Music In Saturday Night Fever

When disco arrived it changed a lot of things. It changed the kind of music people listened to; changed the way they danced and changed the places they went out to at night. The movie that made everyone want to disco was the ever popular “Saturday Night Fever” which came out in 1977. The movie soundtrack went platinum and the music was fantastic you heard it practically everywhere you went. If you are puzzled as to what I’m talking about then you missed out on an incredible time and if you are smiling and nodding then don’t you want to get up and disco once again? Of course it was always thought that you either loved or hated disco but it is now a part of music history.

The hits from the movie included the Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive” and Yvonne Elliman’s “If I Can’t Have You”. The interesting thing is that this movie would never have seen the light of day if it hadn’t been for a magazine article. The

It is well worth it for the dancing and the music. Anyway yes, most of it happened in my Bay Ridge neighborhood and therefore I have a feeling of homesickness writing this. Let’s take a walk in the footsteps of Travolta in “Saturday Night Fever”.

• The opening of the movie has us gazing at Travolta casually picking up a double-decker pizza at Lenny’s Pizza on 86th Street at 20th Avenue in the bordering neighborhood of Bensonhurst and swaggering on down the street. Trust me I’ve tried that move and with a pizza it doesn’t work for me. However you can give it a try since Lenny’s is still open and selling pizza today.

• Tony in the movie worked at Bay Ridge Home Center at 7305 Fifth Avenue at 73rd Street. It has changed somewhat but is still a hardware store.

• Next stop is Phillips School of Dancing at 1301 West Seventh Street at Bay Parkway, Bensonhurst. This is where Tony met his new dancing partner Stephanie Mangano played by Karen Lynn Gorney. You can still learn to dance