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The Bee Gees Never Read the Script for ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. The iconic disco film
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  Speaker 1: Saturday Night Fever recently celebrated its forty fifth anniversary, as
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  Speaker 1: did its soundtrack, which still stands as arguably the most
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  Speaker 1: influential film album of all time. The Bigs famously contributed
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  Speaker 1: multiple songs which are still played today, more than a Woman,
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  Speaker 1: If I Can't Have You Staying Alive, how Deep as
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  Speaker 1: You Love, and of course the title song Night Fever.
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  Speaker 1: They're all disco standards that also perfectly encapsulate the story
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  Speaker 1: and vibe of the movie, which is white shocking that
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  Speaker 1: the Bags never read the script. Album supervisor Bill Oaks
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  Speaker 1: revealed the Billboard he couldn't believe it when he visited
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  Speaker 1: the studio, and they somehow made the perfect music for
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  Speaker 1: the film, saying they hadn't even looked at the script.
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  Speaker 1: They were told, in broad terms, it's about a guy
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  Speaker 1: who works in a paint store and blows all his
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  Speaker 1: wages on Saturday night and he goes to a club.
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  Speaker 1: They do the hustle. The mission was to get the
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  Speaker 1: Bags to write a disco track that you cannot stop
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  Speaker 1: dancing to with a great melody, and that's how they
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  Speaker 1: came up with night Fever. For instance, the Saturday Night
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  Speaker 1: Fever soundtrack was so impactful on American culture, and the
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  Speaker 1: Library of Congress added it to its national recording registry
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