| "Get Down Saturday Night" | ||||
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.jpg) European 7" single cover | ||||
| Single by Oliver Cheatham | ||||
| from the album Saturday Night | ||||
| Released | 1983 | |||
| Genre | Post-disco, funk | |||
| Length | 7:32 (12" version) 4:00 (7" version) | |||
| Label | MCA (U.S.) Ariola (Germany) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Oliver Cheatham, Kevin McCord[1] | |||
| Producer(s) | A.D.K. | |||
| Oliver Cheatham singles chronology | ||||
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"Get Down Saturday Night" is a song by American artist Oliver Cheatham, released in 1983 as the first single from his second album Saturday Night. That spring, the song reached number 37 on the US R&B chart.,[2] as well as reaching number 38 on the UK Singles Chart.[3] The song was featured in the soundtrack for the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as well as in the 2014 film Ex Machina.
The song was sampled in two UK chart hits in the 2000s; in "Make Luv" by Italian DJ Room 5 which reached No. 1 in 2003, and in "The Weekend" by British DJ Michael Gray which reached No. 7 in 2004. French house producer DJ Kom also sampled the song in his 1997 single "Git Down Saturday,"[4] which was used as part of Daft Punk's 1997 Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1.[5]
- ^ Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2003). All music guide to soul: the definitive guide to R&B and soul. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 135. ISBN 0-87930-744-7.
- ^ Get Down Saturday Night at AllMusic.
- ^ "Get Down Saturday Night" on Official Charts.
- ^ https://www.whosampled.com/Studio-54/Git-Down-Saturday/
- ^ 1001Tracklists (2012-01-08). "Daft Punk - Radio 1's Essential Mix 1997-02-03". 1001Tracklists. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
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