Saturday Music Post - Stayin' Alive

"Stayin' Alive" was written by the Gibb brothers for the 1978 movie Saturday Night Fever, for which it was kinda perfect even for those of us (including me) who never liked disco (looking at you, Alex). It wasn't nominated for an Oscar that year -- maybe the Academy also disdained disco -- but it won four Grammys in 1979. In 2004 was listed by Rolling Stone as number 189 of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In a 2021 update, it was ranked 99, which is pretty strange for a song that was released 43 years earlier. I have no idea what happened to the 90 songs it jumped, not to mention all the new music recorded in the 17 year interim. Unsurprisingly, most of the covers are by female vocalists, and they are not all disco.

Anyhow, I figured it wouldn't hurt include one disco number after all these years. The iconic Travolta clip is at the bottom of today's post at The Faculty Lounge.