Side Saddle

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"Side Saddle"
Single by Russ Conway
B-side"Pixilated Penguin"
Released1959[1]
GenrePopular music, piano music
LabelColumbia Records[2]
Songwriter(s)Trevor Stanford[1]
Producer(s)Norman Newell[2]
Official audio
"Side Saddle" on YouTube

"Side Saddle" is a hit single which was number one in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks from 27 March 1959.[2]

The honky-tonk style tune, composed and played by British popular music pianist Russ Conway, was written as part of the score for a television musical adaptation of Beauty and the Beast.[3][4] Conway, sitting in the TV rehearsal room, was asked to write a last-minute tune for one small scene set in a ballroom. He wrote 16 bars as an "olde-world gavotte" and hastily titled it "Side Saddle" in the margin.[5]

The song was a staple of the BBC's Housewives' Choice radio programme.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Russ Conway - Side Saddle (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
  2. ^ a b c Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives. p. 42. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
  3. ^ Joseph Murrells (1984), Million Selling Records from the 1900s to the 1980s, Batsford, p. 127, ISBN 978-0-7134-3843-7
  4. ^ Colin Larkin (2002), The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music, Virgin, p. 89, ISBN 978-1-85227-937-0
  5. ^ Dennis Barker (17 November 2000). "Obituary: Russ Conway". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
  6. ^ Adair, Joseph (2011). No.1 Hits of the '50s (Media notes). .
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