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Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track was the soundtrack album from the blockbuster film Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta. Along with the success of the movie, the soundtrack, performed primarily by The Bee Gees, became one of the best-selling albums of all time. The cultural impact of Saturday Night Fever in the United States was tremendous, bringing the nascent disco scene into the mainstream.
The soundtrack hit the #1 spot on Billboard Music Chart's Pop Album and Black Album charts. In 2003 the TV networkVH1 named it the 57th greatest album of all time.
Track listing
"Stayin' Alive" performed by Bee Gees - 4:45
"How Deep Is Your Love" performed by Bee Gees - 4:05
"Night Fever" performed by Bee Gees - 3:33
"More Than a Woman" performed by Bee Gees - 3:17
"If I Can't Have You" performed by Yvonne Elliman - 3:00
"A Fifth of Beethoven" performed by Walter Murphy - 3:03
SaturdayNightFever is a 1977 movie starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a New York discotheque.
SaturdayNightFever was the favorite movie of the late film critic Gene Siskel, who claimed to have seen it 17 times.
The title is said to derive from the term "Saturdaynight special," slang that echoes casual crime and impulsive behavior.
SaturdayNightFever, as a movie and an album, and a brace of hit singles off of it, suddenly made disco explode into mainstream, working- and middle-class America with new immediacy and urgency, increasing its audience by five- or ten-fold overnight.
The Bee Gees had written "Stayin' Alive" (then called "SaturdayNight"), "NightFever," "How Deep Is Your Love," "If I Can't Have You," and "More Than a Woman" for what would have been the follow-up album to Children of the World, and they might well have enjoyed platinum-record status with that proposed album.
Heard on CD as 79 minutes of music, SaturdayNightFever comes off like an idealized commercial-free radio set of late-'70s dance music (and, in that regard, the decision to leave Rick Dees' "Disco Duck" off the soundtrack album was a good one for all concerned, except Mr.
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