Top Ten 1963 Songs: Another Saturday Night (#7)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (68084)
United States
April 24, 2023 10:52am CST
This time next week we’ll be in May, and in the 1973 songs! Don’t forget, I’m not trying to make you feel old (that’s arthritis’s job 
); rather, I’m pointing how just how darn good these songs are. So with that in mind let’s go back 60 years to another great tune.
#7: Another Saturday Night - Sam Cooke
Well, here’s something interesting: Picky Wedia says that Cooke wrote this while on tour in London. He was staying at a hotel that was for men only. What I can’t find is if that was a YMCA-type hotel or if it was racially segregated and all he could find. Anyway, he couldn’t find “some chick to talk to” because it was men-only lodging! (I found an article from National Geographic about women-only hotels in the early 20th century, so apparently the Holiday Inns of the day didn’t want any hanky panky going on like you’d find in a brothel.)
Well, I never!!! (Funny thing, the gender-segregation lodging is making a comeback for various reasons.)
Anyway, Cooke’s lament of being alone in London with a fat paycheck from a gig turned into a great song. Despite the 60s lingo (“a cat named Frankenstein,” “I’m gonna have to blow this town”) it has a following today, thanks to notable covers by Cat Stevens and Jimmy Buffett.
This remains one of Cooke’s best-known songs.
Another Saturday Night
Written by Sam Cooke
Recorded by Sam Cooke
Released as a single, 1963
If I could meet ‘em I could get ‘em:
); rather, I’m pointing how just how darn good these songs are. So with that in mind let’s go back 60 years to another great tune.
#7: Another Saturday Night - Sam Cooke
Well, here’s something interesting: Picky Wedia says that Cooke wrote this while on tour in London. He was staying at a hotel that was for men only. What I can’t find is if that was a YMCA-type hotel or if it was racially segregated and all he could find. Anyway, he couldn’t find “some chick to talk to” because it was men-only lodging! (I found an article from National Geographic about women-only hotels in the early 20th century, so apparently the Holiday Inns of the day didn’t want any hanky panky going on like you’d find in a brothel.)
Well, I never!!! (Funny thing, the gender-segregation lodging is making a comeback for various reasons.)
Anyway, Cooke’s lament of being alone in London with a fat paycheck from a gig turned into a great song. Despite the 60s lingo (“a cat named Frankenstein,” “I’m gonna have to blow this town”) it has a following today, thanks to notable covers by Cat Stevens and Jimmy Buffett.
This remains one of Cooke’s best-known songs.
Another Saturday Night
Written by Sam Cooke
Recorded by Sam Cooke
Released as a single, 1963
If I could meet ‘em I could get ‘em:
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
24 Apr 23
Well, if they wouldn’t let women in the hotel he was staying at, what was the purpose? 
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@Kandae11 (55035)
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24 Apr 23
@FourWalls. They could go out to dinner or a movie.
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
25 Apr 23
Good for Alexa! I could go with “Cupid” or “You Send Me” or so many other Sam Cooke greats.
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
24 Apr 23
Definitely a great song. Has a slight “reggae” vibe to it, before reggae got popular!
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@RasmaSandra (79892)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
24 Apr 23
I know this well - another Saturday and I got nobody. Love the song,
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
30 Apr 23
I’ve found that true of a lot of covers, especially of R&B songs by Caucasians (looking at you, James Taylor 
).
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
30 Apr 23
I’m doing well with you this month! 
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