Get Down Saturday Night
{{Infobox song
| name = Get Down Saturday Night
| cover = Get Down Saturday Night (1983 single cover).jpg
| alt =
| caption = European 7" single cover
| type = single
| artist = Oliver Cheatham
| album = Saturday Night
| released = 1983
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Post-disco, funk
| length = 7:32 (12" version)
6:26 (album version)
3:58 (7" version)
| label = MCA (U.S.)
Ariola (Germany)
| writer = Oliver Cheatham, Kevin McCord{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=o552g5xRRiwC&pg=PA135 | page = 135 | title = All music guide to soul: the definitive guide to R&B and soul | first1 = Vladimir | last1 = Bogdanov | first2 = Chris | last2 = Woodstra | first3 = Stephen Thomas | last3 = Erlewine | publisher = Hal Leonard Corporation | year = 2003 | isbn = 0-87930-744-7 }}
| producer = Al Hudson, Dave Roberson, Kevin McCord (as A.D.K.)
| prev_title = Everybody Wants to Be the Boss
| prev_year = 1982
| next_title = Bless the Ladies
| next_year = 1983
}}
"Get Down Saturday Night" is a song by American singer 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,{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p185157|pure_url=no}}. as well as reaching number 38 on the UK Singles Chart.[https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/oliver-cheatham-get-down-saturday-night/ "Get Down Saturday Night"] on Official Charts. 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.
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,"https://www.whosampled.com/Studio-54/Git-Down-Saturday/ which was used as part of Daft Punk's 1997 Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1.{{Cite web |last=1001Tracklists |date=2012-01-08 |title=Daft Punk - Radio 1's Essential Mix 1997-02-03 |url=https://www.1001tracklists.com/tracklist/dtqd79/daft-punk-radio-1s-essential-mix-1997-02-03.html |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=1001Tracklists |language=en-US}}
Track listing
= 1983 releases =
- US: MCA / L33-1103
{{tracklist
| headline = Side one
| title1 = Get Down Saturday Night
| length1 = 7:32
}}
{{tracklist
| headline = Side two
| title1 = Get Down Saturday Night
| length1 = 7:32
}}
;12" vinyl
{{tracklist
| headline = Side one
| title1 = Get Down Saturday Night
| note1 = Special extended version
| length1 = 7:32
}}
{{tracklist
| headline = Side two
| title1 = Something About You
| length1 = 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
| class="wikitable"
!Chart (1983) !Peak |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles
|align="center"|37 |
| align="left"|UK Singles (OCC)
|align="center"|38 |