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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely You Can't
Be Serious Podcast. We are here to talk about Saturday
Night Fever. Soundtrack track by track Jason. What are we
gonna do for the intro to this episode?
Speaker 3: I was thinking that we should work on our falsettos.
Speaker 1: Okay, no, I think you're chop talking. All right, No,
we will not be doing that for the remainder of
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Speaker 1: This is one of the best soundtracks of the seventies.
Speaker 3: It's the second biggest selling soundtrack of all time behind
Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard soundtrack. Wow. Yeah, that's forty million copies.
Speaker 1: I mean, Titanic didn't beat this one. No, man, no,
that's incredible.
Speaker 3: It was the largest selling album of all time until
Thriller came around. Oh my gosh, this is the thriller
of the seventies. Oh my word, that's crazy. Seventeen tracks
on this one, seventy tracts. We're gonna have to move fast.
Speaker 1: Okay, ready to jump into the history.
Speaker 3: Now, let's go.
Speaker 1: Okay, I thought we weren't doing the false stuf. Yeah, okay,
I'm going to start in the Isle of Man in
nineteen forty six, where a young English boy named Barry
Gibb is born. Okay, three years later he has little
fraternal twin brothers named Robin and Maurice, and then they
move to Australia. Now interesting, let's do another shrimp on
the Bobby. Oh, thank you so much for doing that.
Oh my gosh. So interestingly, at the same time that
they're moving to Australia, there's a guy who grew up
in Australia, born in nineteen thirty four. In nineteen fifty five,
he moves from Australia to the United Kingdom. So they
basically kind of switch sides of the ocean if you will. Okay, Now,
what's really interesting is that in the articles that I read,
it says that this guy, Robert Stigwood, after he was
down with college nineteen fifty five, he hitchhiked to England.
I don't know how you do that, Like, I mean,
this isn't just the Australia. Yes, this isn't just the
Wikipedia page. Like there's a legitimate article out there that's
like he hits I don't know, I don't you know.
Did he thumb a ride on a barge of I
don't even it's weird.
Speaker 3: Well done to him.
Speaker 1: Yes, good job. So in fifty five, the Ghib Brothers
they start a little rock and roll slash skiffle band.
Have you heard the term skiffle before?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Okay. So it's this music that
was kind of the precursor to what a lot of
rock and roll guys did, which is a combination of
American folk, jazz and blues. So they're starting off in
the same way that the Beatles are starting off a
bunch of other big bands from the UK. But they're
down in Australia and they're young men fifty five. The
oldest one Berry would have been eleven and the other
two would have just been eight. But they're getting some
TV appearances, they're starting to make some singles that they're releasing,
but nothing exciting is happening yet. So since they're not
doing anything exciting in Australia, let's see what's happening with
mister Robert Stigwood up in the UK. Okay. He goes
up there and he does a few odd jobs, ultimately
ends up working with a theatrical agency, convinces a businessman, hey,
will you finance my theatrical agency. I'm going to get
some of these theater actors and have them be in
TV commercials in the UK. Okay. So it's doing okay,
and he's got this client named John Leyton. John is
in this like Oxofamily commercial and doing these little bit parts.
But he goes to Stigwood and he says, hey, you know,
I really wanted to be a pop star. I mean,
I like acting, but I'm really a singer. And Robert
stick was like, well, let's just go take you to
the record company. He said, well, I've already been, you know,
and they all turned me down. So Robert stick Wood
was like, Okay, I'm going to take you over the
recording studio. We're going to have a professional engineer do
one of your songs, okay. And so they go over
there and they record this song called Johnny Remember Me. Okay.
Then Robert Stigwood goes to the director of this TV
series that his client is acting in, and he says, hey,
you know this guy's playing a singer in the show.
Why don't you have him actually sing this song? And
the director like great, sounds like a great idea. Yeah. Well,
the song becomes a hit from the TV show, and
now the record companies that had rejected him are now
beating a path to his door so that they can
sign him. Well, of course Robert Stigwood is managing him,
and Robert Stigwood's rock and roll career begins, and this
song not only goes to number one. I hadn't heard
of it, so I checked it on YouTube. YouTube three
point two million downloads of this song. We'll play it
for you here, he yes, sign up, screamman. Yeah. I
hadn't heard it either, but it made Robert Stigwood a name. Okay,
So fast forward to nineteen sixty six, couple of other
bands that he's managing aren't really feeling like they're vibing
too well anymore. The guitarist from one of the bands
is like, Hey, I saw these other guys that were
in a trio. I kind of would like to do
something like that. Was like, Hey, I know a couple
other guys from one of my other bands. You guys
can all work together. And so the guitarist was Eric Clapton,
Eric Clapton. The two other guys were Jack Bruce and
Ginger Baker Woo, and they went on to form the
band Cream Holy Smokes.
Speaker 3: Right, So Stigwood is off to a fantastic start exactly.
Speaker 1: So this is sixty six. He says, Hey, you know,
I'm the booking agent for The Who. They need an
opening band. Cream becomes with the opening band for The Who.
By the time they get done with their tour their
world famous.
Speaker 3: Wow. Hey, you mentioned that that song went to number one. Yeah,
let me just prepare myself for this episode. Okay, Okay,
that song hit number one. That's another hit the hit
number one, and that's another song that hit number one. Okay,
I think I'm ready to go. Now we're going to
talk about eight ten number one hits.
Speaker 1: It's absurd the amount of number one hits. Now to
jump back if you will, to our Beg's friends. Yeah,
nineteen sixty six they record the first song that comes
a chart topper for them, and it's a song called
Spicks and Specs.
Speaker 4: Where is the song that show.
Speaker 1: Hits number four okay on the top fourty in Australia.
I got a question for you. Can you tell me
what the songs Physical by Olivia Newton, John, Genie in
a Bottle by Christina Aguilera, and Hard Habit to Break
by Chicago all have in common? No, I can't. They
were all written by a guy named Steve Kipner, who
in his very first gig was singing backup vocals on
Spics and Specs by the Begs.
Speaker 3: That is a fantastic nugget right there, rabbit.
Speaker 1: Hole that I go down right hey.
Speaker 3: By the way, yes, you know he's playing guitar on
Olivia Newton John's Physical right deve look a.
Speaker 1: The they had all ties together, all ties together, and
Olivia Newton and John of course comes up a little
bit later on with Robert Stigwood's productions. We'll get to
that in a little bit. So by this time, obviously
the Beatles have become huge, right, and the Begs think, hey,
we want to go be a part of this British
invasion that's happening. So in January of sixty seven they
go back to the UK and they start pumping themselves.
The dad is their manager and he's really trying to
get them out there. So one of the guys that
they end up talking to is the manager for the Beatles,
Brian Epstein. I mean, he's the guy who made the
Beatles famous. Incredible name, and he says, hey, you know,
I'm a little busy. I don't think that you're probably
right for me, but I just merged my company with
this guy named Robert Stigwood, and he's from Australia. You
guys should talk to him. Wow, do you see how
the stars are? Okay? So Stigwood says, I love these guys.
They sound just like the Beatles, and if you listen
to their sixties recordings, they have a very Beatles style
of their music. And so they decide, hey, we're gonna
go check out some musical venues. They go over to
New York City. They happen to catch Otis Redding playing
at the Apollo Theater. Now, I watched the documentary that's
out right now on the Beg's, and here's the way
this story goes. In the documentary, Robert Stigwood takes them
to New York, they see Otis Redding, they love Otis Redding.
They decide to write a song for Otis Redding, and
unfortunately Otis Redding dies that same year, and so they
end up recording the song themselves, and the song is
to Love Somebody.
Speaker 4: Got so love Somebody, So Love Somebody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'm like, wow, that is a fantastic nugget.
I got to talk about that on the show. The
only problem is when I started looking at it, they
recorded the song in April of sixty seven. Motus Writing
didn't die until December of sixty seven. So I'm not
sure if the memories are off or or the release
dates are off on the internet swebs. But it's a
good story. So let's just go with to Love Somebody
was supposed to be an Otis writing song that became
a beachy song. Okay, I can go with that. So
also in sixty seven, they record a song called the
New York Mining Disaster of nineteen forty one. This happens
when they first go to the recording studio. They get
there and suddenly the power goes out in the building.
They're all sitting around waiting for the power to come
back on. They're in pitch black. They're playing a guitar
and it's got this kind of weird echoe effect in
the place, and suddenly they're kind of taken to this
idea of being trapped in a mine. And so they
just got this kind of idea that in their head
of what it would be like to be stuck inside
this dark mining shaft. What they ended up with was
a song that they named New York Mining Disaster of
nighte forty one. There was no disaster in nineteen forty
one in New York. There was in Pennsylvania. But I
don't think that they really that was a part of it.
