Songs About Saturday: Saturday Night, Saturday Morning, and Weekend Music Favorites
Songs about Saturday usually mean one of three things: the party is starting, the workweek is over, or something memorable is about to happen before Sunday reality taps everyone on the shoulder. Saturday songs can be rowdy, romantic, nostalgic, funny, restless, or built for dancing.
Saturday has a special place in popular music because it sits between responsibility and recovery. Friday starts the weekend, but Saturday owns it. That makes it perfect for songs about nightlife, dates, movies, dancing, fighting, small-town bars, disco floors, city parks, roller skating, and that magical feeling of having one full day before Monday starts threatening people again.
This list includes classic rock Saturday songs, oldies, soul, disco, pop, country, punk, new wave, alternative rock, jazz, novelty records, and deep cuts. Some songs are directly about Saturday. Others mention Saturday in a way that makes the day part of the story.
There are a lot of Saturday songs with the same title, especially Saturday Night. That is not a typo; musicians apparently looked at the calendar and all reached for the same chorus. Fair enough. Saturday night does have better marketing than Tuesday afternoon.
Best Songs About Saturday
1. Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting – Elton John
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting is one of the strongest Saturday songs in rock history. Elton John and Bernie Taupin turned weekend rowdiness into a hard-charging glam-rock anthem from *Goodbye Yellow Brick Road*. It is not exactly a peaceful night out, but it is certainly memorable.
2. Saturday Night – Bay City Rollers
Saturday Night became a giant 1970s pop chant for the Bay City Rollers. The spelling-style hook made it instantly memorable, and the song still feels like pure teen-pop weekend energy.
3. Saturday in the Park – Chicago
Saturday in the Park captures a happier, sunnier version of Saturday. Chicago turned an ordinary day outdoors into a bright horn-driven pop-rock classic. This is Saturday before the bad decisions start.
4. Another Saturday Night – Sam Cooke
Another Saturday Night is one of the great lonely-weekend songs. Sam Cooke made Saturday sound both lively and frustrating: everyone else seems to be having fun, while the singer is stuck without a date.
5. Saturday Love – Cherrelle and Alexander O’Neal
Saturday Love is smooth 1980s R&B with a weekend glow. Cherrelle and Alexander O’Neal gave Saturday a romantic, polished, danceable feel.
6. A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays” – De La Soul
A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays” is one of the most fun hip-hop Saturday songs. De La Soul built it around skating-rink energy, playfulness, and weekend movement.
7. Get Down Saturday Night – Oliver Cheatham
Get Down Saturday Night does exactly what the title promises. Oliver Cheatham’s funk and post-disco groove made it a natural fit for dance floors and weekend playlists.
8. One More Saturday Night – Grateful Dead
One More Saturday Night is a live-friendly Grateful Dead favorite with built-in weekend energy. It captures the feeling of Saturday as a recurring ritual: the lights come up, the band kicks in, and the night gets another chance.
9. Saturday Night Fish Fry – Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
Saturday Night Fish Fry is a jump-blues classic with major early rock-and-roll energy. Its Saturday-night party story, fast rhythm, and “rocking” language made it one of the most important older songs in this theme.
10. Saturday Sun – Nick Drake
Saturday Sun brings a quieter, reflective side to Saturday. Nick Drake’s song is gentle, poetic, and far removed from the usual Saturday-night party songs, which makes it stand out.
Saturday Night Party Songs
Saturday night is the busiest corner of this theme. These songs focus on dancing, going out, concerts, nightlife, weekend energy, and the idea that Saturday is the week’s official permission slip.
- Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting – Elton John
- Saturday Night – Bay City Rollers
- Get Down Saturday Night – Oliver Cheatham
- One More Saturday Night – Grateful Dead
- Dancing on a Saturday Night – Barry Blue
- Every Nite’s a Saturday Night with You – The Drifters
- Saturday Night at the Movies – The Drifters
- Saturday Night – Earth, Wind & Fire
- Saturday Nite – Earth, Wind & Fire
- Saturday Night Divas – Spice Girls
- Saturday Night – Whigfield
- Saturday Night Out – The Searchers
- Saturday Night Party – Alex Party
- Saturday Night Riot – The Pink Spiders
- Saturday Night Fish Fry – Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
Classic Rock and Rock Songs About Saturday
Rock songs about Saturday often lean into nightlife, restlessness, bars, fights, concerts, cars, and weekend release. Saturday gives rock music a natural setting: loud rooms, late hours, and very little interest in folding laundry.
- Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting – Elton John
- Drive-In Saturday – David Bowie
- One More Saturday Night – Grateful Dead
- Saturday Gigs – Mott the Hoople
- Saturday Night Special – Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Saturday Night – Eagles
- High ’n’ Dry (Saturday Night) – Def Leppard
- Saturday Night – Ten Years After
- Saturday Night – Suede
- Saturday’s Kids – The Jam
- When Saturday Comes – The Undertones
- Sunless Saturday – Fishbone
- Saturday – Built to Spill
- Saturday – Fall Out Boy
- S-S-S-Saturday – Bowling for Soup
Pop Songs About Saturday
Pop songs use Saturday for romance, youth, fun, and memory. These tracks are lighter, catchier, and often built around the easy idea that Saturday simply sounds better than the rest of the week.
- Saturday – The Carpenters
- Saturday – Rebecca Black and Dave Days
- I Love Saturday – Erasure
- Is It Saturday Yet? – Nick Carter
- It’s Saturday Night – The Proclaimers
- Saturday – Norma Jean Wright
- Saturday Morning – The Eels
- Saturday Morning – Harry Chapin
- Saturday Morning Confusion – Bobby Russell
- Come Saturday Morning – The Sandpipers
- Saturday Sun – Vance Joy
- Saturday Sunshine – Burt Bacharach
- Saturday’s Child – The Monkees
- Saturday’s Father – The Four Seasons
- Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night – Bon Jovi
Oldies and Early Saturday Songs
Saturday songs go back long before modern pop. Oldies, jump blues, vocal pop, and early rock helped establish Saturday as the musical home of dances, dates, movies, fish fries, and local nightlife.
- Saturday Night Fish Fry – Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
- Juke Box Saturday Night – Glenn Miller / Nino & The Ebb Tides
- Same Old Saturday Night – Frank Sinatra
- Saturday Night – Frank Sinatra
- Saturday Night at the Movies – The Drifters
- Lonely Saturday Night – Don French
- Saturday Night – Bobby Fuller
- Saturday Night – The Sherrys
- Saturday Date – Thomas Wayne
- Saturday Dance – The Shadows
- Sweet Saturday Night – The Shadows
- Saturday Night Bop – The Harmony Brothers
- Saturday Night Twist – Doug Clayton
- Hootenanny Saturday Night – The Brothers Four
- Sudbury Saturday Night – Stompin’ Tom Connors
Soul, Funk, R&B, and Dance Songs About Saturday
Saturday has always been a dance-floor day. These songs bring soul, funk, disco, R&B, and club energy to the theme.
- Saturday Love – Cherrelle and Alexander O’Neal
- Get Down Saturday Night – Oliver Cheatham
- Saturday – Norma Jean Wright
- Saturday Evening – Ronnie Laws
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Thelma Houston
- Saturday Night, Sunday Morning – Thelma Houston
- Saturday Nite – Earth, Wind & Fire
- Saturday Night – Earth, Wind & Fire
- Saturday Night Divas – Spice Girls
- Saturday Night Fever / Disco Inferno – Bee Gees / The Trammps connection
- Saturday (Oooh! Ooooh!) – Ludacris featuring Sleepy Brown
- Saturday Song – Indeep Bakshi featuring Badshah
Country and Americana Saturday Songs
Country songs often use Saturday for dance halls, bars, small towns, working-week relief, and stories that sound better with a fiddle nearby.
- Louisiana Saturday Night – Mel McDaniel
- Louisiana Saturday Night – Don Williams
- Louisiana Saturday Night – Alabama
- Louisiana Saturday Night – The Charlie Daniels Band
- Livingston Saturday Night – Jimmy Buffett
- Small Town Saturday Night – Hal Ketchum
- She Knows What to Do with a Saturday Night – Billy Currington
- Saturday Night Special – Conway Twitty and Vince Gill
- Another Saturday Night – Jimmy Buffett
- Goodnight Irene – Johnny Cash
Alternative, Punk, New Wave, and Indie Saturday Songs
Saturday also shows up in punk, alternative, new wave, post-punk, and indie rock. These songs tend to treat Saturday as strange, tense, nostalgic, funny, or slightly off-center.
