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Bee Gees - Night Fever
Bee Gees - Night Fever


Bee Gees - Night Fever Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
Released: 1977

Night Fever Lyrics


Listen to the ground
There is movement all around
There is something goin' down
And I can feel it

On the waves of the air
There is dancin' out there
If it's somethin' we can share
We can steal it

And that sweet city woman
She moves through the light
Controlling my mind and my soul
When you reach out for me
Yeah, and the feelin' is right

Then I get Night Fever, night fever
We know how to do it
Gimme that night fever, night fever
We know how to show it

Here I am
Prayin' for this moment to last
Livin' on the music so fine
Borne on the wind
Makin' it mine

Night fever, night fever
We know how to do it
Gimme that night fever, night fever
We know how to show it

In the heat of our love
Don't need no help for us to make it
Gimme just enough to take us to the mornin'
I got fire in my mind
I get higher in my walkin'
And I'm glowin' in the dark
I give you warnin'

And that sweet city woman
She moves through the night
Controlling my mind and my soul
When you reach out for me
Yeah, and the feelin' is right

Then I get night fever, night fever
We know how to do it
Gimme that night fever, night fever
We know how to show it

Here I am
Prayin' for this moment to last
Livin' on the music so fine
Borne on the wind
Makin' it mine

Night fever, night fever
We know how to do it
Gimme that night fever, night fever
We know how to show it

Gimme that night fever, night fever
We know how to do it
Gimme that night fever, night fever
We know how to show it
Gimme that night fever, night fever
We know how to do it

Writer/s: ALEXANDER STIEPEL, ANDREAS HOETTER, BARRY ALAN GIBB, MAURICE ERNEST GIBB, ROBIN HUGH GIBB, WINDSOR KEITH ROBINSON
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Night Fever
  • In 1977, The Bee Gees manager Robert Stigwood was producing a movie about the New York Disco scene. The working title of the film was "Saturday Night," so he asked the group to write a song of that name. The Bee Gees thought it was a dumb title, but they had already written a song called "Night Fever." They convinced Stigwood to use that and change the film's title to Saturday Night Fever. The movie became a classic, telling a coming-of-age story in the Disco era. It helped launch the film career of John Travolta, who starred as Tony Manero, the conflicted youth who escaped his troubles on the dance floor.
  • The soundtrack for Saturday Night Fever sold over 30 million copies worldwide and it won the 1978 Grammy for Album Of The Year. This was the third single from the soundtrack and became that album's biggest hit single, remaining on the top of the American Pop charts for 8 weeks in early 1978. It also topped the British charts for two weeks and won a 1978 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Group.
  • The string intro is inspired by "Theme From A Summer Place" by Percy Faith. The Bee Gees keyboard player was performing it one morning at the studio and Barry Gibb walked in and heard the new idea for this song.
  • Robin Gibb in Observer Music Monthly January 2008: "The idea for the film that became Saturday Night Fever started when our manager, Robert Stigwood, saw an article in New York magazine entitled 'Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night' by Nik Cohn, talking about teenagers going to dancing competitions. When they first started dance rehearsals for the film with John Travolta, they were using our song 'You Should Be Dancing,' which had been released the previous year. We were mixing a live album in France and Robert rang and asked if we had any other songs we could contribute. In the end we had five new tracks - 'Staying Alive,' 'How Deep is Your Love?,' 'Night Fever,' 'More Than a Woman' and 'If I Can't Have You' (recorded by Yvonne Elliman) - plus the previously released 'Jive Talkin" and 'You Should Be Dancing.' It was also our idea to call it Saturday Night Fever, because the competitions were on Saturday and we already had the track 'Night Fever.'

