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Stayin' Alive: 'Saturday Night Fever' Soundtrack Gets Super Deluxe Treatment

September 20, 2017 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

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Get ready to strut into record stores--Saturday Night Fever's immortal soundtrack is being reissued as a super deluxe set alongside the film itself.

Based on a New York Magazine article that was later found to be fabricated, Saturday Night Fever ironically solidified the image of disco in popular culture. John Travolta's rough-edged but sympathetic Tony Manero--a Brooklyn bum working in a hardware store by day and tearing up the floor of the 2001 Odyssey by night--established the young TV actor as a bona fide movie star and charming symbol of the '70s. Pauline Kael's ecstatic review was one of many that year: "These are among the most hypnotically beautiful pop dance scenes ever filmed...At its best, though, Saturday Night Fever gets at something deeply romantic: the need to move, to dance, and the need to be who you'd like to be. Nirvana is the dance; when the music stops, you return to being ordinary."

But there was nothing ordinary about the double album soundtrack, meticulously assembled by the film's producer Robert Stigwood. While the film's dance sequences were scored during production to Boz Scaggs and Stevie Wonder, the soundtrack was anchored by Australian trio the Bee Gees, a mainstay of the RSO label. Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb are part of no less than eight songs on the soundtrack: originals they recorded ("Stayin' Alive," "How Deep Is Your Love," "Night Fever" and "More Than a Woman"); a cover of "More Than a Woman" by Tavares; a song they wrote for Yvonne Elliman ("If I Can't Have You"); and two previous No. 1 singles ("Jive Talkin'," "You Should Be Dancing"). Add to that a potent mix of other disco classics by Walter Murphy, Kool & The Gang, The Trammps, KC and The Sunshine Band and MFSB, plus three disco-ready score tracks by David Shire, and you've got a sensation of an album. Indeed, the album spun off four No. 1 hits ("Stayin' Alive," "How Deep is Your Love," "Night Fever" and "If I Can't Have You"), topped the U.S. and U.K. charts for a combined 42 straight weeks, sold more than 15 million copies (becoming the best-selling album of 1978 in eight countries including the United States, Canada, England and Australia), won five Grammy Awards including Album of the Year, and is part of both the Grammy Hall of Fame and the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.

A soundtrack like this is bound to go large for its 40th anniversary, and Saturday Night Fever is indeed lavish. In this box set, you'll find the original remastered album on CD and double LP as well as the film on Blu-ray--presented here in a recently restored 40th anniversary cut overseen by director John Badham and packed with extras from previous DVD releases including director's commentary and deleted scenes.

Audio extras are minimal: an extra CD EP includes new remixes of the four original Bee Gees tunes by noted mixer Serban Ghenea. Rather than update the tracks for a modern dance approach, Ghenea has taken the original multitracks and brought out new details buried from within the master tapes. (His mix of "Stayin' Alive" was briefly issued digitally earlier this year, not long after the Bee Gees catalogue moved to UMe.) The super deluxe box is rounded out with the usual swag: in this case, a deluxe 24-page book with new liner notes by Barry Gibb, director Badham and soundtrack producer Bill Oakes, a turntable slipmat, five art prints and a reproduction of the film's iconic original poster.

The set is available November 17. Pre-order links and CD/LP/Blu-ray details are below!

Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track - Deluxe Edition (Capitol/UMe, 2017) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD))

CD 1/LP 1-2: Original album (released as RSO Records RS-2-4001, 1977)

  1. Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
  2. How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees
  3. Night Fever - Bee Gees
  4. More Than a Woman - Bee Gees
  5. If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman
  6. A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy
  7. More Than a Woman - Tavares
  8. Manhattan Skyline - David Shire
  9. Calypso Breakdown - Ralph MacDonald
  10. Night On Disco Mountain - David Shire
  11. Open Sesame - Kool & The Gang
  12. Jive Talkin' - Bee Gees
  13. You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
  14. Boogie Shoes - KC and The Sunshine Band
  15. Salsation - David Shire
  16. K-Jee - MFSB
  17. Disco Inferno - The Trammps

CD 2: The Serban Ghenea Mixes

  1. Stayin' Alive
  2. How Deep is Your Love
  3. Night Fever
  4. More Than a Woman

Blu-ray

  • Saturday Night Fever 40th Anniversary Director's Cut (4K-restored under supervision of director John Badham)
  • Saturday Night Fever Theatrical Version (4K-restored under supervision of director John Badham)
  • Audio Commentary by director John Badham (Theatrical Version Only)
  • '70s Discopedia (Theatrical Version Only)
  • Catching the Fever
  • Back to Bay Ridge
  • Dance Like Travolta with John Cassese
  • Fever Challenge!
  • Deleted Scenes

Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Soundtracks Tags: Bee Gees, David Shire, KC and the Sunshine Band, Kool and the Gang, MFSB, Tavares, The Trammps, Walter Murphy, Yvonne Elliman

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Michael Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he discovered there was more than one version of John Williams' soundtrack to E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, with bylines on catalog at Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Prince and credits on titles including the Grammy-winning 'Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of "Weird Al" Yankovic.' Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with an ever-expanding collection of music.

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Comments

  1. dishy says

    September 20, 2017 at 6:31 pm

    For god's sake, Barry! Get the remastering and reissueing going with Cucumber Castle and ON! NO ONE WANTS THIS!

    Reply
    • Rob Maurer says

      September 20, 2017 at 6:45 pm

      I actually WOULD want this, if they did it right. All the original 12" promo mixes/edits should make it to CD here, as well as licensing "Disco Duck" and what not. Don't need modern remixes, and tscotchkes.

      Reply
      • Christophe says

        September 20, 2017 at 11:51 pm

        Don't forget the version of "If I Can't Have You" recorded by the Bee Gees, which was the B-side of "Stayin' Alive"...

        Reply
  2. Philip Cohen says

    September 21, 2017 at 12:19 am

    Barry Gibb's uptight restrictiveness ensures that the Bee Gees/Capitol deal will produce nothing worth buying. Capitol has been had. As for Capitol, live and learn before buying licenses for any other 1960's or 1970's catalogs.

    Reply
  3. Craig Rhyne says

    September 21, 2017 at 12:35 am

    The Director's Cut DVD/Blu Ray (with all the extras noted above) has been available individually since May of 2017 at a reasonable price at most outlets.

    Reply
  4. cdmaniac says

    September 21, 2017 at 5:57 am

    This is cool, but I'd also like 'Grease'

    Reply
  5. Bill B says

    September 21, 2017 at 1:31 pm

    I wonder if they realize that by forcing people to buy vinyl (knowing that it jacks up the price) they are losing a lot of sales. I will not pay for something that I have no way of using. Seems really short-sighted not to offer a few different configurations.

    On the flip side, at least they are including the movie with the package. I always thought that the Pink Floyd "The Wall - Immersion" box set should have included "The Wall" movie and that without it, the set wasn't definitive.

    Reply
  6. Fabrice Wojtysiak says

    October 1, 2017 at 6:08 am

    Ok , BUT , everybody has The SNF double vinyle and original albums are still for sale on ebay ( japanese and australian silver vinyle versions) , the long version remixes were available on a new 12 " already , and some stuff in the box The Miami Years ... The blu ray does NOT included the deleted dance scene of Tony and Anette on Disco Duck ... And there exist another long version of Staying Alive including a slow bridge which was not released ...Why not offering those things that real fans are looking for ? A littlely disapointed ...

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