Bee Gees ~ Night Fever 1977 Disco Purrfection Version

The Bee Gees became quite adept at mastering pop music with sweet ballads in the 60’s and ended up claiming the pop charts for themselves with a white hot streak of disco/dance oriented songs that began with 1975’s #1 hit “Jive Talkin’“. This new funkier Arif Mardin produced incarnation set the trend in quality of production and arrangement of music and vocals. “Jive Talkin’“ was a hit at the time “Jaws“ was rolling over the competition at the movies that summer. A second from the same album was also a #1 hit, “You Should Be Dancing“. Mardin was the producer who got them in touch with what was happening in pop radio at the time, had them listen and then directed their sound towards R&B. In the meantime, Robert Stigwood had signed a new distribution deal with Polydor instead of re-signing with Atlantic. When the time came to record the follow up to “Main Course“, they found out that Arif was no longer available to them due to his being a house producer under contract to produce only Atlantic artists. Instead