De hit Stayin' Alive van de Bee Gees blijkt een handig hulpmiddel tijdens het reanimeren. Het nummer heeft namelijk een strakke groove van 103 beats per minuut en komt daarmee dicht in de buurt van het meest effectieve tempo om hartmassages te geven. Idealiter moet een hulpverlener 100 keer per minuut de borst van de patiënt indrukken.
"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."
Nadat Dennis Bryon was teruggekeerd van de uitvaart, speelde hij alsnog de toms, crash-bekkens en hihat eroverheen.