Their first single after Saturday Night Fever was a deliberate change of pace for them. Radio went along with the change, and they got another #1. Plus, proceeds from the single went to UNICEF, which was nice.
LP and commercial 45 version (runs 4:54)
I prefer the version on the 4-CD box Tales From The Brothers Gibb (1990), which is a stellar collection and overall sounds it like uses the lowest-generation source tapes of any Bee Gees set out there. It runs 4:54 here. The song uses a tape loop for the drums, which begins at 83.1 BPM and drifts up to 83.2 BPM by the end of the song.
I also have the song on the 2-CD Greatest (copyright 1979, not sure of release date). It runs 4:54 here, too, but a little faster at 83.5-83.6 BPM. The sounds is pretty good, but it sounds like a higher-generation source tape than Tales.
It's also on Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 9 1979 (1990). It runs 4:54 here, fades about a beat or two before the others, and runs a little slower at 82.9-82.9 BPM. Sound is also pretty good here, but not as crisp as Tales.
Promo 45 edit (runs 3:52)
This doesn't appear on CD, to the best of my knowledge, so here are editing instructions using Tales From The Brothers Gibb as the source:
Segment 1
223 beats long, ends on rimshot (up-beat) immediately after the word "it's"
Extends from 0:00.0 to 2:41.5 of the LP version and the promo 45 edit
Remove the 18 beats from 2:41.5 to 2:54.4 of the LP version. (It's 18, not 16; this song has extra measures everywhere.)
Segment 2
66 beats long, begins and ends on a rimshot
Extends from 2:41.5 to 3:29.1 of the promo 45 edit
Extends from 2:54.4 to 3:42.1 of the LP version
Remove the 44 beats from 3:42.1 to 4:13.8 of the LP version.
Segment 3
31 beats long, begins on rimshot, ends on downbeat
Extends from 3:29.1 to 3:51.4 of the promo 45 edit
Extends from 4:13.8 to 4:36.1 of the LP version
Fade
20 beats long, begins and ends on downbeat
Extends from 3:37.0 to 3:51.4 of the promo 45 edit
Extends from 4:21.7 to 4:36.1 of the LP version
Two edits, early fade. Easy to duplicate, but be careful counting the removed beats - it's not 8, 16, or 32, like most other songs.
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