Come Saturday Morning (song)
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Come Saturday Morning is a popular
song
with music by Fred Karlin
and lyrics by Dory Previn
, published in 1970
. It was first performed by The Sandpipers
on the soundtrack of the 1969 film The Sterile Cuckoo
starring Liza Minnelli
, and it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song
.
The Sandpipers' recording reached #17 on the Billboard charts
in 1970. The Sandpipers also included the song in their eponymous 1970 album, Come Saturday Morning
, just like Minnelli did in 1969.
Other recordings include:
Popular music
Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...
song
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
with music by Fred Karlin
Fred Karlin
Fred Karlin was an American composer of more than one hundred scores for feature films and television movies. He also was an accomplished trumpeter adept at playing jazz, blues, classical, rock, and medieval music....
and lyrics by Dory Previn
Dory Previn
Dory Previn, née Dorothy Veronica Langan , is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter and poet.During the late 1950s and 1960s she was a lyricist for motion picture songs, and with her first husband André Previn received several Academy Award nominations...
, published in 1970
1970 in music
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. It was first performed by The Sandpipers
The Sandpipers
The Sandpipers were an American easy listening trio/quartet, who carved a niche in 1960s folk rock. They are best remembered for their cover version of "Guantanamera", which became a transatlantic Top 10 hit in 1966, and their Top 20 hit "Come Saturday Morning" from the soundtrack of the film The...
on the soundtrack of the 1969 film The Sterile Cuckoo
The Sterile Cuckoo
The Sterile Cuckoo , released in the UK as Pookie, is a theatrical release feature film released by Paramount Pictures. It tells the story of an eccentric young couple whose relationship deepens despite their differences and inadequacies, and stars Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton, and Tim...
starring Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli
Liza May Minnelli is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli....
, and it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song
Academy Award for Best Original Song
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film...
.
The Sandpipers' recording reached #17 on the Billboard charts
Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...
in 1970. The Sandpipers also included the song in their eponymous 1970 album, Come Saturday Morning
Come Saturday Morning (The Sandpipers album)
Come Saturday Morning was an LP album featuring The Sandpipers, released by A&M Records in August 1970. The catalog numbers were SP 4262 in the United States and AMLS 99 in the United Kingdom. The album reached #96 on the Billboard charts....
, just like Minnelli did in 1969.
Other recordings include:
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album Honey Come BackHoney Come BackHoney Come Back was an LP album by Patti Page, released by Columbia Records in 1970, under catalog number CS 9999.The album was reissued, combined with the 1967 Patti Page album Today My Way, in compact disc format, by Collectables Records on November 25, 2003...
) - Scott WalkerScott Walker (singer)Scott Walker, born Noel Scott Engel on January 9, 1943 is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and the former lead singer of The Walker Brothers. Despite being American born, Walker's chart success has largely come in the United Kingdom, where his first four solo albums...
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