Come Saturday Morning (song)

"Come Saturday Morning" is a popular song with music by Fred Karlin and lyrics by Dory Previn, published in 1970. It was first performed by The Sandpipers on the soundtrack of the 1969 film The Sterile Cuckoo starring Liza Minnelli, and it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

The Sandpipers' recording debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1969, remaining in the chart for eight weeks and peaking at #83 in January 1970 and also lasting 13 weeks on the Easy Listening chart and peaking at #9. The single re-entered both charts in April 1970, when it spent an additional 12 weeks on the Hot 100, peaking at #17 in June, and an additional 11 weeks on the Easy Listening chart, peaking at #5. The Sandpipers also included the song on their 1970 album, Come Saturday Morning, as did Minnelli did in 1969 on her album Come Saturday Morning.

Other recordings include:

• Chet Baker (on his 1970 album Blood, Chet and Tears)
• Tony Bennett (on his 1970 album Tony Bennett's Something)
• Patti Page (on her 1970 Columbia Records album Honey Come Back)
• Mark Lindsay (on his 1970 Columbia Records album Silverbird)
• Scott Walker (on his 1972 album The Moviegoer)
• Billy Vaughn (and his Orchestra)
• Rumer (as a track on her 2010 Atlantic Records Single Aretha)

In popular culture

The song is heard in the episode "Diggs (The Simpsons)" as a guest character, Diggs (voiced by Daniel Radcliffe), a falconer, is having fun with Bart and the falcon.