- 10:15 Saturday Night – The Cure
- Friday Night, Saturday Morning – The Specials
- It’s Saturday – Marcy Playground
- Saturday Boy – Billy Bragg
- Saturday Gigs – Mott the Hoople
- Saturday’s Kids – The Jam
- When Saturday Comes – The Undertones
- Saturdays – Chevelle
- Saturday – Built to Spill
- Saturday – Fall Out Boy
- S-S-S-Saturday – Bowling for Soup
- Sunless Saturday – Fishbone
- Saturday Night – The Misfits
- Saturday Night Is Dead – Graham Parker & The Rumour
Saturday Morning and Saturday Afternoon Songs
Not every Saturday song happens at night. Some songs focus on the quieter side of the day: Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, memory, childhood, sunshine, or a slower weekend mood.
- Come Saturday Morning – The Sandpipers
- Saturday Morning – The Eels
- Saturday Morning – Harry Chapin
- Saturday Morning Confusion – Bobby Russell
- Saturday Afternoon – Green
- Saturday Afternoon in 1963 – Rickie Lee Jones
- On Saturday Afternoons in 1963 – Rickie Lee Jones
- Saturday Sun – Nick Drake
- Saturday Sun – Vance Joy
- Saturday Sunshine – Burt Bacharach
- Book of Saturday – King Crimson
Songs That Mention Saturday Without Being Fully About Saturday
Some well-known songs mention Saturday as part of a story, setting, or lyric without making it the full subject. These songs still belong in a Saturday-themed collection because the day helps place the memory.
- Piano Man – Billy Joel
- Little Red Corvette – Prince
- Driver’s Seat – Sniff ’n’ the Tears
- Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) – The Hollies
- We’re an American Band – Grand Funk Railroad
- Goodnight Irene – Johnny Cash
Top 100 Songs About Saturday
This Saturday’s song list mixes classic rock, pop, oldies, soul, R&B, disco, country, punk, alternative, novelty songs, and deep cuts that mention or center on Saturday.
- Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting – Elton John
- Saturday Night – Bay City Rollers
- Saturday in the Park – Chicago
- Another Saturday Night – Sam Cooke
- Saturday Love – Cherrelle and Alexander O’Neal
- A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays” – De La Soul
- Get Down Saturday Night – Oliver Cheatham
- One More Saturday Night – Grateful Dead
- Saturday Night Fish Fry – Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
- Saturday Sun – Nick Drake
- 10:15 Saturday Night – The Cure
- Almost Saturday Night – John Fogerty
- Almost Saturday Night – Dave Edmunds
- Come Saturday Morning – The Sandpipers
- Dancing on a Saturday Night – Barry Blue
- Drive-In Saturday – David Bowie
- Every Nite’s a Saturday Night with You – The Drifters
- Friday Night, Saturday Morning – The Specials
- High ’n’ Dry (Saturday Night) – Def Leppard
- I Love Saturday – Erasure
- It’s Saturday – Marcy Playground
- It’s Saturday Night – The Proclaimers
- Juke Box Saturday Night – Glenn Miller / Nino & The Ebb Tides
- Livingston Saturday Night – Jimmy Buffett
- (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night – Tom Waits
- Lonely Saturday Night – Don French
- Louisiana Saturday Night – Mel McDaniel
- On Saturday Afternoons in 1963 – Rickie Lee Jones
- Same Old Saturday Night – Frank Sinatra
- Saturday – The Carpenters
- Saturday – Fall Out Boy
- Saturday – Norma Jean Wright
- Saturday – Rebecca Black and Dave Days
- Saturday (Oooh! Ooooh!) – Ludacris featuring Sleepy Brown
- Saturday Boy – Billy Bragg
- Saturday Dance – The Shadows
- Saturday Date – Thomas Wayne
- Saturday Evening – Ronnie Laws
- Saturday Gigs – Mott the Hoople
- Saturday Morning – The Eels
- Saturday Morning – Harry Chapin
- Saturday Morning Confusion – Bobby Russell
- Saturday Night – Eagles
- Saturday Night – Earth, Wind & Fire
- Saturday Night – Eve 6
- Saturday Night – Frank Sinatra
- Saturday Night – Herman Brood
- Saturday Night – Jo Dee Messina
- Saturday Night – Kaiser Chiefs
- Saturday Night – The Misfits
- Saturday Night – Skyhooks
- Saturday Night – Suede
- Saturday Night – Ten Years After
- Saturday Night – Whigfield
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Thelma Houston
- Saturday Night at the Movies – The Drifters
- Saturday Night Divas – Spice Girls
