Up next we go behind the signature song behind a ground-breaking album that boasted 11 Top 40 singles on the Hot 100, and seven #1 hits*. Just unbelievable numbers. I’m talking about Saturday Night Fever the soundtrack from 1978 that really is a Bee Gees album. the record was so big you almost have to call it a movement…The song most associated with this movement the Bee Gees Staying Alive has been misunderstood for decades! Everyone knows it as a carefree, jolt of swagger but it’s actually a very serious song from a group that absolutely dominated the charts even doing something the Beatles didn’t do. Barry Gibb replaced himself at #1 not once, not twice but three times with four straight #1 hits. With Staying Alive, Night Fever, If I Can’t Have You, and Love Is Thicker Than Water… Stayin’ Alive started the momentum and it almost didn’t get released… the story is coming up… NEXT on the Professor of Rock.

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Hey music junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If your cassette tape ever got jammed in your car and you couldn’t get out forever so you had to listen to that album nonstop. You’ll relate to this channel of music nostalgia… We curate the best of the rock and roll era through interviews, through stories, and through history, make sure to subscribe below right now. I know you’ll dig this channel. We also have a patreon you'll want to check out. There you’ll find an additional catalog of exclusive content and you can even become an honorary producer to help us curate this music history.

In 1977 the Bee Gees, comprised of twin brothers Robin and Maurice Gibb and big brother Barry, were in Paris working on material for their next album. While there, they received a call from their manager and entertainment mogul Robert Stigwood. He was putting together a new movie and wanted the brothers to write some songs for the soundtrack. At this point, the film was still untitled and there wasn’t much to tell them, only that it was going to be about the disco-craze. That film would of course become the famed Saturday Night Fever.

According to Robin, the three brothers had no concept of the movie during the writing process, except for a very rough draft of the script. He said, “We didn’t really want to take our chances on a film… But we had a bunch of songs written and said they [the movie execs] were quite welcome to come and have a listen.”

When the Paramount reps arrived in France to hear what the Bee Gees had written, they were predictably underwhelmed. I say that because this is a familiar story in the music industry…

Record executives, or in this case movie executives, who are completely clueless about what they are listening to. If it doesn’t sound like anything that’s already popular on the radio, they want nothing to do with it. Well, as it turns out, the batch of songs they were listening to included three iconic disco-era tracks that would all go to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100… How Deep is Your Love, Night Fever, and today’s featured track Stayin’ Alive.