IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU
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- čas přidán 21. 01. 2016
- A song from the movie - Saturday Night Fever
"If I Can't Have You" is a disco song written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb in 1977. The song initially appeared on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in a version by Yvonne Elliman, released in November 1977. The Bee Gees' version appeared a month later as the B-side of "Stayin' Alive".
The song later appeared on the Bee Gees' compilation Their Greatest Hits: The Record. The remixed version was released and remastered in the compilation Bee Gees Greatest in 2007 and marked the return of the Bee Gees to the US Hot Dance Tracks charts after 28 years. According to Maurice, this track was the first song they did while they were recording the other songs for the film. The recording was started at Château d'Hérouville as a basic track only and completed later at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles.[1]
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance film directed by John Badham and starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discotheque; Karen Lynn Gorney as Stephanie Mangano, his dance partner and eventual friend; and Donna Pescow as Annette, Tony's former dance partner and would-be girlfriend. While in the disco, Tony is the king. His care-free youth and weekend dancing help him to temporarily forget the reality of his life: a dead-end job, clashes with his unsupportive and squabbling parents, racial tensions in the local community, and his associations with a gang of macho friends.
A huge commercial success, the film significantly helped to popularize disco music around the world and made Travolta, already well known from his role on TV's Welcome Back, Kotter, a household name. The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, featuring disco songs by the Bee Gees, is one of the best-selling soundtracks of all time.[5] The film is the first example of cross-media marketing, with the tie-in soundtrack's single being used to help promote the film before its release and the film popularizing the entire soundtrack after its release. The film also showcased aspects of the music, the dancing, and the subculture surrounding the disco era: symphony-orchestrated melodies; haute couture styles of clothing; pre-AIDS sexual promiscuity; and graceful choreography.
The story is based upon a 1976 New York magazine article by British writer Nik Cohn, "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night". In the mid-1990s, Cohn acknowledged that he fabricated the article.[6] A newcomer to the United States and a stranger to the disco lifestyle, Cohn was unable to make any sense of the subculture he had been assigned to write about; instead, the character who became Tony Manero was based on a Mod[7] acquaintance of Cohn's. In 2010, Saturday Night Fever was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthecially significant" by the Library of Congress and therefore preserved for all time in their National Film Registry.
The sequel Staying Alive (1983) also starred John Travolta and was directed by Sylvester Stallone.
I was born in 71’ and every time I hear this song I think about my mom dancing with me twirling me around when I was 6 years old singing the chorus...I love you mommy 😔 memories
I bet you miss it more than words can ever explain right ?
71 here aswell mate remember my mum singing away to this
Beautiful memory.
those of us who lived through that time are lucky; I danced to that song when I was 16.
Memories, experiences,the very summation of life....When it's all said and done, that's all you can take with you are the memories/experiences,the good, bad,ugly all categorized by the experiencer (Birth of your child/children, 1st steps, words,day of school, boyfriend/girlfriend, school-dance, graduation, prom, puppy/kitten, broken heart, car, wedding day, grandchild, car, car accident, leaving for college....i have 6 children (4 bio,1 step,1 adopted).....The absolute joys of my life, wld not change a thing...the good,bad,ugly...All made us the tight-knit family we are today and 100% of the credit goes to the lynch-pin, my mama who guided and assisted me through every bit of it, i could call that women at 3am seeking advice, NEVER ONCE did that women ask me 'Do you know what time it is????...."Tell mama the deal"......."Well here is what you should do"!!!....."I'm not sure that will work?"....."Then call some other mother at 3am"......" You the only mother i got" "THEN SHUT UP AND LISTEN".....When my mother passed away.....I absolutely refused to feel sad by focusing on all the time she gave me advice and the many times she started with "I am not an expert here or this solely based on life experience or if you want Dr.phil you have dialed the wrong # n her all-time favorite "LIFE, is for the living".....She lives on in my heart n memory n that's the true BLESSING....
These were the best years
IM STILL DANCING TO THIS RECORD AT 75 YEARS OLD!
UNBELIEVABLE
I nie przestawaj ...
