![]() ![]() But the Bee Gees didn’t write novelty songs. The Bee Gees were not above a song like that. She responds with total ecstasy: “Oh my God, I just kissed Al Pacino!” This is all Tony Manero has ever wanted to hear. Tony hesitates for a second, and then he does it. One of them immediately demands that he kiss her. Tony Manero, a Brooklyn teenager whose life is falling apart whenever he isn’t dancing, steps into the 2001 Odyssey club, sidles right between two girls, and twirls both of them. But “Night Fever” gets its own big sequence, too. ![]() The true classic dance scene in Saturday Night Fever is the one set to “ You Should Be Dancing,” a Bee Gees chart-topper from 1976. The Bee Gees didn’t like that title, and they tried to get him to change it to Night Fever, since they already had the song. Robert Stigwood, the Bee Gees manager and label boss who produced Saturday Night Fever, originally wanted to use just plain Saturday Night as the title. “Night Fever,” the longest-reigning #1 hit of 1978, was a strong enough single that a major motion picture had to change its marketing plans. March of 1978 was when that wave welled up and crested. It’s a 7.) The Beatles’ achievement is still totally singular in pop-chart history, but the Bee Gees had their own perfect storm. (One was baby brother Andy Gibb’s previous chart-topper “ (Love Is) Thicker Than Water.” The other was Samantha Sang’s “ Emotion,” which peaked at #3. If you include the songs that the Gibb brothers wrote and produced, the Bee Gees were responsible for four songs in the top five that week. The Bee Gees were the first post-Beatles artists to seize #1 and #2 at the same time. Those two songs held down the top two spots for five weeks in a row. The week that the Bee Gees’ “Night Fever” hit #1, “ Stayin’ Alive” was the #2 song in America. ![]() But in March of 1978, the Bee Gees came closer than anyone else, ever. It’s the only time a single artist had ever occupied the entire top five. The Broadway version was nominated twice for the Outer Critics’ Circle Award.In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.įor one week in April of 1964, the top five singles on the Billboard Hot 100 were all Beatles songs. It has received three nominations for Laurence Olivier. Staging took place in 20 countries around the world. In March 2015, the musical was in Australian Radcliffe Musical Theatre. The performance this time had such cast: D. ![]() In 20, there were organized the next British tours under the direction of R. Musical was shown in the Apollo Victoria Theatre until mid-February 2006, under the direction and choreography of A. At the beginning of July 2004, production returned to the West End. In 2000 and in 2003, it was a national UK tour. Staging was hosted by Minskoff Theatre in mid-October 1999 to end of December 2000 with 27 preliminaries and 501 regular performances. At the end of September 1999, the try-outs began for Broadway. Director and choreographer of the show was A. Production finished at the end of February 2000. Try-outs began in April 1998 in the London’s Palladium. The show used the ‘Bee Gees’ group’s songs. ![]()
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