The Bee Gee,s were born in England (Manchester Area) They moved to Australia when they were young.When they first started to sing in the sixties they did not make it in Ausy.They returned to London England and made some 45,s and had huge hits with them.They toured the whole country singing them and thats were I first met them.My girlfriend at that time had a Saturday job at a grocers shop.The shop owner Knew the Gibb brothers very well as they were friends of the family.The Bee Gee,s stayed with them when they were in the north of England.I went to pick my girlfriend up on this particular Saturday and their they were at the counter talking to the owner.They were massive at that time and my girlfriend could not speak --- Ill never forget it.--- I am 72 now
They were born on the Isle of Man,moved to Manchester,and then emmigrated to Australa.Hovever,they did have success in Australia and played on the top show in Australia ,called Bandstand on numerous occasions and although still very young enjoved a great deal of success.They returned to England based on their success in Australia .If you want to see the young Bee Gee ,then check out their early shows on Bandstand.They grew up in Brisbane.
Pan of caint is the funniest line I’ve ever heard still laughing…something you have to realize I was born in ‘62 sooo in “77, I was 15, we didn’t know what hit us…this disco stuff was brand new, all I know is when u heard this you were walking 6” off the ground…course our parents hated it…which means we loved it, but didn’t know just what we had our hands on, I was all about R n B, but this stuff took over, back when I had a nice Fro…platform shoes n a silk shirt, went to my 1st disco @ Worlds of Fun Mid America (St Louis)…it was like trying to drink from a fire hose, we thought it would never end…ahhhh the memories…peace
The Bee Gees have said they didn't write a dance song per se. The y wrote about the "mean streets of 70's NYC" and the struggle of some people in the lower socio-economic classes to just survive the day-to-day challenges they face. "Life's going nowhere/ Somebody Help me!" and "Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother, You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.// See the city breaking and everybody's shakin'/ THey're stayin' alive, stayin' alive!" For Tony Manero, the ceiling is set low -- He's carrying a can of paint because he has a low paying dead-end job as a go-fer for a paint store. So Saturday nights spent at a local disco is THE high point of his sorry life.
They were asked to write the songs but were not interested in disco, a deadline, they wrote 5 songs in one weekend without even bothering reading the script. The Son of Sam was on the lose in NY, the BeeGee's have said A LOT of reference was just from news headlines...the song is LITERALLY about staying alive . "Life's going nowhere/ Somebody Help me!" and "Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother, You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.// See the city breaking and everybody's shakin'/ THey're stayin' alive, stayin' alive!" 👈 all of that's actually about surviving with a serial killer on the lose.
The Bee Gees are from England who moved to Australia and from there started their singing career and when becoming successful moved back to continue their career.
Britt… It’s not just the movie you should check out, take a look at his early work on “Welcome back Kotter”, where he played the slightly dopey Vinny Barbarino 😆😆😆. Saturday night Fever though is a cultural icon & summed up the disco era perfectly 💃🏻🪩🕺. The studio you were thinking of was Studio 54 👍😄
Robin recalls, "The subject matter of 'Stayin' Alive' is actually quite a serious one; It's about survival in the streets of New York, and the lyrics actually say that". Barry Gibb also recalls, "People crying out for help. Desperate songs. Those are the ones that become giants. The minute you capture that on record, it's gold. 'Stayin' Alive' is the epitome of that. Everybody struggles against the world, fighting all the bullshit and things that can drag you down. And it really is a victory just to survive. But when you climb back on top and win bigger than ever before, well that's something everybody reacts to everybody".
She's talking about cassettes, while I was jamming to this in the 70s as a kid, with the LP player that looked like a suitcase. And it needed a quarter on it to keep the record level.
Yep, you should watch the movie, yep, if you went to a disco, you danced like that, but not at the dive bar. There is a dance competition, but a lot of other stuff going on. He is trapped in a dead-end life and needs help getting out. He is carrying a can of paint. Love your reactions. I was born in the sixties and grew up in the 70's. It was awesome!!
Dwayne Johnson did this song on "Celebrity Lip Sync Battle", and his dancing is perfect and hilarious! The Bee Gees are amazing, wrote a ton of great music, and this vibe is on point. What other group sounds even REMOTELY like this super-falsetto sound? Also, the Gibbs have the most hair (head, face, chest) of any band of white guys, ever. Great guitar hooks are worth a million dollars. That "somebody help me yeahhhhhh" is my favorite part. One of the Gibb brothers wrote Islands in the Stream - which Kenny (PDC member) and Auntie Dollie took to great heights. Studio 54. The movie is what happens when you write a script based on an album. But it was the 70s, so it was fine! Also, I think there may be parallels with 8 Mile. Lead character gets beat up, gets revenge via his art.
