"Small Town Saturday Night" is the title of a song written by Pat Alger

Pat Alger

Pat Alger is a country music songwriter, singer and guitarist.-Biography:Alger attended Georgia Tech studying architecture but decided to concentrate on writing songs. He started as a solo folk performer at folk clubs...

 and Hank DeVito, and recorded by American country music artist Hal Ketchum

Hal Ketchum

Hal Michael Ketchum is an American country music artist. He has released ten studio albums since 1986, including nine for the Curb and Asylum-Curb labels. Ketchum's 1991 album Past the Point of Rescue is his most commercially successful, having been certified gold by the Recording Industry...

. It was released in April 1991 as the first single from his album Past the Point of Rescue

Past the Point of Rescue

Past the Point of Rescue is the title of an album released by American country music artist Hal Ketchum. His first major-label album, it was released in 1991 on Curb Records and has been certified gold by the RIAA. The album produced four singles for him on the Billboard Hot Country Singles &...

. The song reached #2 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Hot Country Singles & Tracks

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

chart in August 1991.

Content

The song is an uptempo that describes what occurs on a Saturday night in a small town. It also makes several references to "I Love Lucy."

Music video

The music video was directed by Senor McGuire and premiered in mid-1991. It is entirely in black-and-white, and shows the singer in a forest, singing beneath a screen showing "I Love Lucy" episodes. In the end, a horse dances with the singer.

Chart performance

Chart (1991)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	2