The Bee Gees Tribute visit Carmel.

All you need to hear are the first few notes intertwined in furious tambourine and a pulsating beat to know you’re listening to “Stayin’ Alive.” Then comes the tight falsetto harmonies of Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb that helped define the Bee Gees as the most recognized voices of the disco era.

That trio of high-pitched harmony has also helped make the Bee Gees one of the more difficult music acts to recreate in the rock tribute world. For the past 15 years, the Canadian outfit Night Fever has had that tribute market cornered: Matthew Whale (Maurice), Joe Varga (Robin) and John Acosta (Barry) churn out near-facsimiles of the brothers Gibb’s vast catalog. From “Jive Talkin’” and “Nights On Broadway” to “You Should Be Dancing” and “How Deep is Your Love,” Night Fever covers songs spanning the Bee Gees’ five-decade career.

“Stayin’ Alive” was penned on the staircase of a French chateau that doubled as a locale for a few blue movies. Since its 1977 eruption in theSaturday Night Fever soundtrack, it’s been stuck in the world’s head on a loop. It’s guarded strictly by the Bee Gees for licensing, but still seemingly everywhere all the time. Here are a few of the unique ways the song Rolling Stone dubbed No. 191 in their list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time” has been translated over the years.

•A few years back, a University of Illinois College of Medicine study found “Stayin’ Alive” has a near-perfect beat for performing CPR. At 103 beats per minutes, the disco anthem sits just a smidge over the recommended chest compression rate of 100 beats every 60 seconds. Dr. David Matlock witnessed 15 doctors and students perform CPR on mannequins while listening to it. Two weeks later, they were told to perform CPR again with the song playing in their heads. “[‘Stayin’ Alive’] drove them and motivated them to keep up the rate,” Matlock concluded.

•Ozzy Osbourne’s cover of “Stayin’ Alive” live appears on the third disc of his 2005 box set Prince of Darkness.

• On the 13th episode of the third season of The Muppet Show, Miss Piggy and a group of other pigs perform “Stayin’ Alive” to open the show.

•Alvin and the Chipmunks perform the hit on their 1996 album Club Chipmunk: The Dance Mixes and on the soundtrack of their 2009 film Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.

•Bizarro ukulele player Tiny Tim covered it on his 1980 album Chameleon.

NIGHT FEVER: THE BEE GEES TRIBUTE 7pm Sunday, Jan. 10. Sunset Center, San Carlos at Ninth, Carmel. $29-$49 (add $20 for pre-show disco party at 5pm in Studio 105). 620-2048, www.sunsetcenter.org