It was just, hey, this, you know, paints the picture.
That song becomes a top twenty hit for him. Shortly thereafter.
August of sixty seven, they record Massachusetts. Witch goes on
to be a huge success, and then later that month
Brian Epstein drops Dead Gosh. Sixty seven is pretty impactful
year for these guys, Yeah for sure. Okay. So suddenly
the manager of the Beatles dies and so the question is, hey,
is Bob Stickwood going to become the new manager for
the Beatles? And it looked like he was the guy
who would be the heir apparent right to me. The
only problem is the Beatles said, f you, no way,
not going to happen. And so, since they've got this
company together and the Beatles are refusing to have him
as a manager, he is asked to leave the company.
But it's not a bad deal for him. He goes
out with what they call a golden handshake. You've heard
about the golden parachute for executives, you know it. It's
pig severance back. Well, the golden handshakes like a step
above that. Like he gets all the money, all the retirement,
everything all at once. And he goes on to form
his own RSO Records, which now has Cream and the
begs RSO.
Speaker 3: I remember RSO Records when I was a kid. I
just remember the little bull on the record label.
Speaker 1: Nice good throwback. Okay, all right. Unfortunately, in nineteen sixty eight,
Cream disbands. They're done, right. Eric Clapton goes on to
form Blind Faith in sixty eight. They had some great stuff,
but it just wasn't popular at the time. Next thing
that he puts together is Derek and the Dominos, Right
Huge Album, Right Huge, Leyla and other love.
Speaker 3: Songs, the flashback jar Goodfellas episode.
Speaker 1: Thank You Always waiting for that? Okay? The only problem
is it also doesn't do very well when it first
is released, and so wow. Eric Clapton has now gone
through three bands, has had not the huge success that
he thought he would have, and his best buddies Jimmy
Hendrix and Dwayne Allman both so he spirals in depression.
The same time, the Beg's are breaking up. Robin is
tired of Barry. Barry is tired of Robin. Robin's like,
you know what I'm done, and he leaves. So Cream's
falling apart. Begee's are falling apart. Robert Sigwood is in
a predicament, it seems, and Eric Clapton has gone into
this huge depression from the loss of his friends, the
bad album reviews, and his unrequited love by Patty Boyd.
You know Patty Boyd is right.
Speaker 3: Patty is George Harrison's wife.
Speaker 1: Correct, Yes, you nailed it.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: So at first, obviously she's married to George Harrison. She
is not going to return his love, and so he's depressed. Now.
Ultimately she ends up divorcing Harrison and Mary and Clapton.
But that's a story for another day. But the song
Layla is about her and the fact that she is
not returning his love. She's got him mind his knees, yeah,
begging please.
Speaker 3: Hey. Eric Clapton was supposed to join the Beatles at
some point in this whole thing, right, yeah, I mean
they Is this the Eric Clapton Podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Yeah, no, no, it's but it all comes back.
I'm bringing it full up. Just wait, just wait, right,
And so the Beg's put some albums out that are
just Barry and Maurice in there, none of them very good.
So even though all of Robert Stigwood's world is falling
apart right now, he is having some success stories outside
of rock music, with a production of a few Broadway hits,
one of which is Jesus Christ Superstar nineteen seventy three.
Young man comes into audition for him. You brought this
up on our last podcast. Can you tell me who
that young man was?
Speaker 3: That young man's name was John Travolta, and he didn't
get the part.
Speaker 1: He did not, but Robert Stigwood remembered him. So Stigwood
is thinking, Okay, what you need, Eric Clapton is a
change of scene. So in nineteen seventy four, he's like,
I'm gonna take you away from the bad influences that
you have, get you in a nice sunny place so
you can't be sad. We're gonna go to Miami, Florida,
and you're gonna record an album. He records an album
and titles it The Place Where Stayed four six' One Ocean,
boulevard which has a little song you might have heard
of on there CALLED I shot The. Sheriff and at
this point he sees the success that he's been missing
his whole, life and he, says you know, What, robert
maybe the begs need a change of scenery, Too and
So robert, says, yeah let me see IF i can
get them Over. Miami they bring Back, Robin robin's with,
Them maury's is with, Them berries with them all. Together
we're going to record this album In miami called Main,
course which has another song you might have heard of Called.
Speaker 3: Dove talking The falsetto's.
Speaker 1: Back, yeah so that is How Eric clapton resurrected The beg's.
Speaker 3: Career thank You Eric clapton for saving The beg's and
giving this this fantastic album we're going to talk about.
Today SO i want.
Speaker 1: To talk about a couple of things with main. Course, Okay,
first it has is the first appearance of the logo
that is totally recognizable as The beg's. Logo, now okay
talking about? It, YEAH i, do, Okay, Yeah so do
you know who the album the artist was for that?
Album you, know a young guy who had been doing
some other albums but hadn't really hit his major success
yet Named Drew Strewsann get the heck out of. Here
that was the one that blew my mind just a second.
AGO i was, like, oh that's a great.
Speaker 3: NUGGET i Am, drews Drews end's biggest frigging. Fan my
son did a report On Drew streusan and at.
Speaker 1: School that's. Fantastic every movie poster.
Speaker 3: You've ever seen from the, eighties, yeah was done By Drew, Cruzza.
Speaker 1: Indiana, jones Shash, Ank, redemption you name, it and it's
got an amazing. Poster he's the guy that was the.
Speaker 5: Artist.
Speaker 1: Wow so main, course another big important thing that happened
Was Robert stigwood, Said, hey, GUYS i don't think that
you should keep doing these ballads that you've been doing
for the last four years and failing at how about
we try some.
Speaker 3: Disco thank, You Robert. Stigwood let's try. Disco so that
was seventy.
Speaker 1: Five also in nineteen seventy, five A tv series comes,
out has that young actor that we mentioned. BEFORE tv
series Named Welcome Back. Copper Welcome, Back your dreams were your.
Ticket welcome.
Speaker 3: Back the stars are aligning right. HERE i can see it.
Speaker 1: Happening got. There also in nineteen seventy. Six the next,
Year Robert stigwood buys the rights to an article called
The Tribal rights of The New Saturday. Night he also
in nineteen seventy six signs that young man who had
auditioned for him In Jesus Christ superstar to a one
million dollar three picture deal starting With saturday Nine.
Speaker 5: Feet that's.
Speaker 3: Fantastic.
Speaker 1: Thanks NOW i think we can jump into the album
track by.
Speaker 3: Track oh my, GOSH i mean to get us to this.
Point you've already blown my mind five, Times so let's
talk about the album really. Exactly, Okay, yeah So Saturday Night.
Fever the album was released In november of nineteen seventy.
Seven like we, said this is the second biggest selling
soundtrack of all, time Behind The bodyguard By Whitney. Houston
this album stayed on the charts From november of nineteen
seventy seven Until march of nineteen. Eighty holy, cow three
years on the.
Speaker 1: Charts CAN i tell you something that happened in nineteen? Eighty? Also?
Sure in nineteen, eighty The begs realized That Robert stigwood
had very slyly and carefully taken over the rights to
all of their. Copyrights they no longer had rights in
any of their, songs so they had to say goodbye
Mister stigwood And Sue rso to get the rights to
their songs, back which they. Won. Wow probably soured the,
relationship just AS i would.
Speaker 3: Say. So, yes this album was number one for twenty
four straight. Weeks to say this is the thriller of
the seventies is not. Hyperbole this was a humongous pop
culture nuclear of the. Seventies the only people to outsell The.
Begees listen to this. List, okay this is all. Time,
Yay Elvis, okay The beatles, Yeah Michael, Jackson, Yeah Garth
brooks uh, huh And paul. McCartney. Wow that's the. List,
wow that's the list of people who have out sold The.
Speaker 1: Begs they were a wrecking. Ball they were amazing and
so well regarded because of their association with disco and
probably their teeth a little. Bit they were a punching
bag for a whole lot of. FOLKS i told. You
once nineteen eighty came, around they stopped doing so much
of their own songs and did more writing for other,
folks Including Kenny rodgers And Dolly. Parton islands in The,
stream that's. Fantastic you sent me A Selene dion song.
Speaker 2: Though oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah they're the ones who Wrote, immortality which you will
know from The Selene dion version that came out in
nineteen ninety. EIGHT i, mean they're all over the. Place
their catalog is, huge just as. Songwriters so listen to.
