Swing Along with Frank Sinatra, Cahn & Styne, and Billy May! “Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Week” (1959)

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
Expanded on Sunday, October 18, 2015, at 1:25 a.m.

This song was written and first performed by Sinatra in 1944. This recording is from 1959. Sinatra makes one bad error in this version. In the second verse, instead of “'Cause that's the night friends come to call,” he sings, “'Cause that's the night friends come to ball.” Was he being a wisenheimer? I can’t imagine why no one made him recut the song.
 

Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Week
Music by Jule Styne
Words by Sammy Cahn

Saturday night is the
Loneliest night in the week,
'Cause that's the night
That my sweetie and I
Used to dance cheek to cheek.

I don't mind Sunday night at all,
'Cause that's the night friends come to call,
And Monday to Friday go fast,
And another week is past.

But Saturday night is the
Loneliest night in the week,
I sing the song that I sang,
For the memories I usually seek,

Until I hear you at the door,
Until you're in my arms once more,
Saturday night is the
Loneliest night in the week.

Saturday night is the
Loneliest night in the week,
I sing the song that I sang,
For the memories I usually seek.

Until I hear you at the door,
Until you're in my arms once more,
Saturday night is the
Loneliest night in the week.

Until I hear you at the door,
Until you're in my arms once more,
Saturday night is the
Loneliest night in the week!
 


 

Arranged by Billy May
 


 
Posted on August 30, 2012 by Sinatra Fan.
 

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“Hear Frank Sinatra and a Bunch of Little Kids Sing the 1960 Academy Award-Winning Song, ‘High Hopes’”;

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“Hear Frank Sinatra Sing Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn’s ‘Love and Marriage’;

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