Poll--The Weakest Link: SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, Round 1

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  1. Joey Self

    Joey Self Red Forman's Sensitivity Guru Thread Starter

    40 years ago around this time, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER was released to theaters. 10 years ago, I ran a WL game for the soundtrack album, and thought we'd give it another go this week.

    Choose four of these songs as weak links.

    Discussion question: When did you first hear this soundtrack? What did you think of it at the time?
     
  2. Monosterio

    Monosterio Forum Resident

    Location:
    South Florida
    Manhattan Skyline
    Calypso Breakdown
    Night on Disco Mountain
    Open Sesame

    DQ: Not entirely sure, but I guess I first heard it around the time of the movie’s release. I liked it, and the movie as well.
     
  3. Oatsdad

    Oatsdad Oat, Biscuits, Abbie & Mitzi: Best Dogs Ever

    Location:
    Alexandria VA
    I heard it when the movie was current. I was 10 and loved it - I got the album sometime in the spring of 1078 - on my birthday in May, probably...
     
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  4. AlienRendel

    AlienRendel Senior Member

    Location:
    Chicago, il
    The David Shire tracks have never done anything for me. I think you could knock the whole thing down to a single album of the Barry Gibb-involved tracks.
     
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  5. Ringmaster_D

    Ringmaster_D Surfer of Sound Waves

    Location:
    Chicago, IL
    The David Shire tracks + Calypso Breakdown
     
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  6. JeffMo

    JeffMo Format Agnostic

    Location:
    New England
    I was given this album for my 10th birthday in 1978. My first LP in fact and started my life long love of music and Gibb Brothers.
     
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  7. Monosterio

    Monosterio Forum Resident

    Location:
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    I don’t care for the other two David Shire cuts, but I’m sad to see “Salsation” doing badly this early. After the magnificent first side, the fourth (“Salsation”-“K-Jee”-“Disco Inferno”) is my favorite section of the album.
     
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  8. hutlock

    hutlock Forever Breathing

    Location:
    Cleveland, OH, USA
    Shire tracks and Beethoven.

    DQ: huge Bee Gees fan when I was a kid (they were my first concert in 1980) and so naturally I ate this up.
     
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  9. Scott in DC

    Scott in DC Forum Resident

    Location:
    Washington, DC
    I didn't buy this album until the late 90's at a flea market. I saw the movie in the 70s, a year or two after it was released.

    I agree that this could have been distilled down to a great single album.

    Scott
     
  10. Joey Self

    Joey Self Red Forman's Sensitivity Guru Thread Starter

    I looked at how we pruned it down the first time, and realized there were probably four that were easy culls this time.

    And as hard as it may be to believe, those Barry Gibb cuts did do very well 10 years ago! :)

    JcS
     
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  11. greelywinger

    greelywinger Osmondia

    Location:
    Dayton, Ohio USA
    Manhattan Skyline - David Shire
    Calypso Breakdown - Ralph MacDonald
    Night on Disco Mountain - David Shire
    Salsation - David Shire

    DQ: I first heard this album as a whole back in the mid 80s.

    Darryl


     
  12. zebop

    zebop Well Known Stranger

    The David Shire songs and the Walter Murphy track.

    Probably heard all of the songs before I had the album, first copy, 1992.
     
  13. duggan

    duggan Senior Member

    Location:
    sydney
    As a ridiculous pop snob at the time, I avoided the SNF album for many years.

    On listening I was overwhelmed by the the sheer number and quality of perfect pop singles and underwhelmed by the other tracks.
     
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  14. tommy-thewho

    tommy-thewho Senior Member

    Location:
    detroit, mi
    I had the album before seeing the movie.

    Not a bad song on it..
     
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  15. Frank

    Frank Senior Member

    Even my mother had this album. It was crazy huge.
     
  16. LandHorses

    LandHorses I contain multitudes

    Location:
    New Joisey
    Shire x 3 and M.F.S.B. (I liked "Calypso Breakdown")

    DQ: I got it when it came out.....also about 10 years old. a lot of these songs were all over the radio. Love it when I was 10 but........
    (tomorrow's question)
     
  17. LandHorses

    LandHorses I contain multitudes

    Location:
    New Joisey
    Is the Grease soundtrack going to be run next?
     
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  18. Hey Vinyl Man

    Hey Vinyl Man Another bloody Yank down under...

    I don't think I've ever listened to it all the way through, but I'm pretty sure I do know all the songs. I was only four at the time, but even at that age you really couldn't miss it.
    Amusingly, when I was in college in the early '90s, we had a disco party once a year, and one guy a year ahead of me had a still-working 8-track player. He had a tradition of bringing it to the dining hall on the day of the party and play this. I remember a friend of mine who had apparently never been exposed to 8-tracks even as a little kid being utterly fascinated as the guy showed him how you could press the handle down to change the tracks.
     
  19. Rfreeman

    Rfreeman Senior Member

    Location:
    Lawrenceville, NJ
    Got the album when it was a hit, a good while before I saw the movie as it was R and I was in Jr High. First almost rock concert I saw was Tavares touring when they had a hit with More Than A Woman.
     
  20. dance_hall_keeper

    dance_hall_keeper Forum Resident

    Re: When did you first hear this soundtrack? What did you think of it at the time?
    In bars and on the radio. I didn't buy the soundtrack until decades later. I especially liked the Yvonne Elliman track.

    David Shire was born in Buffalo NY?
    I did not know that.
    Now, I know that.
     
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  21. Monosterio

    Monosterio Forum Resident

    Location:
    South Florida
    Appropriate because the buffalo once faced extinction, and now so does Shire. ;)
     
  22. dance_hall_keeper

    dance_hall_keeper Forum Resident

    I was surprised to see the résumé he has his musical fingerprints on.
     
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  23. joepepitone

    joepepitone Forum Resident

    Location:
    USA
    Not something I would have bought in 1978 or anytime after. Hehe.
     
  24. bare trees

    bare trees Senior Member

    Manhattan Skyline
    Calypso Breakdown
    Night on Disco Mountain
    Salsation

    DQ: I remember hearing the singles on the radio throughout 1978. I finally heard the album when I got it in 1979. I loved the whole album back then but I'm not too crazy about the instrumentals now.
     
  25. Bern

    Bern JC4Me

    Location:
    Allegan, Michigan
    I taped this off of someone when it came out. Was always impressed that the movie was in post production when the Bee Gees were approached and they initially said "No". Travolta said he was dancing to Boz Scaggs and Stevie Wonder tunes.

    Bern
     
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