Speaker 3: This The begs did not even get involved In Saturday
Night fever until the movie was in post. Production. Wow
they were working on their next. Album they were In,
France melissa ingill try to help me with my friends
pronunciation of. This, okay thank, You. Melissa i'm still gonna,
stink but here we. Go. Okay they were at the
chateau they Are. Aville Elton john called this The Funky. Chateau,
okay he named his album in nineteen seventy four after this.
Place it's a recording studio In. France that's where they,
were And Robert stigwood calls them and, says, Hey i'm
doing this. Movie can you guys send me some? Songs
And Robin gibbs, says we don't have. Time we can't do, it.
Speaker 1: Dude, sorry we're. Booked we're working.
Speaker 3: On a new. Album uh huh, okay and so he's,
like oh, NO i really need you guys TO i
really think this is change your life type of. Material
you guys have gotta do. This and so basically they
sacrificed that album and it morphed into The Saturday Night fever.
Speaker 1: Soundtrack. Fantastic it's crazy to think that they did the
whole movie without these. Songs, OH i.
Speaker 3: Know we talked about how Bos skags is Low down
was supposed to be in. There, yeah and they tried
to get the rights for that and they, said, no
five million.
Speaker 1: Bucks, Yeah travolta is dancing To Boss gagged And Stevie.
Speaker 3: Wonder, Okay SO i mentioned That Robert stig would call
these guys And Robin gibbs, said we don't have. Time
so one of the things he, Says number, one we
don't have. Time number, two we're working on this other album.
Already number, three we don't even know what this movie is. About,
Well Robert stigg was, like, well here's the. Dell, okay
it's about this guy who sells paint and he's a great,
dancer like he dances on the. Weekends, Right, yeah this
is what blows my. Mind, okay this is what they're dealing,
with right, Right he's a paint salesman who's a great
dancer on the, weekends and you come up with How
deep Is Your love And Night fever And Staying alive
as a response to.
Speaker 1: That, yeah it just speaks.
Speaker 3: To their genius right. There listen to. This they wrote these,
songs those five right, there virtually in one. Weekend they
wrote the first five songs on The Saturday Night fever. Soundtrack,
Wow Robert stigwood calls. Them they're at The Funky. Chateau
so they're, like, okay you, know we'll work on some.
Stuff so they spent a. Weekend digwood and his music
Supervisor Bill oaks arrived to listen to the. Demos Bill,
oaks by the, way just put a pin in his.
Name they showed, up they played the demos for. Him
they flipped out and, said these are, great could you
make them a little more. Discoe this is one of
the most profitable albums of all. Time it was a
double album that had several songs that were just orchestral
filling coupled with old hits and cheap. Stuff okay and
The beg's one of the most profitable albums of all.
Time Robert, Stigwood he's no dummy.
Speaker 1: Now he is a savvy business also shady.
Speaker 3: Though all, right are we ready to dive in track by?
Speaker 1: Track how about we save the best for.
Speaker 3: First this song is called Staying.
Speaker 6: Alive you're not streutting in your seat right, now there's
something wrong with.
Speaker 1: You this is the song of The. Beaches you Say beg's,
SONG i, say stay in live like it's the. Song
it is representative of. Them it's representative of the, Movie
it is representative of the disco era as a. Whole
it is the pinnacle, peak the top song of all
three of those. CATEGORIES i agree with. YOU i would
go a step.
Speaker 3: Further, YEAH i would say this is one of the
most recognizable songs of the.
Speaker 1: Seventies, absolutely like.
Speaker 3: It is the decade in one three minute or four minute.
Speaker 1: Song, yeah for.
Speaker 3: Sure so this song was originally Called Saturday, night. Right
Robert stigwood wanted a song Called Saturday night because the
original working title for the movie Was Saturday night makes, sense, Right,
Yeah and so they took this song and they kind
of squeezed it and Worked Saturday night in, there uh.
Huh and you can kind of hear how that would work,
Right Saturday, Night Saturday, night, Right and they, thought, nah
it just doesn't sound, right and so they changed it
To Staying.
Speaker 1: Alive Staying. Alive it's kind of. Interesting so the song
is about surviving in the streets Of New. YORK i,
mean if you look at the, lyrics you, know away
from this fantastic groovy, beat you've got a song that's
kind of dirty and mean and rough and, tough and
you are a survivor like staying alive means you've survived
this difficult ordeal of living on the streets Of New.
York you, know they're In. France from THE, uk they're In.
France it came From Robin Gibbs Concord, Ticket, LIKE i
guess there was some talk in there about you, know
what's going to happen if there's a plane crash and
the difficulty of survival there and that what kind of inspire.
Him but it became instead of you, know a plane,
crash it became the streets Of New York.
Speaker 5: City.
Speaker 1: Wow, YEAH i.
Speaker 3: Heard Robin gibb talk about. It he said they're desperate. Words,
yeah he, said they're. Desperate songs make great.
Speaker 1: Songs. YEAH i, mean if you've got a song about
going out on A saturday, night it's going to be.
Forgot if you've got a, song, right if you've got
a song about fighting the most difficult life imaginable and
coming out a, winner that's something that people will attach
to and just give it a groovy.
Speaker 7: Beat.
Speaker 3: Absolutely when fans saw this, movie, yeah the opening, credits opening,
credits it's Johns revolta's. Feet he's walking, around he's strut
and they've got that camera on the dolly and it's just.
Speaker 1: His, feet the invention of the steady.
Speaker 3: Camp, yes fans flooded radio stations to request them played this.
Song this was the second. Single it wasn't the lead,
single And Robert stigwood kind of played his cards. WISELY
i think he didn't want to come out with one
and it fail and the movie flop and that's.
Speaker 1: It you don't blow your load on the first song.
Speaker 3: Exactly but people, responded. Right, yeah this song hit number
One february, fourth nineteen seventy.
Speaker 1: Eight it was second number one. Hit it is the
second number, one second number one.
Speaker 3: Hit just hear those, words number one.
Speaker 1: Hit, okay put up in in.
Speaker 3: That. Yeah it was not originally scheduled for, release but
fans demanded it to be.
Speaker 1: Released you know.
Speaker 3: What it was knocked out of the number one spot
by no Mister Andy gibb with a song Called Love
Is thicker than The.
Speaker 1: Water So andy is the younger, brother like he was
much younger than the rest of the, boys like ten
years or. Something, yeah and he had a big career
of his. Own was also managed By Robert. Stigwood ended
up dying like thirty years Old, yeah DRUGS i.
Speaker 3: Think, yeah this song blocked just The way You are
By Billy joel And We are The Championspike. Queen oh,
wow it kept them out of the.
Speaker 1: Times talk about being a big. Hitter, yeah this song
Kept We are The champions out of the number one.
Speaker 3: Spot, yes. Amazing last thing on This this uses the
same Drum loube From More than A.
Speaker 1: Woman, OKAY i can see. That it's a drum beat that.
Works it won't.
Speaker 3: Stop this is the disco. Song this is the pinnacle
of disco. SONGS i mean four on.
Speaker 1: The, Floor baby on the.
Speaker 3: Floor, Okay i've got to mention something real.
Speaker 1: Quick.
Speaker 3: Okay we talked a little, bit just briefly last week
about the sequel To Saturday Night, fever a movie Called Staying.
Alive it got its name from this. Song, Okay, yes
it Starts Miss Cynthia. Rhodes, yeah From Dirty, Dancing, yes
and from The Toto rosanna. Video from The rosanna. Video
she met her future Husband Richard marx on the set
of that movie because he was writing music for that.
Speaker 1: Movie and. FANTASTIC i love how it all comes full.
Speaker 3: Circle, OKAY i got one more. THING i got it talked. About,
okay in episode Three yes by, us we Covered airplane And.
Speaker 1: Spaceballs i'm so glad you said. This i'm like looking
it up right, Now i'm, like ok when did We
when do we come with? This so our dear Friend
John holland just texted us right before we started, Recording
john and he, said the traffic is, horrible but you
guys are keeping me sane and send us a picture
of his console where it shows him listening to the
Space Balls Versus airplane, episode which was our second series of.
Episodes but you bring that up obviously Because, angie, right
she's In Saturday Night. Fever, no because staying. Alive this
song is played in the boy Meets girl scene of
the Movie.
Speaker 3: Airplane, yes when he laying is dancing and the guy
gets stabbed in the back and he's pointing to the
knife in his back and she thinks he's making disco
moves all that whole scene and the music is sped
up ten.