It was Barry who wrote it. He just got honored at the Kennedy Center in December and televised last month on CBS. He looks great for his age, FL is doing him quite well.
I stand corrected. Yes, it was also co written by Maurice and Robin Gibb. I have loved this song when I 1st heard it decades ago. I was 12 and I thought Kenny Rogers was a handsome older man and Dolly Parton was so pretty.@@kathleendewey5347
One thing you have to remember about The Bee Gees music from the film is that most of them were not written for the film. After their Children Of the World album from 1976, which included their number 1 single You Should Be Dancing (Later also included in the movie) they were in a chateau in france to record their follow up album. When their manager called them up and said he needed songs for a movie project they said, that there were no time to write a whole album but they just finished some songs and he could listen to them and see if they could be used. So by coincidence they wrote songs that for some reason fitted the film perferctly. The Bee Gees wrote five number 1's for this movie. You Should Be Dancing, How Deep Is your Love, Night Fever, Stayin Alive and If I can't Have You, the latter sung by Yvonne Ellimann but The Bee Gees also recorded it. Another song on the album which by many is considered the best of them all is More Than A Woman which on the album has both The Bee Gees and Tavares version on it. The Bee Gees version is just a stunningly beautiful love song.
Barry Gibb found his falsetto either when they were writing this album or shortly before. Theres YT interviews of him and them. He went outside the recording studio to yell or scream (on purpose, for the song)while the brothers were inside singing, but then they kept hearing him - his one high falsetto note turned into continuous falsetto singing, just like that! From then on he could switch at will from his regular voice to falsetto.
Congratulations on 200k! In a little over a year that's incredible! Your short hair style is beautiful. It reminds me of Halle berry in the late 90s early 2000s.
Robin, one of the twins, is usually the lead singer with his strong vibrato voice, Barry harmonizing in his amazing falsetto and Maurice making the song smooth. You hear and see that more clearly in Too Much Heaven and How Do You Mend a Broken Heart. Watch them on The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson. They spontaneously sing Massachusetts from Carson's sofa and Maurice is absolutely hilarious!
Paint was because he worked in a hardware store! At the bridge, they were drunk and screwing around. The kid was depressed, and we don't know if he REALLY wanted to jump or not, but he slipped and fell.
That’s John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. He worked in a paint store. The movie is a depiction of night club life in Brooklyn during the disco era. John’s character wants to break out of his meaningless life and become a dancer. He and his Italian American pals hang out - there’s comedy but it also gets very dark. Nothing is sugar coated. Btw- I used to be a disco dance instructor! ❤
The "brothers Gibb (Bee Gees) were born in England and raised in Australia. And, they have written more number one songs than any other group/person....to this day. And not just for themselves, for many other artists over the decades.
the brothers were in Europe taking time off to write some new music. A movie production group contacted them via their agent. They wanted them to come write some songs for a new movie they were going to make. The brothers said no but they have written 5 new songs that they could some and review them to see if any would work for them. The producers showed up and reviewed the songs the Bee Gees had written. They loved them and took all 5 with them back to the States. It wasn't until the movie came out that they got to see how their songs were incorporated into the movie Saturday Night Feaver. It turns out that when the producers got down to making the movie they restructured the movie around the songs the Bee Gees had written. PS Most people don't know that Berry was Knighted by the Queen for his lyric writing. I believe the Bee Gees have a record of having the most top 10 or something like that song than any other group. Songs didn't last in a number-one slot, in those days because of the number of new songs by new and older groups were coming out all the time. Great times to cruse the drive-ins (8 Oscars) listening to music blaring then meeting girls and hooking up. That is pretty much what the guys I hung around with did 4-5 nights a week. Great times make great memories.
Barry had a falsetto, but he also had a really great "straight" singing voice you can hear in some of their early songs. Very talented bunch. They had so many hits there were "BeeGee free weekends" on the radio, and they took a break and wrote songs for other people like Barbra Streisand, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton (Islands in the Stream), and others. Unmatched for their contribution to music.
Before this movie was made there was a story in a NY Magazine about the disco scene and specifically about guys who's lives revolved around going to the disco.
Saturday night fever is an iconic must watch about a group of lads in the disco scene with great sound tracks all the way thro..he works in a hardware store in the movie. Hence the can of paint in his hand..
This song is great….a good reminder of the late ‘70s “disco movement.” The movie is very cultural and dance contests were popular. The Bee Gees are one of the greatest bands ever. They could reinvent themselves from early ‘60s music, to early ‘70s and finally to disco. John Travolta is known for his superb acting, dancing and singing. Just check out the movie/musical “Grease.” The Bee Gees and Travolta are probably as great as talents ever.
