Jason: So basically all the instrumentals. I learned that from RuPaul.īrad: I like most of this but I think I would skip “Calypso Breakdown”, “Manhattan Skyline”, “Open Sesame”, “Salsation”, “K-Jee” & swap out the 10+ minute version of “Disco Inferno” for the 3 minute radio edit. It was so you could hear and identify the song, put down your drink, do a line of coke, kiss a stranger and get out on the dance floor before the song actually started. Jason: One thing that make disco songs long is that they usually have an intro, some of which were as long as a minute. Try every sound on the synthesizer!īrad: I agree. Now let’s have whistling! Try a horn section! Say “ooh-ooh” for 2 minutes. You can identify a disco-era song immediately and they usually spin off in weird directions. Disco mashups. I think those were my favorite as a kid too. And odd! Like “A Fifth of Beethoven” such a weird one.īrad: I love the Classical vs. I like most of the songs but some of the instrumental disco songs are a little long. Jason: I wonder if you played this for a 13-year-old now what they would think. But they have really strange singing voices. I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t know what the Bee Gees sounded like.
The Bee-Gees have a very unique sound that people liked, I guess? Barry sounds like a ghost on a roller coaster half the time.īrad: I agree.
It means it’s such a product of its time. It remains the best selling soundtrack of all time with 45 million sold and has been added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress. *We have no intentions of infringing into the copyrights of this music and its uploader except to share its beauty and listening pleasure.Released Novemit stayed atop the album charts for 24 straight weeks then remained on Billboard’s album charts for an additional 96 weeks. The soundtrack was the most successful album of all time until Michael Jackson’s Thriller dethroned it in the 1980’s.
#The bee gees saturday night fever movie#
Night Fever is one of the five tracks by the Bee Gees included in the movie soundtrack that sold over 30 million copies, winning the 1978 Grammy Album of the Year. The movie is worth watching again 45 years after its release to rediscover the deeper meanings of its themes and most especially, its music. It is the message too of the song Night Fever with its very inviting beat, luring you to the life and action of the night that has become a fever that eventually leaves one empty and lost. Everything is passing that for a while may give us pleasures but never inner peace and contentment in life. Money was not a problem with them, something we also discover in life that more important than material things is fulfillment. Like Tony and the first four disciples of Jesus – the brothers Simon Peter and Andrew, and James and John who were sons of Zebedee, the business associate of Simon – we are all searching for meaning and direction in life.Īccording to biblical scholars, the Simon and company were all financially stable as they owned boats at that time, employing some men in their fishing ventures. Very interesting in the movie too is the brother of Tony who had decided to leave the priesthood, casting some moral aspersions about our practice of faith and religion.Īnd that is why we have chosen Night Fever as our music this Sunday: the movie and the song both capture the essence of our gospel today which is Jesus Christ coming to us in our daily lives, trying to catch us to give meaning and direction to our lives in him by following him, by leaving everything behind which Tony Manero did at the end of the movie when he apologized to his former girlfriend to start anew at the other side of New York by finding a new job and new direction in life ( ). The movie has become a classic as it mirrors so many realities in life during the late 70’s like sex and promiscuity as well as issues on abortion and marriage. For this fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we have chosen the 1977 smash hit Night Fever by the Bee Gees that is part of the soundtrack of the movie Saturday Night Fever.Īctually, we have the movie more in our mind than the music which tells the story of a young man Tony Manero played by John Travolta who was searching for meaning and direction in his life, pouring it out on the dance floor of a New York disco. Welcome back to our weekly music blog featuring songs with themes similar to the message of the Sunday gospel.
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