- Saturday Night Fever / Disco Inferno – Bee Gees / The Trammps connection
- Saturday Night Is Dead – Graham Parker & The Rumour
- Saturday Night Out – The Searchers
- Saturday Night Party (Read My Lips) – Alex Party
- Saturday Night Riot – The Pink Spiders
- Saturday Night Special – Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Saturday Night Special – Conway Twitty and Vince Gill
- Saturday Nite – Earth, Wind & Fire
- Saturday Song – Indeep Bakshi featuring Badshah
- Saturday Sun – Vance Joy
- Saturday Sunshine – Burt Bacharach
- Saturday’s Child – The Monkees
- Saturday’s Father – The Four Seasons
- Saturday’s Kids – The Jam
- Saturdays – Chevelle
- Saturdays – Nelly Furtado
- She Knows What to Do with a Saturday Night – Billy Currington
- Small Town Saturday Night – Hal Ketchum
- Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night – Bon Jovi
- Sudbury Saturday Night – Stompin’ Tom Connors
- Sunless Saturday – Fishbone
- Sweet Saturday Night – The Shadows
- When Saturday Comes – The Undertones
- Book of Saturday – King Crimson
- Driver’s Seat – Sniff ’n’ the Tears
- Goodnight Irene – Johnny Cash
- Little Red Corvette – Prince
- Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) – The Hollies
- Piano Man – Billy Joel
- We’re an American Band – Grand Funk Railroad
- Hootenanny Saturday Night – The Brothers Four
- Is It Saturday Yet? – Nick Carter
- S-S-S-Saturday – Bowling for Soup
- Saturday Afternoon – Green
- Saturday Ball – Tennessee Thompson
- Saturday Cool – Brian Simpson
- Saturday Jump – Rudy Hansen
- Saturday Night Bop – The Harmony Brothers
- Saturday Night Shootout – The Pirates
- Saturday Night Twist – Doug Clayton
- Saturday Skip – Nicki Redman
- Take You on a Saturday – Survivors
- On a Saturday – Keith West
Saturday Song Trivia
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting Is a 1970s Rock Staple
Elton John released Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting in 1973, and it became one of his most recognizable rockers. The song has also been covered by several artists, which makes sense: Saturday trouble is apparently reusable.
Saturday Night Gave Bay City Rollers a U.S. No. 1
Bay City Rollers reached No. 1 in the United States with Saturday Night in 1976. Its chant-style chorus helped turn the song into one of the most recognizable Saturday pop records.
Saturday Night Fish Fry Helped Bridge Jump Blues and Rock and Roll
Louis Jordan’s Saturday Night Fish Fry came from the jump-blues world, but its energy, electric guitar, humor, and fast rhythm helped point toward early rock and roll. Saturday was rocking before rock fully had its name tag on.
Saturday Songs Are Often About More Than the Day
Saturday can mean freedom, nightlife, youth, dancing, romance, trouble, rest, escape, or nostalgia. That is why Saturday songs show up across rock, soul, country, disco, punk, jazz, hip-hop, and oldies.
There Are Many Songs Simply Titled Saturday Night
Plenty of artists have used the title Saturday Night, from Frank Sinatra and Bay City Rollers to Earth, Wind & Fire, Eagles, The Misfits, Suede, and Whigfield. It may be one of popular music’s most reusable weekend phrases.
Why Songs About Saturday Still Work
Songs about Saturday still work because the day already carries a story. Saturday can mean payday, nightlife, sports, romance, sleeping late, skating rinks, drive-ins, concerts, dances, movies, bars, parties, or doing absolutely nothing with great commitment.
The best Saturday songs catch different sides of the day. Saturday in the Park is sunny and communal. Another Saturday Night is lonely. Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting is rowdy. Saturday Love is romantic. A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays” is playful. Saturday Sun is quiet and reflective.
That variety is what keeps the theme useful. A Saturday playlist can be oldies, rock, soul, dance, country, punk, or pop without losing the thread. The day itself holds the songs together.
Saturday may only get one slot on the calendar each week, but popular music has treated it like prime real estate. Honestly, Saturday probably needs a better agent.