They didn't have official music videos in the 70s like you think of them today. It was before MTV. It was before TH-cam. If one exists, it's because it was part of a popular movie or it was a live performance.
Before this movie, John Travolta was on a weekly sitcom called 'Welcome back Cotter'. John played one of the 'Sweathogs' called Vini Barbarino. Look that up for a real young Travolta. That was also an Inner city theme. You might want to listen to 'Nights on Broadway' too. Thanks.
You have to see the movie. If you love the 70's this is how it was every weekend going to clubs. It was having a good time going nowhere but we had to do it. Then we grew up later on.
How you got superspeed on tape decks was you had to have a duel deck, and you record on high speed. Then you could listen to the Chipmunks singing Black Sabbath. The other way was to turn up the speed on your turntable.
Can of paint vs pan of caint. Called Spoonerisms. These pop up in conversation occasionally and are funny much of the time. My brother-in-law purposefully threw these in often and made us laugh so hard. He could tell nursery rhythms like that... Three little pigs became Pee little thrigs. Three little bears became Bee little thrers. I accidentally said to my 2 young sons when playing with them "I'm going to tickle your pits." That really came out wrong. 😂😂😂
THE WHOLE MOVIE WAS ABOUT "DISCO DANCE CONTEST"IN NEW YORK CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TRAVOLTA WORKED IN HARDWARE STORE AND WAS DELIVERING A CAN OF PAINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quaaludes and cocaine. Ingest those and you have instant disco. I'm 55, but spent 1975-1981 in Coral Springs, Fla. Pete & Lenny's was the big disco hot spot in Ft. Lauderdale. Rock n Roll was at the Hollywood Sportatorium. Mainly Quaaludes and pot there.
Tony has dreams of becoming a professional dancer, he thinks by winning the competition he’ll be seen by people who can make it happen. He’s looking for a partner, but he’s having difficulty finding the right person, until he sees Stephanie at the club. It always makes me a little wistful to see the World Trade Center standing majestically over the NYC skyline. It was only 4 years old when the movie was released.
It's fun to watch a young whippersnapper get a taste of the dico era. Not many of us danced like Travolta, but we sure tried. You would get a kick out of Saturday Night Fever. SNL had a classic bit call Samurai Night Fever with John Belushi as a dancing Samurai warrior.
The Vietnam war had been over for 2 years and the country seemed to be breathing a sy of relief and letting the hair down for the first time in a while!!!
If you can get a copy of Kenny Rogers album, "Eyes that see in the Dark",you'll find many a song on the album was written by the Bee Gees. I think one of their first hits was "Spicks and Specks" which has been the name of an Aussie TV Music show for many a year. There's a "Bee Gees Way' with statues of the boys at Redcliffe in Queensland, Australia, where, if my memory is correct, they first sang in a "PUB" in their teens, though it was illlegal for them to be in a pub as the drinking age in Australia back then was 21.
One of the things I have found hilarious about other people reacting to this song is, and they are watch the music video, when the Bee-Gee's appear on the screen a lot of reactors have a total look of shock because they have all assumed that the Bee-Gees were African American. One guy was so funny saying that "black culture had lied to him" because he believed the Bee-Gees to be African American and they were part of "black culture" but as he said "I expected to see a black guy with a giant afro but instead i see this guy that looks like Jesus!" I was laughing so hard at what seemed like, to him, a huge cultural impact and loss. Also, everybody knows this song. People who were deads before it was released know this song. People who have not been born know this song. LOL, its a classic.
LOL I actually fit into three separate cultures in the 70s, I was 18 at the time but..... Hey.. 2nd place, right here... at a competition at "The Incinerator" in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina (1978) and Uncle Sam's (1977) in Buffalo, NY. Song of choice? Pablo Cruise - Don't Want To Live Without it. I spent a fortune on polyester shirts, platform shoes, three piece suits and a 1978 Ford Thunderbird. Any why? All of it to impress a cute little blonde haired, blue eyed, RN, Southern Belle from Rocky Mount, NC. Spent $150 with a New York City show boat who taught me the basics and I personally thought he sucked and figured the rest out on my own. So, I showed up in $200 White pants and a $175 silk shirt, $120 platforms and, by complete coincidence, an hour later she waltzes in wearing the exact same color and material red dress, as my shirt, and it was the beginning of an amazing summer. Turns out she was on a summer retreat to "find herself" and decide on whether or not to marry a Cardiologist. Wanna take bets on her decision? After that, I went back to jeans, boots, a truck, country, southern rock and went home to Western New York. lol
I used to teach CPR and had this song running on a loop! It has exactly the right beat for effective chest compressions and the words fit so well... Another CPR song is Queen's Another one bites the Dust, but that one is just morbid.
