Single:
Saturday Night at the Movies entered the Australian singles chart* on 19 December 1964 and peaked at #10. The song was #84 on the Top 100 of 1965.
Album:
The song is on the 1965 album The Good Life with the Drifters.
Songwriters:
Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil
Producer:
Bert Berns
Record label of Australian release:
Atlantic
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
The three golden eras of the Drifters were the early 1950s, the 1960s, and the early 1970s. From these, the first Drifters, formed by Clyde McPhatter, were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame as “The Drifters”. The second Drifters, featuring Ben E. King, were separately inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame as “Ben E. King and the Drifters”.
According to Rolling Stone, the Drifters were the least stable of the great vocal groups, as they were low-paid musicians hired by George Treadwell, who owned the Drifters’ name from 1955, after McPhatter left. The Treadwell Drifters line has had 60 musicians, including several splinter groups by former Drifters members (not under Treadwell’s management). These groups are usually identified with a possessive credit such as “Bill Pinkney’s Original Drifters”, “Charlie Thomas’ Drifters”.
Johnny Moore is lead vocalist on the 1964 recording of Saturday Night at the Movies.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drifters
Lyrics:
Well, Saturday night at eight o’clock
I know where I’m gonna go
I’m gonna pick my baby up
And take her to the picture show
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