Speaker 1: Percent, yes so you listen to.
Speaker 3: It it's past extra falsetto right.
Speaker 1: There. Yes and, interestingly in the Movie John travolta never
does the. Point the point came about when they were
doing the photo shoot for the. Album he never did
the point in the, movie but In Airplane Robert hayes
does the point.
Speaker 3: Absolutely with the ricochet out effects when he does. It
the song one A grammy For Best arrangement For.
Speaker 1: Voices do you Watch The? Office?
Speaker 3: Yes did you watch that episode where they were doing
THE cpr to stand.
Speaker 1: Alivee cuts the face? Mask? Yes, yeah it's ingrained in pop. Culture,
yeah it is. Iconic it is a, Juggernaut.
Speaker 3: Yes it is all. Right the second song is a
song called How deep Is Your?
Speaker 8: Love Have You Touched?
Speaker 6: Me in the Bond.
Speaker 1: The song is, beautiful, beautiful even in the. FALSETTO i,
mean if you're gonna do the, falsetto these are the
guys that mastered, it for, sure you know he he.
Speaker 3: Doesn't lean on the falsetto as much in this. Song,
no it's mostly his normal.
Speaker 1: Voice, well the falsetto came about because he said he
was partly inspired by The Beach. Boys it's for, you Def, Dave,
dave and he did it a little bit in sixty.
Seven but then when they started recording these albums in the,
seventies they were doing the disco. Stuff somebody was, like
handing somebody who could scream the, lyric Like paul. McCartney he's, like,
WELL i don't even, scream BUT i could do a.
Falsetto and he was the only one to volunteer to do.
It but, man he nailed. It Very.
Speaker 3: Gibson his falsetto was.
Speaker 1: Hiding he didn't even know it.
Speaker 3: Existed. Yeah that sound became the sound of the disco.
Speaker 9: Era.
Speaker 3: Yeah so this song listen to This okay hit number
one shocker On Christmas eve nineteen seventy. Seven this was
the first single.
Speaker 1: Released.
Speaker 3: Yep this Is Barry gibbs's FAVORITE beg.
Speaker 1: Song here's the number one.
Speaker 3: Song, OKAY i got something a little more for. You,
okay this knocked you Light up My life out of
the top. Spot mahala, Yes Debbie, boone, Yep so How
deep Is? Your spent seventeen weeks in the top. Ten,
okay The billboard top.
Speaker 1: Ten that's. Incredible it was.
Speaker 3: Bested by A boys To men's. Song can you name that?
Speaker 1: SONG i would like to, try but, NO i don't
have a clear.
Speaker 5: Of.
Speaker 3: THEM i can go that's.
Speaker 1: It spent nineteen long to, Me i've be.
Speaker 8: Long.
Speaker 1: SORRY i GUESS i could have named.
Speaker 3: Ith, YEAH i guess so, right.
Speaker 1: Hard to reach back that. FAR i have a funny
story about the creation of this.
Speaker 3: Song, okay, Yeah so one, morning one of the guys
in the, band his name Is Blue, Weaver, okay. Right
he's actually a piano player who was In Mata.
Speaker 1: Hooper he's a big session, musician played For time, band, Right.
Speaker 3: Okay so it's just him And barry in the studio one,
day and So barry, says, hey play the most beautiful
chord that you. Know and so he's, like, okay well
how about, This and he's, Like, okay that's. Good that's.
Good now play the next most beautiful chords you. Know
and then he would play, it and then they would
slowly just kind of be, Like, okay that's a good. One, okay,
no and play something, Different, Okay, okay that's a great
one right. There and so little by little they kind
of built this chord. Progression and so that Night blue
got tired or drank too much or, whatever went to,
sleep and when he woke up they had recorded a. Demo,
wow he had fallen asleep when he went to, bed
they recorded the.
Speaker 1: Demo it's, interesting LIKE i listen to these, guys they
were not The Mutt lang school of. Recording they basically
got it the first, Take like they wrote the lyrics
the day they were going to, record so they they
put together the music in a short amount time than
when they knew it was recording. Date they would write
the lyrics and then they would record in just a few,
sessions like very short span of. Time and they released
like when they were first started, recording released like three
albums a. Year, wow that's.
Speaker 3: Amazing, YEAH i did hear. That Barry gibbs, said melody was, First,
yep you get a great, melody then you build the
verses from, there and that's why all these songs are so.
Speaker 1: Melodious.
Speaker 10: MELODIOUS yep actually talked about Having Yvonne elleman record this,
one But stigwood.
Speaker 1: Said, no this is too. Good you've got to not
get it too somebody.
Speaker 3: Else and he was, right he was. RIGHT i absolutely
love this. One another number one hit that's two for.
Speaker 1: Two, yeah and you've got this. GREAT i, mean the
dynamics of an album are very, important and you got
this disco. Album you might think boom dance, song boom dance,
song but they don't do. That they go boom dance,
song and then they, go, nice, slow sweet. Song how
about we bring in another disco.
Speaker 3: Song let's let's, go let's disco it. Out song number.
Three this song is called Night.
Speaker 1: Fever, okay so that the nice wounch chink.
Speaker 3: CHINK i love.
Speaker 1: That it is so. Disco it is so definitively. Disco
it's got the kind of wah phaser effect on the,
guitar on the muted. Strings and then they bust. IN i,
mean not a great.
Speaker 3: One this is disco e. Man this is where the
title of.
Speaker 1: The movie comes. FROM i, know right. Right so the
article that they based the movie on was Called Tribal
rights of The New Saturday. Night so they had This
Saturday night in. Mind but then when they heard this
song Night, fever they were, like, oh that's. It we're
gonna blend these two, Titles Saturday Night Night Fever Saturday Night.
Fever you, know it's. FUNNY i was talking to my.
Speaker 3: WIFE i kept talking to her, about, hey we're comparing
Dirty dancing Versus Saturday Night, fever and she just had
this block in our. Branch she kept Saying Saturday Night,
Live oh, Yeah Saturday Night. Live and some of the
people On facebook have commented that which is their favorite
Movie Saturday Night, live because the.
Speaker 1: Word live comes After Saturday.
Speaker 3: Night. Right this one's got some interesting chart history with. It,
okay to say that The beg's were scorching hot at
this time is an way. Understatement so this song is
another number one, hit third in a, row.
Speaker 1: Third single off the, album third number one. Hit, yes
and now for number, one so listen to.
Speaker 3: This when they dropped this song debuted at number seventy,
six it leaped forty four positions to number thirty, two
then seventeen eighty, five two and. One that is a
tremendously fast climbed to the top, one oh, yeah to
the top. Spot Yeah, Okay now Then i'm gonna throw
this at. You the top five From march, eighteenth nineteen seventy.
EIGHT i don't want to glaze anybody's eyes, over but
this is so amazing it blows me. Away, Okay, Okay march,
eighteenth nineteen seventy. EIGHT yep number five the Song love
Is Thicker Than WATER. Yep that's An Andy gibbs song
written by the GiB.
Speaker 1: Brothers.
Speaker 3: Right number four is Layd Down Sally Eric clapton. Yep
number three is a song Called emotion By Samantha, saying
written by the GiB, Brothers oh My. Gosh number two
Is Staying, Alive oh My, god and number one is Night.
Speaker 1: Fever that is.
Speaker 3: Nuts they had four songs in the top five at
the same.
Speaker 1: TIME i love, it, Okay so you have you heard
of the song called A Summer place came out in the.
Sixties it was by The Percy Faith orchestra On not
a lot of people are gonna know a summer place
when you say the, name but that music is, unmistakable, Right,
Yeah so you Mentioned Blue weaver on last. Song so
he had always had this idea OF i would like
to do kind of a disco version of that song
because that, song like it takes you to a happy, place,
right it just makes you feel. Good and so he,
whils like disco is supposed to make you feel, Good
let's do a disco version of that. Song and so
what he ended up doing was twisting the chords a,
bit and as he was playing, It barry, said what was?
That AND i said a theme FROM A Summer, Place
And barry, said, no it. Wasn't it was New he
heard the. Idea he was playing it on a string
synthesizer And barry sang the riff over, it and that
is how the Night fever was.
Speaker 3: Born, wow that's a great story right. There, Okay i've
got something for you on.
Speaker 1: This.
Speaker 3: Okay have you seen the music video for Night?
Speaker 5: Fever?
Speaker 3: No, okay remember back in Our Guns N' roses, Episode uh,
huh we talked about the music video for a song
Called It's So. Easy it was recorded and not released
and not seen by anybody for like twenty. Years, okay
same thing happened with Night.
