Watch John Travolta Dance to Bee Gees in 'Saturday Night Fever'Įven though they knew very little about the movie's plot, Bee Gees started working on music for it anyway, writing a handful of songs to show Stigwood. When Stigwood and film-music producer Bill Oakes came by the Chateau d'Herouville in France where the group was working, the film's script was still unseen. They don't make it their business to know how many records the Bee Gees have written. It doesn't bother, me, but you know that Playboy poll? It has a songwriting section, and this year we're not even in it. It’s just that they don't know their business. "I don't think people even realize that we write our own songs. That's always amazed me," Robin Gibb told Rolling Stone in 1977. "No one has ever talked to us about our songwriting. They only knew that Stigwood was looking for songs and that he had faith in the group. The Gibb brothers were unaware of any of that.
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1 that Travolta insisted be kept in the movie even though it was not written for it. "I was dancing to Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs." He was also grooving to Bee Gees' aptly titled "You Should Be Dancing," a 1976 No.
"The Bee Gees weren't even involved in the movie in the beginning," Travolta told Vanity Fair in 2007. Meanwhile, the production of the film had already started. The article turned out to be mostly fictional but served as source material for Saturday Night Fever. " Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night" was the title of a 1976 New York magazine story about the disco scene written by British journalist Nik Cohn. 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." and said, 'We're putting together this little film, low budget, called Tribal Rites of a Saturday Night. "We were recording our new album in the north of France," Robin Gibb would later recall, "and we'd written about and recorded about four or five songs for the new album when Stigwood rang from L.A. Stigwood offered little detail about the new project when he called. I suppose it was a sound only brothers could make." "I loved their composing,” Stigwood told Rolling Stone in 1977. There was something particularly compelling about Bee Gees to Stigwood, who had been managing the group since 1967. They were currently back on top thanks to hit songs like " Jive Talkin'" and "You Should Be Dancing."
Bee Gees had split up and reconvened by the time Saturday Night Fever producer Robert Stigwood approached them, reaching both the top and the bottom of the charts. In fact, their music had been more rooted in traditional pop, rock, country and R&B than dance-floor music. Bee Gees would became unshakably tied to the project, even though they never intended to be at the helm of the disco movement or even involved in the film. Saturday Night Fever may not have invented disco, but it brought it to the forefront of pop culture in a way that was "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant," as the Library of Congress noted in 2010 when the movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
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