Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track
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Free Music Notes for Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track
Free Music Review: I'm Gonna Put On My, My, My, My Boogie Shoes
Hit: 5 Stars
I was just a youngun when this movie and soundtrack came out, but I can still remember my older sister getting into her satin and sequined outfits and hitting the local disco with friends every weekend. Say what you will about disco, or the late 70's as a whole. You have to give this landmark album 5 stars. Saturday Night Fever, both the film and the soundtrack changed the course of the 70's. The nation went from listening to The Beatles and Led Zeppelin to Lipps Inc. and the Bee Gees. The songs contained on this soundtrack are dated, "Jive Talkin", "More Than a Woman", and "Disco Inferno" could only have come out during the late 70's, but just try not tapping your foot to them. Some of the tunes are sooooo corny; "Boogie Shoes" and "Open Sesame" would be almost funny, if they weren't so damn infectious, again making you involuntarily giving you the urge to dance. And a couple of the songs found here would be groan-worthy; "Night on Disco Mountain" and "A Fifth of Beethoven" if they were supposed to be taken as serious music....they're not. They are supposed to give you a good beat to dance to, and they are supposed to be fun. Some of the tunes on here are now considered classics; "Stayin' Alive" is probably played today at parties and weddings as often as it was in the 70's. Lord knows enough of today's rap and pop artists have sampled, and made career's off of remaking the songs found here. They say there is no such thing as a time machine, but man, when I put this disc on...I am taken right back to a more peaceful, a more innocent and a more fun period in America.Free Music Review: The Definitive Disco Bible
Hit: 5 Stars
Say what you want about disco music in general, but I think all that really needs to be said about this legendary, all-time classic movie soundtrack is that it is the Definitive Disco Bible. With a few choice exceptions, pretty much ALL the greatest, grooviest disco songs ever waxed can be found right here on the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack. It's the album that turned the Bee Gees into music gods overnight, as they came up with *phenomenally* catchy tunes that still rock my world to this day. I don't need to describe to you classic songs like "Stayin' Alive," "Jive Talkin'," "You Should Be Dancing," "How Deep Is Your Love," etc.---you already know 'em by heart (don't ya?). And although the Brothers Gibb are unquestionably the album's main attraction, let's not overlook the equally groovy contributions by such artists as K.C. & The Sunshine Band, The Trammps, & Yvonne Elliman. And, of course, Walter Murphy's classic, funky re-working of Beethoven's 5th is easily the cherry on top (and by the way, whatever happened to Walter Murphy?). These days, the album may be a bit dated (oh, just a bit), but so what? A good song is a good song is a good song, and the "Saturday Night Fever" movie soundtrack has GREAT booty-shaking songs all over it. So get out your polyester pants, your platform shoes, spin the glittering disco ball & summon the spirit of John Travolta---the "Saturday Night Fever" movie soundtrack is pure boogie heaven!Free Music Review: With this album,it could be every night fever!
Hit: 5 Stars
This album was a blockbuster even before the movie SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER was released in theatres on December 16,1977. The CD version was originally a 2-disc set,which I own. It's equivalent to the 2 LP set. When the digitally remastered version was released it became a single disc because the entirety of this album totaled approximately 77 minutes. The Bee Gees' previously released YOU SHOULD BE DANCING and JIVE TALKIN' appear on this album. Originally,the live version of JIVE TALKIN' taken from the Bee Gees' HERE AT LAST LIVE album was on this album. My CD copy has the studio MAIN COURSE version. YVONNE ELLIMAN performs the Bee Gees' composition IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU. Original Bee Gees' songs are STAYIN' ALIVE,HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE,NIGHT FEVER and MORE THAN A WOMAN. Tavares' cover of MORE THAN A WOMAN is on this album also. Another previously released song is Walter Murphy's A FIFTH OF BEETHOVEN. We hear Kool and the Gang performing OPEN SESAME,K.C. and the Sunshine Band doing BOOGIE SHOES,and the Trampps' DISCO INFERNO. This was the biggest-selling movie soundtrack album next to the GREASE soundtrack. John Travolta made his starring debut in the film,when his TV show Welcome Back Kotter was in prime-time. Travolta is seen on the front cover of this album on a multi-colored dance floor wearing the white gabardine suit like he did in the film. Behind him stands a photo of the Bee Gees. What a beautiful combination,huh?Free Music Review: Twenty-Six Million Sold...And Still Climbing
Hit: 5 Stars
It is typical to write off the decade of the 1970s as just the era of disco, polyester, glam rock, and such, though there was much more to the era than those things. But in that now much-maligned style known as disco, there remains one undisputed masterpiece, the soundtrack to the 1977 blockbuster SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER.Even though both the film and soundtrack are now approaching the quarter-century mark, the music here seems timeless and holds up to a great deal of scrutiny. Three #1 hits from the Bee Gees and one #1 from Yvonne Elliman originated from this album, which sold a then-unheard-of twenty-six million copies, a figure which keeps climbing. The album stayed at #1 on the US album chart for twenty-six consecutive weeks.
Among the many lesser-heard gems of the album are Kool and the Gang's "Open Sesame", MFSB's "K-Jee" (originally a hit for the Nite-Liters in 1971), and David Shire's "Night On Disco Mountain" (a discofied adaptation of Mussorgsky's 1867 tone poem "A Night On Bald Mountain"). The entire albums captures the time, the feel, and the essence of an era that a lot of people make the mistake of ridiculing. Time has shown the SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER soundtrack to have endured well beyond its Seventies heyday. In twenty years, can the same be said for the soundtracks to either THE BODYGUARD or TITANIC? Only time will tell.
Free Music Review: It Still Burns Baby !!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I am listening to the digitally re-mastered one disc version as I am writing this review . The music is still strong and phenomenal even in the year 2003 !!! This was the perfected pinnacle of disco. Nevermind the ugly rap it got during it's heyday and downfall.Forget the one hit wonders and cheap imitations of that era. This was and still is the real deal.True, there are some fillers in between (and you can tell which ones they are). Thank God they were distributed strategically so as to make the record listener hear everything on all 4 sides... However, all the Bee Gee written and performed tracks are the highlights as well as tracks by Yvonne Elliman, Tavares, Kool & the Gang, KC & The Sunshine Band, and I'll even throw in the Trammps---although Disco Inferno clocking in at almost 11 minutes begins to lose it's hot streak just after 5 minutes !!).
Saturday Night Fever may have seemed like the mass marketed version to many disco devotees and critics of the time and scoffed at, but I look at the entire project as the refined and serious dance and music craze that it was ! The soundtrack revolutionized the way many of us would perceive and listen to future soundtracks as well as how artists would produce them (Flashdance, Top Gun, etc.) Not everything was Thank God It's Friday (now, that was the flip side and satire of the disco era)!