Saturday Night Fever

“Jive Talkin’” Saved The Bee Gees In 1975

by Kevin Burton Looking back, The Bee Gees’ “Jive Talkin’” seems like an obvious, inevitable number one smash. In its day, it was anything but. Fifty years ago today the song was in a two-week run at the top of the Hot 100. It pretty much saved the Bee Gees. There was …

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Can’t Stop Dancing? Read This Cautionary Tale

by Kevin Burton You say the YMCA dance made you sick in the 70s? The Bump? That Saturday Night Fever pointing dance? But did anybody ever die from it? From reporter Rosalind Jana on the BBC, comes the story of a dance craze that was truly crazy. In Strasbourg, France, in …

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