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Name | Night Fever |
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Cover | Nightfevercover.jpg |
Artist | Bee Gees |
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Released | |
Format | 7" single |
Recorded | Le Château, Hérouville, France about April 1977 andCriteria Studios, Miami, Florida, United States in September 1977 |
Genre | Disco, pop |
Length | 3:31 |
Label | RSO |
Writer | Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb |
Producer | Bee Gees, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson |
Certification | Platinum (RIAA) |
Last single | "Stayin' Alive"(1977) |
This single | "Night Fever"(1978) |
Next single | "Too Much Heaven"(1979) |
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"Night Fever" is a disco song, written and performed by The Bee Gees. It first appeared on the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever. Producer Robert Stigwood wanted to call the film Saturday Night, but singer Robin Gibb expressed hesitation at the title. Stigwood liked the title Night Fever but was wary of marketing a movie with that name. He combined the two suggestions and the idea for Saturday Night Fever as a motion picture was born.
"Night Fever" remained the number one Billboard Hot 100 single for over two months in 1978. It also replaced Andy Gibb's "Love Is Thicker Than Water" at number one, and was in turn replaced by Yvonne Elliman's "If I Can't Have You" - all of which were written and produced by the Gibb brothers. After the success of "Night Fever," the Governor of Florida, Reubin O'Donovan Askew, made the three men "honorary citizens" of the state, due to the amount of time they spent each year recording singles in Miami. In addition to Saturday Night Fever, the song has also appeared in the movie and on the soundtrack for Mystery Men. A rare music video was made for the song in 1978, however it wasn't shown to the public until 2004 despite the fact the video didn't contain any uncensored content. It features the brothers singing the song in a dark studio cut with images from the Las Vegas, Nevada streets (based on the interspersed shots of the Golden Nugget, Castaways and Desert Inn casinos.) An interesting note, in the video Barry Gibb was shown without his trademark beard. The song lists at #33 on Billboard's All Time Top 100.
Chart performance
CoversTexan punk rock band The Dicks covered this song on the B-side of their 1980 debut single "Hate the Police" under the title "All Night Fever".In 2008, Australian singer and songwriter Tina Arena performed a cover version of "Night Fever" for the French film Disco.
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Category:1978 singles Category:Bee Gees songs Category:Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles Category:UK Singles Chart number-one singles Category:Canadian Singles Chart number-one singles Category:Oricon International Singles Chart number-one singles Category:Singles certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America Category:Songs from Saturday Night Fever Category:Disco songs Category:Songs written by Barry Gibb Category:Songs written by Maurice Gibb Category:Songs written by Robin Gibb This text is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA License. This text was originally published on Wikipedia and was developed by the Wikipedia community.
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