After the phenomenal success of ‘You’re The One That I Want’ which was number one for eight weeks in the summer of 1978 we got ‘Summer Nights’…
I remember seeing the video for this (which was a clip from the film) on ‘Top Of The Pops’ one Thursday night before this spent six weeks at number one as well.
Looking back it is hard to imagine that a film like ‘Grease’ could have created such a furore but nearly everything in the summer of 1978 was ‘Grease’ related and everyone waited with eager anticipation to see the whole film. Other songs like ‘Sandy’ and ‘ Hopelessly Devoted to You’ and ‘Greased Lightning’ were also released as singles and almost everyone (including me) had tee shirts with stars on the micro sleeves like John Travolta’s! We were all singing the songs and wanting to relive the excitement of the movie.
I remember that my mother was quite disapproving of the film and its message which is (essentially) ‘You can’t get the bloke by being nice so dress like a cheap tart and call him ‘stud’ and all will be well’ which looking back isn’t really the kind of message you want to be communicating to pre-teens but this went way over our heads at the time and all we knew and enjoyed were the songs and the wonderful colour of the movie. The film version of ‘Grease’ (which is now the West End benchmark version) enhanced by the songs of the BeeGees is by far the best version in history…
Time to relive those summer nights…
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