Come Saturday Morning

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Come Saturday Morning (m. Fred Karlin, w. Dory Previn)

Recordings of the song included in the page:

page 1 of 3 — recordings, 1969-1970 + complete film

Liza Minnelli – from her album Come Saturday Morning, A&M Records SP 4164 (and SP4164), released on 26 January 1969; album recorded in August and November 1968
The Sandpipers — Liza Minnelli’s recording was not used in the The Sterile Cuckoo. Instead, multiple different recordings of the song by The Sandpipers are featured in the soundtrack, one or the other being played during the title sequence and periodically throughout the film, usually following a dramatic peak.
The Sandpipers — A different recording of the song, for A&M Records, became a hit single. The single was issued in October 1969 on A&M 1134, b/w “Pretty Flamingo,” and the recording also became the title song of the Sandpipers album A&M SP4262, SP-4262, released in August 1970.
Peter Nero — issued on 13 January 1970 on the single Columbia 4-45077, c/w “Maybe Tomorrow”; also included in the 1970 album I’ll Never Fall in Love Again — Peter Nero Plays the Great Love Songs of Today, Columbia CS 1009
Mark Lindsay — from his 1970 LP Silverbird, Columbia CA 30111
Tony Bennett — from his 1970 album Tony Bennett’s Something, (US) Columbia C 30280, (UK) CBS S 64217
Wayne Newton — from the 1970 LP The Long and Winding Road, Capitol Records ST-474
Bobbi Martin — from her 1970 album With Love, United Artists Records UAS 6755; featuring an arrangement by Lee Holdridge
Chet Baker — recorded, with orchestra arranged and conducted by Jerry Styner, at Sunwest Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA, on 6 July 1970; released on the 1970 album Blood, Chet and Tears, Verve Records V6-8798
Roger Williams — from the 1970 LP Themes From Great Movies, Kapp Records ‎KS-3629
Ray Conniff and the Singers — from their 1970 album Love Story, Columbia C 30498
Mystic Moods Orchestra — from the 1970 LP Stormy Weekend Philips, PHS 600-342
Les Troubadours — (French-lyric version “N’attends pas l’automne,” words by Boris Bergman) released in 1970 on the single (France) RCA Victor 49.077, b/w “Ceux qui n’ont pas encore 20 ans”

page 2 of 3 – recordings, 1971-2014

Percy Faith — from the 1971 album A Summer Place, (US) Harmony KH 30607
The Impossibles (Thai band) — from a 1971 rehearsal
Silver Creek Junior Chorus — from the 1971 LP Silver Creek Sings 1971
Scott Walker — from his 1972 album The Moviegoer, (UK) Philips 6308 127 (vinyl), 7108 076 (cassette)
Mary Ann Santi — from her 1973 LP A Time to Keep, Presque Isle Records HRS-42473
Woody Herman — from the 1974 LP Thundering Herd, (US) Fantasy F-9452; album recorded 2-4 January 1974 Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA; track arranged by Alan Broadbent
Apolinario Hiking Society — Come Saturday Morning/Without Her (Nilsson) medley, from the 1974 LP In Concert #$%*!?, (Philippines) Sunshine TSP-5194
Kalesa — recorded in 1978; members of the group were George Washington University students
Kimbo Children’s Music — piano solo; from the 2004 album Yoga For Kids, on the Kimbo Educational label
Rumer — from her 2010 CD single Aretha, (UK) Atlantic ATUK096CD, Warner Music UK Ltd. 5052498330928; also included on the 2015 CD compilation album B Sides & Rarities, Atlantic 825646139750
calikokat100 — published on YouTube, 3 September 2010
Paul Sonnenberg — solo, guitar and voice; recorded c. October 2011
mumd2003 — solo, guitar and voice; published on YouTube, 29 September 2012
edex7 — Come Saturday Morning/Without Her (Nilsson) medley; published on YouTube, 5 April 2013 — Sounds like it’s based on the Apo Hiking Society arrangement.
Puii (vocal) with music by Percy Faith (1971) — published on YouTube, 9 August 2013; slide show of photographs of Waujeongsa Temple, Yongin, South Korea
Phillip Sear — piano solo arrangement published in 1970; video published on YouTube, 27 October 2014

page 3 of 3 — recordings, 2015-2018; also includes selected links (bottom of the page)

