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Rufus & Chaka Khan – “Jive Talkin'” (1975)įunny how the greatest cover of any of the songs from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack is for a track that was cut from the movie and actually predates the film itself by some two years, but here we are: Give Chaka Khan a song someone else recorded, and she claims ownership like few singers out there. Here’s the legacy of Saturday Night Fever in eight of its more fascinating cover versions. As for the wider music world’s attempts to put their own stamp on the omnipresent soundtrack? It almost seems to parallel the rise, fall, and afterlife of disco itself, from its prehistory to its sublimation into latter-day dance music. The classic cuts that round the OST out, from earlier Bee Gees jams like “Jive Talkin'” and “You Should Be Dancing” to circa-’76 cuts like KC & The Sunshine Band’s “Boogie Shoes” and the Trammps’ “Disco Inferno,” forego the new-hotness glamor of Studio 54 or the genius curatorial idiosyncrasy of a Larry Levan Paradise Garage set for the vibe of a second-rate Brooklyn disco that feels a few months behind the times - good thing those months sound great after decades. The Bee Gees cuts might not have been added in until post-production - Travolta claimed to have done most of his dancing to Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs - but that Disc 1 Side 1 run from “Stayin’ Alive” through “More Than A Woman” is bulletproof, and Yvonne Elliman’s version of the Gibb/Gibb/Gibb track “If I Can’t Have You” is debatably even greater. Nowadays, the idea of severing a disco scene from its queer and Black/Latinx ties in favor of a story featuring a bunch of white teenage mooks would be rightly mocked.īut today - the 40th anniversary of the soundtrack’s release - one thing’s still for sure: That music is damn near immaculate. “Disco was much more, and much better, than all that,” he protests - and the grip of Saturday Night Fever was so long and powerful on the pop culture imagination that his protest still held weight 20 years after its initial first run saw it emerge as one of the biggest phenomena of the ’70s.Ĭutting it all apart took a while - starting with the attempt to re-release the film in a PG cut to draw in the younger teenage crowd in ’79, then on through a disco backlash, an abysmal sequel (1983’s Stayin’ Alive), the later disillusionment of the soundtrack-anchoring Bee Gees (“We’d like to dress ‘Stayin’ Alive’ in a white suit and gold chains and set it on fire,” Barry Gibb once scowled), and the 1996 revelation that the story that inspired it all - Nik Cohn’s “Tribal Rites Of The New Saturday Night” - was largely fabricated by a confused Brit who couldn’t make heads or tails of the New York clubgoers 10 years younger than he. People will laugh about John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, white polyester suits and platform shoes and people going like this.” And then he pulls the finger-in-the-air pose made famous by Travolta, immortalized in both the poster and on the soundtrack cover of Saturday Night Fever with an ironic disaffection. It will be misrepresented and caricatured and sneered at, or - worse - completely ignored. for your movie collection, you can buy an hd (blu ray™or dvd™) copy on amazon: dvd™ amzn.to 2hc7nva a look back at the 1977 film "saturday night fever," which propelled john travolta to stardom made the soundtrack, featuring the "night fever" is a disco song, written and performed by the bee gees.How do you reckon with a monolith? There’s a monologue at the end of Whit Stillman’s 1998 film The Last Days of Disco where a character in the early ’80s speaks with the hindsight of a late ’90s nostalgist that “Disco will never be over… Oh, for a few years - maybe many years - it’ll be considered passé and ridiculous.
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