Travolta was definitely a hot commodity back in that time. After setting the world on fire with his Saturday Night Fever disco moves in 1977, he did the 1950s revival musical Grease ( really launched Olivia Newton John’s career, made hot rods and Doo-wop music popular again) the following year. Then in 1980, he pumped young blood into the Country Music scene with his performance in Urban Cowboy (mechanical bull riding, line dancing, Gilley ‘s, Looking for Love in All The Wrong Places). Three movies all at once, that had big impact on our culture.
Other Bee Gees songs you have to react to from the soundtrack are: NIGHT FEVER, More Than A Woman, YOU SHOULD BE DANCING, Jive Talkin, IF I CAN’T HAVE YOU, and How Deep Is Your Love… Then you can react to the movie 🪩 🕺
I wonder if anybody actually remembers when bee Gee's almost started a riot. When they debued their album here in the states Oh yes, it's a true story. Almost happened. They almost caused a riot. Why? Because they were people thought they were black. I'm not going to sugar coat it. Because most people were hearing it on the radio, and they had to wait 6 months until the or so to get the records. And ugh, they wanted to put the face with the music, and they realized some people were surprised, shocked and angered at what they saw and another part to it was They weren't American. So there was that, and that kind of ticked off a lot of people, and I wonder if people actually remember seeing it on the news or MTV when it started.
That "choreography on the floor" you liked was pretty common in the seventies. There were a lot of disco line dances like that that people would do. Most were versions of the Hustle; another was called the Bus Stop. They were really fun.
It’s a great film with wonderful music. You should watch it sometime, as I watched it on the week it was released in the UK, as I was living in North Wales at the time.
Bee Gees are the only group in history to write, produce, and record 6 consecutive #1 singles.
And, if I am correct, have written more number one songs than any other group/person....to this day.
I remember worrying about Beatle’s chart records being broken by them. lol
it’s the Beatles and not even close.
@@DrewWolf-xk7sk I haven't bothered with Beatles music since about 1985 but Bee Gees have held up very well.
Barry Gibb was THE MAN in the 70's who was loved by the ladies regardless of skin colour
The Bee Gee,s were born in England (Manchester Area) They moved to Australia when they were young.When they first started to sing in the sixties they did not make it in Ausy.They returned to London England and made some 45,s and had huge hits with them.They toured the whole country singing them and thats were I first met them.My girlfriend at that time had a Saturday job at a grocers shop.The shop owner Knew the Gibb brothers very well as they were friends of the family.The Bee Gee,s stayed with them when they were in the north of England.I went to pick my girlfriend up on this particular Saturday and their they were at the counter talking to the owner.They were massive at that time and my girlfriend could not speak --- Ill never forget it.--- I am 72 now
Just to correct, they were not born in Manchester but on Isle Of Man, but they moved with their parents to Manchester when they very young
Thank you for the reply - I did not know that as i was told at that time they were from my neck of the woods - AL@@beegeesbuster1
They were born on the Isle of Man,moved to Manchester,and then emmigrated to Australa.Hovever,they did have success in Australia and played on the top show in
Australia ,called Bandstand on numerous occasions and although still very young enjoved a great deal of success.They returned to England based on their success in Australia .If you want to see the young Bee Gee ,then check out their early shows on Bandstand.They grew up in Brisbane.
Pan of caint is the funniest line I’ve ever heard still laughing…something you have to realize I was born in ‘62 sooo in “77, I was 15, we didn’t know what hit us…this disco stuff was brand new, all I know is when u heard this you were walking 6” off the ground…course our parents hated it…which means we loved it, but didn’t know just what we had our hands on, I was all about R n B, but this stuff took over, back when I had a nice Fro…platform shoes n a silk shirt, went to my 1st disco @ Worlds of Fun Mid America (St Louis)…it was like trying to drink from a fire hose, we thought it would never end…ahhhh the memories…peace
I was born in 62 so yea I was at the hight of disco and loved it.....
The Bee Gees have said they didn't write a dance song per se. The y wrote about the "mean streets of 70's NYC" and the struggle of some people in the lower socio-economic classes to just survive the day-to-day challenges they face. "Life's going nowhere/ Somebody Help me!" and "Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother, You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.// See the city breaking and everybody's shakin'/ THey're stayin' alive, stayin' alive!" For Tony Manero, the ceiling is set low -- He's carrying a can of paint because he has a low paying dead-end job as a go-fer for a paint store. So Saturday nights spent at a local disco is THE high point of his sorry life.
