Australian singles charts:
Saturday in the Park entered the Australian singles chart* on 30 October 1972 and peaked at #43.
Album:
The song is on Chicago V which entered the Australian albums chart* on 2 October 1972 and peaked at #5.
Songwriter:
Robert Lamm
Producer:
James William Guercio
Record label of Australian release:
CBS
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Songfacts:
Chicago’s main songwriter, Robert Lamm, wrote this song after a particularly exhilarating 4th of July spent in New York’s Central Park, where there were steel drum players, singers, dancers and jugglers. Lamm based the melody of this song on You Won’t See Me by The Beatles.
He and Peter Cetera sang lead on the track. It contains some of the most famous nonsense singing in rock. After Lamm sings the line, “singing Italian songs,” he sings some made-up words approximating the Italian language.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/chicago/saturday-in-the-park
Lyrics:
Saturday in the park
I think it was the Fourth of July
Saturday in the park
I think it was the Fourth of July
People dancing, people laughing
A man selling ice cream
Singing Italian songs
Eh Cumpari, ci vo sunari
Can you dig it? (Yes, I can)
And I’ve been waiting such a long time
For Saturday
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