| "Get Down Saturday Night" | ||||
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 European 7" single cover | ||||
| Single by Oliver Cheatham | ||||
| from the album Saturday Night | ||||
| Released | 1983 | |||
| Genre | Post-disco, funk | |||
| Length | 7:32(12" version) 6:26 (album version) 3:58 (7" version) | |||
| Label | MCA (U.S.) Ariola (Germany) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Oliver Cheatham, Kevin McCord [1] | |||
| Producer(s) | Al Hudson, Dave Roberson, Kevin McCord (as A.D.K.) | |||
| Oliver Cheatham singles chronology | ||||
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"Get Down Saturday Night" is a song by American singer Oliver Cheatham, released in 1983 as the first single from his second album Saturday Night. That spring, the song reached number 37 on the US R&B chart, [2] as well as reaching number 38 on the UK Singles Chart. [3] The song was featured in the soundtrack for the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as well as in the 2014 film Ex Machina .
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The song was sampled in two UK chart hits in the 2000s; in "Make Luv" by Italian DJ Room 5 which reached No. 1 in 2003, and in "The Weekend" by British DJ Michael Gray which reached No. 7 in 2004. French house producer DJ Kom also sampled the song in his 1997 single "Git Down Saturday," [4] which was used as part of Daft Punk's 1997 Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1. [5]