They were asked to write the songs but were not interested in disco, a deadline, they wrote 5 songs in one weekend without even bothering reading the script. The Son of Sam was on the lose in NY, the BeeGee's have said A LOT of reference was just from news headlines...the song is LITERALLY about staying alive . "Life's going nowhere/ Somebody Help me!" and "Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother, You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.// See the city breaking and everybody's shakin'/ THey're stayin' alive, stayin' alive!" 👈 all of that's actually about surviving with a serial killer on the lose.
The Bee Gees are from England who moved to Australia and from there started their singing career and when becoming successful moved back to continue their career.
This song was so ingrained in people's minds that they taught CPR using the timing of the "ah ah ah ah" for the chest compression.
Britt… It’s not just the movie you should check out, take a look at his early work on “Welcome back Kotter”, where he played the slightly dopey Vinny Barbarino 😆😆😆. Saturday night Fever though is a cultural icon & summed up the disco era perfectly 💃🏻🪩🕺. The studio you were thinking of was Studio 54 👍😄
Let's not forget grease and urban cowboy
@@michelleortega1514… Grease (for sure 👍😁), but I didn’t think too much of Urban Cowboy myself.
Robin recalls, "The subject matter of 'Stayin' Alive' is actually quite a serious one; It's about survival in the streets of New York, and the lyrics actually say that". Barry Gibb also recalls, "People crying out for help. Desperate songs. Those are the ones that become giants. The minute you capture that on record, it's gold. 'Stayin' Alive' is the epitome of that. Everybody struggles against the world, fighting all the bullshit and things that can drag you down. And it really is a victory just to survive. But when you climb back on top and win bigger than ever before, well that's something everybody reacts to everybody".
Well said.
She's talking about cassettes, while I was jamming to this in the 70s as a kid, with the LP player that looked like a suitcase. And it needed a quarter on it to keep the record level.
Maurice Gibbs sang all of the alto/high notes.All of them are/were stellar.NOT to mention how many song they wrote for other artists.
Yep, you should watch the movie, yep, if you went to a disco, you danced like that, but not at the dive bar. There is a dance competition, but a lot of other stuff going on. He is trapped in a dead-end life and needs help getting out. He is carrying a can of paint. Love your reactions. I was born in the sixties and grew up in the 70's. It was awesome!!
Britt, you should get the soundtrack album for Saturday Night Fever! You would totally groove on all of the music on it!!&! 🕺💃🎶
Dwayne Johnson did this song on "Celebrity Lip Sync Battle", and his dancing is perfect and hilarious! The Bee Gees are amazing, wrote a ton of great music, and this vibe is on point. What other group sounds even REMOTELY like this super-falsetto sound? Also, the Gibbs have the most hair (head, face, chest) of any band of white guys, ever. Great guitar hooks are worth a million dollars. That "somebody help me yeahhhhhh" is my favorite part. One of the Gibb brothers wrote Islands in the Stream - which Kenny (PDC member) and Auntie Dollie took to great heights. Studio 54. The movie is what happens when you write a script based on an album. But it was the 70s, so it was fine! Also, I think there may be parallels with 8 Mile. Lead character gets beat up, gets revenge via his art.
It was Barry who wrote it. He just got honored at the Kennedy Center in December and televised last month on CBS. He looks great for his age, FL is doing him quite well.
@@lilyz2156actually all 3 Gibb brothers , Barry, Robin and Maurice wrote it. Not just Barry.
I stand corrected. Yes, it was also co written by Maurice and Robin Gibb. I have loved this song when I 1st heard it decades ago. I was 12 and I thought Kenny Rogers was a handsome older man and Dolly Parton was so pretty.@@kathleendewey5347
Yes, we danced, danced, danced to the hustle…yes!
As a teenager i listen to beegees evry day 🥰🥰🥰
One thing you have to remember about The Bee Gees music from the film is that most of them were not written for the film. After their Children Of the World album from 1976, which included their number 1 single You Should Be Dancing (Later also included in the movie) they were in a chateau in france to record their follow up album.
When their manager called them up and said he needed songs for a movie project they said, that there were no time to write a whole album but they just finished some songs and he could listen to them and see if they could be used. So by coincidence they wrote songs that for some reason fitted the film perferctly.
The Bee Gees wrote five number 1's for this movie. You Should Be Dancing, How Deep Is your Love, Night Fever, Stayin Alive and If I can't Have You, the latter sung by Yvonne Ellimann but The Bee Gees also recorded it. Another song on the album which by many is considered the best of them all is More Than A Woman which on the album has both The Bee Gees and Tavares version on it. The Bee Gees version is just a stunningly beautiful love song.
