Get Down Saturday Night
| "Get Down Saturday Night" | ||||
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European 7" single cover | ||||
| Single by Oliver Cheatham | ||||
| from the album Saturday Night | ||||
| Released | 1983 | |||
| Genre | Post-disco, funk | |||
| Length | 7:32 (12" version) 6:26 (album version) 3:58 (7" version) | |||
| Label | MCA (U.S.) Ariola (Germany) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Oliver Cheatham, Kevin McCord | |||
| Producer(s) | Al Hudson, Dave Roberson, Kevin McCord (as A.D.K.) | |||
| Oliver Cheatham singles chronology | ||||
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"Get Down Saturday Night" is a song by American singer Oliver Cheatham, released in 1983 as the first single from his second album Saturday Night. That spring, the song reached number 37 on the US R&B chart, as well as reaching number 38 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was featured in the soundtrack for the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as well as in the 2014 film Ex Machina.
The song was sampled in two UK chart hits in the 2000s; in "Make Luv" by Italian DJ Room 5 which reached No. 1 in 2003, and in "The Weekend" by British DJ Michael Gray which reached No. 7 in 2004. French house producer DJ Kom also sampled the song in his 1997 single "Git Down Saturday," which was used as part of Daft Punk's 1997 Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1.