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Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track by  & ReleasedNovember 15, 1977Recorded1975–1977Length1:15:54, , Bill Oakes (Music Supervisor) chronology
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Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track is the soundtrack album from the 1977 film  starring . In the United States, the album was certified 15×  for shipments of over 15 million copies. The album stayed atop the album charts for 24 straight weeks from January to July 1978 and stayed on ‍ '​s album charts for 120 weeks until March 1980. In the UK, the album spent 18 consecutive weeks at No. 1. The album epitomized the  phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic and was an international sensation. The album has been added to the  in the .

Background Origins and recording

According to the DVD commentary for Saturday Night Fever, the producers intended to use the song "Lowdown" by  for use in the rehearsal scene between Tony and Annette in the dance studio, and choreographed their dance moves to the song. However, representatives for Scaggs' label, , refused to grant legal clearance for it, as they wanted to pursue another disco movie project, which never materialized. Composer , who scored the film, had to in turn write a song to match the dance steps demonstrated in the scene and eliminate the need for future legal hassles. However, this track does not appear on the movie's soundtrack.

The Bee gees involvement in the film did not begin until post-production. As  asserted, "The  weren't even involved in the movie in the beginning ... I was dancing to  and ."

Producer Robert Stigwood commissioned the Bee Gees to create the songs for the film.

Robin Gibb recalled:

We were recording our new album in the north of France. And we'd written about and recorded about four or five songs for the new album when  rang from and said, 'We're putting together this little film, low budget, called Tribal Rites of a Saturday Night. Would you have any songs on hand?', and we said, 'Look, we can't, we haven't any time to sit down and write for a film'. We didn't know what it was about.

— Robin Gibb

The brothers wrote the songs "virtually in a single weekend" at  in France. The first song they recorded was "", but their version was not used on the film.

Barry Gibb remembered the reaction when Stigwood and music supervisor Bill Oakes arrived and listened to the demos:

They flipped out and said these will be great. We still had no concept of the movie, except some kind of rough script that they'd brought with them...

Maurice Gibb recalled, "We played him demo tracks of 'If I Can't Have You', 'Night Fever' and ''. He asked if we could write it more discoey"

Releases

The original issue of the album included the original studio version of "Jive Talkin'"; later LP pressings included a version culled from . All CD releases have included the original "Jive Talkin'". "Jive Talkin'" was to have been used in a deleted scene taking place the day after Tony Manero's first Saturday night at the disco, but as the sequence was cut for the final film, the song was cut as well. In addition to the Bee Gees songs, additional incidental music was composed and adapted by . Three of Shire's cues – "Manhattan Skyline", "Night on Disco Mountain" (based on the classical piece "") and "Salsation" – are included on the soundtrack album as well. Five additional cues – "Tony and Stephanie", "Near the Verrazano Bridge" (both adapted from the Bee Gees' song "How Deep Is Your Love"), "Barracuda Hangout", "Death on the Bridge" and "All Night Train" – while heard in the film, remain unreleased on CD. In 1994, the soundtrack was re-released on CD through . In 2006, the album was re-released on  as part of the Bee Gees' regaining control of their master tapes.

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Along with the success of the movie, the soundtrack, composed and performed primarily by the , was the best-selling soundtrack album of all time (it was later surpassed by 's soundtrack to ). Saturday Night Fever had a large cultural impact in the United States. The Bee Gees had originally written and recorded five of the songs used in the film - "", "", "", "" (performed in the film in two different versions – one version by , and another by the Bee Gees) and "" (performed in the movie by ) as part of a regular album. They had no idea at the time they would be making a soundtrack and said that they basically lost an album in the process. Two previously released Bee Gees songs – "" and "" – are also included on the soundtrack. Other previously released songs from the disco era round out the music in the movie.

The soundtrack also won a  for . It is the only disco album to do so, and one of only two soundtrack albums so honored (the other being ). In 2012, the album was ranked No. 132 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of . The soundtrack hit the No. 1 spot on 's Pop Album and Soul Album charts. In 2003 the TV network  named it the 57th greatest album of all time, and it was ranked 80th in a 2005 survey held by British television's  to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time.  listed Saturday Night Fever as the 34th best album of the 1970s.

The album was added to the  in the  on March 21, 2013 for long-term preservation.

Track listing Side ANo.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length1."" ()Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb & Maurice GibbBee Gees, , Karl Richardson4:452."" (Bee Gees)Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb & Maurice GibbBee Gees, , Karl Richardson4:053."" (Bee Gees)Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb & Maurice GibbBee Gees, , Karl Richardson3:334."" (Bee Gees)Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb & Maurice GibbBee Gees, , Karl Richardson3:185."" ()Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb & Maurice Gibb3:00Side BNo.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length6."" ()Murphy (based on 's Fifth Symphony)Thomas J. Valentino3:037."More Than a Woman" ()Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb & Maurice GibbPerren3:178."Manhattan Skyline" ()ShireShire & Bill Oakes4:459."Calypso Breakdown" ()William Eaton 7:51Side CNo.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length10."" (David Shire) (arranged by Shire)Shire & Oakes5:1311."Open Sesame" ()Kool & the Gang4:0112."" (Bee Gees)Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb & Maurice Gibb3:4413."" (Bee Gees)Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb & Maurice GibbBee Gees, , Karl Richardson4:1414."" () & Casey & 2:17Side DNo.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length15."Salsation" (David Shire)ShireShire & Oakes3:5116."" ()Charlie Hearndon & Bobby Martin & Broadway Eddie4:1317."" ()Leroy Green & Kersey10:51 Total length: 1:15:54