Right on brother, me too😃🙏☮️✝️
52 and right there with you
Back in germany this with would be danced with a faster paced foxtrot
No one here to to ever try with me...
Wanna dance?
I still dance with it at 63
One of the reasons this song is so great is Yvonne Elliman is singing with a desperation, almost as if she’s singing to the person she can’t live without. It’s so real sounding.
Like in Jesus Christ Superstar.
@@richardpetzoldt5284 If it wasn’t for CZcams, I wouldn’t know who she was.
Spot on. One of my all time top 10 songs. A beautiful rendition.
It is good but I like Bee Gees version better
The music and movie still holds up... even today ! Such a classic ! 👍👍
Remember, disco is dead. Lol.
The rebellion after this.
This song is a Masterpiece !! You can always tell when a song is great because no matter how many times you hear it, it seems to get better every time you hear it! This tune is hands down GOLD !
Agreed
@@dazzp2 p0pp
Yes Classic, written by Beegees, they loved Yvonnes voice so gave it to her.
Spot on
No wonder they were second only to Lennon and McCartney
My mother would listen to these songs when I was a kid. I would sit in the living room watching her dance with my father . She's gone now and ever so often I come back to this song and I can see her dance again.
My late mother was huge on the BeeGees and the soundtrack. RIP to both our moms.
yes my mother did that too haha, and not just that, abba too, and many others from those eras, i loved her music
Just an idea. You should hit up your dad to dance.
Aww, beautiful 😢
When I watch 70s decade films and listen to the music, I feel that it was a special decade of its own. That can never be relived or forgotten.
Yr so right So so right These days just Don get it
How we know that it’s not just us old people saying this is because the 60s were amazing, so was the 70s, then the 80s, and then the 90s. We lived through them all… everything has been downhill since then… we were so so lucky. I look at the last 24 years and think how bad the world has been, culturally and globally. When you live through the decades you just take it for granted that things could only get better. You could never realise that these musicians, artists, actors, directors… yes, even law makers wouldn’t be making our lives better forever. You never could realise that any moment things could just all collapse and your life could be so drastically affected by the emergence of so much crap, from bad quality music to bad quality politicians. And after 25 years of it you suddenly realise.. wow… we really did have it so so good. And within another 20 years or so they’ll be hardly any of us left to remember those golden times ever existed.
I may not have been born to enjoy this life of the past but I will imagine it crying while listening to music 😢
I was an extra in this movie. Who knew then it was going to be timeless. Lol
What part of the movie was you in mate
Can’t see you and I’ve watched the film . maybe you can give us more information, surly you can remember what part of the film were in
@@maxryder6649 HE WAS A STUNT, IN ALL PARTS OF THE BEHIND SEX HE HAD TO PUT HIS ASS ON THE LINE...
@Teresa Blanco any relation to Benny Blanco from the Bronx?
He is a dreamer , but who knew this would be timeless lol
Yvonne Elliman. So so talented.
I wasn't born then, but there's something beautifully haunting about this song. I love it.
@Syamin king Pretty cool to see Travolta acting for such a long time.
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I agree 👍
When this song comes on in the car, I turn this up and smile from ear to ear x
Same 😀
What a beautiful memories ~~~😘😍🤩👍✌️🥰
👍👍👍👍🎉🎉🎉
Discotheques in the 1970s were amazing. The electricity in the air was palpable. No distracting smartphones. What an era! This is what happens when the stars align.
statement of the year so far !!!
More then 40 years later and i still LOVE LOVE LOVE this song!!!!
Foi ontem kkkkk 40 anos passou rápido. Até hoje 06/06/22 🇧🇷 faz sucesso.
same
I was born in 72, and this movie instantly became my all-time favorite. My grandma took me to the theater seven times to see this movie.
Me to I was born in 1972
Born in 72?? Dang I was 24 and dancing the notes away! The disco years are unforgettable and I'm still dancing to this record. I guess it still keeps my heart pumping! Lol
@@gilloera8912 i was 18 and throwing some shapes on the dance floor and with a suit on lol disco time
A monster song of the 70’s & iconic now on the 2020’s. Time passes so very quickly, cherish your time and those you love!
