Saturday Night Fever

Every so often, a piece of music comes along that defines a moment in popular culture history: Johann Strauss' operetta Die Fledermaus did this in Vienna in the 1870s; Jerome Kern's Show Boat did it for Broadway musicals of the 1920s; and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album served this purpose for the era of psychedelic music in the 1960s. Saturday Night Fever, although hardly as prodigious an artistic achievement as those precursors, was precisely that kind of musical phenomenon for the second half of the '70s – ironically, at the time before its release, the disco boom had seemingly run its course, primarily in Europe, and was confined mostly to black culture and the gay underground in America…

Every so often, a piece of music comes along that defines a moment in popular culture history: Johann Strauss' operetta Die Fledermaus did this in Vienna in the 1870s; Jerome Kern's Show Boat did it for Broadway musicals of the 1920s; and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album served this purpose for the era of psychedelic music in the 1960s…

Soundtrack of 'Saturday Night Fever' (1977), who came to achieve 15 times platinum in USA and in those years to be the best selling film music of all time. The 'Bee Gees' were preparing a new studio album for which had about five original songs, which proved to be right for the start of the soundtrack, who played the first 4 themselves, while the fifth,' If I Can not Have You ", was recorded by Yvonne Elliman. Along with those songs added two other previously released their own songs, "Jive Talkin 'and' You Should Be Dancing '. The rest of the music of the film are outstanding songs written and adapted by musician David Shire, which makes loans of three of them.