Speaker 4: Fever.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah they shot a video in nineteen seventy. Eight,
okay nobody saw that video until two thousand and.
Speaker 8: Four.
Speaker 3: What, Yeah SO i watched this, video, okay and so
it's it's a seventies disco, video, right brothers are. Singing
but the cool thing is is there's a lot of
video of what they Call Motel row In. Florida but
it looks like you're watching the Movie Diamonds Are. FOREVER i,
mean it's like a moment plucked right out of the.
Seventies it's a really cool little treasure chest of seventies. Stuff,
okay so check it out if you get a. Chance,
Okay Cool Night fever spent eight weeks at number. One
that's more than any other song in nineteen seventy. Eight
they were bliss string hot at.
Speaker 1: This moment or the next song on the album is
More than A.
Speaker 3: Woman so, deed this song was not released as a.
Speaker 1: Single, well The beg's version wasn't released as a, single, right, right, right, Right, okay,
yes but IT'S i, MEAN i know The beg's, version me,
Too but there's another, version but that's a few songs.
Ahead we'll get that.
Speaker 3: One, yeah but it blows me away that this was
never released as a. Single i'm very familiar with this.
SONG i couldn't believe it wasn't another number, one right
it could have, BEEN i, think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ABSOLUTELY i think it actually might have. Charted it just.
Was it was one of those things where it was
charting even though it was never released as a.
Speaker 3: SINGLE i believe this is the song that When John
travolta And annette are, dancing they danced to this, Song, okay.
Speaker 1: Practicing, okay SO i know this is The beg's. Song,
yeah but this was never released as a single by The.
Speaker 3: Beg's it blows me away that this is not a
single because this is a popular song in ONE i
was very familiar.
Speaker 1: With, Yeah and, now obviously with the album selling like it,
did it still played on the, radio no question about.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 1: Right the version that we're going to talk about in
a little bit is really the more chart topping version that.
Speaker 3: Existed that's. True, yeah ALTHOUGH i still believe that if
they had released this, one it's another number one. Hit,
yeah this is a huge.
Speaker 8: Song it, yes.
Speaker 3: Okay so the fifth song on the album is a
song called IF I Can't Have you?
Speaker 1: Okay so this is another song by The. Beg's, yes
it's just not sung by The. Begs, yes this song
was sung By Yvonne.
Speaker 3: Ellman so who in the heck is? That you ask?
Speaker 1: YOURSELF i am asking. You you tell? Me is this?
Speaker 3: LADY i will tell?
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 3: Okay so she has two connections that got her this
job in my, opinion all, right other than being a
successful singer or, whatever got a nice. Voice she Played
Mary magdalen In Jesus Christ. SUPERSTAR I Love. It that
was produced by our, Man Robert.
Speaker 1: Stickwood you're blowing my mind, man.
Speaker 3: Whoo and she was also married To Bill. Oakes the
r executive that went over to The Funky chateau to
listen to the demo.
Speaker 5: Tapes.
Speaker 3: Nice she's got a great voice and this is a huge. Song,
yeah there are connections that probably got her this, song
if you know What i'm.
Speaker 1: Saying, Sure, Okay so can you tell me about what
happened with her later? Online?
Speaker 3: Yeah so this is. Interesting SO i told you that
this is my earliest favorite.
Speaker 1: Song, yeah, okay that's.
Speaker 3: Right and so WHENEVER i hear this, SONG i always
remember it just kind of bounces around in my. HEAD
i was five years. OLD i was sitting At swinson's
ice cream shop In, Tulsa.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma shout out To, winston's shout out To winston's no longer, There, okay.
Speaker 3: Shocker they played it over the loud. SPEAKER i remember
sitting there eating my ice cream, cone, GOING i really
like this. Song in, fact it's my. Favorite and it
was the time of my life WHEN i knew about three,
songs including.
Speaker 1: Mint chocolate chip is my favorite ice.
Speaker 11: Cream that's my early spiking the football right, there five
year Old Jason colvin fikes in. Football IF i can't have, you.
Speaker 3: That's, it that's. IT i told YOU i HAD i
LIKE i, knew like this song plus Stay, alive plus
the bare, necessities, right but for those bare? Necessities, okay
so listen to.
Speaker 1: This So i'm i gotta know what happened with the
lady who sang your First, spike the football favorite.
Speaker 3: Song, Okay, Okay Miss Evonne elleman nineteen seventy eight was
a long time. Ago, Okay so listen to what she's
doing in twenty.
Speaker 1: Seventeen, Okay so she's over.
Speaker 3: In, Guam. Gwam she's getting ready to sing for The
catholic school, charity which you think these kids have ever?
Heard IF i can have?
Speaker 1: You MAYBE i don't think. So it was the biggest
selling album of the nineteen.
Speaker 3: Seventies, okay maybe so doubt, it but maybe. So she
was arrested for transporting marijuana and.
Speaker 1: Meth, well those plane rides out To guam take a long.
Time you need a little cool down and a little bump,
Up that's What i'm. Saying, oh it made me.
Speaker 3: Sad she had to use a cane in, Court that's
how this. Is but they punted her back To, hawaii
her home, state and she did her time over.
Speaker 1: There well that was mighty neighborly of, Them.
Speaker 3: Mary Magdalene Transporting MYTH a great. Song, oh it's a
fantastic song and one that is very very close to my.
Heart this song was given to him on after they
kind of toyed with giving Her How deep Is Your?
Love but instead they gave her IF I Can't Have? You,
yeah and it became sort of A nett's theme song
in the Movie, yeah and it makes it kind of
a sad, song right, right because she's pining After tony
who doesn't want, her who doesn't want, her and so
she doesn't want nobody. Baby, okay so out of five,
songs that's four out of five number.
Speaker 1: Ones wait a, minute which one didn't hit number?
Speaker 3: One more than a woman that was not released as a.
Single oh, right.
Speaker 1: That makes sense, then, okay all, Right so the producer
of this song is a guy Named Freddy. Parrin he
had his own like Wrecking crew guys studio musicians that
always played at his recording, studio which was called The
mom And Pop's Company. Store, okay we have bob boogie
bowels on the. Guitar boogie. Bowels. Bowels it's not, bowls it's.
Bowels there's a n E.
Speaker 12: I hit it when my bowel's, Boogie Scott edwards on the,
bass And James gadson on the, drums and as it,
Happens Freddy parrin and these guys also did the song
comes right.
Speaker 1: Out after the next song that we're about to talk,
about they did The tavers version of More than A.
Speaker 3: Woman, okay, cool, Cool well we'll talk about that here
in just a. Second, yeah, alright d take the needle
off the, record flip it, over place the needle, on
and here we. Go the next song on the album
is a song called A fifth Of.
Speaker 1: Beethoven ludwig Van beethoven was born In jermy with, deaf
composed a thousand musical, masterpieces and died in eighteen twenty.
Speaker 3: Seven and he hit number one in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 1: SIX a mirror one hundred and fifty years, later.
Speaker 3: That is incredible took somebody Named Walter murphy changed his
Fifth symphony into a disco song and it became a
number one Hit october nineteen seventy.
Speaker 1: Six this is Arguably beethoven's most well known. Composition you
got this and you GOT o De joy basically thank you. Diehard,
yes but it just it made sense to put a
disco beat with it and put it in this. Movie,
Right it's.
Speaker 3: FUN i love this instrumental. Version it's prominent in the.
Movie it's a number one. Hit it's a lot of.
Speaker 1: Fun when we did Our Van halen Versus Van hagar,
EPISODE i talked about having an album Called hooked on The,
classics and it's all this same type of, thing this
kind of groovy disco beat with electric guitar style versions
of classical masterpieces mashed up.
Speaker 7: Together, okay.
Speaker 3: Fantastic, YEAH i gotta throw this out there real.
Speaker 1: Quick.
Speaker 3: Yea the top five when this hit number, one it's
kind of.
Speaker 1: Notable this song hit number.
Speaker 3: One this song hit number one in nineteen seventy, Six,
okay so it's prior to the release of the. Album
this is a number one hit from the year. Before,
okay then kind of scooped it up for, pennies, right
the royalty is really low on, that. Right so the
top five the week this hit number, One number Five
If You Leave Me now By, Chicago, okay great song
number four a song that you MENTIONED i think last
Week Disco duck By Rick d's there you. GO i,
mean you talk about disco Being hot When Donald duck
gets a.
Speaker 1: Top five hit by A CALIFORNIA. Dj No.
