The Bee Gees hit Stayin\' Alive turns out to be very helpful when you\'re performing chest compressions on a victim of a cardiac arrest. The song contains a relentless rhythm at 103 beats per minute. This almost perfectly matches the ideal chest-compression pace recommended by the American Heart Association of at least 100 beats per minute. Dr. David Matlock, who works at the University Of Illinois\' College of Medicinein Peorie, had doctors and students performing CPR on mannequins while listening to Stayin\' Alive.
\"The drums from \'Night Fever\' basically consisted of two bars at 30ips. The tape was over 20 feet long and it was running all around the control room — I gaffered some empty tape-box hubs to the tops of mic stands and ran the tape between the four-track machine and an MCI 24-track deck, using the tape guides from a two-track deck for the tension. Because it was 4/4 time — just hi-hats and straight snare — it sounded steady as a rock, and this was pre-drum machine. For the tempo I used the varispeed on the MCI four-track, so the drums that ended up on the 24-track were at least third-generation, and because the tape heads were so badly worn I brightened the tracks that were already Dolby A-encoded with high-end EQ from the API console.\"
When Dennis Bryon returned from the funeral he overdubbed the toms, crash and hi-hat.