So very true! Time goes to fast
I was 10 in 1977. I was a teenager in the 80s when everyone said "70s music is _passe!"_ Now I appreciate 70s disco as some of the *_best music ever._*
same here 10 in '77, Good old days....
I was 12 in 1977. Some of the best music is from the 70’s. I long for those days.
I was 10 as well when I first heard this back in 78. I was too young to understand the lyrics but I just fell in love with the song. Still one of my all time favourites and still play while I'm driving. Love playing music from my young and innocent days as it brings back childhood memories of how great life was before I grew up and had to deal with the crap of living and adult life. Music from that era is not only nostalgic but, and I know this sounds stupid, it also comforts me somehow and eases my mind. If only I could go back to those days when everything about life was great when seen through the eyes of a 10 year old.
Deaz 1 I know exactly what you mean & it doesn’t sound stupid at all. The music from those days of our childhood & innocent times comforts me as well. If I could somehow go back to those carefree days, I would, in a heartbeat.
70s & 80s music will forever be the greatest of all time!
I was a bartender back in the mid to late 70s when the Disco era hit. In the video when Tony walks in we had several guys just like that. It was a great time to work in the industry, pretty much a party every night.
Awsome 70s 👑
Disco sucks? Just listen carefully this song. It's melody is so wonderful, so natural, so original, and so well arranged.
That's the Bee Gees genius!
Disco war gut und wunderbar!🎵🗝❤
No no you misunderstood it's DISCO DUCK 🦆!
Oh boy , for someone who went anti disco , I've been kidding myself for 46 years ,this film , and soundtrack has to have the finest singer/songwriters ever , and then there's The Bee Gees , Tavares ,Yyvonne Elliman,still gorgeous,and is it me or is Stephanie so so sexy in this , this ain't music , it's A Generation'
Whats it like being on the wrong side of history ? 😂
Travolta has beautiful eyes during his younger years
His crush is attractive and a solid disco dancer.. Yet… it is utterly (ASTONISHING) work by the cinematographer with their ability to paint this angelic and radiant aura of her when zoomed in on her dancing.
I dont know why i cry when i listen this music, memories came to me.Im 50 now, im happy but not 100% .I love 70s
We are two
Hey hon, ever hear the saying "Life begins at 70" ?
I thought I was the only one I'm with you all the way
@MARICELA silva : I hear ya hun, the 1970's was still a time of innocence. I loved that decade too!
Because the music is timeless and beautiful.
It's a shame to know that movies and music like these aren't made anymore.
I agree France 😘
One of my bestfriends passed today. At only 26 years old. When we were 18 I used to sing this whole soundtrack for her drunk lol she was one of the only ppl who knew this about me. We were more into rap but we both had our other genres and I’m listening to this thinking of her.. that she would tell me to sing it at the top of my lungs over and over cause I loved it so much. Rip Christina. I hope your finally at peace. I have the vinyls of this soundtrack to. I’ll always remember u on this song. Xo fly high
❤😓❤
This is one of the most beautiful songs coming out of that era. It gets into your emotions.
Timeless. You put this put in 2022, it be a Number 1 hit.
It does! 😭
It's 2024. Who still remembers falling in love in the 70s when the music was so beautiful? If you too are transported back to those bygone years, mash the 70s music respect button below:
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your totally right. found the love of my life back then and i still have her ;) damm i miss those days.
I got my dick sucked to this song by some Italian chick
That is what people want to listen
Hahahahahaha
Kids these days don't know shit
This was my high school graduation year. Can’t describe how it was then. Nothing like it today.
Wow!! Yvonne Eliman. Beautiful song. full of nostalgia.. I like him, I'm 25 years old and I'm his fans..❤❤
THE song of the 70s.
Written by the Bee Gees and sung by the incomparable Yvonne
I was 26 when this song came out great memories, life passes us by so quickly.... enjoy it while you can....
Sylvia Laura Ranyak badgirlsdonnasummervideo
I left school this year. Great song, Great singer & outstanding film.