Speaker 3: Less number three is Low down By Boss skaggs that
they used in the, Movie, well that they wanted to
use in the.
Speaker 1: Movie, well when they used when they were doing the dance,
scenes THEY i, mean that's What John travolta was.
Speaker 3: Dancing that's exactly right with the guys From toto playing
the instruments on that. One number two is play that
funky music By casey in The Sunshine. Band we're going
to talk about them in just a. Second and then
of course a fifth Of beethoven number one, awesome.
Speaker 1: Awesome love it moving? On, Well beethoven's, dead so let's keep.
Speaker 3: Going the next song on the album is The tavar's.
Speaker 1: Version of More than A. Woman so this song is
by The TAVERS. Yep they actually were backstage At Madison
Square garden at A beg show and that's when THE beg, Said,
hey would you guys like to record a version of this?
Speaker 2: Song?
Speaker 1: Wow that's. Cool, Yeah and AS i, Mentioned Freddy parron
was the one who produced this. One Freddy parron had
produced hits by The Jackson, five co produced and co
WROTE I Will survive By Gloria. GAYNOR i mean, say
for these songs on this, album he won The. Grammy
good for, Him good for.
Speaker 3: Him you know what The tavars were called before they
were called The.
Speaker 1: Tavars, YES i. Do shall be in The turnpikes because
those things go. Together she'll be in the. Turnpikes WHAT i,
KNOW i don't.
Speaker 3: Know and like you mentioned, previously this was the version
Of More than A woman that actually, charted which to
me is an absolute. Crime The beg's versions way.
Speaker 1: Better, well yeah it, is. Okay, next the next song
is Called Manhattan.
Speaker 9: Skyline, OKAY I got something for.
Speaker 1: You okay On Manhattan.
Speaker 3: Skyline, yeah this, song for whatever, reason it rings bells
in my. HEAD i think this instrumental was used on
LIKE tv shows or award banquets or, something because it
just sounds so, familiar BUT i can't place.
Speaker 1: It it's it's the perfect little background music to some
sort of well scene Of New.
Speaker 3: York.
Speaker 1: Right. Sure so this is the first song on this
album that was written by the guy who's considered the
composer of the. Movie this song is By David. Schier
he's a guy who composed stage musicals and a ton
of film and television, scores Including The Big, Bus The
taking Of felon, one two, Three The conversation and all
The Presidents meant not.
Speaker 3: To you know what? Else, Yeah Max Dugod returns And Short. Circuit,
ah how about That johnny? Five and one of the
stage musical scores that he, Wrote, yeah was the musical
production Of Big, nice that movie we hope to cover next.
Speaker 1: Season this guy's still, Around he's eighty four years, old
still having. Kicking, hey you know who he was married, To,
well let's go through his. List his his name Is David.
Shier AND i know an actress whose last name Is,
shier who we've talked about in one of our episodes
from this, Season Talia Freaking.
Speaker 3: Shire you Ud Talia shire from The godfather episodes that
we talked about a few weeks. Ago, yes he later
Married Dede, khan who Played frenchy In Greece school.
Speaker 1: Drama they look so much, alike not When Dede khn
has her weird pink, hair but those two people look incredibly.
SIMILAR i Want i'm curious as to how they, met
because Obviously Francis Ford coppola talked about how when he
agreed to do The godfather. Too part of it was
that he got to do the conversation And David shires the,
GUY i don't make. SENSE i, WONDER i. Wonder, okay,
cool it's.
Speaker 3: Instrumental it's. Interesting moving. On next song is Called Calypso.
Breakdown so when.
Speaker 1: This drum beat, STARTS i start, thinking is my record? Skipping?
Here are they going to get to the? Song what's
going on?
Speaker 3: Here this song is an instrumental created by this guy
Named ralph. McDonald, okay he is a world famous. Percussionist,
yeah Maybe James buckley can shed some light on. Him
but listen to this? This are you ready to have
your mind?
Speaker 1: Blown i'm? Ready?
Speaker 3: Yes so he's a, percussionist, yes plays the. Drumps he
also not the.
Speaker 1: Congos LIKE i made the mistake on Our toto. Episode con, Guys,
yes go.
Speaker 3: Ahead he also apparently writes.
Speaker 1: Songs.
Speaker 3: Yes he wrote the Song where's The love BY. Roberta,
flack which won The grammy nineteen seventy ONE O famous. Song,
Yeah and he also wrote the song just the two
of The weekend beged If We BAD.
Speaker 4: I Love?
Speaker 3: It, yeah that reached number. Two that song was sung
By Bill. Withers and then later covered By Will.
Speaker 1: SMITH i will say that almost absolves him of this
eight minute long monstrosity that we will definitely be. Skipping
but it. DOESN'T i want TO i want to move.
On you, know why did you just give me a
forty five second ticket to cod ticket to get ticket
to ticket? Ticket turn it?
Speaker 3: Off all, right lift the, needle take that, record put
it back in the sleeve carefully because you don't want
to scratch. It pull out the second, album lay it,
Down put the needle. Down this is the first song
on side one of record. Two it's Called night On Disco.
Mountain another instrumental barrow Man David. Shire, yes so this
one like the fifth Of. Beethoven they've taken a classical,
Piece night On Bald mountain by modest Musk, gordy and
they've put the disco beat to.
Speaker 1: It And i'll love. IT i dig. It i'm a
big fan Of, fantasia The Disney fantasia where they have
all these classical, pieces And night On Bald mountain may
be my favorite song of those songs on THAT i
mean the whole. THING i dig the. SONG i like
it a. Lot it's, okay it's fun to.
Speaker 3: Me this song is played in the movie when those
Four jackweeds are running around the bridge and scaring the
crap out of a net and giving HER. Ptsd, Okay
i've got a really deep cut for you Regarding night
On Disco. Mountain, okay, really this is really. Deep, okay all.
Right so you mentioned That night On Disco mountain is
based On night On Bald. Mountain the original composition By. Mazgorski.
Speaker 1: Yessky.
Speaker 3: Okay it was featured In Fantasia Will This infantasia nineteen forty.
Speaker 1: That's the ONE i.
Speaker 3: Love, yes that song was arranged By Leopold.
Speaker 7: Stokowski, yes famous, Conductor, yes.
Speaker 3: Who was parodied By Bugs.
Speaker 1: Bunny this is six degrees Of Kevin, Baker Keep, Going Keep, Going.
Speaker 3: Bugs bunny pretended to Be leopold Le Leopold, leopold and
that is my deep rabbit hole my. Friends oh, great that's.
Speaker 1: Fantastic all, right next, song moving.
Speaker 3: On next song is called Open sesame by cooling the
Game get down With.
Speaker 1: Genie, yeah so this one is not one of cool
in The gang's more well known. Hints, right you probably
know them From Jungle, BOOGIE i, Know. Celebration, yeah that. Too,
right but, yeah Jungle boogie is familiar, too yeah on
The fiction Book, Yeah Pulp fiction, Soundtrack, yes, Sir and
they were big in the seventies as. Well Jungle boogie
had come out in seventy three on their Album wild And.
Speaker 3: Peaceful, yep Listen celebration is the Pinnacle cool in The
gang Song, Yeah i'm spiking the football on that.
Speaker 1: One. Yeah, Yeah and they Alsoid, cherish which is another
chantastic misled, yep, fresh get down On, It get down On. Joanna.
Speaker 3: Hey they Supported Van halen on their tour in twenty. Twelve,
wow Van halen And cool in The gang on the same.
Speaker 1: Bill, hey why?
Speaker 3: Not why?
Speaker 1: Not why? NOT i don't have much to say about the.
Song this is not a favorite of, mine, skipper, Okay
so jumping past that, one we are on to job.
TALKING i can get to. That so a third time
you got to do.
Speaker 13: That the song is, irresistible absolutely, fantastic and AS i mentioned,
earlier it came from their comeback album Main.
Speaker 1: Course Right. Yeah this was not originally released on The
Saturday Night fever. Soundtrack this was originally released on Main.
Course it was their first top ten hint since how
Can you mend A Broken heart from seventy, one.
Speaker 3: And this was considered it like a comeback. Song, yeah this.
Speaker 1: WAS i, mean this was, saying, Hey begi's are a disco,
band now, right that's a big. Deal talking is introducing
The begi's as a disco. Band but here it is
on this. Soundtrack the difference is they used the live
version for the. Soundtrack the reason they did that was
because it Made Robert stigwood more money to use the
live version in the movie than to use the one
from Main. Course are you sure about?
