Recording this track started on 20 January 1975 and continued on 30 January, when they started to record songs for the album: "Jive Talkin'" (finished 2 February), "Songbird", "Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)" (finished 19 February), "All This Making Love" and "Edge of the Universe".

[3] Producer Arif Mardin asked if one of the Bee Gees members could do some screaming during the main chorus to make the song more exciting.

[4] Barry Gibb talked about "Nights on Broadway" on The Larry King Show on 2 February 2002: "It came to me in a dream, there was a request by Arif Mardin, who was like an uncle to us, he was a great record producer during the song 'Nights On Broadway,' for the Main Course album, which is previous to the 'Fever' syndrome.

Cash Box called it a "hard-hitting r&b effort," saying that "the Gibbs brothers wrap more incredible harmonies around the rock and roll mind.

In 1977, Candi Staton released a version of the song, for her, Music Speaks Louder Than Words album.