Small Town Saturday Night (song)

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"Small Town Saturday Night"
Hal Ketchum Small Town single.png
Single by Hal Ketchum
from the album Past the Point of Rescue
B-side "Don't Strike a Match"
ReleasedApril 16, 1991
Genre Country
Length2:58
Label Curb
Songwriter(s) Pat Alger
Hank DeVito
Producer(s) Allen Reynolds
Jim Rooney
Hal Ketchum singles chronology
"Small Town Saturday Night"
(1991)
"I Know Where Love Lives"
(1991)

"Small Town Saturday Night" is a song written by Pat Alger and Hank DeVito, and recorded by American country music artist Hal Ketchum. It was released in April 1991 as the first single from his debut album Past the Point of Rescue . The song reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in August 1991. [1]

Contents

Content

The song is an uptempo that describes what occurs on a Saturday night in a small town. The song was inspired by the city of New Braunfels, Texas.

Music video

The music video was directed by Senor McGuire and premiered in mid-1991. It is entirely in black-and-white, and shows the singer in a forest, singing beneath a screen showing The Terror of Tiny Town (1938). In the end, a horse dances with the singer.

Chart performance

Chart (1991)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 2

Year-end charts

Chart (1991)Position
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 40

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [4] Gold500,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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References

  1. Hal Ketchum Hot Country Songs Chart History
  2. "Hal Ketchum Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  3. "Best of 1991: Country Songs". Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. 1991. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
  4. "American single certifications – Hal Ketchum – Small Town Saturday Night". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved July 30, 2024.