MINT SHRINK STICKERS THE BEE GEES - SOLID GOLD "SATURDAY NIGHT" TIMELESS GEM

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                THE BEE GEES      

   " SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER "

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     USA - RSO Records - 2685 - 123

1977 FIRST PRESS....

MINT ... STILL IN SHRINK WRAP including BOTH original GOLD stickers on front cover ... very hard to find in original cellophane since most all copies were opened to view the gatefold covers' insides...

It's been more than 40 years since "Saturday Night Fever," the record AND the movie took the pop world by storm. The producers have been trying ever since to produce a similar successful soundtrack for a film, and they've yet to do it. Beyond the whopping SEVEN #1 pop hits that grace the album, Its success owes to the times in which its was released. And how well an album like this fit those times. The year was 1978, the LP was beyond successful successful, from both a critical and a commercial standpoint, than was the movie. Besides those chart-toppers, it contains memorable tracks like "More Than A Woman," "Calypso Breakdown," "Salsation," "K-Gee," and "Disco Inferno." The entire album strikes in a way of how stunning the conglomeration of the material included is. "Saturday Night Fever" was a never-to- be-repeated phenomenon. It is the definitive record of the explosion that took over Pop culture, that has come to be known as Disco. Disco lives on today under different names like Club, House, Trance, Rave, and others. As such, it is fragmented, and not nearly as powerful. Such was not the case in 1978. This soundtrack obliterated everything in its path and changed Pop music for good.

Saturday Night Fever remains the best selling soundtrack of all time with over 45 million units sold. In the United States, the album was certified 16× Platinum for shipments of at least 16 million units. The album stayed atop the album charts for 24 straight weeks from January to July 1978 and stayed on Billboard's album charts for 120 weeks until March 1980. In the UK, the album spent 18 consecutive weeks at No. 1. The album epitomized the disco phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic and was an international sensation.The album has been added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress for being culturally significant.

The Bee Gees's involvement in the film did not begin until post-production. As John Travolta asserted, "The Bee Gees weren't even involved in the movie in the beginning ... I was dancing to Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs."

Producer Robert Stigwood commissioned the Bee Gees to create the songs for the film.

Bee Gee's creator Robin Gibb recalled:

    We were recording our new album in the north of France. And we'd written about and recorded about four or five songs for the new album when Stigwood rang from LA and said, 'We're putting together this little film, low budget, called Tribal Rites of a Saturday Night. Would you have any songs on hand?', and we said, 'Look, we can't, we haven't any time to sit down and write for a film'. We didn't know what it was about.

The brothers wrote the songs "virtually in a single weekend" at Château d'Hérouville studio in France.The first song they recorded was "If I Can't Have You", but their version was not used on the film.

Barry Gibb remembered the reaction when Stigwood and music supervisor Bill Oakes arrived and listened to the demos:

    " They flipped out and said these will be great. We still had no concept of the movie, except some kind of rough script that they'd brought with them..."

Maurice Gibb recalled, "We played him demo tracks of 'If I Can't Have You', 'Night Fever' and 'More Than a Woman'. He asked if we could write it more discoey."

The Brothers Gibb then wrote a song called "Saturday Night" but as Maurice Gibb explains, "There were so many songs called 'Saturday Night' even one by the Bay City Rollers, so when we rewrote it for the movie, we called it 'Stayin' Alive'. Recording "Stayin' Alive" was not simple.[vague] Engineer Karl Richardson copied a choice few seconds of drumming from "Night Fever", cut out the piece of tape and glued the ends together, then fed it back into a recorder by a makeshift arrangement to create a new drum track. Drummer Dennis Bryon did not attend the recording of "Stayin' Alive".

CONDITION: The cover: rated: MINT...in original factory cellophane with 2 custom GOLD stickers ... exactly as the 1977 first press appeared on the market ... it's a stunning first print with fresh appearance -- there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ... VERY collection worthy ... original 1977 store price sticker on front cover - outer cello

The vinyl: Rated: M- Best copy around...final collection copy ...  ALL four "RSO" labels are clean

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING

All imperfections are noted both cover & record