Bee Gees Make Us Catch 'Night Fever' | Reacting to the Iconic Song so Get Ready to Disco |

Reacting to the Bee Gees, we're excited to share some cool facts about their iconic song "Night Fever"! This hit track was written and performed by the band, and was first featured on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack by RSO Records. Despite initial hesitation about the song's name, "Night Fever" quickly climbed up the Billboard charts, hitting the top spot at #1 and staying there for eight weeks.
What's interesting is that the song's string intro was inspired by "Theme from A Summer Place" by Percy Faith, which keyboardist Blue Weaver revealed during the recording session. Barry Gibb overheard the new idea and sang a riff over it, leading to the creation of "Night Fever". And did you know that the Bee Gees had actually already written a song with that title? It was their suggestion to use "Night Fever" and rename the film "Saturday Night Fever".
So, what are you waiting for? Let's groove to the beat of "Night Fever" by the Bee Gees!
00:00 INTRO
02:47 REACTION

[@keithroberts4952]

Man,not everyone is cut out for choreography moves plus this was done pre mtv era in the 80's when almost every video had choreography. Plus, maurice gibb played the bass on the song, much respect! Barry not only sang lead but played rhythm guitar. Bee Gees are icons!

[@kimberlyashman9590]

Guys, it was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, Best male lead(John Travolta), best director and it was #1 at the box office and Bee Gee's had five songs in the top ten at one time that year. Everything about it was incredible.

[@robynhurley5119]

❤ agree

[@MischaGER]

Interesting funfact to Night Fever: When the brothers recorded this monster banger for their new live album in Chateau de Heroville, this was the first song in the can. They could not imagine that this icon classic would made it into Robert Stigwood's little movie and after Saturday Night Fever, this song wents straight to # 1 and stayed there for 2 whole months and in 23 other countries as well, setting the entire globe on fire in the spring of 1978. In every far corner of the planet this song was played up and down several times a day in a radio. Millions flocked to dance schools to learn the cool disco shuffle like John, people styled themselves for hours every Friday and Saturday, hairdressers worked overtime and the dudes in the discotheque looked like dressed to the nines and everywhere smelled it of Chanel 19 and Old Spice for the dudes. 🔥😆

[@impudentdomain]

And I was one of those guys who learned to dance after that movie, and it worked too, got lots of girls if you dressed nice and could dance.

[@TheDivayenta]

I was a disco dance instructor😊

[@intestinalworm1202]

Thanks my friend - history in context - much appreciated!

[@mst1740]

You Should Be Dancing is their best disco song, imo. They are much more animated in the vid too.

[@KathleenMcCormickLCSWMPH]

I agree completely. That always got everyone out on the floor.

[@RoninNZ]

Oh yeah!

[@ItsTimeToSaveAmerica]

💯 that's one of their best 😊

[@jenniferfoster1692]

Jive Talkin is another great BeeGees song, very lively. They're playing instruments in the video.

[@michelle172ct]

FYI Quincy Jones called The Bee Gees hit Fanny Be Tender With My Love one of the best R&B songs he’s ever heard. Definitely worth checking out!

[@catherinelynnfraser2001]

My favourite from them❤

[@LizzieRD]

Thanks for doing the brothers, you guys. Love this group forever. This video wasnt seen until decades after the song was released. I understand you brothers love the dance moves, but these brothers did the music for those dance moves. Respect for both, but they were famous for the music not the moves. Barry Gibb is the tallest older brother (1946) and Robin and Maurice (Mo) were born 3 years later (twins) 9 number 1s, 6 consecutive number 1s, Hall of famers R&B and Songwriters, Grammys, Brit awards, 100 top 10 through 5 decades, so definitely NOT a disco group. They did 4 or 5 disco/dance songs. They called them contemporary R&B, the rest every other genre. They excelled in every genre they entered. It was a DJ that started the disco demolition, not an exec. Their early influence was the Mills Brothers, active from 1948 to 82

[@stevefarnsworth553]

Remember this video was 1978!!! Technology was not what it is 45 years later! Bee Gees rule!

