"Come Saturday Morning" is a popular

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with music by Fred Karlin and lyrics by

Dory Previn Dorothy Veronica "Dory" Previn (née Langan; October 22, 1925 – February 14, 2012) was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter and poet. During the late 1950s and 1960s, Previn was a lyricist on songs intended for motion pictures and, with h ...

, published in 1969.

Background

It was first performed by

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on the soundtrack of the 1969 film ''

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'' starring

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. The Sandpipers also included the song on their 1970 album, '' Come Saturday Morning''. In 1970, "Come Saturday Morning" was nominated for the

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, losing to "

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" from the film ''

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''.

Chart performance

The Sandpipers' recording, issued with " Pretty Flamingo" as the B-side, debuted on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in December 1969, remaining in the chart for eight weeks and peaking at #83 in January 1970 and also lasting 13 weeks on the

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chart and peaking at #9. The single, reissued with "To Put Up with You" as the B-side, re-entered both charts in April 1970, when it spent an additional 12 weeks on the Hot 100, peaking at #17 in June, and an additional 11 weeks on the Easy Listening chart, peaking at #8. The song also peaked at number 78 in Australia, becoming the group's only charting release in that territory.

Other recordings include

*Liza Minnelli in 1969 on her album '' Come Saturday Morning''. *

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on his 1970 album '' Blood, Chet and Tears'' *

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on his 1970 album '' Close To You'' *

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on his 1970 album '' Tony Bennett's Something'' *

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on her 1970 album '' Honey Come Back'' *

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on his 1970 album ''Silverbird'' * Scott Walker on his

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album '' The Moviegoer'' *

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on his 1970 album ''Winter World Of Love'' *

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on his 1974 album ''Thundering Herd'' * Rumer on her 2010 CD single '' Aretha''

In popular culture

The song is heard in the episode " Diggs (The Simpsons)" as a guest character, Diggs (voiced by

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), a falconer, is having fun with Bart and the falcon. The Sandpipers' variation is also heard in a Baby Songs 1991 video spinoff called "Baby Rock".

References

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