Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb defined the sound of a generation with the incendiary pair of "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever," the exquisite "How Deep is Your Love," and "More Than a Woman" (also included in its rendition by Tavares, which charted in the U.S. The Bee Gees dominate as writers, producers, and artists, naturally. (This is the same vinyl released in April 2017.) It remains a thrilling sonic journey that can't help but conjure the electric yet graceful scenes of the lithe Travolta finding, and saving, himself on the disco floor. The original, 17-song Saturday Night Fever soundtrack released on RSO Records and assembled under the supervision of producer/label owner Robert Stigwood, is presented here on one CD as newly (splendidly) remastered by Wally Traugott at Capitol Studios, and on a 180-gram vinyl, 2-LP set replicating the original double album format. With music and dance occupying such a central role in the fabric of the picture, a tie-in soundtrack was an inevitability. The film took in $94 million domestically on a $3.5 million budget, earning considerable critical acclaim as well. Saturday Night Fever was based on Nik Cohn's magazine account of the burgeoning New York disco scene, "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night" (later revealed to be fictional), and launched John Travolta (Oscar-nominated for his performance) from television star to bona fide superstar. Yet the set doesn't add up to the sum of its remarkable parts, in large part because of what's not included. The box is of appropriate magnitude for an album that was certified 15x platinum, remained on the Billboard album charts for 120 weeks (24 of them consecutive at Number One), and yielded four No. On the occasion of the film and soundtrack's 40th anniversary, Saturday Night Fever has been reissued by Capitol Records and UMe in a Super Deluxe box set, featuring the original album on 1 CD and 2 LPs, a bonus CD of remixes, the original movie and bonus features on Blu-ray, an LP-sized book, and a host of swag. Saturday Night Fever made instant icons out of Travolta and the Gibbs, changing their lives forever, and permanently emblazoning an extraordinary string of songs - "Stayin' Alive," "Night Fever," "How Deep is Your Love," "If I Can't Have You," and "More Than a Woman" among them - in the international cultural consciousness. On records, the faces of disco became those of Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb - the Beatle-esque baroque pop artists who had recently transitioned to funky R&B. Disco's alluring blend of the gritty and the glamorous gained a face in the form of John Travolta, whose tough yet tender Tony Manero of Bay Ridge, New York found solace in his escape each Saturday night to the dancefloor. With the December 1977 release of the John Badham-directed drama and its soundtrack album, the onetime underground dance movement which had been rising to the mainstream since at least 1974 became the mainstream. Saturday Night Fever didn't invent disco.but in many ways, it epitomized the genre. The album has been added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress in 2014 for being culturally significant.Listen to the ground.there is movement all around. The album epitomized the disco phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic and was an international sensation. In the UK, the album spent 18 consecutive weeks at No. Three singles from the album contributed by the Bee Gees-" How Deep Is Your Love", " Stayin' Alive" and " Night Fever"-along with Yvonne Elliman's " If I Can't Have You", all reached No. The album stayed atop the charts for 24 straight weeks from January to July 1978 and stayed on Billboard 's album charts for 120 weeks until March 1980. In the United States, the album was certified 16× Platinum for shipments of at least 16 million units.
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