[@randyem6910]

Met my wife dancing to the Bee Gees back in the late 70s.

[@starlightperkins330]

All of the songs that were performed by the BeeGees that ended up in "Saturday Night Fever", weren't written for the film. They were written BEFORE they were approached to contribute to the project.

[@anitawright7169]

The Bee Gees are iconic. Love this song. Love your reactions!

[@p.j.morris]

Andy was my crush Y'all can have the rest of the brother's Gibb Andy was very talented in his own right no one can take that from him. Rest well My sweet Andy. Andy passed away at 30 yrs young gone way to soon.

[@carolputney5250]

Maurice was in his early 50's when he died. Robin was his twin and died from cancer in 2012. Barry is still alive and living in Florida with his wife Linda.

[@reneerocha1796]

They’ve been married almost 50 years. ❤

[@jimakcelik6486]

Fanny Be Tender With My Heart, is one of my favorite Bee Gees songs.

[@TheBrownlj]

They are not dancers. The song was recorded before they knew anything about Saturday Night Fever. By the way all 3 guys wrote the song. Barry (the lead in this song), is the only one Alive and was the oldest. Robin and Mo were twins 3 years younger. The Bee Gees and most of their fans do not classify them as disco. They got caught up in the crap because they had a few songs on a dance album. All of the songs were writren before Saturday Night Fever.

[@v.2080]

You'll love Fanny Be Tender. ❤ Great song!

[@wheredidthetimego8087]

You need to listen to “To Much Heaven” Have always loved the BeeGees pre disco and post Disco

[@ifstatementifstatement2704]

It's impossible not to dance to this song. Love the reaction!

[@kathieovercash8414]

They already had the songs written for their album they were working on when they got a call about songs for the movie and what the movie was about. Pretty cool. Also amazing is that none of the brothers ever learned to read music.

[@amandathibodeau4996]

Okay. The Bee Gees were not dancers. They wrote incredible music spanning 3-4 decades. They just happened to be connected to this disco movie, having contributed multiple songs. Their manager produced this movie and asked them to contribute.

[@ingridneumann8196]

Welcome in the Univers of the Bee Gees. They had so many Songs. And every Song is a surprice. I grow up with the best Group ever. Amazing Voices Amazing Song Amazing Bee Gees. They can switch there Voices like nobody else. Please watch,,the price of love,, Then you can heare Barry's falsetto is not from this Planet. 🕺🥰👍

[@negf22]

Maurice is pronounced Morris and his brothers called him Mo. he his the same age as Robin as they are fraternal twins born in 1949. Mo died of a heart attack brought on by a twisted intestine. Robin died of cancer. Barry was born in 1946 and is the oldest and only one still living. They were all born on the Isle of Man. Also, MTV which started the video craze hadn’t started yet…British artists always made videos even back in the 60’s, generally they where just the singers singing.

[@dennislinehan6548]

There was plenty of music video programming before MTV. MTV was just the first channel of just videos .

[@kimbern6020]

Great reaction! You guys should really check out “Too Much Heaven” I think you will all be surprised. They are Barry, Robin and Maurice (Morris) Gibb 😊

[@johng.8517]

The Bee Gees wrote all the songs for the movie in one weekend! From Wikipedia: The band's involvement in the film did not begin until post-production. As John Travolta asserted, "The Bee Gees weren't even involved in the movie in the beginning ... I was dancing to Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs." Producer Robert Stigwood commissioned the Bee Gees to create the songs for the film. The brothers wrote the songs "virtually in a single weekend" at Château d'Hérouville studio in France. Barry Gibb remembered the reaction when Stigwood and music supervisor Bill Oakes arrived and listened to the demos: They flipped out and said these will be great. We still had no concept of the movie, except some kind of rough script that they'd brought with them. ... You've got to remember, we were fairly dead in the water at that point, 1975, somewhere in that zone-the Bee Gees' sound was basically tired. We needed something new. We hadn't had a hit record in about three years. So we felt, Oh Jeez, that's it. That's our life span, like most groups in the late '60s. So, we had to find something. We didn't know what was going to happen.

