Side Saddle

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"Side Saddle"
Single by Russ Conway
from the EP Another Six
B-side "Pixilated Penguin"
ReleasedFebruary 1959 [1] [2]
Genre Popular music, piano music
Label Columbia [3]
Songwriter(s) Trevor Stanford [1]
Producer(s) Norman Newell [3]
Official audio
"Side Saddle" on YouTube

"Side Saddle" is a hit single which was number one in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks from 27 March 1959. [3]

The honky-tonk style tune, composed by British popular music pianist Russ Conway under his real name Trevor Stanford, was written as part of the score for a television musical adaptation of Beauty and the Beast . [4] [5] Asked to compose a tune at short notice, Conway wrote an "olde-world gavotte" which he called "Side Saddle". [6] The song was a staple of the BBC's Housewives' Choice radio programme. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Russ Conway - Side Saddle (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
  2. ↑ "45cat - Russ Conway - Side Saddle / Pixilated Penguin - Columbia - UK - DB 4256".
  3. 1 2 3 Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives. p. 42. ISBN   0-85112-250-7.
  4. ↑ Joseph Murrells (1984), Million Selling Records from the 1900s to the 1980s, Batsford, p. 127, ISBN   978-0-7134-3843-7
  5. ↑ Colin Larkin (2002), The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music, Virgin, p. 89, ISBN   978-1-85227-937-0
  6. ↑ Dennis Barker (17 November 2000). "Obituary: Russ Conway". The Guardian . Retrieved 2014-04-04.
  7. ↑ Adair, Joseph (2011). No.1 Hits of the '50s (Media notes). One Day Music.
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