They were Born on the Isle of Man to English parents, the Gibb brothers lived in Chorlton, Manchester, England, until the late 1950s.
It's about the struggles of city and feeling like winning the dance competition will help him get out. Great movie
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Yep.. real dancing, real clothes, real confidence, and real fun back in the day. We had a blast
Barry Gibb found his falsetto either when they were writing this album or shortly before. Theres YT interviews of him and them. He went outside the recording studio to yell or scream (on purpose, for the song)while the brothers were inside singing, but then they kept hearing him - his one high falsetto note turned into continuous falsetto singing, just like that! From then on he could switch at will from his regular voice to falsetto.
That's how we use to dance back in the day.
Congratulations on 200k! In a little over a year that's incredible! Your short hair style is beautiful. It reminds me of Halle berry in the late 90s early 2000s.
Robin, one of the twins, is usually the lead singer with his strong vibrato voice, Barry harmonizing in his amazing falsetto and Maurice making the song smooth. You hear and see that more clearly in Too Much Heaven and How Do You Mend a Broken Heart. Watch them on The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson. They spontaneously sing Massachusetts from Carson's sofa and Maurice is absolutely hilarious!
Paint was because he worked in a hardware store! At the bridge, they were drunk and screwing around. The kid was depressed, and we don't know if he REALLY wanted to jump or not, but he slipped and fell.
the bg's were originally from England, but family moved to Australia when they were all young.
We were dancing like this...or trying to dance like this....or sitting at a table, watching, wishing we could dance like this......
Studio 54...
Long since gone, and their biggest hit was "TOO MUCH HEAVEN" followed by "how deep is your love" then staying alive
That’s John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. He worked in a paint store.
The movie is a depiction of night club life in Brooklyn during the disco era. John’s character wants to break out of his meaningless life and become a dancer.
He and his Italian American pals hang out - there’s comedy but it also gets very dark. Nothing is sugar coated.
Btw- I used to be a disco dance instructor! ❤
I really look forward to your reviews. You are definitely my favorite. Keep up the fun reviews.
The "brothers Gibb (Bee Gees) were born in England and raised in Australia. And, they have written more number one songs than any other group/person....to this day. And not just for themselves, for many other artists over the decades.
The movie is Saturday Night Fever.
This and John Travolta were the anthem of the Disco 70s era. Boogie shoes n bell bottoms hahahaha!!! straight fire.
They , The Bee Gees, second or third comeback, they actually wrote all the music for the movie before they even saw the movie, wow!!
the brothers were in Europe taking time off to write some new music. A movie production group contacted them via their
agent. They wanted them to come write some songs for a new movie they were going to make. The brothers said no but they have written 5 new songs that they could some and review them to see if any would work for them. The producers showed up and reviewed the songs the Bee Gees had written. They loved them and took all 5 with them back to the States. It wasn't until the movie came out that they got to see how their songs were incorporated into the movie Saturday Night Feaver.
It turns out that when the producers got down to making the movie they restructured the movie around the songs the Bee Gees had written. PS Most people don't know that Berry was Knighted by the Queen for his lyric writing. I believe the Bee Gees have a record of having the most top 10 or something like that song than any other group.
Songs didn't last in a number-one slot, in those days because of the number of new songs by new and older groups were coming out all the time. Great times to cruse the drive-ins (8 Oscars) listening to music blaring then meeting girls and hooking up. That is pretty much what the guys I hung around with did 4-5 nights a week. Great times make great memories.
Barry had a falsetto, but he also had a really great "straight" singing voice you can hear in some of their early songs. Very talented bunch. They had so many hits there were "BeeGee free weekends" on the radio, and they took a break and wrote songs for other people like Barbra Streisand, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton (Islands in the Stream), and others. Unmatched for their contribution to music.
Before this movie was made there was a story in a NY Magazine about the disco scene and specifically about guys who's lives revolved around going to the disco.
I was born in 62! I was a disco queen(in my mind).
All the brothers were born with it. You should hear the youngest Andy. He came along later.
Saturday night fever is an iconic must watch about a group of lads in the disco scene with great sound tracks all the way thro..he works in a hardware store in the movie. Hence the can of paint in his hand..
This song is great….a good reminder of the late ‘70s “disco movement.” The movie is very cultural and dance contests were popular. The Bee Gees are one of the greatest bands ever. They could reinvent themselves from early ‘60s music, to early ‘70s and finally to disco. John Travolta is known for his superb acting, dancing and singing. Just check out the movie/musical “Grease.” The Bee Gees and Travolta are probably as great as talents ever.