[@deborahh2556]

To their defense, they just didn't do videos back then. This was before MTV. Video quality was poor, and the brothers did not dance. But the song is fine. I'm glad we have these videos though because we'll never have this again.They were just great. Prolific songwriters and talent out the roof.

[@AmaPee]

in the bee gees documentary they talk about "the day that disco died"

[@user-ni8wi6wh9x]

bee gees jive talkin

[@robinfry4408]

The Gibbs pronounce Maurice like "Morris"...that may be a British thing. Maurice was nicknamed Mo & he was the master at filling in the 3rd part if the 3-part harmony in the precise way needed to fit each song perfectly. He also played a fierce bass (Jive Talking is a must-hear for that). Also played keyboards & arranged most if the songs...each bro was a gifted genius in his own right....none of them could read or write music! Please with the Maurice hair comments, really?

[@bcostello]

love Bee Gees

[@pennymcneela7095]

Now they need to see Too Much Heaven and Fanny be Tender with my Love...

[@lepoetress]

Sir Barry is the last brother living, RIP Andy, Maurice (pronounced Morris) and Robin

[@TheBrownlj]

Barry, Robin & Maurice (pronounced Morris) Gibb

[@TheDivayenta]

Wanna see hot chemistry? Barry Gibb and Barbra Streisand singing “ Guilty”. Live only!!!❤❤❤❤❤

[@tsonofjohnson489]

Just FYI: Seasame Street did a saturday night Fever (version) album for children back then. I bought it for my little brother. C is for Cookie is one of my favorites! have a look up. Great show, Gentleman!

[@adancer3592]

One of the Biggest selling groups in history

[@theodoreritola7641]

250 MILLION LPS

[@jannigirl]

Bee Gees were tagged as Disco because they did the soundtrack for Saturday Night Fever however, the Bee Gees are amazing and had so much music out in the 60's and early 70's that was effing great! How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?Fanny (Be Tender With My Love), I Started A Joke, I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You, Words, Run To Me, Nights On Broadway, To Love Somebody and so many more before Disco! You might enjoy these...Nights On Broadway is an all time favorite of mine along with Fanny Be Tender with my love

[@logansgigi]

Fanny Be Tender is my all-time favorite! ❤

[@louiemiller6469]

Skating Rink Memories 🛼 Love the disco days ❤🪩

[@maryruggiero2884]

You guys are great...just want to let you rest easy. Maurice from the Bee Gees pronounces his name with the accent on the first syllable, so almost like Morris, it's MAUR-ice. Also, watch them perform live...lol! Maurice and Robin were twins. Barry was four years older. All three are brothers.

[@robynhurley5119]

I was 10 when SNF cane out. Epic year!!!

[@weezy8029]

Always loved this one!

[@AlamoDame7]

Hey-- they delivered the #1 Billboard Hot 100 beat, the lyrics, the arrangement, and their distinguished harmonies/vocals. They were not dancers. Give them a break-- second reaction you made comments about lacking dance moves.

[@LizzieRD]

Hear hear

[@kthor]

Hear ye....hear ye!😂

[@jayeginn5963]

