(Dancing) On A Saturday Night by Barry Blue

Album: Greatest Hits (1973)

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This was written by Barry Blue together with Lynsey de Paul. The previous year the duo had written "Sugar Me," which was a UK #5 hit for de Paul.
John Richardson, Peter Arnesen and Alan Williams played as session musicians on this. They later became part of The Rubettes ("Sugar Baby Love").
Barry Blue (his real name was the not so alliterative Barry Green) had five UK Top 40 hits, of which this was the first and biggest. Later on he became a producer, notably with Heatwave. At the end of the 1980s Blue made a surprising detour as a dance act, Cry Sisco! Under this name he reached #42 in the UK singles chart in 1989 with "Afro Dizzi Act." In 1996 English singer Dina Carroll had an UK #3 hit with the Barry Blue song "Escaping."

Comments: 4

Bobby from Atlanta, GaAmerican group, Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids, covered this Barry Blue/Lynsey de Paul song and made the US top 100 in 1974 and the Swedish top 30. Canadian group, Bond, had a top 20 hit with their cover version in Canada.
Bobby from Atlanta, GaLynsey's version of Dancing.. appeared as the B-side to "My Man and Me" as well as on her album "Taste Me Don't Waste Me". She reworked it as a smoochy ballad.
Roscoe B from Munich, GermanyA 1989 Les Adams remix of this song also made the lower reaches of the U.K. singles chart.
Zabadak from London, EnglandUnusually, this and other BB songs featured bouzoukis.

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