    Until the film came out, 'Disco' meant something very different in the UK to the US. We were writing what we considered to be blue-eyed soul. We never set out to make ourselves the kings of Disco, although plenty of other people tried to jump on the bandwagon after the success of the film. When we went to the premiere at the Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles it was obvious the film and the songs really gelled, but none of us had any idea how huge it would become. It remains the biggest-selling soundtrack ever, and very few artists have created something with the cultural impact that Saturday Night Fever had."
  • In America, with eight weeks on top of the chart, it spent more weeks at #1 than any other song in 1978. For five of those weeks (March 18 - April 15), another Bee Gees song from Saturday Night Fever, "Stayin' Alive," was #2.

  • Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love
    Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love


    Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
    Released: 1977

    How Deep Is Your Love Lyrics


    I know your eyes in the morning sun
    I feel you touch me in the pouring rain
    And the moment that you wander far from me
    I want to feel you in my arms again
    And you come to me on a summer breeze
    Keep me warm in your love, then you softly leave
    And it's me you need to show

    How Deep Is Your Love, how deep is your love
    How deep is your love?
    I really mean to learn
    'Cause we're living in a world of fools
    Breaking us down when they all should let us be
    We belong to you and me

    I believe in you
    You know the door to my very soul
    You're the light in my deepest, darkest hour
    You're my savior when I fall
    And you may not think I care for you
    When you know down inside that I really do
    And it's me you need to show

    How deep is your love, how deep is your love
    How deep is your love?
    I really mean to learn
    'Cause we're living in a world of fools
    Breaking us down when they all should let us be
    We belong to you and me

    And you come to me on a summer breeze
    Keep me warm in your love, then you softly leave
    And it's me you need to show

    How deep is your love, how deep is your love
    How deep is your love?
    I really mean to learn
    'Cause we're living in a world of fools
    Breaking us down when they all should let us be
    We belong to you and me

    How deep is your love, how deep is your love
    I really mean to learn
    'Cause we're living in a world of fools
    Breaking us down when they all should let us be
    We belong to you and me

    How deep is your love, how deep is your love
    I really mean to learn
    'Cause we're living in a world of fools
    Breaking us down when they all should let us be
    We belong to you and me

    Writer/s: GIBB, BARRY ALAN/GIBB, MAURICE ERNEST/GIBB, ROBIN HUGH
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    How Deep Is Your Love
  • The Bee Gees wrote this for the American singer Yvonne Elliman. Robert Stigwood, who produced the movie Saturday Night Fever, insisted the Bee Gees perform it themselves for the soundtrack. Elliman did sing "If I Can't Have You," which was written by The Bee Gees and included on the soundtrack. That song was also a #1 hit in the US.
  • This won the 1977 Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance By A Group.
  • This was a massive hit in the US. It was #1 for three weeks and stayed in the Top 10 for 17 weeks, which was a record at the time. The song was also a huge hit on the Adult Contemporary chart, where it spent six weeks at #1 - more than any other Bee Gees song. When Billboard listed their top 100 Adult Contemporary song of all time in 2011, "How Deep Is Your Love" came in at #13.
  • In 1996 Take That covered this for their last single release until their comeback in 2006. It topped the UK chart. Gary Barlow (in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh) commented on their remake, "We wanted to prove that we could still do a cover version this far on in our career and do it very well."
  • This was the first of four new songs on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack to top the US Hot 100. It was released as a single before the film or the soundtrack were issued, and rose to the top spot a week after the film debuted.
  • A songwriter/antiques dealer in Illinois named Ronald Selle sued the Bee Gees, claiming a song he wrote in 1975 called "Let It End" was the basis for "How Deep Is Your Love." The case went to a jury in 1983. The Bee Gees claimed that they had never heard "Let It End," and there was no evidence that they did (that song was never released - Selle made a home recording that he had sent to music publishers). The case was based on the similarities between the songs, and an expert witness for Selle - a musicologist named Arrand Parsons - tried to convince the jury through technical analysis of the notes that the Bee Gees plagiarized the song. The jury bought it, and ruled that the Bee Gees did copy Selle's song. The judge, however, nullified the verdict. Selle later appealed, and was once again rebuffed.