LOL, you don't want to see the Gibb brothers dance. Barry kind of danced like a construction worker, not very refined. Robin could not dance if his life depended on it. Maurice was actually the best dancer, maybe because he also played the bass and had the rhythm. The event you guys were talking about was because The BeeGees were so famous and had so many hits after another that they dominated music stations, not just with songs they did themselves, but other singers/groups/acts that sang their compositions (at that time Tavares, Yvonne Elliman, Andy Gibb). They had 5 songs in the top ten for ages back then and radio stations sometimes had 1 hour shows that were fulled with BeeGees music for about 30 minutes. That inspired that a**hole to call for the death of disco, which was ironic, because the BeeGees had made dance music like on the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack before, only then the word disco wasn't used yet. The protests were also very anti-black music and anti gay community because that's where most dance/disco music was popular. The BeeGees were: the tallest and oldest brother (with the big hair and beard), Barry Gibb, born September 1, 1946, the only surviving Gibb brother. Robin Gibb (with the long hair, no beard), born December 22, 1949-passed away May 20, 2012, and Robin's fraternal twin brother Maurice (the balding brother with the beard, pronounced "Morris") Gibb, born December 22, 1949-passed away January 12, 2003. They also had another, younger, brother Andy Gibb, born March 5, 1958-passed away March 10, 1988. The three oldest brothers were born on the Isle of Man (UK). Oldest brother Barry got seriously burned when he accidentally pulled boiling tea over himself at 18 months old. He was in coma for a while, nearly died and was in hospital for many months. Because of this, he did not learn to talk until after the twins were born. Later the family moved to Manchester and from there they emigrated to Australia in 1958, right after Andy was born. All 4 brothers are just natural musical talents. All of them dropped out of high school in their early teens and none of them could read or write music. All their compositions were created completely organically. Their musical career, which they had started as little kids, didn't lead to international success so they moved back to the UK in 1966. Then they had a string of big hits, until they temporarily broke up around 1970 for 15 months. Started back up, looking for a new sound which they first found in 1974 with the transitional album "Mr. Natural". After that "Main Course" was the first album that moved them into a new direction: more rhythm&blues, dance music like with great hits like Nights on Broadway and Jive Talkin' (and was also actually the first album on which their logo was introduced). From 1976 on they went all out with falsetto driven dance music which lead to their biggest commercial success as they provided classic songs for the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack (1977 Stayin' Alive, How Deep is Your Love, Night Fever amongst them). You should react to the 1979 live version of Stayin' Alive, too kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZ_MiYaebNuKiKs Other great songs to analyze: great album tracks from the 1979 Spirits Having Flown album, the title song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXnCm2xmm6h8oZY, the outrageously beautiful song Reaching Out kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJerhoZrgstjZrM. From their Still Waters album, Smoke and MIrrors: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4Wcp4V-iLyBmM0. From the 1960's I've gotta get a message to you kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXKXdHykedOHoZo. And from the 1990's the simple song Blue Island live in an accoustic version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2eVeJ93etWZqLs.

[@royfayebridgeman2572]

Barry is the lead singer. They are a respected group. They very seldom danced in their videos. Barry, Robin & Maurice.

[@Ultra54able]

You guys do a great job man!

[@marciamaria7796]

Bee Gees, Bee Gees! Essa banda é incrivelmente demais!❤❤❤❤🇧🇷🌟🌟🌟👋👋👋👋💪

[@pubuapubua]

Maurice (Morris) died of a twisted intestine with his family by his side.

[@Mollygaga42]

He sounded exactly like the bee gees, uncanny !

[@roseyoung6585]

I'm pulling out my list if y'all wanna groove with the BEE GEES..... 1. STAYING ALIVE 2. MORE THAN A WOMAN 3. TOO MUCH HEAVEN 4. HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE 5. JIVE TALKING They were popular in the 70's

[@impudentdomain]

to me the best example of their harmony is Fanny be Tender

[@ToniMilne-dx7hu]

You guys need to check out some of there live performances on The midnight special from the early 70’s, they are at their peak. Beautiful a cappella performances on almost every show. They a beautiful a cappella tribute to The Beatles songs really highlights Robin’s voice. They are the Goats in my opinion.

[@70sMusicLady]

May have been mentioned but Barry once made a comment that they could not dance. But that didn't stop them from "moving" to some of the songs. Mo did wear a lot of hats in his later years.

[@lepoetress]

That happened. A DJ was upset disco was taking over, rock and roll was getting crapped on and Disco met an untimely end

[@intestinalworm1202]

Love you blokes (guys)! That was good! Yes FIRE! 😂🤣😂😎

[@ronneranthonylutasemais8923]

VERY GOOD!! REACT THIS SONG LIVE ONE NIGHT ONLY BEE GEES..

