The Bee Gees never recorded a studio version of this song, however, they later performed the song in their One Night Only tour from 1997 until 1999 and included a performance with Valli on their live album, One Night Only (September 1998). Is the Word-echoes the "grease is the word" lyric contained in the chorus of "Grease". In 1978, Valli released a follow-up album, the title of which- Frankie Valli. "Grease" became a number-one single in the United States in 1978 and also reached number forty on the R&B charts in the same year. The film's opening title sequence animation was created by animator John David Wilson's Fine Arts Films studio. The anachronism was especially true of "Grease", which used disco instrumentation and a contemporary 1970s beat it was nonetheless left in. The film's director, Randal Kleiser, did not like the added songs because they did not fit the late-1950s/early 1960s style either musically or lyrically, and Kleiser had planned on a different composition by Charles Fox and Paul Williams (Fox having written the theme from Happy Days) before being overruled by the producers. "Grease" was one of four original songs in the film that were not part of the original musical, and it was the only one not performed by the cast. When Valli recorded "Grease", he did not have a recording contract (he had been contracted to Private Stock Records before it had folded earlier in 1978), but after the single was released on the RSO label, which issued the soundtrack, Valli quickly landed a deal with Warner Bros., which held Valli's group The Four Seasons under contract at the time. Frankie Valli was approached to sing due to his similar vocal range to Barry and his status as a popular singer from the pre- British Invasion era that Grease represented Gibb had a longstanding respect for Valli as "one of the hallmark voices of our generation." Valli accepted despite suffering from severe otosclerosis and loss of hearing at the time. The other musicians were some of those from the Andy Gibb album that was being made around the same time. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Gibb invited castmate Peter Frampton to play guitar on the Grease session. Shortly after the filming of the 1978 musical film Sgt. The song was recorded separately from, and later than, the rest of the film's songs. Barry Gibb was commissioned to compose a new title song for Robert Stigwood's film of the stage musical.
Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey had written a different title track for Grease for its original Chicago production, but this song was discarded when the show was picked up on Broadway.
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