Thank you Sylvia I'll do my best
Sylvia, thank you for your heartfelt advice indeed！thanks❤
Yes. Time goes by like nothing. I was about nine when Saturday night fever came out. And I dug the music even at that young age. I was , and still am, an Elvis fan. But now I've developed a passion for the classics. Chopin, Mozart, Rachmaninoff are geniuses
I was 7 when this movie came out... only allowed to watch the PG version! 🙂 Remember my mom and dad getting the album! Mom is gone now, but Dad still remember those days, as do I! What memories!!!!
I was eleven when the Saturday Night Fever movie came out. My brothers and I bought the vinyl record and we played it every single day. I will cherish those memories forever!
Nothin like the good ol 70s...i was 9 when i ifirst saw this movie in 1978,,my sister had the album,and to this day i think its one of the best movie soundtracks ever.GOOOD TIMES BABY!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Why don't they make music like this anymore......fantastic
Because now it's all computerized , not many singers actually have a set of pipes anymore. They can't carry a tune in a bucket. We do have a few that really do sing but the rest are all computer enhanced fakes.
Its the same reason why we don 't have masterpiece movie scores anymore. The Jerry Goldsmiths, Miklos Rozsa and John Williams have all been replaced by computerized background music.
Simple, 2 of the performers are dead. 1 carries the torch of the Bee Gee flame.
@@David-dz3ig I blame budget cuts
John Redmond ❤️
I'm sure I'm not the only one listening to a classic 70s in the year now 2020 wow! how fast it's gone! Who else feels the same?
Seventies
I’m a 70’s chick 🐥
I'm 65 this year (2022). Have lost all of the senior 2 generations and 3 from mine in the last 20 years, the most recent this past Sunday. She was my favorite dance partner to this song. Like my great aunt used to say: " To remember is to live". Hold your memories close. They can sustain you when nothing else can.
I was 17 and what great time to be alive the music was outstanding, I forget many things in life now but I'll never forget this period in time🙏☮️✝️
Back in the day..if a dance floor was empty you just played this track....and the floor was full..say no more.
The way John travolta dances takes me back when you didn’t have a care in the world at the disco
I love this song, but it also reminds me that my youth is gone.
me too ricardo..
No kidding. I was the female Travolta in the 80’s and 90’s and now I can barely empty the dishwasher.
ricardo deleon it’s only gone physically , we can always be there in spirit.
Totally agree. But you can relive with good headphones lying down with your eyes closed :)
ricardo deleon : I was thinking the exact same thing about myself.
I was twenty years old when this movie came out.
Beautiful 1977 song. Dang, John Travolta always was cool even back then.
I don't lile the way he was looking at her.
John Travolta is so cool in this film. Style, rhythm, etc. He is part of the reason this film has become a true classic and timeless.
The best time ever...magical times...great soundtrack ...life was simple and beautiful..
Life is still simple and beautiful, Voula. It's what you make of it.
@@fac2 . . No it's not the same . . . 2022 isn't even remotely close to 1977 . . . anybody with the brains of a bucket of sh-t that was there in 1977 . . Knows it's not the same . . . Life just doesn't always turn into what you try to make it . . . Damn you must live in a sweet jelly roll . . . Hahaha 😂😂😂
Rediscovering this song. Someone I thought would be forever who now has moved on. Today is her bday, thinking how hard these lyrics hit 2023.
Yea I think that is exactly how you want to enter and the crowd parts and you and your trusted pack acknowledge certain adoring fans.
That kid that jumped off the bridge should have won the Oscar. Great acting.
Hmmmmm who is still listening to this ? Wauw ....this was and is and will always be a timeless age....I think this is passed on to new generations and will always be that ......TIMELESS
This song is a masterpiece ❤️ Still listening to this day
Yep, a Bee Gees masterpiece!
I lived this disco scene in the 70s what a time we had!
Tony Manero é o cara!!!🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Remember growing up listening to this sound track on vinyl, nothing beats the music that came out in the 70s and 80s
Love how all memories in comments of this era are so positive! I was born in ‘75 but I too love this music! REAL talent makes music timeless. Love Old School, Good feeling 🥰
2020 anyone??
