Saturday in the Park (song)
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| “Saturday in the Park” | |||||
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| Single by Chicago from the album Chicago V |
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| B-side | "Alma Mater" | ||||
| Released | July 1972 | ||||
| Format | 7" | ||||
| Genre | Pop rock | ||||
| Length | 3:56 | ||||
| Label | Columbia Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Robert Lamm | ||||
| Producer | James William Guercio | ||||
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"Saturday in the Park" is a song written by Robert Lamm and recorded by the group Chicago for their 1972 album Chicago V, with Lamm on piano and lead vocals. The single version hit #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's highest-charting single to date and helping lift the album to #1 on the charts.
According to fellow Chicago member Walter Parazaider, Lamm was inspired to write the song during the recording of V in New York City on July 4, 1971:
- "Robert came back to the hotel from Central Park very excited after seeing the steel drum players, singers, dancers, and jugglers. I said, 'Man, it's time to put music to this!'" [1]
The line "singing Italian songs" is followed by Italian-sounding nonsense words, rendered in the printed lyrics as "?". Piano/guitar/vocal sheet music arrangements have often read "improvised Italian lyrics" in parentheses after this line.
"Saturday in the Park" has also been used in a popular commercial in Japan, advertising a marketing campaign known as "Parkhouse" The song is played before Yankees home games on Saturdays.
This song is used extensively on WGN radio during Saturday Chicago Cubs games as lead-in music clips.
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