Speaker 3: That? Yes, oh in the, Movie, Okay Robert stigwood is
not afraid to make some.
Speaker 1: Money he's not afraid to do some deals to screw
some other people out of. Money that's.
Speaker 3: True so listen the beginning part of this song where
it's like the, yes they got that sound from the
car rolling over The Biscayne Bay bridge In. Miami oh,
nice just kind of the rhythm that the tires.
Speaker 1: Make, yeah they showed up In miami Because Eric clapton,
said you guys should go To. MIAMI i felt much.
Better SHAB.
Speaker 3: I watched an interview With Barry gibb and the girl
who was interviewing him was driving him around in the.
Car uh, huh and she's, like are we on the
jive talking? Bridge and he's, like you're on the jive talking.
Bridge that's.
Speaker 7: Awesome it was really.
Speaker 1: Cool that was.
Speaker 3: Awesome this song reached number One august, ninth nineteen seventy.
Five Like You, Said this is two years prior To
Saturday Night. Fever the song was originally called Drive Talking,
okay based on the sounds that your car makes right.
Speaker 1: When you're driving on the.
Speaker 3: Bridge, sure so they switched it to jive talking and
their producer, says.
Speaker 1: Me MISS i, speak give.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: Help that's our second airplaye reference this. Time but their producer,
said do you know what jive talking even? Means and they're,
like you, know it's like you, know when you're dancing or.
Speaker 1: Something, no it doesn't.
Speaker 3: Mean when you're. Dancing it's a black term that means
you're full of, it you're spouting OFF. Bss and so they're, like,
Okay so they changed the words and so it's about lies.
Speaker 1: And, okay. Deception hey there you, go make it. Work
write the. Lyrics on same.
Speaker 3: Day when they released this single to the radio, Stations
LIKE I, said it was the comeback song for The.
Begees so if they send the single, in Says begi's
the radio disc, Jock he's, like, no no. Thanks it
was in a plain white, cover so literally take the record,
out put it on and listen to it to figure
out who it was By, wow and it worked worked
like a.
Speaker 1: Jar nice. MYSTERY i love.
Speaker 3: It how about.
Speaker 1: That that's.
Speaker 3: Great it was used in a scene in the, movie
but that scene was. Cut that's why you don't see
it In Saturday Night. Fever, okay you keep talking about these,
songs and you keep. TALKING i don't think you should be.
TALKING i think you should be. Dancing that is a
great segue to our next, song you should be.
Speaker 5: Dancing.
Speaker 3: Okay so here's another number one. Hit oh my, gosh
this is another number one. Hit but it wasn't originally
released on this. Soundtrack, okay it was on an Earlier
beg's album Called children of The. World, okay this hit
number One september, fourth nineteen seventy. Six, okay a full
year prior To Saturday Night.
Speaker 1: Fever.
Speaker 3: Gotcha my kids know this song very well from the
Movie Despicable. Me oh, YEAH i play this at the
very end Of Despicable. Me oh, yeah one of the
minions flips on the disco album and everybody starts. Dancing
it's great.
Speaker 1: Own boogie, Robots cooky, ROLLBOTS i, said coogy Roll why
he was so?
Speaker 3: Old spicable me a? Favorite The graves And calvin. Households
there you. Go So John travolta prepared For Saturday Night
fever by practicing dance moves to this.
Speaker 1: Song.
Speaker 3: Okay and when they came to him and, said, no
we're gonna Play Night fever at the, time you take
the floor And he's, like, nope you're playing you should be. Dancing,
Yeah and so they, WENT i guess we'll just have
to go get that.
Speaker 1: Song.
Speaker 3: Yeah and so at his, insistence that songs in the,
movie and that's why it's on the. SOUNDTRACK i love.
Speaker 1: The amount of control that this, guy who is in
his very first major motion picture, has like controlling the
cut over the director and controlling the song choice over
the musical. Director i'm, like, what but he was.
Speaker 3: Right, okay you ready to have your mind?
Speaker 1: Blown? Yeah hit?
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 3: Okay it's two. Things THE, dgs which is a side
project me you Are, graves there are? You the member
of the.
Speaker 1: DJs no tell me about THE Dj.
Speaker 3: THE, dgs which is a side project of The Foo.
Speaker 1: Fighters, okay you've got my, attention.
Speaker 3: Has a cover of this.
Speaker 1: SONG i love those. Guys such a tragic.
Speaker 3: Loss one last. Name Stephen stills Of, Crosby stills And
nash plays percussion on this.
Speaker 1: SONG i listened To Maurice gibb do an interview With Alec.
Baldwin he was actually talking ABOUT i can't remember where
song it, was but he was, Like, Crosby stills And
nash were sitting on the wall listening to us record the.
Song he. Goes we used to record in the same
studio With Lynyrd skynyrd and with The, eagles and they
would just go hang out with them at night and
we'd play and maybe nothing would come of, it but
it was just great fun to be able to hang
out with these incredible musicians and make this music. TOGETHER
i Think Don felder ends up being oh he, does
he's on the sill come, later but he's on the
last album that they did FOR Rso. Records he's on
one of the Songs Don felder.
Speaker 9: Is.
Speaker 1: Wow i'll tell you about that in a.
Speaker 3: Minute, okay the next song on the album is Called
Boogie shoes By casey in The Sunshine. Band we're bopping
our heads when they play this.
Speaker 1: Song i'll tell you, What casey and The Sunshine. Band
as far as disco bands, go they might be number
two after the Bee, gees, RIGHT i mean they have
a whole lot of disco hits that have persisted through
time to still be something that's on everybody's.
Speaker 3: Mind, yeah this is another old. Song this was on
the nineteen seventy five Album uh. Huh it wasn't a hit. Initially,
yeah but because of the movie they released it and
it got to number thirty five in The hot one. Hundred.
Speaker 1: Yeah when it was originally, released it was the b
side to another, single you, know the single No.
Speaker 13: Jake Jag Jake, Jake Jake Jake Really Jake yo Boudeh
Jake yo.
Speaker 1: Budh, yes that's, awesome good.
Speaker 3: Job so this has been In No escape mal.
Speaker 1: Rats, Yeah Boogie, knights of, course that's WHAT i know
it from Is Boogie.
Speaker 3: Knights, yes Tru Rock, City The Wedding. Day it's a popular.
Song it's a good. SONG i like. It it's toe Taber,
yeah next, next all, right take the needle off the.
Record flip that record over for side two of record.
Two first song is Called salsation By David.
Speaker 7: Shire, okay what do you got?
Speaker 1: So play the introduction To sympathy for The devil by
The Rolling.
Speaker 3: Stones classic one of my old time favorites by The.
Speaker 1: Stones very close spot, on, man it's very close spot,
on the same drum. Beat. Wow and Then David shire
comes in with some sort Of barry manlow music going.
ON i don't know what. THIS i don't know what
this music.
Speaker 3: IS i think they play this song in the movie
when The latin couple is competing at the very end
In John travolt's just like they danced.
Speaker 12: Us this.
Speaker 1: Stinks this whole competition.
Speaker 3: Sucks. YEAH i have bad memories of that scene in the.
Speaker 1: Movie IF i remember. Correctly when they did the re
release of this movie making IT pg so that other
people could see it and maybe some of THE tv,
VERSIONS i think they replaced this song with a More
latin sounding.
Speaker 3: Song, okay, okay all, right once Again David, shire he's
the composer of the.
Speaker 1: Movie Next yes Hit.
Speaker 3: Me the next song on the album is CALLED kg BY. Mfsb,
okay SO.
Speaker 1: Mfsb all kinds of weird names you could come up
with Their, yeah, mother, father sister.
Speaker 3: Brother, OKAY i think that's the nice version of what
it really stands. FOR i heard mf ing son OF. B, yes, well, mother,
father sister. Brother this is a group of like thirty studio, musicians,
right this is a complex group and mix of music.
Here but The sound Of philadelphia was their second most successful.
Single you will know it as the theme From Soul.
Speaker 1: Training all, right that's.
Speaker 3: COOL i do know that a lot of news stations
in the seventies and, Eighties, yeah used this instrumental song
as kind of their funky background music as they switch
stories or.
Speaker 1: Whatever perfect perfect. Cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah this actually charted at number thirty nine on The
hot one.
Speaker 1: Hundred okay you ready for? This, yes this song was
written By Harvey. Fuquah, okay That's. Fuqua. So harvey was
married to a lady Named When. Gordy they distributed the
First motown hit, single which was called Money that's WHAT I,
want which you will know from The beatles redoing it later.
