Saturday Night Fever Songs Ranked
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood. It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man from the Brooklyn borough of New York. Manero spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local discothèque while dealing with social tensions and disillusionment, feeling directionless and trapped in his working-class ethnic neighborhood. The story is based on “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night”, a mostly fictional article by music writer Nik Cohn, first published in a June 1976 issue of New York magazine. The film features music by the Bee Gees and many other prominent artists of the disco era. In 2010, Saturday Night Fever was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Here are all of Saturday Night Fever’s songs ranked.
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12. Night on Disco Mountain – David Shire
“I heard this on the radio as a kid and it never failed to terrify me. Only when I grew up that i discovered it was a famed Mussorgsky composition. After listening to the classical version, my respect for this David Shire piece only grew more profound. This is a truly fantastic rendition!”
11. Manhattan Skyline – David Shire
“It’s hard for me to explain to anybody how happy this song makes me. Maybe it’s nostalgia for my youth when I used to own the album but the song just transports me to a joyous place.”
10. A Fifth of Beethoven – Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band
“This was one of my absolute favorite songs in the whole movie and I learned how to play specific songs on a record player as a result of repeatedly playing this song on my vinyl copy of the soundtrack.”
9. More Than a Woman – Tavares
“After hearing of Kelly Preston’s death my condolences go out to John Travolta. You may or may not know that during the filming Saturday night Fever his girl friend had been diagnosed with cancer and was receiving treatment and later passed away. Thats two partners that hes lost to cancer. So sad. He also lost his son some time back.”
8. Jive Talkin’ – Bee Gees
“The Bee Gees have always been my favorite group anyway, but the one thing that amazes me about this song is that it originated simply from the sound of driving over a bridge. To write an entire song out of something seemingly that overlooked, that is the definition of musical geniuses!”
7. If I Can’t Have You – Yvonne Elliman
“One of the reasons this song is so great is Yvonne Elliman is singing with a desperation, almost as if she’s singing to the person she can’t live without. It’s so real sounding.”
6. Disco Inferno – The Trammps
“Scenes in this movie are as iconic as Coca-Cola. No dance movie has ever worked as well or fired on all cylinders like this since. The music, camera work, lead actor and choreography were a perfect storm. Everything after has been cringe worthy or at best so bad it’s good.”
5. More Than a Woman – Bee Gees
“Such a well directed scene. They did a great job of capturing that moment when they get lost in each others eyes and everything around them disappears. Nothing else matters anymore, not even the dance contest they are in the middle of. Then they smile in acknowledgment of what they just experienced together and then smoothly finish the dance contest. Combined with this great song, it’s flawless”
4. How Deep is Your Love – Bee Gees
“As I listen to this song over many many years and time continues to pass me by, this song has taken on so many different meanings. Regardless of the true message and intention behind the song or how you, yourself, interpret it…we are all better for having listened to it.”
3. You Should Be Dancing – Bee Gees
“He is mesmerizing. They almost cut this from the movie, but travolta fought to keep it in. Cannot imagine it not in. The fact that he did all of those incredible dance moves, in platform heels no less, is a testament to his talent!”
2. Night Fever – Bee Gees
“Travolta absaloutly owned the dance floor. Its pure genius how he moves. Mezmorizing. This here will always belong to john travolta as long as he lives. Its stamped in history as one of the best dance routines ever.”
1. Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees
“The Bee Gees, these legends, never and did not fail to make brilliant music.And damn ,those falsettos! They know how to make people groove and dance. It is the music that will never ever die.Grateful to have Barry ,Robin and Maurice part of my life, and they will never be forgotten.”
