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  Saturday Night Fever - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 movie starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a New York discotheque.
Saturday Night Fever was the favorite movie of the late film critic Gene Siskel, who claimed to have seen it 17 times.
The title is said to derive from the term "Saturday night special," slang that echoes casual crime and impulsive behavior.
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 Saturday Night Fever - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Saturday Night Fever, as a movie and an album, and a brace of hit singles off of it, suddenly made disco explode into mainstream, working- and middle-class America with new immediacy and urgency, increasing its audience by five- or ten-fold overnight.
The Bee Gees had written "Stayin' Alive" (then called "Saturday Night"), "Night Fever," "How Deep Is Your Love," "If I Can't Have You," and "More Than a Woman" for what would have been the follow-up album to Children of the World, and they might well have enjoyed platinum-record status with that proposed album.
Heard on CD as 79 minutes of music, Saturday Night Fever comes off like an idealized commercial-free radio set of late-'70s dance music (and, in that regard, the decision to leave Rick Dees' "Disco Duck" off the soundtrack album was a good one for all concerned, except Mr.
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 Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Fever focuses on 19-year-old Tony Manero (John Travolta), a working-class schlub from Brooklyn.
Fever may be best known for its music, but the movie offers a treat as well.
Saturday Night Fever appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, dual-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
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 Bee Gees: Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track: CD Compact Disc: Skateboarding Music and more...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Saturday night fever is about a boy witch is John travolta loves to dance at clubs on saturday nights.
The Saturday night fever soundtrack marked the beginning of the shift to a more popular form of soundtrack album, although there are some weak tracks here.
Saturday Night Fever may have seemed like the mass marketed version to many disco devotees and critics of the time and scoffed at, but I look at the entire project as the refined and serious dance and music craze that it was !
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 Disco Profiles - Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever was released on December 16, 1977 and was based on the article "Tribal rites of the new Saturday night", which looked at the emerging disco scene.
With a breakthrough performance by John Travolta and the smash hit soundtrack by the Bee Gees, Saturday Night Fever tuned into the psyche of America's youth disco culture and became an instant box office smash.
Saturday Night Fever has two ratings: The R-rated version is 119 minutes, it had contained the offensive language, nudity, and sexual content.
www.comicgenius.com /DiscoFever/disco_profiles/saturday_night_fever/snf_profile.htm   (971 words)

  
 Saturday Night Fever
This stage version of Saturday Night Fever originally played at the London Palladium Reviewed From the Original London Cast in London...Saturday Night Fever is back - and it is as good as ever.
Saturday Night Fever based on the Paramount/RSO Picture, based on a story by Nik Cohn with screenplay by Norman Wexler.
Saturday Night Fever Disco music does not get any better than Stayin' Alive, Tragedy, and all the other tracks that pepper this show.
www.londontheatreticketweb.co.uk /the_nightfever.htm   (459 words)

  
 Gibb Songs : Saturday Night Fever (1977)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The soundtrack album of Saturday night fever was of course the best-selling album "of all time" in its day.
The title of "Night fever" prompted the final movie title, and it had the longest stay on the charts of the three.
"Night fever" and "More than a woman" appear on the same promo LP Saturday night fever special disco version, but were obviously extended purely by editing repeats of parts of the standard version.
www.columbia.edu /~brennan/beegees/77.snf.html   (1191 words)

  
 Saturday Night Fever
This is still director John Badham's finest work, as he captures the camaraderie between Tony and his thuggish friends and the texture of their Brooklyn hangouts with an authenticity reminiscent of such '70s classics as Mean Streets.
Fever isn't a real musical, yet not since the heyday of such "backstage" song-and-dance extravaganzas as 42nd Street has a movie conveyed so powerfully the romance and promise of Manhattan.
In that sense, Saturday Night Fever is true in spirit to the best American musicals.
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 Saturday Night Fever Pictures, Reviews, Summary, Cast and Crew
John Travolta graduated from star to superstar in Saturday Night Fever.
From the moment John Travolta strutted down a Brooklyn street to Stayin' Alive at the beginning of Saturday Night Fever (1977), music movies and pop culture were irrevocably changed.
Discuss Saturday Night Fever with Starpulse members in the forums...
www.starpulse.com /Movies/Saturday_Night_Fever   (259 words)

