Before there was Saturday Night Fever there was underground disco. DJs across America went out and found the music to play; dancers went out and found the clubs. At this point, in the early seventies, the disco was the venue and not a genre of music.
By the time Nik Cohn’s short story Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night was published by New York magazine in June 1976, disco was the biggest genre of music on the charts and was about to get bigger still, becoming an all-enveloping cultural phenomenon. Cohn sold the film rights to Robert Stigwood, and his classic club yarn became Saturday Night Fever.
1. HELPLESSLY - Moment Of Truth
2. AFTER YOU'VE HAD YOUR FLING - The Intrepids
3. WELCOME TO THE CLUB - Blue Magic
4. I CAN'T MOVE NO MOUNTAINS - Margie Joseph
5. SUPERNATURAL THING PART 1 - Ben E King
6. MELLOW ME - Faith, Hope & Charity
7. GEORGIA'S AFTER HOURS - Richard "Popcorn" Wylie
8. DATE WITH THE RAIN - Eddie Kendricks
9. JUST AS LONG AS WE'RE TOGETHER - Gloria Scott
10. WENDY IS GONE - Ronnie McNeir
11. GOT TO GET YOU BACK - Sons Of Robin Stone
12. NIGHT OF THE WOLF (TEMA DEL LUPO) - Ivano Fossati
13. GOOD THINGS DON'T LAST FOREVER – Ecstasy, Passion & Pain
14. TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT - Jimmy Ruffin
15. KEEP IT UP - Betty Everett
16. FREE & EASY - Satyr
17. EACH MORNING I WAKE UP - Major Harris
18. IT'S THE SAME OLD STORY - Act I
19. YOU CAN'T HIDE LOVE - Creative Source
20. THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD IS GOING CRAZY – John Gary Williams
21. IF THAT'S THE WAY YOU FEEL - White Heat
22. WAKE UP EVERYBODY - Harold Melvin And The Bluenotes