BEE GEES SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER SEALED ORIG 1978 RSO LP

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·       BEE GEES WITH OTHER ARTISTS - SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER - ORIGINAL 1977 SOUNDTRACK – ORIGINAL 1977 RSO RECORDS STEREO LP (DOUBLE ALBUM) RS2-4001

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

·       BELIEVED TO BE PRESSED ON THE ORIGINAL BEIGE RSO LABEL WITH RED LOGO (NO OTHER PRESSINGS OR LABELS EXIST)

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       COVER HAS TWO (2) NIFTY, GOLD “SONG TITLES” STICKERS STILL AFFIXED TO THE WRAP.

·       ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW) (Note: the image shown is from our previous auction; it appears here for reference only; the actual item is in a condition quite similar to the one shown, but is not completely identical in every minute detail ).

PLEASE NOTE that the album we are offering DOES NOT have a gold sticker on the shrink wrap and has a small cutout corner, not shown on our photo.

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Every so often, a piece of music comes along that defines a moment in popular culture history: Johann Strauss' operetta Die Fledermaus did this in Vienna of the 1870s; Jerome Kern's Show Boat did it for Broadway in the 1920s; and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album did it for psychedelic music in the 1960s. Saturday Night Fever, although hardly as prodigious an artistic achievement as those precursors, was precisely that kind of phenomenon for the second half of the 1970s — ironically, at the time before its release, the disco boom had seemingly run its course, and seemed confined to primarily Europe and black culture and the gay underground in America. Saturday Night Fever, as a movie and an album, and a brace of hit singles off of it, suddenly made disco explode into mainstream, working-, and middle-class America with new immediacy and urgency, increasing its audience by five- or tenfold. The Bee Gees had written "Stayin' Alive" (then called "Saturday Night"), "Night Fever," "How Deep Is Your Love," "If I Can't Have You," and "More Than a Woman" for what would have been the follow-up album to Children of the World, when Robert Stigwood asked them in early 1977 to contribute songs to the soundtrack of a movie that he was financing, a low-budget picture called Tribal Rites on a Saturday Night. They obliged him by turning over the best of their new numbers to the project; the group's involvement even survived the decision by the original director, John Avildsen, that he didn't want their music in the film — instead, Stigwood fired him and brought in the very talented and much more agreeable John Badham, and the movie's title was changed to Saturday Night Fever. The Bee Gees' music stayed, and the result was the biggest-selling soundtrack album in history, a 25-million copy monster whose sales, even as a more expensive double-LP, dwarfed those of Children of the World and Main Course. Strangely enough, for all of the fixation of the movie and its audience on dancing, the Bee Gees' new songs were weighted equally toward ethereal ballads, which may be one reason for the soundtrack album's extraordinary appeal — it delivers what its audience expects in dance numbers, plus the soaring, lyrical romantic numbers that were, as with most ventures by the Gibb brothers in this area, virtually irresistible as music. Despite the presence of other artists, Saturday Night Fever is indispensable as a Bee Gees album, not just for its array of hit songs — which became the de facto soundtrack for the second half of the '70s — but because it showed the Gibb brothers as composers as well as artists, in recordings by Yvonne Elliman ("If I Can't Have You") and Tavares ("More Than a Woman"). And because it placed their music alongside the likes of Kool & the Gang and MFSB In essence, the layout of the soundtrack release was the culmination of everything they'd been moving toward on an artistic level since the Mr. Natural album, and even the presence of David Shire's "Night on Disco Mountain" and "Salsation," and Walter Murphy's "A Fifth of Beethoven," didn't hurt, because these set up a surrounding ambience that made the Bee Gees' material work even better (. . .)

(REVIEW REPRINTED COURTESY OF BRUCE EDER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE – ALLMUSIC.COM)

Reflecting the historical and commercial importance of this album, as well as acclaim - both popular and critical - Recording Industry Association (RIAA) of America has certified this album as one of the top-100 best selling and most commercially successful albums in the history of recorded music (►click here for more details).

THIS IS A NO-RESERVE AUCTION!

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·       CONDITION:

·       RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID)

(b)          The records are apparently pressed on a RELATIVELY thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy ('dynaflex' type), vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl either.

(c)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       COVER

COVER IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has a small cutout corner

-        Cover has a light "wrinkle" (crease) in one of the corners.

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

-        No split seams

-        No ring wear

-        No cut-out (drill) holes.

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)

-        No yellowing from aging

-        No writing

-        No stamps

-        No tearing: no chips, dents or nicks on the seams

-        No peel-off marks

-        No stains

-        No mold or mildew spots

-        No stickers or labels

-        No water damage

-        No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or cuts.

-        No warping

-        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

-        No bar codes

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers.

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