Yes september 3 from Argentina
September 4
@@makaylalipoufski9266 sept 09
I’m here! Always have been ❤️ 2020 and beyond😜
Sept 15 from the Netherlands
They make the place look a lot bigger than it was. Thank god I’m from Brooklyn ..
I was pregnant with my first baby, when this movie came out, I can still see me trying to do the dances with a 9 mth bump! I just loved this movie.
Your baby is now 43. Congratulations for being a good mom 😀🙏
I was 26 years old when this song came out it was hot in the night clubs I used to be partying in Chicago on rush street club coconuts beautiful times life was so beautiful everybody got along we didn't have all this hate in the world what I would give to go back back to the seventies
I was 7.. I used to wish that I was old enough to party in the 70's... awesome vibe 😎😎😤
❤️
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
70’s the good ole days I was a little girl and love this movie 🎥 ❤
I was 11 years old when the song hit....and i never knew how much impact the music my mother would listen to growing up...taking care of me and my siblings would define soo much of my life....just listening and reflecting with a smile....is amazing...how great those days were
My absolute favourite modern musical. I bow to the pairing of the BeeGees and Saturday Night Fever. Every track is a winner. I never tire of watching.
The greatest soundtrack to a film of all time
In my years past and to come, I never saw a movie more successful than this one. It started the dance initiative combined with upbeat music excellently composed and performed by the bee gees and others. Kudos to all.
Everything about this screams.. ONCE IN A LIFETIME! Travolta's performance.. The soundtrack.. The era.. Definitely, lightening in a bottle!
Another one of those magical songs that just gets better with time! This song and the Bee Gees album were the perfect songs that made this film!
Pasaron casi 46 años de esta obra maestra del cine y ni hablar de la música de los fantásticos bee gees ..no son de mi época pero que bien me hace escuchar está música
This was my era its now 2022 and what I've see going on in this world now makes me realize now I was living in better times every era had their problems but today .....omg!!! Too much
I miss this and I wasn't even alive in that decade:(
Great to watch, but you had to live it. The best error of the century!
Incomplete flight training, cause of this mess. Hotel missing. Accommodation.
Alt R Egggo word me too!
me too!
the best it was a great time
Travolta was rising from his 🌟 from welcome back kotter. And this movie made him and urban cowboy made him! Love this 4 ever! 💖💖🎸🎸🎼🎼💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇸😎😎
Grease as well.
I was born in 71 and this song reminds of the lady I still love but she passed away 3 years ago.
Un crack travolta.que buena época la música disco. los bailes.m recuerda a mi viejo a el le gustaba todo eso.x eso m trae nostalgia.
I remember dancing at the 2001 Odyssey when I lived in Brooklyn. MEMORIES!!!
Best time of your life right???
Did they really have a topless girl dancing on stage like in the film? DAMN!!!
So, Odyssey is the real name of the disco in this film clip?
Watching,October 2019.. The legendary Bee Gees
Yvonne Elliman
"hot stuff"
sherri parra even October 2119
Steve They wrote it, hence the title of the comment..Bee Gees
Still amazing after all these years 🕺🎵😀
Born in 68, I never get tired of listening to these wonderful tunes, my vinyl collection gets bigger and bigger.
❤️🙏
I so remembered this song growing up, I use to imagine being at Studio 54 in Manhattan, New York dancing the night away.
Best Disco movie ever! John at his best!
Arcadio saberon
I think he was at his best as Danny Zucco.
My dad and I love the 70's so much and this song hits different. We used to watch this movie Sunday mornings on his day off and I loved the music, just beautiful. I cry now because I'm 22 and he's turning 51 soon, but my mother and father gave us the best music. 2020 and I still look for this music
I love this song. I love this soundtrack. As a 1980 baby, I tip my hat to those 70s babies.
Actually 60s babies were the ones enjoying it...
