Signature
key confidence medium · relative Eb major · tempo confidence high · half-time 64.9 · low end 36% · measured from the full recording · 2026-09-13 · how accurate
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Lineage
- CoveredCountdown Mix Masterssource
- CoveredCyndi Laupersource
- CoveredDevin Townsendsource
- CoveredDread Zeppelinsource
- CoveredGoosesource
- CoveredGreat Bluesource
- CoveredL.Green & R.Kerseysource
- Written byLeroy Greensource
- CoveredMax Pezzalisource
- CoveredMax Pezzalisource
- Written byRon Kerseysource
- CoveredThe Bobssource
- CoveredThe Hit Crewsource
- CoveredThe Three Degreessource
- CoveredTina Turnersource
Why it is here
- The song was inspired by the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno, in which a party in a top-floor ballroom is threatened by a fire below. source
- An accidental error in setting the Dolby noise reduction during mixdown, later corrected by engineer Jay Mark, gave the record a wider dynamic range than was common at the time, making it "jump out" at the listener. source
- The nearly-11-minute album version's inclusion on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack turned it into the Trammps' biggest and most recognized single, and it was later inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame in 2005. source
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