  
 New Wimbledon Theatre: Saturday Night Fever
When John Travolta walked on to the dance floor in the smash hit film Saturday Night Fever it changed the way we danced forever.
Set in New York, Saturday Night Fever tells the story of an ambitious, talented and streetwise Brooklyn kid with the burning desire to make it big.
Packed with disco hits from the biggest selling soundtrack in film history Saturday Night Fever includes the classics Stayin Alive, Night Fever, Jive Talking, You Should Be Dancing and How Deep is Your Love.
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 "Night Fever"
Soundtracks, various artists compilations, and anything containing oldies were traditionally thought of as poor sellers.
In addition, there were hits by the Trammps ("Disco Inferno"), Yvonne Elliman ("If I Can't Have You"), Walter Murphy ("A Fifth of Beethoven"), and the Bee Gees ("Jive Talkin'," "You Should Be Dancing," "How Deep Is Your Love," "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever").
The song "Night Fever" was actually the first one written by the Bee Gees for the picture.
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 Barnes & Noble.com - Saturday Night Fever -- John Badham - DVD - Wide Screen
The film that launched a young John Travolta into mega-stardom has become such an emblem of the 1970s disco era that it's sometimes easy to forget why the movie became a hit in the first place.
As the soundtrack plays one Bee Gees hit after another (including "Stayin' Alive"), we watch white-suited Tony strut his stuff amidst flashing lights and sweaty, undulating bodies.
Tony's class aspirations are mirrored in his relationship with his dance partner Stephanie (Karen Lynn Gorney), a secretary eager to move into the glamorous world of Manhattan.
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 Saturday Night Fever Tickets - 1st 4 London Theatre Tickets
Based on the 1970's hit film, Saturday Night Fever tells the story of Tony Manero, a humble New York paint store clerk by day who transforms into a polyester-clad stallion king of disco by night.
Every Saturday night, Tony slips into his flares, pulls on his ludicrously large-collared shirt and hits the streets and the clubs to strut his stuff.
However, when the club nights come on and Tony and his friends emerge into the daylight, things are never as simple as they seem.
www.1st4londontheatre.co.uk /tickets-1082628178.shtml   (173 words)

  
 Saturday Night Fever   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, inspired by the phenomenally successful 1977 film and featuring songs from the legendary film
soundtrack by the Bee Gees, tells the streetwise New York City story of an ambitious, talented Brooklyn kid with a burning desire to make it big in Manhattan.
The live version of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER was first presented at the famed Palladium in London's West End in 1998.
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 eBay - Cassette: Saturday Night Fever Remaster (UPC: 042282538949)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER was originally released as a 2 LP set in late 1977.
The disco revival came in the mid-90s and white suits, dodgy shirt collars and trousers with massive flares were once again the order of the day.
"Saturday Night Fever" was the record that made disco--and The Bee Gees-- a household word.
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 Saturday Night Fever Ost - Music
Staying Alive and Night Fever is balanced by the serene pace of How Deep Is Your Love.
While rock music was going through the convulsions of the punk and new wave revolutions, disco was having the party of the decade.
"Saturday Night Fever" is a classic album an' all, and yes, it's one of the biggest selling soundtracks of all time.
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 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Saturday Night Fever: 25th Anniversary Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The very last of the unblockbustery blockbusters, Saturday Night Fever (1977) is a brilliant slice-of-life studying the confusing period of young adulthood during which working class upstarts endure a turbulent conflict between their youthful hopes and tough realities.
Saturday Night Fever is neither sensationalized nor sugarcoated, and while a lot of the film's popularity is built around its superior soundtrack of disco classics, the movie is also deeply heartfelt, easily relatable, and, at times, raucously funny.
Paramount's 25th Anniversary Edition of Saturday Night Fever presents the film in a vibrant anamorphic transfer (1.85:1) and a remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack.
www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/s/saturdaynightfever.q.shtml   (281 words)

  
 Saturday Night Fever - Bee Gees
The soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever includes other artists, such as KC and the Sunshine Band and Kool and the Gang.
Don't listen to what the Gibb brothers say, 'Night Fever' is a pure disco dance track, and still feels fresh today.
The remainder of the album is not as strong, however 'Disco Inferno' by Trammps is something of a dance floor classic.
www.beegees.co.uk /music/saturdaynightfever.htm   (362 words)