Laura Garinger — ukulele and voice; published on YouTube, 3 July 2015
โชควสุพล คล้ายขำ (Google translation: Chok Vasupon Khokkum) — piano solo; published on YouTube, 7 November 2015
Agis Shaw — vocal, guitar, and recorder; published on YouTube, 3 November 2018

Liza Minnelli – from her album Come Saturday Morning, A&M Records SP 4164 (and SP4164), released on 26 January 1969; album recorded in August and November 1968

While the Wikipedia page on the album claims that the track was “taken from movie The Sterile Cuckoo,” that statement is rather misleading. Recording dates for the album, according to Wikipedia, were in August 1968 (Los Angeles) and November 1968 (New York City), and the film was released on 22 October 1969, almost a year after the last recording date. However, the film was apparently entirely shot in the late summer and fall of 1968, and it’s not clear whether Liza recorded the song before, during, or after the time span in which the film was shot.

According to the book Everybody’s Talkin’: The Top Films of 1965-1969, by Barry Monush (2009), p. 347, a six-week shooting period at and around Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, began on 11 September 1968, followed by additional filming in California. The article “When Hollywood Came to the Hill,” written by Donald Challenger and Allison Eck ’12 and published online in the Fall-Winter 2009 issue of the Hamilton Alumni Review, agrees with the dates given by Monush for the shooting in the Hamilton College area, saying, “[Director Alan J.] Pakula and his 65-member Paramount crew were on and around the Hill from Sept. 11 until Oct. 15, 1968.”

The Sandpipers

Liza Minnelli’s recording was not used in the The Sterile Cuckoo, released as Pookie in the UK and much of Western Europe. Instead, multiple different recordings of the song by The Sandpipers are featured in the soundtrack, one or the other being played during the title sequence and periodically throughout the film, usually following a dramatic peak.

Monush, p. 347, indicates that the opening sequence was shot in Ontario, California.

The Sandpipers — A different recording of the song, for A&M Records, became a hit single. The single was issued in October 1969 on A&M 1134, b/w “Pretty Flamingo,” and the recording also became the title song of the Sandpipers album A&M SP4262, SP-4262, released in August 1970.

From Wikipedia:

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.^[1]

The Sterile Cuckoo (Pookie), complete film:

Peter Nero — issued on 13 January 1970* on the single Columbia 4-45077, c/w “Maybe Tomorrow”; also included in the 1970 album I’ll Never Fall in Love Again — Peter Nero Plays the Great Love Songs of Today, Columbia CS 1009

Mark Lindsay — from his 1970 LP Silverbird, Columbia CA 30111

Tony Bennett — from his 1970 album Tony Bennett’s Something, (US) Columbia C 30280, (UK) CBS S 64217

Wayne Newton — from the 1970 LP The Long and Winding Road, Capitol Records ST-474

Bobbi Martin — from her 1970 album With Love, United Artists Records UAS 6755; featuring an arrangement by Lee Holdridge

Chet Baker — recorded, with orchestra arranged and conducted by Jerry Styner, at Sunwest Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA, on 6 July 1970; released on the 1970 album Blood, Chet and Tears, Verve Records V6-8798

Roger Williams — from the 1970 LP Themes From Great Movies, Kapp Records ‎KS-3629

Ray Conniff and the Singers — from their 1970 album Love Story, Columbia C 30498

Mystic Moods Orchestra — from the 1970 LP Stormy Weekend Philips, PHS 600-342

Les Troubadours — (French-lyric version “N’attends pas l’automne,” words by Boris Bergman) released in 1970 on the single (France) RCA Victor 49.077, b/w “Ceux qui n’ont pas encore 20 ans”

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* According to 45cat.com, André Kostelanetz ‎ also released a recording of the song on the same day as the Peter Nero single (13 January 1970), on the single Columbia 4S-45061 / 4-45061, c/w “Leaving On a Jet Plane.” This recording was also included on the 1970 Kostelanetz album I’ll Never Fall In Love Again, (US, Canada) Columbia CS 9998.

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