Tavares – More Than A Woman

“More Than a Woman” – Single by Tavares from the album Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track and Future Bound
Released: November 1977
Songwriters: Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb

This song was written by the Bee Gees for the movie Saturday Night Fever. They recorded their own version, but also had Tavares do it. Both versions were used in the movie and on the soundtrack, but the Tavares version was released as a single, peaking at #32 in America on May 6, 1978, the same week “Night Fever,” another Bee Gees song from the film, was at #1.

Tavares were backstage at a Madison Square Garden show when the Bee Gees asked them to record the song.

Like the Bee Gees, Tavares is also a brother act: Arthur, Ralph Vierra, Perry Lee, Antone and Feliciano. They started performing in 1963 when they were known as Chubby and the Turnpikes. They changed their name to Tavares in 1969 and enjoyed several transatlantic hits in the mid 1970s including “Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel,” “Don’t Take Away The Music” and “Whodunit.”

This was produced by by Freddie Perren, who was responsible for most of the Jackson 5’s early hits. He later co-produced and co-wrote the classic Gloria Gaynor hit “I Will Survive.” In 1978, Perren won a Grammy for his work on a couple of songs he did on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack: Yvonne Elliman’s “If I Can’t Have You” and this one.

As he did on “If I Can’t Have You,” producer Freddie Perren employed the rhythm section of Bob “Boogie” Bowles (guitar), Scott Edwards (bass) and James Gadson (drums), and recorded it as his own Los Angeles studio, which he called Mom & Pop’s Company Store.

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Tavares More Than A Woman

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