[@beeseewill2407]

Maurice and Robin are twins.Maurice had alopecia.They were born in 1949. Maurice died in 2003.Robin died of cancer in 2013.

[@ucheegwu6782]

The best music of all time.

[@reneerocha1796]

That’s twisted. Blowing up records. I guess they can see that the music didn’t die. 😊

[@user-ni8wi6wh9x]

💪🤜🤜

[@kierstenridgway4634]

The cheesy videos are so cringey. 😂 I have danced under a mirror ball to this! ❤ Btw, it was rough for balding guys back then. The guys had hair that rivaled us females. 😆

[@user-pp5in1im4x]

imm with you this takes me WAY Back.Only One Gibb Left.

[@TheDivayenta]

In the movie- this is a big disco scene with everyone line dancing The Hustle. ❤ BeeGees wrote and recorded this BEFORE SNF- hence the no dance scenes. Maurice and Robin were twins . All that great bass guitar you’re hearing is Maurice. Barry is the only living brother. 😢 Disco was mostly the creation of Black and Latin artists- which bothered certain kinds of people. I loved it! The You Should Be Dancing video includes scenes from the movie.

[@sharonchaput9705]

You need to watch the video of this this singxwith the dancing by Travolta. This is the first video before the movie was released.

[@jennifergallamore8772]

His voice sounds like a Saxaphone.

[@garyclark9618]

Pretty good way to start the day 🌞 Watching a reaction to my favorite Bee Gees song 👍 Thanks guys!

[@tbd407]

you can't really judge any 'video' for a song that came out pre 1982 or so as they were not really made until then in a serious way and so this 'video' is probably when someone at their label in 1982 said we need to make put together something of their old songs now that everyone is doing videos so that MTV can play them and so they found some footage of them and cut it in with some shots of the city and said this is the 'video' and the band had nothing to do with it....

[@cortefielkid1455]

You should dive into some deeper disco ,jams not played on the radio. Check out Cerrone featuring Jocelyn Brown and the record is “My Look”….

[@yanxiao3413]

No, correction Andy gibbs is the one who had passed away first , when he was in his 30s .

[@juneevans8647]

But we were all moving.

[@kierstenridgway4634]

Steve Miller Band . Joker. There's a whie dude in that song they call Maurice. 😆

[@kathystammen8774]

Btw. Maurice is pronounced Morris. I know. Weird but correct. I am 63 in the Beegees in my opinion, or one of the best singers/songwriters ever. They wrote over 1000 songs and you will never see them dancing. Maybe swaying a little bit but they were not known for that. Back in the 70s early 60s , they were popular as you could be. They have been singing together since 1958 over five decades. They had hits in the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, 90s, and even into the early 2000s until Maurice passed in 2003. They are known for their perfect harmonies and their song writing.

[@michaelnicholas2417]

OllliWood, are you really telling me you want to see three brothers dancing with each other? Also, back then these weren't videos, they were promotional clips that only bands with lucrative record contracts could afford.

[@innertechnology7149]

We used to dance to this on the sidewalks in philly but we all know these videos were produced by people who didn't appreciate good dance. The reality was that people were gettin down everywhere- white black brown-- everyone

[@lydmarl.475]

Sorry, but they were no dancers, but MASTERS in music!!

[@annette5393]

Your review sounds silly worrying if they are dancing. They are singer/songwriters 🙄.

[@saturnnet1627]

We got two good feet to supply the dancing.

[@susanmurray7654]

Robin and Maurice are twins

[@cms-pacnw3315]

Fun reaction to watch. I agree....the song is a a vibe...great to dance to, but the video was a dud. lol. The boyz were looking like they wished they had some night fever going, but so far no such luck.

[@jeffdickens9556]

How about checking out Bee gees too much heaven

[@steveandme63]

Oh the hair... the 70s depleted a LOT of ozone.

[@bossfan49]

Oddly , they pronounce his name "Morris".

[@NC-Mama-Bear]

They were born British. That's the pronunciation.

