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The band co-produced the song with Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson.
Everyone knows that it's more about feel than accuracy in drum tracks. By the time we had overdubbed all the parts to the songs and Dennis came back, there was no way we could get rid of the loop. Karl spliced the tape and jerry rigged it so that it was going over a mic stand and around a plastic reel. It is one of the Bee Gees' signature songs.
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Robin recalls, "The subject matter of 'Stayin' Alive' is actually quite a serious one; It's about survival in the streets of New York , and the lyrics actually say that". Several words from Robin Gibb 's Concorde ticket inspired the Gibbs [ clarification needed ] to write the lyrics for "Stayin' Alive".
They wrote "Stayin' Alive" over the course of a few days while sprawled on the staircase at the Château d'Hérouville studio near Paris. Everybody struggles against the world, fighting all the bullshit and things that can drag you down. Barry and I listened carefully to find a bar that felt really good. Barry Gibb also recalls, "People crying out for help. The shortage of qualified drummers in the area prompted the group to try a drum machine , but it did not offer satisfactory results.
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At first, we were doing it just as a temporary measure. And it really is a victory just to survive. But when you climb back on top and win bigger than ever before, well that's something everybody reacts to everybody". It had a human feel.
Barry sings falsetto on the whole song, except on the line "life's going nowhere, somebody help me". The group jokingly listed the drummer as "Bernard Lupe" a takeoff on session drummer Bernard Purdie. Lupe became a highly sought-after drummer—until it was discovered that he did not exist. We chose a bar that felt so good that we ended up using that same loop on 'Stayin' Alive,' and 'More Than a Woman,' and then again on Barbra Streisand's song 'Woman in Love.
The Boneroo Horns parts were added. Those are the ones that become giants.
In , "Stayin' Alive" was placed at No. On its release, "Stayin' Alive" climbed the charts to hit the number one spot on the Billboard Hot the week of 4 February , remaining there for four consecutive weeks. The track was finished at Criteria Studios , with Maurice Gibb laying down a bass line similar to the guitar riff, Barry Gibb and Alan Kendall on guitar riffs, and Blue Weaver adding synthesizers. Consequently, it became one of the band's most recognisable tunes, partly because it appeared in the opening credits of Saturday Night Fever.
While today's musicians know how to get a good groove with the click, back then, if you used a click track you rarely got a good feel. The executive producer of the Saturday Night Fever motion picture soundtrack and Bee Gees manager Robert Stigwood asked the band to write a few songs for the soundtrack. Rather than change the name of the former song to match the film, Stigwood expanded the name of the film to encompass the title of the latter song.
The song was released in as the second single from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. At this point, the film was in early stages and it did not have a title; in fact, all Stigwood had to go on was a New York cover story about discomania. The band's drummer Dennis Bryon left the recording sessions early due to the death of his mother, and the group first looked for a replacement.
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In their work together, Gibb and Galuten had tried playing with a click track as Galuten explained:. As with many other artists during the s, the Bee Gees recorded most of the soundtrack in France for tax reasons. RSO Records wanted the song to share the then-title of the film, "Saturday Night", but the Bee Gees refused a title change, insisting that there had been too many songs with "Saturday" in the title, and the album already had a song with the word "night" in the title—"Night Fever".
The minute you capture that on record, it's gold. In the United States, it would become the second of six consecutive number-one singles, tying the record with the Beatles for most consecutive number ones in the United States at the time a record broken by Whitney Houston who achieved seven consecutive number-ones. If I had been working for a technology company then and knew what I was doing, I would have tried to patent the idea.
Desperate songs. Over the years, the brothers have had mixed feelings about the song, admitting it brought them tremendous fame but conversely branded them as a disco act, despite a long and varied career before and after. As we started to lay tracks down to it, we found that it felt really great-very insistent but not machinelike.
The loop crossed the boundary giving us music that was in time with a good feel.