Get Down Saturday Night

"Get Down Saturday Night" is a song by American artist Oliver Cheatham, released in 1983 as the first single from his second album Saturday Night. That spring, the song reached number 37 on the US R&B chart.,^[2] as well as reaching number 38 on the UK Singles Chart.^[3] The song was featured in the soundtrack for the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as well as in the 2014 film Ex Machina.

"Get Down Saturday Night"
European 7" single cover
Single by Oliver Cheatham
from the album Saturday Night
Released	1983
Genre	Post-disco, funk
Length	7:32 (12" version) 4:00 (7" version)
Label	MCA (U.S.) Ariola (Germany)
Songwriter(s)	Oliver Cheatham, Kevin McCord[1]
Producer(s)	A.D.K.
Oliver Cheatham singles chronology
"Everybody Wants to Be the Boss" (1982) "Get Down Saturday Night" (1983) "Bless the Ladies" (1983)

The song was sampled in two UK chart hits in the 2000s; in "Make Luv" by Italian DJ Room 5 which reached No. 1 in 2003, and in "The Weekend" by British DJ Michael Gray which reached No. 7 in 2004. French house producer DJ Kom also sampled the song in his 1997 single "Git Down Saturday,"^[4] which was used as part of Daft Punk's 1997 Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1.^[5]

Track listing

1983 releases

12" vinyl^[6]

• US: MCA / L33-1103

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Get Down Saturday Night"	7:32

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Get Down Saturday Night"	7:32

12" vinyl

• UK: MCA / MCAT-828^[7]

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Get Down Saturday Night" (Special extended version)	7:32

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Something About You"	4:42

Other releases

• 1988 – "Get Down Saturday Night (You Can Do It)"
• 1989 – "Get Down Saturday Night (Get Down in the 90's)" Ger # 23
• 1998 – "Get Down Saturday Night '98"
• 1999 – "Get Down Saturday Night '99"
• 2002 – "Get Down Samedi Soir" (DJ Abdel feat. Rohff & Oliver Cheatham)
• 2003 – "Get Down Saturday Night (Stand for Love)"
• 2003 – "Get Down Saturday Night (LMC Remix) Rock the Dancefloor 8
• 2005 – "Get Down Saturday Night" (Unreleased Promo Mix) (Edit by Thomas Bangalter)
• 2007 – "Get Down Saturday Night" (Special extended version)

Chart positions

Chart (1983)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles[2]	37
UK Singles (OCC)[3]	38

References

1. Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2003). All music guide to soul: the definitive guide to R&B and soul. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 135. ISBN 0-87930-744-7.
2. Get Down Saturday Night at AllMusic.
3. "Get Down Saturday Night" on Official Charts.
4. https://www.whosampled.com/Studio-54/Git-Down-Saturday/
5. 1001Tracklists (2012-01-08). "Daft Punk - Radio 1's Essential Mix 1997-02-03". 1001Tracklists. Retrieved 2024-10-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
6. ""Get Down Saturday Night" (MCA, US) on Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 2011-09-06.
7. ""Get Down Saturday Night" (MCA, UK) on Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 2011-09-06.