  
 The BigScreen Cinema Guide: Reader Reviews - Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Travolta plays Tony Manero who goes down to the local discotheque which is named "2001 Odyssey." and dances, and his dancing isn't bad at all.
"Saturday Night Fever" tells us that this movie is more than just dancing, it is living you life as see fit.
Another performer who came out that movie is Donna Pescow who had a hit TV series in 1979 on ABC called "Angie." I was in love with her back then, she was a beautiful actress.
www.bigscreen.com /ReaderReview.php?movie=SaturdayNightFever   (313 words)

  
 Saturday Night Fever - The Original Movie Soundtrack
This wasn't only the soundtrack to a film, it was the soundtrack to an era.
soundtrack and actually realized what the general public had known from the outset.
"Seminal" doesn't do justice to the soundtrack that epitomized the '70s when the Bee Gees were at their height, pumping out the hits for John Travolta to dance his way to stardom in those tight polyester bell bottoms.
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 Saturday Night Fever (1977)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Trivia: The soundtrack album for this movie sold over 20 million copies, making it the top selling album in history until it was topped by Michael Jackson's "Thriller" six years later.
from Point Pleasant, NJ Watched Saturday Night Fever again last night.
Saturday Night Fever is one of those rare movies you can watch and just enjoy yourself.
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 Saturday Night Fever   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This is the soundtrack from the motion picture "Saturday Night Fever", the movie that made a movie star of John Travolta (the star of the film, who was formerly a TV actor in "Welcome Back Kotter") and made superstars of the Bee Gees, the main contributors to the soundtrack.
Although the Gibbs did not consider themselves a "disco" act, this soundtrack forever linked the Brothers with "disco" music, which was great for their careers at the time, but would come back to haunt them soon after, when the anti-disco backlash began in 1979.
The song "Jive Talkin'" is from their 1975 album "Main Course"; the song "You Should Be Dancing" is taken from "Children Of The World".
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 Theatre Royal Newcastle : Saturday Night Fever   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
When John Travolta walked on to the dance floor in the hit film Saturday Night Fever it changed the way we danced foreverÂ…
Packed with disco hits from the biggest-sellingsoundtrack in film history, Saturday Night Fever includes the classics Staying Alive, Night Fever, Jive Talkin’, You Should Be Dancing and How Deep Is Your Love.
Saturday Night Fever teams the most talented young singers and dancers with a live band and sensational choreography to create the dance musical event of the year.
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 NPR : 'Saturday Night Fever' Floor on the Auction Block
John Travolta struts his stuff on the famous dance floor in Saturday Night Fever.
The Bee Gees dominated the dance charts with the 'Saturday Night Fever' soundtrack.
If so, you could own a part of disco history and be strutting in your boogie shoes on the famous Saturday Night Fever dance floor.
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 -zuulikuuli : homepage / saturday night fever - the movie with John Travolta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
After a while, Tony doesn't anymore believe in to the life which surrounds him and he and Stephanie decide to help each other to have a fresh start in their lifes.
I bought Saturday Night Fever - the as a gift to my father, because I though he'd like it.
I bought myself the soundtrack from this movie as a CD, but it was originally released as a 2 LP set in the year 1977.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Saturday Night Fever Ocr [Soundtrack]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Saturday Night Fever Ost; Audio CD ~ Original Soundtrack (Artist)
The trend of making stage musicals out of dance movies from the late 1970s and early 1980s continues with Saturday Night Fever, which debuted with this London cast in 1998 and moved to Broadway in the fall of 1999.
It's all a pleasant listen and a useful souvenir of the show, but those who just want to listen to the music might do just as well to stick with the original soundtrack--unless you're allergic to falsetto.
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 Barnes & Noble.com Music - Saturday Night Fever -- The Bee Gees - CD - Remastered
Night on Disco Mountain / David Shire 5:12
But Saturday Night Fever is disco's finest hour, with daring, unusual songs; expansive, illuminating production; and unwavering ear-to-the-dance-floor grooves.
More than twenty years later, "Stayin' Alive" -- silky guitar line, processed vocals, head-snapping beat and all -- sounds sharp and arresting, "Night Fever" feels restrained and taut, and "How Deep Is Your Love" stands as one of disco's classiest ballads.
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