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September 20, 2017 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

Capito UMe Saturday Night Fever 40th Anniversary Edition

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

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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

July 3, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

walter murphy fifth of beethoven

Today, composer-bandleader Walter Murphy may be best-known for his work with comedy’s enfant terrible Seth MacFarlane. Murphy has lent his talents to projects including Family Guy, American Dad and Ted, and has been recognized with an Emmy Award and an Oscar nomination. Yet the first time most Americans heard of Walter Murphy was in 1976 - as a result of a composition written between 1804 and 1808! The Walter Murphy Band took Beethoven onto the dance floor with “A Fifth of Beethoven,” based on

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