Night Fever facts

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What was supposed to be Cartoon Network's first original show, Wacky Races Coast to Coast - a racing show that was scrapped after creator Mike Lazzo had a fever dream the night before production was set to begin, in which he imagined the character Space Ghost hosting his own talk show.

John Travolta "saved" his iconic solo dance scene in Saturday Night Fever from the cutting floor. The director edited the scene for close-ups. Travolta insisted that the scene be re-edited to show his footwork.

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1. Symptoms of leukemia often include flu-like symptoms, such as chills, night sweats, and fevers.

2. In the early ‘80s, film critic Gene Siskel outbid actress Jane Fonda on the white suit that John Travolta wore in "Saturday Night Fever.” He paid $2,000 and sold it in 1995 for $145,000.

3. Sylvester Stallone wrote and directed "Staying Alive," the sequel to "Saturday Night Fever"

4. The legendary dance floor scene in "Saturday Night Fever" used Boz Scaggs "Lowdown", but Columbia refused to grant clearance for the song. The studio rushed to replace the music, hiring the Bee Gees, who wrote "Stayin' Alive".

5. Film Saturday Night Fever was based on 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. Sylvester Stalone wrote, directed and produced a sequel to Saturday Night Fever. It's name is STAYING ALIVE, and it was universally critically panned with 24 out of 24 reviews being rotten on Rotten Tomatoes.

7. The Bee Gees' involvement in Saturday Night Fever did not begin until the film's post-production phase. During filming, John Travolta was dancing to Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs

8. A rare music video was made for the Bee Gee's song "Night Fever" in 1978 but it wasn't shown to the public until 2004, despite the fact that it didn't contain any uncensored content

9. The drum beat in the 1977 Bee Gees hit "Stayin' Alive" is the same as the one in "Night Fever", because drummer Dennis Bryon was at his mother's funeral during recording sessions. The producers loved the tape loop so much they also used it on "More Than a Woman".

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The songs "Stayin' Alive", "How Deep is Your Love", "If I Can't Have You", "Night Fever", and "More than A Woman" by the Bee Gees were already written even before getting involved in the film Saturday Night Fever, as told by Robin Gibb in their documentary, "This is Where I Came In" (2000)

Lloyd Kauffman of Troma Entertainment was the 'executive in charge of locations' for Rocky and Saturday Night Fever. - source

The source story (titled "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night") that would eventually become Saturday Night Fever was completely fabricated. - source

The Travolta movie, "Saturday Night Fever" was inspired by an article in New York Magazine. 20 years after the movie became a hit, the British author of the article admitted that he made the entire story up because he was completely unfamiliar with the disco scene in NYC and American culture

A crackhead can dance just as just as John Travolta to Saturday Night Fever - source

The real life brother of the actress who played "Scout" in "To Kill A Mockingbird" directed "Saturday Night Fever" (as well as "Sort Circuit" and Stakeout," among others.

A crackhead can dance just as good as John Travolta to Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever scenes on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge were filmed 600 feet above the water without wires. Film of the gag wedding of a dragged-up John Travolta to a grip was destroyed

One of the tracks on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, Night on Disco Mountain, is based on a classical music piece

The RSO cow, which adorned disco records like Saturday Night Fever and the Bee Gees was inspired by a papier-mache cow symbolizing health and good fortune on Robert Stigwood's mantel. He told his designers to draw it and write RSO on it.