Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track - 1977 - RSO Records
Hello Friends,
Its a muggy Summer's night here on Vinyl in the Valley and we're working up a healthy sweat listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack double album.
One of the most successful soundtrack album's of all time, the album captures the disco phenomenon at its apex. Most of the tracks were either written or performed by The Bee Gees and features some of their biggest all time hits: "Stayin' Alive", "How Deep Is Your Love", "Night Fever", "More Than A Woman" (with a Bee Gees and a Tavares version), "Jive Talkin", "You Should Be Dancing" & "If I Can't Have You" (performed here by Yvonne Elliman.)
Other songs that round out the collection include Walter Murphy's classical-disco mash-up, "A Fifth of Beethoven"; David Shire's disco instrumentals (disco-mentals?) "Manhattan Skyline", "Night On Disco Mountain" (another classical mashup) and "Salsation"; Ralph MacDonald's frenzied "Calypso Breakdown" (which to us sounds like The People's Court theme music from the 80's); Kool & The Gang's "Open Sesame"; KC & The Sunshine Band's "Boogie Shoes"; Philly-soul legends MFSB's "K-Jee"; and everything culminating with a 10+ minute disco classic, "Disco Inferno" by The Trammps.
Its a muggy Summer's night here on Vinyl in the Valley and we're working up a healthy sweat listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack double album.
One of the most successful soundtrack album's of all time, the album captures the disco phenomenon at its apex. Most of the tracks were either written or performed by The Bee Gees and features some of their biggest all time hits: "Stayin' Alive", "How Deep Is Your Love", "Night Fever", "More Than A Woman" (with a Bee Gees and a Tavares version), "Jive Talkin", "You Should Be Dancing" & "If I Can't Have You" (performed here by Yvonne Elliman.)
Other songs that round out the collection include Walter Murphy's classical-disco mash-up, "A Fifth of Beethoven"; David Shire's disco instrumentals (disco-mentals?) "Manhattan Skyline", "Night On Disco Mountain" (another classical mashup) and "Salsation"; Ralph MacDonald's frenzied "Calypso Breakdown" (which to us sounds like The People's Court theme music from the 80's); Kool & The Gang's "Open Sesame"; KC & The Sunshine Band's "Boogie Shoes"; Philly-soul legends MFSB's "K-Jee"; and everything culminating with a 10+ minute disco classic, "Disco Inferno" by The Trammps.
A great sweaty and somewhat sleazy record for a great sweaty and somewhat sleazy evening!
RATING: 4.5 ways of killing yourself without killing yourself out of 5
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