They didn't have official music videos in the 70s like you think of them today. It was before MTV. It was before TH-cam. If one exists, it's because it was part of a popular movie or it was a live performance.
All I know is I was viben with you and had a blast laughing and groovin wit ya . Brit
In the movie , John worked in a hardware store and had to go deliver paint to somewhere
Before this movie, John Travolta was on a weekly sitcom called 'Welcome back Cotter'. John played one of the 'Sweathogs' called Vini Barbarino. Look that up for a real young Travolta. That was also an Inner city theme. You might want to listen to 'Nights on Broadway' too. Thanks.
You have to see the movie. If you love the 70's this is how it was every weekend going to clubs. It was having a good time going nowhere but we had to do it. Then we grew up later on.
They did a couple of commercials this Christmas starring John as Santa even had his original dance partner in one of them
I was never a fan of disco but the Bee Gees were very talented. Btw I got laid for the first time at the drive-in during SNF. Good times.
The Spirit of the 70s lives on.. I don't listen to disco, classic rock instead. I'm told I'm stuck in the seventies.
YES, You would love the movie.
We do CPR to the beat of this song! 😀
Check out the whole soundtrack!
This one REALLY GOES WITH YOU!!!!!!! It does, kid!!!! 🙂🙂🙂🙂
This is you 🤷♂ 😝😝😝
There was a second movie called Night Fever.
It picks up after Saturday Night Fever
Listen to the entire Saturday Night Fever sountrack.
How you got superspeed on tape decks was you had to have a duel deck, and you record on high speed. Then you could listen to the Chipmunks singing Black Sabbath. The other way was to turn up the speed on your turntable.
Loved it in the bar fight scene in “Airplane “!!😂
Can of paint vs pan of caint. Called Spoonerisms. These pop up in conversation occasionally and are funny much of the time.
My brother-in-law purposefully threw these in often and made us laugh so hard. He could tell nursery rhythms like that... Three little pigs became Pee little thrigs. Three little bears became Bee little thrers.
I accidentally said to my 2 young sons when playing with them "I'm going to tickle your pits." That really came out wrong. 😂😂😂
THE WHOLE MOVIE WAS ABOUT "DISCO DANCE CONTEST"IN NEW YORK CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TRAVOLTA WORKED IN HARDWARE STORE AND WAS DELIVERING A CAN OF PAINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quaaludes and cocaine. Ingest those and you have instant disco. I'm 55, but spent 1975-1981 in Coral Springs, Fla. Pete & Lenny's was the big disco hot spot in Ft. Lauderdale. Rock n Roll was at the Hollywood Sportatorium. Mainly Quaaludes and pot there.
Tony has dreams of becoming a professional dancer, he thinks by winning the competition he’ll be seen by people who can make it happen. He’s looking for a partner, but he’s having difficulty finding the right person, until he sees Stephanie at the club. It always makes me a little wistful to see the World Trade Center standing majestically over the NYC skyline. It was only 4 years old when the movie was released.
Studio 54, John Travolta was part of two of the most money generated movie soundtracks of all time, the movie Grease end this one Saturday Night Fever
BarrBarry Gibb's high pitched voice was all Falsetto.
It's fun to watch a young whippersnapper get a taste of the dico era. Not many of us danced like Travolta, but we sure tried. You would get a kick out of Saturday Night Fever. SNL had a classic bit call Samurai Night Fever with John Belushi as a dancing Samurai warrior.
Its an empty can😅, 2 slices sandwiched😋 2 Best lines - "F the future", "Don't touch my hair".
They had #1 hits in the '60's.
I really loved this....
The Vietnam war had been over for 2 years and the country seemed to be breathing a sy of relief and letting the hair down for the first time in a while!!!
According to Wikipedia Manero ( the last name of the character Travolta is playing) meant that you are a very good dancer in Brazil.
This is so very awesome! Love the Bee Gees and John Travolta! Love your reaction!
If you can get a copy of Kenny Rogers album, "Eyes that see in the Dark",you'll find many a song on the album was written by the Bee Gees. I think one of their first hits was "Spicks and Specks" which has been the name of an Aussie TV Music show for many a year. There's a "Bee Gees Way' with statues of the boys at Redcliffe in Queensland, Australia, where, if my memory is correct, they first sang in a "PUB" in their teens, though it was illlegal for them to be in a pub as the drinking age in Australia back then was 21.
