![]() In addition to the Bee Gees songs, additional incidental music was composed and adapted by David Shire. "Jive Talkin '" was to have been used in a deleted scene taking place the day after Tony Manero's first Saturday night at the disco, but as the sequence was cut for the final film, the song was cut as well. All CD releases have included the original "Jive Talkin '". The original issue of the album included the original studio version of "Jive Talkin '" later LP pressings included a version culled from Here at Last. Drummer Dennis Bryon was unable to attend the recording of "Stayin' Alive", having had to fly back to the UK to deal with a family member's health issue. Engineer Karl Richardson copied a few seconds of drumming from " Night Fever", cut out the piece of tape and glued the ends together, then fed it back into a recorder by a makeshift arrangement to create a new drum track. Recording " Stayin' Alive" was not simple. There were so many songs called 'Saturday Night' even one by the Bay City Rollers, so when we rewrote it for the movie, we called it 'Stayin' Alive'. The Brothers Gibb then wrote a song called "Saturday Night" but as Maurice explains, He asked if we could write it more discoey." Maurice Gibb recalled, "We played him demo tracks of 'If I Can't Have You', 'Night Fever' and ' More Than a Woman'. We still had no concept of the movie, except some kind of rough script that they'd brought with them. They flipped out and said these will be great. The first song they recorded was " If I Can't Have You", but their version was not used in the film.īarry Gibb remembered the reaction when Stigwood and music supervisor Bill Oakes arrived and listened to the demos: The brothers wrote the songs "virtually in a single weekend" at Château d'Hérouville studio in France. Would you have any songs on hand?', and we said, 'Look, we can't, we haven't any time to sit down and write for a film'. And we'd written about and recorded about four or five songs for the new album when Stigwood rang from LA and said, 'We're putting together this little film, low budget, called Tribal Rites of a Saturday Night. We were recording our new album in the north of France. Producer Robert Stigwood commissioned the Bee Gees to create the songs for the film. I was dancing to Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs." As John Travolta asserted, "The Bee Gees weren't even involved in the movie in the beginning . The Bee Gees's involvement in the film did not begin until post-production. However, this track does not appear on the movie's soundtrack. ![]() Composer David Shire, who scored the film, had to, in turn, write a song to match the dance steps demonstrated in the scene and eliminate the need for future legal hassles. However, representatives for Scaggs's label, Columbia Records, refused to grant legal clearance for it, as they wanted to pursue another disco movie project, which never materialized.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |