Saturday in the Park (song)
- Saturday in the Park (song)
Infobox Single
Name = Saturday in the Park
Artist = Chicago
from Album = Chicago V
B-side = "Alma Mater"
Released = July 1972
Format = 7"
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 3:56
Label = Columbia Records
Writer = Robert Lamm
Producer = James William Guercio
Certification =
Last single = Questions 67 and 68 / I'm A Man (1971)
This single = Saturday in the Park (1972)
Next single = Dialogue (Part I & II) (1972)"Saturday in the Park" is a song written by Robert Lamm and recorded by the group Chicago for their 1972 album "Chicago V", with Lamm on piano and lead vocals. The single version hit #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's highest-charting single to date and helping lift the album to #1 on the charts.
According to fellow Chicago member Walter Parazaider, Lamm was inspired to write the song during the recording of "V" in New York City on July 4, 1971::"Robert came back to the hotel from Central Park very excited after seeing the steel drum players, singers, dancers, and jugglers. I said, 'Man, it's time to put music to this!'" [http://www.chicagotheband.com/history08.htm]
The line "singing Italian songs" is followed by Italian-sounding nonsense words, rendered in the printed lyrics as "?". Piano/guitar/vocal sheet music arrangements have often read "improvised Italian lyrics" in parentheses after this line.
"Saturday in the Park" has also been used in a popular commercial in Japan, advertising a marketing campaign known as "Parkhouse"
The song is played at Yankee Stadium before New York Yankees home games on Saturday afternoons.
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