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Tuesday
Feeling especially happy this Tuesday morning. Here is one of my very favourite Moody Blues songs about Tuesday. Why not celebrate Tuesday, it can be a beautiful and special day.
Are there any favourite songs you know of that references a specific day of the week, or any other special day?
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Monday Monday but on Tuesday I’ve got Friday on my mind! Of course Saturday night’s alright for fighting! But then Sunday morning’s coming down.
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Nice one’s there Mike! Not sure who does the Sunday morning’s coming down, will look that one up.
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Ruby Tuesday –Â The Stones
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Hey Joe, Ruby Tuesday is a gem, one of my fave Stones songs. That Barely Out of Tuesday, I never heard of it before nor familiar with County Crows, but it’s a great song, like it!
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I wake up early but every thing is already covered.
Well how about Stephen Stills…
Friday evening
Sunday in the afternoon
What have you got to lose?
Tuesday morning
Please be gone I’m tired of you…
Will you come see me
Thursdays and Saturdays?
What have you got to lose?-
Tom, that sounds like CSNY all the way back from Woodstock. Had a little help from google search engine. 🙂
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An oldies radio station I used to listen to put together a promo consisting of a series of three-second clips from songs that mentioned days of the week. To the best of my recollection this was the sequence:
Sunday Will Never Be the Same
Monday, Monday
Tuesday Afternoon
Lady Madonna (“Wednesday morning papers didn’t come”)
Nothing’s Too Good for My Little Girl (“a Thursday night meeting”)
Friday on My Mind
Saturday in the Park
Then they played a clip of “Eight Days a Week” and the announcer said something like “The best music of all time… eight days a week!”
Okay, I’m going to dip into the Monkees well once more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmXdirsrAF8
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Hi David, some great songs there in your list, and the Monkees come through again with another very nice one. You’ve made a Monkees fan out of me.
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Hi Lynn, sweet video! I liked it, thanks for sharing it.
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David,
OMG Saturdays child by the Monkees is such a great tune, wow can’t believe you found this one my friend. Thanks for sharing
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Remember these guys?
https://youtu.be/57g5Z_3kXOE-
JP, for people our age those guys were inescapable. But it’s thanks to them that everyone in our generation knows how to spell Saturday.
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JP, oh yeah I remember that one, how could you not if you were a teen in the 70s. Transports me back to a certain roller skating rink where they use to play that song all the time. They all look a lot younger than what I remember back then.
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I walked 40 minutes to the grocery this morning to grab a couple of items, and Saturday Night was stuck in my head the whole time. I was finally rescued by the loudspeaker in front of the store, which was blasting some catchy tune that I wasn’t familiar with, and Saturday Night was purged from my brain. But when I left the store ten minutes later, guess what song was coming out of the loudspeaker. Oh, cruel fate!
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Thanks, Bill. Saturday’s Child was written by David Gates (later of the group Bread), and the guitar solo was played by Louie Shelton of the Wrecking Crew.
I’ve heard that it was under consideration for release as the Monkees’ first single in place of Last Train to Clarksville, and I think that would have been a good choice. It has a very fresh sound, whereas Boyce and Hart admitted that they wrote Clarksville as sort of a knockoff of Paperback Writer.
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Lol…pretty much all the ones I was going to say have been established..lol… but…
” I Don’t Like Mondays” , ” Rainy Days and Monday”, ” New Moon On Monday”, ” Manic Monday”, ” Saturday Night”, ” Sunday, Bloody Sunday”… That’s what came to mind for now, soon off to bed I’m going….Good Night
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Hi Jacki, some awesome ones in your list. I remember “I don’t like Mondays” when it came out, it was such a huge one. I think it was about a shooting if I recall.
One of my fave bands from the 80s/90s:
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Some more that come to mind:
Sunday Morning – Spanky and Our Gang (That’s TWO Sunday songs for that group!)
Never on Sunday – The Chordettes (among many others)
A Sunday Kind of Love – The Del Vikings (among many others)
Friday Man – Bruce Woodley
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I think Herman’s Hermits did Saturday’s Child first.
Our one-man research dept is correct again.
But CSN have been doing Suite Judy Blue Eyes for a looong time, Jung. 🙂
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Hi, Tom. According to Wikipedia, Herman’s Hermits’ version came out the year after the Monkees’ version, although that doesn’t necessarily mean they didn’t record it first.
I didn’t know that HH had recorded this song. I just gave it a listen. Interesting!
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Herman’s Hermits was the only version i knew.
If Boyce & Hart wrote it then it was for the Monkees.
Let’s see.
David Gates!?! Come again!?!
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I looked up Saturday’s Child in a book I have about the details of all the Monkees’ recording sessions, and it says the instrumental tracks were recorded on July 9, 1966. It doesn’t clearly establish which version was first, but it does say this:
“Songwriter David Gates produced Davy’s last Colpix session in September ’65 and is the composer of the next song to be taped, ‘Saturday’s Child’. Along with Boyce & Hart’s ‘If You’re Thinkin’ What I’m Thinkin” it will be cut by producer Mickie Most for Herman’s Hermits around this time, hinting that this was one of the demos Most considered when he was approached to produce The Monkees.”
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