Get Down Saturday Night

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"Get Down Saturday Night"
Get Down Saturday Night (1983 single cover).jpg
European 7" single cover
Single by Oliver Cheatham
from the album Saturday Night
Released1983
Genre Post-disco, funk
Length7:32(12" version)
4:00 (7" version)
Label MCA (U.S.)
Ariola (Germany)
Songwriter(s) Oliver Cheatham, Kevin McCord [1]
Producer(s) A.D.K.
Oliver Cheatham singles chronology
"Everybody Wants to Be the Boss"
(1982)
"Get Down Saturday Night"
(1983)
"Bless the Ladies"
(1983)

"Get Down Saturday Night" is a song by American artist 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]

Track listing

1983 releases

12" vinyl [6]
Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Get Down Saturday Night"7:32
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Get Down Saturday Night"7:32
12" vinyl
Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Get Down Saturday Night" (Special extended version)7:32
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Something About You"4:42

Other releases

Chart positions

Chart (1983)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles [2] 37
UK Singles (OCC) [3] 38

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