Although I didn’t see the movie until much later, I loved the soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever when I was in high school. During the spring of my junior year, while traveling with the concert choir to a music festival, I first heard selections from this album when another student played it on the bus.
That summer, my grandmother gave me my own copy on cassette for my birthday. I took a disco dancing class at the YMCA and practiced moves in my bedroom while listening to it. The tape eventually broke, as most cassettes do. Now, I ask Alexa to play the album on Amazon Music.
The song I’m featuring today was a favorite among the girls in my class. It rings true for me now that my husband has passed. If I can’t have Bill, I don’t want anyone else. Besides, I’m too old and set in my ways to reorganize my life around a man. I’m taking a break from singing and giving you the original movie soundtrack version, sung by Yvonne Elliman. Enjoy!
New! The Red Dress
Copyright July 2019 by DLD Books
When Eve went to her high school senior prom, she wore a red dress that her mother had made for her. That night, after dancing with the boy of her dreams, she caught him in the act with her best friend. Months later, Eve, a freshman in college, is bullied into giving the dress to her roommate. After her mother finds out, their relationship is never the same again.
Twenty-five years later, Eve, a bestselling author, is happily married with three children. Although her mother suffers from dementia, she still remembers, and Eve still harbors the guilt for giving the dress away. When she receives a Facebook friend request from her old college roommate and an invitation to her twenty-five-year high school class reunion, then meets her former best friend by chance, she must confront the past in order to face the future.
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