    The case underscored the problem of juries making judgments on music, and it led to a landmark ruling that "striking similarities" between songs was not enough to prove plagiarism (something George Harrison would have appreciated). Henceforth, a songwriter had to prove that the infringing party actually heard the song before the case could move forward. This is one reason why music publishers and songwriters refuse to hear most unsolicited material.
  • In Daniel Rachel's The Art of Noise: Conversations with Great Songwriters, Robin Gibb explained the unique sound he and Barry created by combining their voices: "If you listen to 'How Deep is Your Love' you think it's a single voice but it's me and Barry singing in unison, which produces a nice sound, as it does on 'New York Mining Disaster.' There's a sound that we do, it's almost like a single voice, but it isn't, and it's not double-tracked, it's two voices together. It's something that we've done a lot."

  • Bee Gees - Stayin' Aliv
    Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive


    Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
    Released: 1977

    Stayin' Alive Lyrics


    Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
    I'm a woman's man: no time to talk
    Music loud and women warm, I've been kicked around
    Since I was born
    And now it's all right, it's OK
    And you may look the other way
    We can try to understand
    The New York Times' effect on man

    Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
    You're Stayin' Alive, stayin' alive
    Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
    And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
    Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
    Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive

    Well now, I get low and I get high
    And if I can't get either, I really try
    Got the wings of heaven on my shoes
    I'm a dancin' man and I just can't lose
    You know it's all right, it's ok
    I'll live to see another day
    We can try to understand
    The New York Times' effect on man

    Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
    You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
    Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
    And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
    Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
    Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive

    Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me
    Somebody help me, yeah
    Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me, yeah

    Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
    I'm a woman's man: no time to talk
    Music loud and women warm
    I've been kicked around since I was born
    And now it's all right, it's ok
    And you may look the other way
    We can try to understand
    The New York Times' effect on man

    Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
    You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
    Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
    And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
    Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
    Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive

    Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me
    Somebody help me, yeah
    Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me, yeah
    I'm stayin' alive

    Writer/s: GIBB, BARRY ALAN/GIBB, MAURICE ERNEST/GIBB, ROBIN HUGH
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Stayin' Alive
  • This plays over the opening credits of the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever while John Travolta struts through the streets of New York City. The movie has come to represent the Disco era, and has made this the song most associated with Disco. The Bee Gees had been singing in a high-falsetto style since their 1975 hit "Jive Talkin'," which was also on the soundtrack, but they were very popular as a vocal harmony group in the late '60s and early '70s. Their contributions to Saturday Night Fever brought them huge success, but marked them as Disco singers.

    In a 1989 interview with Q magazine, they talked about this stigma and why they didn't deserve it. "We were not disco," Robin Gibb said. "People who emulated us were disco. All you heard on the radio was that dooo! dooo! syn-drum sound. We never had a syn-drum on one of our records!"
  • This was one of five songs the Bee Gees wrote specifically for Saturday Night Fever. Like the film, the song is about much more than dancing and having a good time. It deals with struggle and aspiration; making your way in the world even after you've been kicked around. John Travolta's character in the movie is a young man working a dead-end job who feels alienated by his parents. Dancing is his form of expression, and weekends are his time to let loose.
  • Robert Stigwood, who produced Saturday Night Fever, is the one who asked The Bee Gees to write music for the film. Stigwood got the idea for the film from a New York Magazine article about the Brooklyn club scene. This may explain the rather random line in the song, "We can try to understand the New York Times' effect on man."
  • Robert Stigwood asked for a song called "Saturday Night," but the Bee Gees wanted nothing to do with that title, since many other songs, including a very popular one by the Bay City Rollers, had that name. Stigwood objected when he's heard the song was called "Stayin' Alive," but the group told him that if he didn't like it, they would just use the song on their own album.
  • This was the second of four US #1 hits from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, following "How Deep Is Your Love," which was released ahead of the film, which hit theaters December 14, 1977. "Stayin' Alive" was released one day before the movie, but many theatergoers had already heard the song in trailers for the film. It quickly climbed the charts, reaching the top spot on February 4, 1978 and staying there for four weeks.

