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"Louisiana Saturday Night" is a song written by Bob McDill and recorded by American country music artist Mel McDaniel. It was released in March 1981 as the third single from McDaniel's 1980 album, I'm Countryfied. The song was originally sung by Don Williams on his 1977 album "Country Boy". [2]
With the help of music publisher Bob Beckham, McDaniel signed to Capitol Records in 1976 and released his first single, "Have a Dream on Me". [3] His career finally took off with "Louisiana Saturday Night" in 1981, and in early 1985 he scored his only number one hit with "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On". [3]
The song became identified with Hurricane Katrina in the public consciousness after being sung by Aaron Neville at NBC's "A Concert for Hurricane Relief", being sung by Newman at the multi-network television fundraiser Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast, and a fully orchestrated version of the song performed by Newman during Saturday Night Live's "Mardi Gras Special".
"Saturday Night Fish Fry" is a jump blues song written by Louis Jordan and Ellis Lawrence Walsh, [2] best known through the version recorded by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five. [3] The recording is considered to be one of the "excellent and commercially successful" examples of the jump blues genre.
I'm Countryfied is the third studio album by Mel McDaniel released in 1980. The album peaked at number 24 on the Top Country Albums charts. The biggest hit on the album, and also one of McDaniel's biggest hits, was "Louisiana Saturday Night," which reached number 7 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts.
Saturday Night tells the pulse-pounding tale of the 90 minutes leading up to the very first episode of Saturday Night Live — then titled NBC's Saturday Night — on Oct. 11, 1975.
The World of Country Music "Louisiana Saturday Night" 24 The Jimmy Newman Way "Blue Lonely Winter" 11 1968 "Sunshine and Bluebirds" 47 Born to Love You "Born to Love You" B: 20 1969 "Future Farmers of America" — Single Release only, quickly withdrawn after protests from the actual F.F.A. "Boo Dan" 31 The Jimmy Newman Style "Three" — 1970 ...
The Oak Ridge Boys released the song in December 1979 as the third single from their album The Oak Ridge Boys Have Arrived. "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight" was The Oak Ridge Boys' second number one country single, remaining at number one for a single week in February 1980, spending a total of eleven weeks on the chart.