| "Saturday Night" | ||||
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Saturdaynightbaycityrollers.jpg) Dutch single of 1974 re-recording | ||||
| Single by Bay City Rollers | ||||
| from the album Rollin' | ||||
| B-side | "Marlena" | |||
| Released | 29 June 1973 (UK)[1] August 1975 (US)[2] | |||
| Recorded | 1973 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 2:56 | |||
| Label | Arista | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Bill Martin, Phil Coulter | |||
| Producer(s) | Bill Martin, Phil Coulter | |||
| Bay City Rollers singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Saturday Night" (TopPop, 1976) on YouTube | ||||
"Saturday Night" is a song recorded by the Scottish pop rock band Bay City Rollers. It was written and produced by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter. The tune is an upbeat rock number with a memorable hook, in which the word "Saturday" is spelled out in a rhythmic, enthusiastic chant.
The group first recorded the song in 1973 — their fourth single, released in June, with Gordon "Nobby" Clark on vocals — but it failed to chart. The song was re-recorded for the Rollers' 1974 UK album Rollin' with lead vocals by Les McKeown, Clark's replacement. In the autumn of 1975 "Saturday Night" this version was released in the US as a single (but not in the UK), reaching number one on Billboard's Hot 100 in the issued dated 3 January 1976 — the first number one of the United States Bicentennial year. The single also reached number one on the RPM Canadian Singles Chart listing dated 10 January 1976.[6] This is the band's sole number one in the United States.
In 2019, the record was used in Netflix's Umbrella Academy series.
- ^ "Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night".
- ^ "Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night".
- ^ Read, Maddy (August 22, 2021). "Bubblegum pop: 'Commercialized, computerized and easy to sing to'". The Crimson White. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
Tracks that cemented their places in history as a part of the first wave of bubblegum pop include "Saturday Night" by Bay City Rollers, "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies and "Indian Lake" by the Cowsills.
- ^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (October 15, 1996). "Post-Nuclear Families: Bubblegum". Precious and Few - Pop Music in the Early '70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 23. ISBN 031214704X.
- ^ Cafarelli, Carl (2001). "The Bay City Rollers". In Cooper, Kim; Smay, David (eds.). Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth. Los Angeles: Feral House. pp. 157–158.
- ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-10.