There wasn’t some big corporate umbrella we had to pierce.” “We were part of the same company,” he says. Saturday Night Fever topped Billboard’s Top Pop Albums chart for a whopping 24 weeks and spawned four Number One singles: the Bee Gees’ “How Deep Is Your Love,” “Night Fever,” and “Stayin’ Alive,” and Yvonne Elliman’s “If I Can’t Have You.”Īccording to Coury, a large part of the success was due to the unique collaborative effort between Stigwood’s record and film companies. Stigwood’s predictions were not too far off the mark.
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“He called me and told me to go down to the lobby and pick up New York magazine with an article by Nik Cohn in it called ‘Tribal Rites of Saturday Night.’ I went down to the lobby to get it and he called me back and said, ‘I’m going to take that story and make a movie and you are going to have the biggest soundtrack ever.’ “ At the time, Coury was an executive at Capitol Records and Stigwood was attempting to woo him to his recently established RSO Records.
Track listing: Stayin’ Alive / How Deep Is Your Love / If I Can’t Have You / A Fifth of Beethoven /Jive Talkin’ / Klee / Calypso Breakdown / More Than a Woman / Night Fever / Boogie Shoes / Disco Inferno / You Should Be Dancing / Open Sesame / More Than a Woman / Manhattan Skyline / Night on Disco Mountain / Salsation Īl Coury will never forget the day he received a call at his New York hotel room from Robert Stigwood.
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