Warner, Kara (April 4, 2018). " 'Ready Player One' 's Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke Spent 3 Weeks Learning That Disco Dance Number". People . Retrieved September 18, 2023. Karlin, Katherine (June 12, 2019). "What We Don't Remember About Saturday Night Fever". Bright Wall/Dark Room . Retrieved March 16, 2021. In the United States, the album was certified 16× Platinum for shipments of at least 16 million units. [10] The album stayed atop the charts for 24 straight weeks from January to July 1978 and stayed on Billboard 's album charts for 120 weeks until March 1980. Three singles from the album contributed by the Bee Gees—" How Deep Is Your Love", " Stayin' Alive" and " Night Fever"—along with Yvonne Elliman's " If I Can't Have You", all reached No. 1 in the US. In the UK, the album spent 18 consecutive weeks at No. 1. The album epitomized the disco phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic and was an international sensation. [11] The album has been added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress in 2014 for being culturally significant. [12] Whitburn, Joel (2014). Cash Box Looking Ahead Pop Hits 101-150. Sheridan Books, Inc. p.149. ISBN 978-0-89820-211-3.

Sanburn, Josh (December 2, 2010). "On the Floor in Saturday Night Fever". Time . Retrieved September 26, 2023. Tony and his friends ritually stop on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to clown around. The bridge has special significance for Tony as a symbol of escape to a better life. Sullivan, James (January 14, 2003). "APPRECIATION / Contributor to a sound that went beyond disco". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved November 30, 2009. The album, like its parent film, has been added to the Library of Congress via the National Recording Registry. [12] Source material [ edit ] Tony agrees to be Annette's partner in an upcoming dance contest, but her happiness is short-lived when Tony is mesmerized by another woman at the club, Stephanie Mangano, whose dancing skills exceed Annette's. Although Stephanie rejects Tony's advances, she eventually agrees to be his partner in the dance competition, provided that their partnership remains professional.Johanson, MaryAnn (May 25, 2007). "The 10 Best Movies of 1977 – Movies". Film.com. Archived from the original on June 20, 2010 . Retrieved April 11, 2011. Film critic Pauline Kael wrote a gushing review of the film in The New Yorker: "The way Saturday Night Fever has been directed and shot, we feel the languorous pull of the discotheque, and the gaudiness is transformed. These are among the most hypnotically beautiful pop dance scenes ever filmed ... Travolta gets so far inside the role he seems incapable of a false note; even the Brooklyn accent sounds unerring ... At its best, though, Saturday Night Fever gets at something deeply romantic: the need to move, to dance, and the need to be who you'd like to be. Nirvana is the dance; when the music stops, you return to being ordinary." [46] [47] Siskel, Gene (December 16, 1977). "Energy, reality make 'Fever' dance". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved May 20, 2022. Saturday Night Fever version comparison (theatrical and director's cut)". movie-censorship.com . Retrieved September 18, 2023.

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Glee,' 'Saturday Night Glee-ver' Songs: Season 3, Episode 16 Includes Tribute to the Bee Gees". AOL. April 17, 2012. Archived from the original on June 29, 2012. Salmons, Tim (November 28, 2022). " Saturday Night Fever: 45-Year Anniversary (4K UHD Review)". The Digital Bits . Retrieved September 18, 2023.

Bronson, Fred (2003). "Night Fever". The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. Billboard Books. p.480. ISBN 978-0823076772 . Retrieved September 26, 2023. While Saturday Night Fever features many potentially melodramatic subplots, it neither sensationalizes nor sugarcoats them. Inspired by a magazine article about New York disco culture, it's as believable a portrait of New York street life as has been made — the Kids of an earlier era — and as well an affecting and subtle struggle toward adulthood. Saturday Night Fever version comparison (R and PG-rated)". movie-censorship.com . Retrieved September 18, 2023.Both theatrical versions were released on VHS. The PG-rated version never had a home video release on Laserdisc. It was first released to DVD by Paramount on October 8, 2002, as an R-rated special-edition, which included most of the deleted scenes present on the PG version, as well as a director's commentary and "Behind the Music" featurettes. [31] Loftis, Ryan (December 12, 2012), Saturday Night Fever Turns 35. Suite101. Retrieved April 1, 2013.