I agree, but there were a few problems here. First, it was impossible to top SNF, as you noted. But also, despite writing consistently good and new songs for this soundtrack, there isn't any one song that stands out as a potentially big, catchy, dance hit.
When it came to editing the movie, for whatever the reason, likely because the story was a mess, Stallone, (and/or producers Bill Oakes and Robert Stigwood, editors Peter E. Berger, Mark Warner and Don Zimmerman, music supervisor and editor Nancy Fogarty and Russ Reagan), collectively, seperately, who knows, buried too many of the Bee Gees songs in the mix, or had them appear too briefly. Why this happened, has never been fully revealed. Though it is known one song by them, River of Souls never made it into the film at all. All this upset the BeeGees a bit, and plenty fans, who not only thought disco died a pre-mature death, but were happy with this new material not trying to just imitate their sound of the late 70's, and recognized the quality of the songwriting. The BeeGees also later admitted they tried their best to write good songs, but right from the get-go were not really interested, or impressed with the film.
The film also was supposed to be an opportunity of Sly's brother Frank to appear in it and sing a song. Frank also wrote or co-wrote a few more songs, but those were also buried in the mix, with one very good hit, Far From Over, prominently featured in the film.
All in all, it probably didn't matter who wrote songs for the film, the movie wasn't that connected to the soundtrack.
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