[@Bonjovicrzy]

Good review ... would love to see you all do a review of a KZbin artist, called Ren specially the video called Hi Ren would love to see your reactions to it... it is different but has a message very powerful

[@LetsDoEntertainment]

Listen to Skate by Bruno Mars. Disco is alive.

[@plnkfloydian7814]

Apparently the band had a hard time finding mainstream success up until they started singing in the higher pitch

[@fuzzylogics139]

Not dancing. Yeah well.. you know holding back, going in one small inch at a time can cause an explosion in some situations 🤷‍♀️ And turn into an all night dance-event 🤠

[@angelcharms7297]

Just started watching this reaction and I heard " his balls aint dropped." by one of u. Lol That high pitched sound coming from Barry is called a falsetto. He's singing like that on purpose.

[@user-ep6kl1ej2i]

Try to reacted to you should be dancing with John Travolta into the movie doing the dance.

[@MAGIKMARTIAN9526]

DISCO WAS NOTHING MORE THAN DANCE MUSIC

[@TheDivayenta]

It is also a solid category in the ballroom dancing realm.

[@michelle172ct]

Maurice is pronounced “ Morris”

[@gwenmorantz7767]

Not Vegas, north beach Miami

[@11dsw]

Sunny Isles.

[@Justyna_N]

Talking about people looking 45 with all the gray hair on the panel lol

[@fuzzylogics139]

But yeah they come across in this video as the ghostly fairy god-daddies of nightlife past, locked into another dimension, frozen in time..

[@slucas60]

A DJ did the Disco Sucks event at Comiskey Park... Straight White guy rockers hated dance music and couldn't get any girls!

[@bruceday4036]

Man the disco music was shit, but Vegas was pretty funky back then

[@ucheegwu6782]

He died of stomach problem.

[@user-kl5fw5zr3f]

The song was not meant for them to dance cuz they do not dance at all it was meant for John Travolta in the movie to do the dance you all have to watch the movie along with the song and then you'll have a better understanding you wouldn't say the things you're saying because you have to watch the movie none of the Bee Gees dance not at all from Andy all the way up to Barry neither one dance at all all the songs that they sing they do not dance you see them walking and

[@maryblum8365]

Morris Gibb was the most talented of the brothers. He did not get his due because he did not want to fight to be the lead singer. Robyn and Barry fought to be the lead singer that is why they broke up for 18 months. They came back together and wrote 2 number one songs in one night (How to mend a broken heart and Lonely Nights) two number one hits. Mo creates all the insturmentation for all the songs. He played every instrument and was a hell of a bass player.

[@p.j.morris]

It is Maurice his momma spelled his name WRONG. It is not Morris.

[@julienielsen4462]

Maybe cause if you dance and sing at the same time your voice loses its power. But i noticed many singers at that time stood still while singing. It does look odd though.

[@TheCornishCockney]

“Baseball,biggest sport in the world” LOL !! Have you heard of football (soccer). Look it up,there are many many millions all around the globe make baseball look like a localised fringe sport. 😁

[@rwilson7197]

Ive always loved the BeeGees!! I hope you do reactions of " Nights on Broadway" - totally different from this but upbeat & "How Deep is Your Love" which is a love song with beautiful harmonies. The movie " Sat night live" ruined this song for me back in the day ( terrible movie) & yes, this video is awful! And NO!! John Travolta's dancing is awful in that movie- ruins the song imho!! I love almost every other song of theirs.

[@seddrock]

Thats why I don't like when music videos are used for reactions, it seems to be a distraction to the reactors

[@MILVO17]

Better than garbage rap right!?

[@Befree898]

Beegees have so many great hits and songs , and you choose to react to the cheesiest one of all.

[@TheBrownlj]

Nothing wrong with Night Fever

[@Befree898]

@@TheBrownlj really boring to me. But enjoy yourself.

[@TheBrownlj]

@@Befree898It was number 1 all over the world so Im far from the only one that likes it.

[@Befree898]

@@TheBrownlj things that are popular not necessarily are good, and good things aren't necessarily popular.

[@TheBrownlj]

@Joseph Hunter true but in this case Night Fever is definitely good.