This is THE song they use whenever someone struts down the street. It was in one of the 2000s Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies. XD
One of the things I have found hilarious about other people reacting to this song is, and they are watch the music video, when the Bee-Gee's appear on the screen a lot of reactors have a total look of shock because they have all assumed that the Bee-Gees were African American. One guy was so funny saying that "black culture had lied to him" because he believed the Bee-Gees to be African American and they were part of "black culture" but as he said "I expected to see a black guy with a giant afro but instead i see this guy that looks like Jesus!" I was laughing so hard at what seemed like, to him, a huge cultural impact and loss. Also, everybody knows this song. People who were deads before it was released know this song. People who have not been born know this song. LOL, its a classic.
Pan of Cain’t is my new band name.
But seriously, you must watch this movie right this minute.
There is a music video of Staying Alive showing the Bee Gees.
Great reaction video. You brought a smile to my face. Thanks. You're a natural in front of the camera btw.
LOL I actually fit into three separate cultures in the 70s, I was 18 at the time but..... Hey.. 2nd place, right here... at a competition at "The Incinerator" in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina (1978) and Uncle Sam's (1977) in Buffalo, NY. Song of choice? Pablo Cruise - Don't Want To Live Without it. I spent a fortune on polyester shirts, platform shoes, three piece suits and a 1978 Ford Thunderbird. Any why? All of it to impress a cute little blonde haired, blue eyed, RN, Southern Belle from Rocky Mount, NC. Spent $150 with a New York City show boat who taught me the basics and I personally thought he sucked and figured the rest out on my own. So, I showed up in $200 White pants and a $175 silk shirt, $120 platforms and, by complete coincidence, an hour later she waltzes in wearing the exact same color and material red dress, as my shirt, and it was the beginning of an amazing summer. Turns out she was on a summer retreat to "find herself" and decide on whether or not to marry a Cardiologist. Wanna take bets on her decision? After that, I went back to jeans, boots, a truck, country, southern rock and went home to Western New York. lol
Stayin' Alive is emblematic of disco culture. Disco was the dance music and the Hustle was one of the leading dance styles.
STUDIO 54...and this was shot in a club called 2001
I was lucky to be born in 1965 to be part of the era. The moving was spoken all over the world
I was sixteen/seveteen years old when the film came out.
This was John Travolta's first movie after the TV series 'Welcome Back Kotter'.
All about the Benjamin’s! One of my favorite movies 😂. Lots of one liners
I was a young teen in the late 70s. Nothing but great music!
You will love this movie!!!
This was my very first album I very received. I played it on my Winnie the Pooh record player ! 😂 My brother got the Boston album.
I used to teach CPR and had this song running on a loop! It has exactly the right beat for effective chest compressions and the words fit so well...
Another CPR song is Queen's Another one bites the Dust, but that one is just morbid.
And to follow that train of thought, doing compressions to "Staying Alive" is rather appropriate!
Travolta was definitely a hot commodity back in that time. After setting the world on fire with his Saturday Night Fever disco moves in 1977, he did the 1950s revival musical Grease ( really launched Olivia Newton John’s career, made hot rods and Doo-wop music popular again) the following year. Then in 1980, he pumped young blood into the Country Music scene with his performance in Urban Cowboy (mechanical bull riding, line dancing, Gilley ‘s, Looking for Love in All The Wrong Places). Three movies all at once, that had big impact on our culture.
It’s sad that there is only one Bee Gee left.
Other Bee Gees songs you have to react to from the soundtrack are: NIGHT FEVER, More Than A Woman, YOU SHOULD BE DANCING, Jive Talkin, IF I CAN’T HAVE YOU, and How Deep Is Your Love… Then you can react to the movie 🪩 🕺
The beat to this song is the exact rhythm the you are supposed to use for CPR
The Bee Gees wrote the whole soundtrack for the movie. Listen to their music from the 60s.
I wonder if anybody actually remembers when bee Gee's almost started a riot.
When they debued their album here in the states
Oh yes, it's a true story. Almost happened. They almost caused a riot. Why? Because they were people thought they were black. I'm not going to sugar coat it. Because most people were hearing it on the radio, and they had to wait 6 months until the or so to get the records.
And ugh, they wanted to put the face with the music, and they realized some people were surprised, shocked and angered at what they saw and another part to it was They weren't American.
So there was that, and that kind of ticked off a lot of people, and I wonder if people actually remember seeing it on the news or MTV when it started.
We loved it !
Fogit a bout it ! I’m dancing ova heaaaa!
'pant of caint'(?)...lmao!
That "choreography on the floor" you liked was pretty common in the seventies. There were a lot of disco line dances like that that people would do. Most were versions of the Hustle; another was called the Bus Stop. They were really fun.
It’s a great film with wonderful music.
You should watch it sometime, as I watched it on the week it was released in the UK, as I was living in North Wales at the time.
now you have to check out the official music video for staying alive