Saturday in the Park (song)
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"Saturday in the Park" | ||
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Single by Chicago | ||
from the album Chicago V | ||
B-side(s) | "Alma Mater" | |
Released | July 1972 | |
Format | 7" | |
Genre | Rock | |
Length | 3:56 | |
Label | Columbia Records | |
Writer(s) | Robert Lamm | |
Producer(s) | James William Guercio | |
Chart positions | ||
Chicago singles chronology | ||
Questions 67 and 68 / I'm A Man (1971) |
Saturday in the Park (1972) |
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 after a visit to 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!'" [1]
Chicago |
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Robert Lamm | James Pankow | Lee Loughnane | Walter Parazaider | Bill Champlin Jason Scheff | Tris Imboden | Keith Howland Terry Kath | Peter Cetera | Danny Seraphine | Laudir DeOliveira | Donnie Dacus | Chris Pinnick | Dawayne Bailey |
Discography |
Studio albums: The Chicago Transit Authority | Chicago | Chicago III | Chicago V | Chicago VI |Chicago VII | Chicago VIII | Chicago X | Chicago XI | Hot Streets | Chicago 13 | Chicago XIV | Chicago 16 | Chicago 17 | Chicago 18 | Chicago 19 | Twenty 1 | Night & Day Big Band | Chicago XXX |
Live albums: Chicago at Carnegie Hall | Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert |
Compilations: Chicago IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits | Greatest Hits, Volume II | Greatest Hits 1982-1989 The Heart of Chicago 1967-1997 | The Heart of Chicago 1967-1998 Volume II | The Very Best of: Only the Beginning | Love Songs |
Christmas albums: Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album | What's It Gonna Be, Santa? |
Unreleased album: Stone of Sisyphus |
Box sets: The Box |