Bee Gees - Stayin Alive (NEW SOUND)

Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb (1977)
undated 1977
The pictures here its only from 1977-1979
Recording 'Stayin' Alive' was not simple. To start with, the drumming is literally a tape loop. Karl Richardson copied a choice few seconds of drumming from 'Night Fever', cut out the piece of tape, glued the ends together, and fed it back into a recorder by a makeshift arrangement to create a new drum track. This was done solely to work around Dennis Bryon being away for a few days, but the effect was a strikingly mechanical beat. As boring as this would become later in dance songs, it was new in 1977. It would make this the perfect song for John Travolta strutting down 86th Street, Brooklyn.
After preliminary work was done at Le Château, 'Stayin' Alive' was finished up at Criteria. Maurice laid down an excellent bass line modelled on 'Clean Up Woman' by Miami singer Betty Wright, Alan and Barry put on guitar riffs, Blue added some synthesizer, and the Boneroo Horns added their parts. The lyrics are the traditional Gibb melancholy: the fast part desperately insists 'it's all right, I'm OK', 'I'm stayin' alive', but the slow part says 'life's going nowhere, somebody help me'. Robin was still writing possible lyrics on April 22, on a Concorde ticket, seen in the book Songs in the Rough.

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