “If I can’t Have You” ( by Yvonne Elliman – remember her? she sang backup vocals for Eric Clapton on ‘I Shot The Sheriff’). SNF’s soundtrack is the 2nd largest selling soundtrack, EVER. had to go to old-clothes stores to find the white suit that Travolta wore in the movie! But, this movie turned it all around and for a glorious year, all of us, along with literally the entire world, fell in love with Disco again. And, over a single weekend, without seeing the movie or really reading the script, the Bee Gees wrote all these fantastic tunes and also offered a few songs they had released a couple of years ago – and became disco supernovas!! Doston, isko kahten hain kismet….So, if the Bee Gees weren’t even in the picture, who the hell was Travolta dancing to during the shooting – it was Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs!!!īy the time SNF came out Disco was over in the US.
The Bee Gees were in France working on a new album and said they were too busy! So, Stigwood flew to France where they were working. In the United States, the album was certified 15× Platinum for shipments of over 15 million copies. The movie was already in the cans when the producer, Robert Stigwood, who was also the manager of the Bee Gees, reached out to them and asked, pretty please, would they write some songs for this little indie movie he was producing based on a newspaper article called “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night”. Album description: Wikipedia jack: Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track is the soundtrack album from the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta. Yes, I know it’s crazy talk but really, really! They had no association with the movie during its scripting and filming. The Bee Gees were never meant to be a part of SNF. Played it at sooooo many parties, where we used coloured paper on bulbs set off by a tubelight choke to recreate disco lights….no? it was just me and my weird friends then? But I’m sure you went to parties where you played ‘You Should Be Dancing’ (copying Travolta’s king of the dance floor dance!), Night Fever’ (remember the line dancing Hustle?), ‘Stayin’ Alive’ (how the hell do you look cool strutting down the pavement carrying a can of paint?!!). So I was like, ‘Why don’t we just do a Bee Gees song?’ And someone was just like, ‘OK, how do you wanna do it?’ And I said, ‘Well, let’s do it like the Bee Gees.I have owned the SNF album as LP, cassette, CD and mp3, and it is a treasure trove of teenage memories for me. "And while we were having this conversation somebody said, ‘Hey, have you seen that Bee Gees documentary?’ And I was like the last person on earth, the only person that hadn’t seen it. “We’ve been going down to our studio every day and filming things and recording things, and this one day we had our list of things we were supposed to do and it said, ‘Record a cover song for Jo,’" Dave Grohl recalled. According to Rolling Stone, the 10-track offering, titled Hail Satin, will bundle five Bee Gees classics-“You Should Be Dancing,” Night Fever,” “Tragedy,” “More Than a Woman," and “Shadow Dancing-along with five disco-inspired editions of songs from Foo Fighters' recent album, Medicine At Midnight.
Fans won't have long to process the surprising development as the group's forthcoming disco record under the new alias is out next month.