Where have the years gone to!!!???? I still love this song and still dance like those in the feature film "Saturday Night Fever". Bring back the days of the good old nightclubs/discotheques with all the trimmings - An array of coloured Lights- must have crystal balls also (no Disco is complete without them), synced coloured floor lights, best of the disco music and being with all your friends from Friday to Saturday night doing the latest disco dances. Those were damn good years. This generation will unfortunately not get the chance to experience what was back then. Only the surviving motion pictures and people who lived to tell the younger ones the stories of yesteryear. Motion pictures like "Saturday Night Fever" really did show how to really get down at a disco.
YES INDEED AMEN
The mid to late 1970’s disco era was the outgrowth of the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960’s - all the colors
J. T. at his best. This movie and soundtrack are a must have. And if you say you don't like the Bee Gees, you're lying.
Best song from Saturday Night Fever by a country mile, just fabulous. The intro is one of the best. I was 17 in 1978 a wonderful time for those of who lived in rural Yorkshire at the time pre PC woke etc!
Makes me cry for all that we have thrown away.
I miss this time in my live Good god it was a beautiful time to be alive. Love was all around guys. For real
I am ever so grateful to my late dad he taught me good music...
Same here
RIP 😪
Lived it, danced to it, wore the clothes and my father thought you were a hippy if your hair touched your ears. The artists, music and time was incredible to be part of.
We kids born in the 70s .This was the music memory.
I was 11 when this song came out. Now I'm 50, and it still seems like yesterday when I first heard this . Crazy how time flew by.
I was 10,the soundtrack was played on every radio station.Good times!!
I was 4....How Deep Is ur Love made me cry at the drive in!!! lol
Life begins at the new 40 (50)...How yoooo doinnn?....
Got you by a couple (well, more than a couple) of years, so I graduated from high school year virtually the same year music graduated from Disco. Most of it, honestly...well, didn't miss it when it was over. Some songs, though, gotta admit - pretty awesome. Like this one.
Kris Jutras....its like time never exists, if this song was released today, I'm sure it would chart easily.
I always liked that song It reminds me of those times that will never come back. I always see it. even the tears come out.
Charisme de ouf dès l'entrée, , ajouté a l'intro 😍 une merveille
In the 70s he was the "Guy" we all would have liked to have been & would have dreamed to be able to make such a charismatic entrance to a disco when we went out on the town! Great era in time! haha
I tell you the Bee Gees could write the shit out of a song. Lyrics were always on point with those guys.
Mark See Yess thumbs up from the Black community.................................love them....
many of us here are truly with you on that fact brother!!
love this song fantastic always makes me wanna dance 😊
OH MY BEE GEE'S LOTS OF LOST'S THEY HAVE GONE THRU. MY💞HAS ALWAYS BEEN WITH THEM.. STILL HAVE THE TICKETS TO SAT. NITE LIVE WITH MY FIRST LOVE IT SEEMS LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY. I WISH I COULD BE DANCING WITH HIM ONE MORE TIME
I WAS 18 THEN! REMINISCING CAN GO BOTH WAYS / LIKE ELVIS'S SONG (HURT) THATS LIFE AND ALWAYS💕THE MEMORIES. TAKE CARE FRIENDS🍀
I was born in 70....I remember my parents dancing to this song....Nostalgic memories....
Oooohh mi Dios!!! No me canso de escucharla y cantar fuertemente!!! Vivan,amen,gocen la vida , porque es demasiado corta!
I am born 1986 and I am glad that I am born in the 80is I love this song,love this movie with my mom we love to watch clasic movies like this❤❤❤ , they have beautiful scenes and they have sence not like now there is nothing have sence enymore just violence murder and nothing else
Una de las mejores canciones de todos los tiempos en la historia de la música,por la inolvidable IVONNE ELLIMAN y la maravillosa composición de los BEE GEES.
musica que nunca pasará de moda
Me encanta, recién la descubrí hace unos meses.
Que hermosa canción me encanta mucho la bailo y canto a full
Gracias por la data,hermosa cancion
I'm 50 now, and this song is the song of my generation. Nothing can taint Travolta's influence on historic America, or the wide world!
You Gen Xer are dope. 1980 checking in.
I was born in the 1966....so when this movie was proposed I've 10 years....i remember my brother's party's with this sound track..... fantastic moments of a times to be no returns 😢
Nice old days💕