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Mayors and
Cheetahs survive and advance
MAGIC
CITY - Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a
woman's man, no time to talk. Music loud and women warm, I've been
kicked around since I was born. And now it's alright, it's okay and you
may look the other way. We can try to understand The New York Times'
effect on man. From the beginning, you can tell that "Stayin'
Alive" by the Bee Gees is not your typical disco tune from the late
1970s. I don't know the exact effects that The New York Times
can have on man, but with 15 years in the newspaper industry, it did
have an effect on a man. "Stayin' Alive" was arguably the best song on
the 1977 Saturday Night Fever soundtrack that launched the
worldwide disco craze and produced six consecutive #1 singles. The album
became the top-selling movie soundtrack of all-time. In 2021 Rolling
Stone magazine updated their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of
all-time and "Stayin' Alive" came in at #99, so time has been kind to
the song. According to Robin Gibb, "The subject matter of 'Stayin'
Alive' is about survival in the streets of New York". When discussing
the orgins of the song Barry Gibb said, "Everybody struggles against the
world, fighting all the bullshit and things that can drag you down, so
it really is a vict'ry just to survive, but when you climb back on top
and win bigger than ever before, well that's something everybody can
appreciate." We couldn't agree more, so in Week 17 of the BDFL, we
salute two former "Disco Kings", the Mayors and Cheetahs for surviving
the week-in and week-out rigors of the BDFL and for advancing to the
finals of the Big Daddy Championship Series (BDCS). The two teams will
meet in Big Daddy Bowl XX in Week 18 down in New Orleans for all the
marbles and the coveted Grand Daddy Trophy. It is shaping up to be a
blockbuster classic.
Stayin' Alive
by the Bee Gees (1977)
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