    The soundtrack was an unqualified success, winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and becoming the best-selling album ever until it was dethroned by Michael Jackson's Thriller. It remained the best-selling soundtrack of all time until it was surpassed by the soundtrack to The Bodyguard.
  • The Bee Gees recorded this in a French studio called the Chateau D'Herouville. Later, the group learned that many porno films were shot in those studios.
  • In 1983, The Bee Gees recorded songs for a sequel to Saturday Night Fever that was called Staying Alive. It was directed by Sylvester Stallone, and while it was a critical flop, it did very well at the box office, grossing about $64 million on a budget of only $8 million. The film came years after Disco had faded, and was released at a time when both John Travolta and The Bee Gees were at career ebbs. In 1987, The Bee Gees returned with a UK #1 hit called "You Win Again," while John Travolta stayed in a career funk until the 1989 movie Look Who's Talking. (We're kidding. His next good movie was actually Pulp Fiction in 1994.)

    The set of Staying Alive was where Richard Marx , who was working on the soundtrack, first met Cynthia Rhodes, who was the female lead in the film. The couple were married in 1989; Marx wrote the song "Now And Forever" about her. (Thanks to Gary Ugarek)
  • Responding to a question about his song in a 1988 issue of Rolling Stone, the Gibb brothers stated: "We'd like to dress it up in a white suit and set it on fire."

    The were referring to the deleterious effect the song had on their career and image.
  • This won a Grammy for Best Arrangement For Voices.
  • The Italian Dance group Eiffel 65 used the chorus from this in their song "Voglia Dance All Night." In 1995, the British electronic group N-Trance covered the song, taking it to #2 in the UK. Their version featured vocals by Viveen Wray and former KLF rapper Ricardo Da Force. (thanks, Mads - Sønderborg, Denmark)
  • A team from the University of Illinois medical school suggested that this would be an ideal song to listen to on an iPod while performing chest compressions on someone who has just suffered a heart attack. The American Heart Association has stated that the optimum tempo at which to perform CPR on someone who has just suffered a heart attack is 100 beats a minute. The research team highlighted this song as, at 103 beats per minute, it has almost the perfect rhythm to help jump-start a stopped heart. It happens that "Another One Bites The Dust" has a similar beat, but it was agreed that the Queen song doesn't seem quite as appropriate.
  • Dweezil Zappa recorded this for his album Confessions with Ozzy Osbourne on lead vocals. Ozzy's record company didn't want it released, so Donny Osmond's vocals were used instead. The Ozzy version can be found on some bootlegs.
  • Capital Cities recorded a cover of this song that they released online in 2013. Sebu Simonian of the duo told us: "The classic Bee Gees version of that song is universally loved and enjoyed, but I feel like it's such a great song that it can easily be performed in different ways and impart a different kind of emotion. And to our surprise, it was never really covered in a different way. When we cover songs, we like to pick songs that are great and timeless, but haven't really been covered much or haven't been covered in a new way. So that's what we decided to do with this one - give it a different emotional impact."
  • Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty dance to this song in a bar in the 1980 film Airplane!. (thanks, Ricky - Los Angeles, CA)
  • The Bee Gees were well aware that they were creating a heart-thumping rhythm. "We thought when we were writing it that we should emulate the human heart," Robin Gibb explained in Daniel Rachel's The Art of Noise: Conversations with Great Songwriters. "We got Blue Weaver who was the keyboard player at the time to lie on the floor and put electrodes on his heart and put it through the control room. Then we got the drummer to play the heartbeat. We were the first people in the world to do a drum loop based on that."

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