Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track [Soundtrack]

saturday night fever: the original movie sound track [soundtrack]

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The double-disc soundtrack to the blockbuster Saturday Night Fever (available on a single CD) marks both the zenith and the nadir of disco. It was such a popular sensation that it catapulted the music to stratospheric levels of mainstream popularity, and the album was the bestselling movie soundtrack of all time (until The Bodyguard, and then Titanic). But "Disco Fever" became so hot, it could only flame out just as quickly (along with the careers of the Bee Gees). With this record, disco became a phenomenon and a fad. The Bee Gees' contributions are the strongest, especially the once-ubiquitous "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever," and they still hold up. Then there's Walter Murphy's "A Fifth of Beethoven," a trivial piece of pop ephemera that may have set new standards for ephemeral triviality. How often will you listen to this record--and how much will you play when you do? There's no telling--but it remains a classic piece of pop history, and when you're in the mood it's a good thing to have around. --Jim Emerson

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Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track [Soundtrack]

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ASIN: B000001FDV
Release Date: 1996-02-06

Tracks:

Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees
Night Fever - Bee Gees
More Than A Woman - Bee Gees
If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman
A Fifth Of Beethoven (Based On Beethoven's Fifth Symphony) - Walter Murphy
More Than A Woman - Tavares
Manhattan Skyline - David Shire
Calypso Breakdown - Ralph McDonald
Night On Disco Mountain (Based On 'Night On Bald Mountain') - David Shire
Open Sesame - Kool & The Gang
Jive Talkin' - Bee Gees
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
Boogie Shoes - K.C. And The Sunshine Band
Salsation - David Shire
K-Jee - M.F.S.B.
Disco Inferno - Trammps

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The double-disc soundtrack to the blockbuster Saturday Night Fever (available on a single CD) marks both the zenith and the nadir of disco. It was such a popular sensation that it catapulted the music to stratospheric levels of mainstream popularity, and the album was the bestselling movie soundtrack of all time (until The Bodyguard, and then Titanic). But "Disco Fever" became so hot, it could only flame out just as quickly (along with the careers of the Bee Gees). With this record, disco became a phenomenon and a fad. The Bee Gees' contributions are the strongest, especially the once-ubiquitous "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever," and they still hold up. Then there's Walter Murphy's "A Fifth of Beethoven," a trivial piece of pop ephemera that may have set new standards for ephemeral triviality. How often will you listen to this record--and how much will you play when you do? There's no telling--but it remains a classic piece of pop history, and when you're in the mood it's a good thing to have around. --Jim Emerson

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Oh the memories!.......2007-05-25

This is a time tested awesome soundtrack. It brought back so many memories for me. I was just a kid when it came out, but my mom had it on 8-track and we listened to it ALL THE TIME! Great music!!!

Soundtrack Review.......2007-05-15

I love this movie and of course mainly because of the music! I actually bought this for my mom and she absolutely loved it!

STAYING ALIVE!!!!!!.......2007-05-13

The movie soundtrack all of us have always dreamed to be able to dance like TONY MANERO!!!!!!!!

Saturday Night Fever...........2007-03-22

Save your money. You are better off purchasing the BEE GEES greatest hits CD. There are too many songs on this CD that the BG's didn't sing.

Soundtrack of an Era Puts an End to Hairy Music.......2007-03-09

Ironically, even though The Bee Gees had massive pelts and medals on their chests, their music on the soundtrack was a major breakthrough for the smooth or "hairless" sound. Prior to Saturday Night Fever, "hairy music" (unkempt, natural, course texture) from acts like BTO, Peter Frampton, and Fleetwood Mac dominated the charts. The hippy ethos of the 1960's had trickled into the mid-seventies, and ruled the top 40 like a shaggy tyrant. And it seemed like nothing could be done to stop it. (People forget that Fever hit the streets less than ten years after the play Hair opened. A seeming coup de grace for the hippies, Hair left good clean-shorn Americans wondering if this country would ever be normal again).

And then the Bee-Gees led a concept album (all disco!) named Saturday Night Fever, which "waxed" the hairy music sound right off the radio! Everyone remembers where they were the first time they heard a Fever song! It was "Staying Alive", April 7th, 1977. I was age 11. At 12:40pm, I was playing basketball at the park and admiring the girls' Ditto jeans. One girl had a portable am radio she set courtside. When Steve Martin's "King Tut" ended, "Staying Alive" came on!! All the 6th graders knew it: The dirty hippy era was over!!!

Epilogue: After Fever was released, a generation of school kids walked with a jaunty stride and blowdried their hair.... The national disco movement that Fever launched was soon joined by - you guessed it - hippies. A surprising number of hippies just washed their hair, changed into white suits, and stepped into the disco. Some people have argued that these "former" hippies introduced drugs and hedonism into the once pristine disco environment. Others disagreed, citing the lack of "lazy, flowery drugs" in discos.... In New York City, DJ's started talking over disco, telling jaded New Yorkers to have fun and throw their hands in the air. Thus, "rap" was born, and African-Americans reclaimed the term "rap" from hippies.... People still listen to Fever, like an aural Life magazine that chronicles a pivotal time in our great nation's history.... Americans now spend billions each year on hair management products. And Americans are now the least hairy people in world history.... Today, disco thrives. As a great poet once said, "Disco by any other name still has the same beats and high-sheen production values"....

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