Cash Box said that it was "pop music with a very danceable beat" and that Elliman's vocal was unique enough that it would not create confusion with any Bee Gees recording. Billboard Magazine praised Elliman's "powerful" vocal performance. Elliman's "If I Can't Have You", produced by Perren, was released as the fourth single off the Saturday Night Fever album in February 1978. Stigwood's decisions proved a success as the soundtrack's first single, the Bee Gees' version of the ballad "How Deep Is Your Love", shot to number one, followed to the top spot by the soundtrack's second and third singles, also by the Gibb brothers, " Stayin' Alive" and " Night Fever". However, RSO Records chairman and Bee Gees manager Robert Stigwood, who was executive-producing the Saturday Night Fever album, dictated that the Bee Gees record "How Deep Is Your Love" and Elliman be given the disco-style "If I Can't Have You". Meanwhile, the Bee Gees recorded their own version of "If I Can't Have You" for the film.
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". The song was recorded by Yvonne Elliman for the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.Īlthough 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 that Elliman turned into an international hit. The recording was started at Château d'Hérouville as a basic track only and completed later at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles.
According to Maurice, this track was the first song they did while they were recording the other songs for the film. 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. The song later appeared on the Bee Gees' compilation Their Greatest Hits: The Record. The Bee Gees' own version appeared a month later as the B-side of " Stayin' Alive".
The song initially appeared on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in a version by Yvonne Elliman, released in November 1977. " If I Can't Have You" is a disco song written by the Bee Gees in 1977.
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