Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack CD
Saturday Night Fever
1977, Paramount
Bee Gees/David Shire & Various
Polydor, CD, 1995, 825 389-2
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David Shire’s gargantuan disco classic not only remains the best disco score of its era but combined with the Bee Gee’s distinctive sound, is almost entirely unique. Originally released in 1977, the movie about a hard-up young New Yorker finding solace and success on the dancefloor of the local discotheque is a character-led drama filled with disco defining moments such as ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ and ‘Night Fever’. A massive hit on release, the double album has become one of the biggest selling soundtracks of all time, along with Travolta’s other big hit, ‘Grease’. While the Bee Gees are often largely credited for its success, they actually perform only six of the seventeen tracks included and are outshined on several occasions by David Shire’s score, that brings the New York setting effectively to life, delivering a sound buzzing with urban energy: something the Bee Gee’s tracks alone cannot muster. 1970’s hitmakers, Yvonne Elliman (‘If I Can’t Have You’), K.C And The Sunshine Band (‘Boogie Shoes’) and The Trammps (‘Disco Inferno’) also feature, along with Kool And The Gang and Tavares.
Saturday Night Fever Movie Soundtrack. Review: Tim Mowbray.
Track Listing:
1. Stayin’ Alive (Bee Gees).
2. How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees).
3. Night Fever (Bee Gees).
4. More Than A Woman (Bee Gees).
5. If I Can’t Have You (Yvonne Elliman).
6. A Fifth Of Beethoven – Based on Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (Walter Murphy).
7. More Than A Woman (Tavares).
8. Manhattan Skyline (David Shire).
9. Calypso Breakdown (Ralph McDonald).
10. Night On Disco Mountain – Based on Night On Bald Mountain (David Shire).
11. Open Sesame (Kool & The Gang).
12. Jive Talkin (Bee Gees).
13. You Should Be Dancing (Bee Gees).
14. Boogie Shoes (K.C & The Sunshine Band).
15. Salsation (David Shire).
16. K-Jee (M.F.S.B.).
17. Disco Inferno (The Trammps).
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