Nights on Broadway
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| "Nights on Broadway" | ||||
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| Single by Bee Gees | ||||
| from the album Main Course | ||||
| B-side | "Edge of The Universe" | |||
| Released | September 1975 | |||
| Format | Vinyl record (7" 45 RPM) | |||
| Recorded | 20, 30 January 1975 Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida |
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| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 4:32 | |||
| Label | RSO | |||
| Writer(s) | Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb | |||
| Producer | Arif Mardin | |||
| Bee Gees singles chronology | ||||
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"Nights on Broadway" is a song by the Bee Gees for the Main Course album in 1975. The second single release from the album, it immediately followed their number-one hit "Jive Talkin'".
"Nights on Broadway" reached number seven on the American Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, giving the Bee Gees back-to-back top 10 hits for the first time in seven years (since 1968).
[edit] Covers and sampling
In 1977, Candi Staton released a version of this song that peaked at #6 on the United Kingdom Singles Chart in late Summer of that year. It omitted the slow-paced middle-eight which broke up the tempo of the Bee Gees' original and may have contributed to its failure in the UK.
In 1998, the song was sampled on the DMX track "The Convo" from the album It's Dark and Hell Is Hot.
In 2008, the song was sampled by hip-hop producer Jake One for his song How We Ride for his album White Van Music.
Saturday Night Live uses the song as the theme to its sketch, "The Barry Gibb Talk Show", but with different lyrics.
[edit] Chart performance
| Chart | Peak position |
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| Canada | 2 |
| United States | 7 |
| Netherlands | 8 |
| Belgium | 12 |
| New Zealand | 14 |
| Germany | 17 |
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