It would be the third of six consecutive US #1s for the band, tying the Beatles for the record for most consecutive #1 singles.
It also replaced Andy Gibb's " Love Is Thicker Than Water" at number one and was in turn replaced by Yvonne Elliman's " If I Can't Have You"-all of which were written and produced by the Gibb brothers. Cash Box similarly said that it has "dancin' beat, scratchy guitar, sweeping orchestration and the familiar falsetto." Legacy Īccording to Billboard Magazine, it has a "jumping disco beat" and a "smooth falsetto lead" vocal. Barry heard the idea - I was playing it on a string synthesizer and sang the riff over it. I was playing that, and Barry said, 'What was that?' and I said, 'Theme from A Summer Place', and Barry said, 'No, it wasn't'. I always wanted to do a disco version of Theme from A Summer Place by the Percy Faith Orchestra or something - it was a big hit in the Sixties. 'Night Fever' started off because Barry walked in one morning when I was trying to work out something. As Weaver explains the history behind this song: The string intro of "Night Fever" was inspired by " Theme from A Summer Place" by Percy Faith, according to keyboardist Blue Weaver when he was performing it one morning at the sessions and Barry Gibb walked in and heard the new idea for this song. They had already written a song called "Night Fever", so the group convinced Stigwood to use that and change the film to Saturday Night Fever. Stigwood asked the group to write a song using that name as a title, but the Bee Gees disliked it.
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When Bee Gees manager Robert Stigwood was producing a movie about a New York disco scene, the working title for the film at that time was Saturday Night. The B-side of "Night Fever" was a live version of "Down the Road" taken from the Bee Gees 1977 album, Here at Last. Also, for one week in March, Bee Gees related songs held five of the top positions on the Hot 100 chart, and more impressively, four of the top five positions, with "Night Fever" at the top of the list. For the first five weeks that "Night Fever" was at #1, "Stayin' Alive" was at #2. It remained at #1 for eight weeks (the most for any single that year), and ultimately spent 13 weeks in the top 10. The record debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart at #76, then leaped up 44 positions to #32. The song bounded up the Billboard charts while the Bee Gees’ two previous hits from Saturday Night Fever soundtrack (" How Deep is Your Love" and " Stayin' Alive") were still in the top ten. Stigwood liked the title Night Fever but was wary of marketing a movie with that name. Producer Robert Stigwood wanted to call the film Saturday Night, but singer Robin Gibb expressed hesitation at the title. It first appeared on the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever on RSO Records. " Night Fever" is a song written and performed by the Bee Gees.
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