Can't Have You
"If I Can't Have You" |
Song by Bee Gees
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Released |
13 December 1977 (US)
6 January 1978 (UK) |
Format |
7" single, 12" single
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A-side |
"Stayin' Alive" |
Recorded |
January and February 1977, Le Chateau, Herouville, France
September 1977, Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, California
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Genre |
Disco |
Length |
3:25 |
Label |
RSO |
Writer(s) |
Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb
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Producer(s) |
Bee Gees, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson |
"If I Can't Have You" is a disco song written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb in 1977. The song initially appeared on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in a version by Yvonne Elliman, released in November 1977. The Bee Gees' version appeared a month later as the B-side of "Stayin' Alive".
The song later appeared on the Bee Gees' compilation Their Greatest Hits: The Record. The remixed version was released and remastered in the compilation Bee Gees Greatest in 2007 and marked the return of the Bee Gees to the US Hot Dance Tracks charts after 28 years. According to Maurice, this track was the first song they did while they were recording the other songs for the film. The recording was started at Château d'Hérouville as a basic track only and completed later at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles.
On 2 November 2007, Rhino Records and Reprise Records released a remix version of "If I Can't Have You" by German house music production duo The Disco Boys. The song was released as a single from the remastered version of Bee Gees Greatest (2007), originally released in 1979.
The song was recorded by Yvonne Elliman for the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
Although Yvonne Elliman had cut her 1976 album Love Me with producer Freddie Perren, who was a major force in the disco movement (Perren had produced the Sylvers' 1976 number 1 "Boogie Fever" and would soon collaborate with Gloria Gaynor on the disco anthem "I Will Survive"), Love Me had showcased Elliman not as a disco artist but rather as a pop ballad singer, notably on the title cut, a Barry Gibb composition which had provided Elliman with an international hit. It was originally intended that Elliman's contribution to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack would be another ballad written by the Gibb brothers, "How Deep Is Your Love".
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