Download MP3   Who doesn’t love “The Bee Gees”?  Or John Travolta, for that matter?  Or the movie “Saturday Night Fever”?  Well, I guess you have to be of a certain age.  Anyway, here are the backing tracks to a great song from that era.

Take yourself back to 1977 – if you can.  The manager of the Bee Gees, Robert Stigwood, was producing a film that was going to be called “Saturday Night” – a movie about the New York disco scene starring Travolta.  He asked the group to write a song of that name.  The band thought the title was dumb, but had already written a song called “Night Fever”.  They convinced Stigwood to change the name of the movie to “Saturday Night Fever” and, Voila!  A classic film was born.  And the music from that flick defined a generation.

Bands don’t play much disco anymore, and singers seem a little embarrassed by it.  No matter.  Now that I’ve moved my life to this place near the sea, disco seems faraway and slightly unreal… maybe surreal.  But I miss that time.  Hell, I’ve got a disco ball in the top of my closet right now.  Maybe I should attach it to the living room ceiling, grab a white suit, strike a pose,  then invite the neighborhood for “Disco Night”!  Yeah!  That’s what I’m gonna do!  But I’ll have to clear it with Karen first.  You know… that hole in the ceiling thing.