On then he sold his record to his his, Wife
Gwynn gordy's Brother Barry, gordy who is of, course one
of the most iconic motown producers in. History So Barry
gordy's brother in law wrote this. Song, wow there you.
Speaker 11: Go.
Speaker 3: Wow we are digging deep for, nuggets all. Right last
song on the. Album this song is Called Disco inferno
by The. Tramps burn The Mother.
Speaker 1: Down Disco, Inferno Burn Baby.
Speaker 3: Burn this is a disco era.
Speaker 1: Classic this is just an ICONIC i mean they're ending
the two album set with a tent pole. Song this,
song of, course had been released before the movie came,
out before the soundtrack came, out was re released on
the soundtrack with this song is another seventies disco.
Speaker 3: Icon do you know where they got the inspiration for this?
Song from the Movie Towering?
Speaker 1: Inferno oh.
Speaker 3: Nice this is one of those movies THAT i watched
all the time on like The Sunday Night movie And
My jammy's on in my sleeping. Bag WHEN i was
a little, kid watched disaster.
Speaker 1: Movies this is a small child huh.
Speaker 3: Oh, YEAH i loved.
Speaker 1: Them put me Right. Asleep but there's a big.
Speaker 3: Fire in this tall building And Oj simpson's trying to
put it.
Speaker 1: Out The.
Speaker 3: Juice The juice And Paul newman are working really hard
And steve McQueen it's. Fantastic fred The. Stairs there lots
of stuff going. On this song comes from that Movie Burn, Baby, Burn,
Wow burn that mother.
Speaker 1: Down that's. Awesome so this song since the release has
been covered a couple of, times once By Tina turner
for the Movie What's Love got To do With? It,
yeah and once for the Movie night at The roxbury
by Miss Cindy. Lauper maybe we.
Speaker 3: Cover her next, year what do you?
Speaker 1: THINK i think that's a good.
Speaker 3: Idea she's so, unusual she's so. Unusual eleven minutes of
just Go infernal's at that's a. Lot it's a great,
song but eleven minutes is a little bit long for.
Speaker 1: Me, Yeah i'll tell you what.
Speaker 3: Though you are ending the album on a tenth tole
song and it's it's killer love It.
Speaker 1: Yeah so of notes some songs that didn't appear on
this album that were in the Movie, Wow, Okay you've
got emotion By samantha saying you.
Speaker 3: Can't even by The brothers GiB yes.
Speaker 1: You got IF i can't have? You by The beg's,
Right you've got our, love don't throw it all away
by The beg's, again And Warm ride by The. Beg's
The beg's are all over this stinking movie and of
course all over this. Album fantastic.
Speaker 3: Album every single that they released from this, album yeah
hit number. One. Yeah that's killing, it, dude that IS i,
MEAN i can't get much higher.
Speaker 1: Than, one no, No and even THE i mean even
the songs that they didn't release as a single some
other band, released they still charted.
Speaker 3: On element number. One IF i can't have? You, wow all,
right are we ready to do final judgment Between Dirty
dancing soundtrack and The Saturday Night fever.
Speaker 1: Soundtrack this is too, Hard this is freaking too. Hard
i'm not. KIDDING i DON'T i don't have an answer
for you right. Now WHAT i don't have an answer for.
You i'm gonna have to sit. Here you're gonna have
to give me like at least ten seconds to like
run over the miracle work that is both of these,
albums because With Dirty, dancing you've got hits from the,
sixties you've got hits from the, eighties and with this,
one you've got hits from the, sevenies and those are
all my sweet. Spots every single decade there, is oh my,
gosh it's iconic song after iconic song after iconic. Song, yeah,
okay you're gonna have to go. First you want me
to go, First go?
Speaker 5: First.
Speaker 3: Okay so here's the. DEAL i told you that some
of my earliest memories involve this album right, Here Saturday
Night fever sound t has a special place in my.
Heart it's WHAT i listened to WHEN i was playing
with My Star Wars action figures after A New hope came.
Speaker 4: Out.
Speaker 3: Nice, Okay so it's your first favorite, song it's my
first favorite, Song Dirty. DANCING i love those, songs SO
i have nostalgia feelings for all of those. Songs time
Of My life was the song of eighty, seven all of.
That but the hit after hit after hit after hit
after hit On Saturday Night fever is so. Undeniable The
beg's are an unappreciated punching bag for so many. PEOPLE
i hate. It but just the number one hit after
number one hit after number one. Hit so there's a
lot of crap songs on The Saturday Night fever, soundtrack,
right there's not a lot of crap songs on The Dirty.
Speaker 1: Dancing, soundtrack that's. True but If.
Speaker 3: I'm running out the door AND i can only grab
one of these. Albums for, me it's it's unquestionably my earliest.
Memories i'm grabbing This Saturday Night fever, Soundtrack spike The
Football Take It All Day, Long.
Speaker 1: Dejr Turn okay With Saturday Night fever. Soundtrack not only
do you have songs from the seventies that are all,
ICONIC i mean you've got reissues Of casey in The,
Sunshine band Of cool and The gang of The. TRAMPS
i mean you got. That and then you Have beg's,
masterpieces like this is their pinnacle. Album they, said we
don't want to do this because we're recording an. Album
as it turned, out this was the album they needed to.
Do it's falls out amazing how good these songs are
and they just make you. Happy they do what disco
is supposed to. Do we talked in our earlier episodes
about how people at by the time the seven early
seventies roll, around they were tired of the philosophical folk you,
know all that. Stuff they wanted to just have some.
Music they could go dance, to go have some. Fun
and you know, what for this time in, history right,
now at this, MOMENT i want a SONG i can
have fun. Too If i'm going to walk out the
door And i'm going to grab one of these, CDs
it's going to Be Saturday Night. FEVER i love the
songs On Dirty, dancing and you're, right percentage, wise there
are fewer throwaway. Tracks but we're talking about a double
album versus a single. Album, Now i'll say, this if
you gave Me Dirty dancing And More Dirty dancing against
The Saturday Night fever, ALBUM i don't know THAT i
would still Pick Saturday Night. Fever but that's not what we're. Deciding,
okay we did not Cover More Dirty, dancing which brought
us more of those hits from the sixties that we,
loved but those weren't on the Original Dirty dancing. Soundtrack
and of those songs in the, eighties they're not my
favorite eighties. Songs they're, good they bring me, memories but
they're just kind, of you, know slow dance songs THAT
i was really thinking about other things in the gym
dancing with a girl than that. Song So spiking The
football With You Saturday Night fever is the better. Album
that is. Fantastic we've been on the same page on
both of these. Comparisons by the, way we both Pick
Dirty dancing as the far better, movie, yep and we
both have Picked Saturday Night Fever soundtrack as the better.
Soundtrack so let's rank the, one, two, three Four, okay
walking out the. DOOR i am Picking Dirty dancing the movie, first,
Okay Saturday Night fever the. Album, second, Okay Dirty dancing the,
album And Saturday Night fever a far DISTANT i will
never watch that movie. Again, fourth, okay, interesting that's. Good that's. Good.
Speaker 3: Thanks here's WHERE i. Am i'm walking out the. Door
here's Where i'm Grabbing Saturday Night fever. Soundtrack, first, okay
blowing the disco music out of my speakers. Unapologetically number
one hit after number one, hit including my very first favorite.
Song second Thing i'm grabbing is The Dirty dancing. Movie
it has those, songs plus it's got a great love,
story Plus Cynthia, rhodes you, know plus mister Cool Patrick. Swayzee.
Yeah it's a great.
Speaker 1: Movie, yes and you get to see the. Lift that's
WHY i put it number.
Speaker 3: One number three is The Dirty dancing. Soundtrack the songs are,
great and then a distant.
Speaker 1: Fourth will you ever watch the movie? Again?
Speaker 3: NO i would.
Speaker 1: Not, yeah if you said you could Watch Saturday Night
fever for the next two, hours Or i'll give you
a nice paper cut and put some lemon juice in.
IT i probably picked the paper cut because then it
at least it'd be over like in you, know five
minutes or. So we're not, Fans, no we are, not
AND i totally. Agree we understand this captured a moment in,
time but it is a moment in time we weren't
experienced in and we'd sooner Forget.
Speaker 3: Yep that's. Right but we want to hear from, you, guys.
Speaker 1: Absolutely tell us how we're totally off. Face there are
some people out there that feel the same way about
The Dirty dancing movie that we feel about The Saturday
Night fever, movie and we want to hear from. You
tell us Why Dirty dancing sucks and Why Saturday Night
fever is the.
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