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6 unusual facts about Saturday Night


...Saturday Night, 'Round Ten

A recording of "The Cream And The Crock" from the same gigs was released as a B-side to the Internet-only single "Who Put the Devil in You".

John Cone

Cone has said he is most proud of his performance in the boxing match between Matt Hardy and Evander Holyfield, which took place in August 2007 in front of a sold out crowd at Madison Square Garden on Saturday Night's Main Event.

Magnormos

This event included one-night -only presentations of three Sondheim musicals across three consecutive Mondays: Saturday Night, Merrily We Roll Along and Anyone Can Whistle.

Until 2007, Magnormos predominantly presented readings of musicals, and these included Stephen Sondheim's Saturday Night, Mel Brooks' Archy & Mehitabel, Craig Christie's Water Into Wine and Peter Pinne's A Bunch of Ratbags.

The Triptych included presentations of Saturday Night, Merrily We Roll Along, and Anyone Can Whistle.

Saturday Night's Main Event

It coincided with and contributed to the apogee of the "second golden age" of professional wrestling in the United States.


Alison Whyte

In addition to television roles, she has appeared in the two-actor film Saturday Night, with Aaron Pedersen.

Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center

It was also the site of the famous 1989 steel cage match between Hulk Hogan and The Big Boss Man on Saturday Night's Main Event.

Holborn tube station

The disused branch line platform and other parts of the station have been used in the filming of music videos for Howard Jones' "New Song", Leftfield's "Release the Pressure", Suede's "Saturday Night" and Aqua's "Turn Back Time".

Kiddush

When a festival is on Saturday night, Kiddush is recited, but Havdalah must also be said because Shabbat is holier than the festivals.

Mid-Hudson Civic Center

Mair Hall opened in the summer of 1976 with a sold out performance by the Bay City Rollers who at the time was enjoying worldwide fame and had the #1 song on US Billboard charts called "Saturday Night."

Primavera Productions

In 2009, Primavera Productions produced the first revival of Stephen Sondheim's first musical Saturday Night at the Jermyn Street Theatre.

Steve Armstrong

He was mainly used as a jobber working with his brother Scott as The Armstrongs on Saturday Night, WorldWide and on rare occasions on Monday Nitro.

Terry Taylor

On the January 7, 1989 episode of Saturday Night's Main Event, the Rooster lost a match to Tito Santana due to being distracted by an argument with Heenan.

Wouldn't You Like It?

A 2004 CD reissue on Bell included four bonus tracks: the smash hit "Saturday Night"; which had appeared on Japanese pressings of the original LP; "She'll Be Crying Over You" (originally the B-side of the UK "Give a Little Love" single); and two previously unissued tracks featuring early Roller Nobby Clark on lead vocal: "Wouldn't You Like It? (1972 version)" and "I'd Do It Again".


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1984 in Australian television

18 February - The Nine Network's Hey Hey It's Saturday moves from a Breakfast Television format to the 9:30 p.m. timeslot, Primetime format and renamed Hey Hey It's Saturday Night.

2007 Kansas State Wildcats football team

Deon Murphy caught Freeman's touchdown pass and ran 21 yards on a reverse for a 34-7 lead for the Wildcats, who had 153 yards rushing Saturday night after being held to 27 in last week's 23-13 loss at Auburn.

Adam Stein

"Lazy Monday," the online parody he made with film school collaborator Sam Friedlander and actor Mark Feuerstein, was the widely played and widely copied "west coast rap battle" response to Saturday Night Live's "Lazy Sunday." This video was featured on VH1, Bravo, and many other media outlets.

Airline booking ploys

At one time, airlines typically charged more for midweek round trips than trips that involved a Saturday night stay.

Alan Fenton

This led to a career writing comedy sketches and scripts for TV comedy series, Saturday Night Spectaculars and Sunday Nights at the London Palladium for most of the top comedians of the day, including Ronnie Corbett, Bruce Forsyth, Dickie Henderson, Roy Castle, Arthur Haines, Jack Douglas and Joe Baker, Dick Emery, Irene Handl, Des O'Connor and many others.

Almost Saturday Night

"Almost Saturday Night" had more success when covered in a rockabilly by Dave Edmunds in 1981 from his album Twangin....

Big Flash Car on a Saturday Night

In a Big Flash Car on a Saturday Night is former Carter USM singer/guitarist Jim Bob's third solo album and second to be released under the Jim's Super Stereoworld moniker.

Bill Flynn

Bill's movie of Saturday Night at The Palace won several Vita Film Awards, a Best Actor award at the Italian Taormina Film festival as well as a Merit Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

Bring It on Back

"Bring It on Back" had been used between April and August in advertisements for the 2007 AFL Season on Channel 10 in Australia, to promote the return of Saturday Night Football to 10.

CJNW-FM

On February 5, 2011, the "Saturday Night Hot Mix" was moved to 8:00 to 10:00, and started broadcasting the syndicated show, the "All Star Hit Mix" by The Baka Boyz, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm.

Colin Jost

He won the Peabody Award in 2009 and three Writers Guild (WGA) awards (2007, 2009, 2010) for his work on Saturday Night Live.

Craig Mackie

There he hosted a number of programs including an afternoon Slavey-English current affairs show, Mackenzie Morning, Nunanoon, the Saturday Night Request Show and a country music program called The Lovin', Hurtin', Gamblin', Travellin', Drinkin', Truck-Drivin' and Mom Show.

Don King

Don Roy King, American television director for Saturday Night Live

Great Meadow

Today, Great Meadow has become a valued member of the Virginia charitable and national equestrian sports communities, and is home to the annual Virginia Gold Cup steeplechase races the first Saturday in May, as well as the International Gold Cup Races, held every third Saturday in October, the Saturday night Twilight Polo series during the summer, and the Twilight Jumper series on select Friday evening during the summer.

Hometown Jamboree

Hometown Jamboree was an American country music radio and television show simultaneously broadcast each Saturday night by KXLA radio, Pasadena, California and KLAC-TV/KCOP and KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, California beginning in 1949.

Horsted Keynes

A couple of months before being assassinated, U.S. President John F. Kennedy slept in the parish when he stayed one Saturday night at Birch Grove, the home of the former Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan.

Ian Mercer

Mercer went on to work in such stage productions as Bent, Spend Spend Spend, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Billy Liar, Stop The Children's Laughter, Welcome Home, Romeo and Juliet, The Fancy Man, The York Realist, Beauty and The Beast and Revengers Tragedy.

J. Timothy Hunt

A feature article in Saturday Night in June 2000 about Owens Wiwa, brother of controversially-executed Nigerian environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was expanded in 2005 into a book about the ordeal, The Politics of Bones.

Karen Lynn Gorney

Due to her connection with disco music, and her popular role in Saturday Night Fever, she has been featured on a number of disco documentaries and specials, including Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion, which she co-hosted with Saturday Night Fever choreographer Deney Terrio for PBS.

Kyle Mooney

Mooney, along with John Milhiser, Michael Patrick O'Brien, Noël Wells, Brooks Wheelan, and his comedy partner and friend, Beck Bennett, joined the thirty-ninth season of Saturday Night Live to fill the void left by the recent departures of Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, and Jason Sudeikis.

Let's Get Ready to Rhumble

On 23 March 2013, Ant & Dec performed "Let's Get Ready to Rhumble" as the closing act for the "End of the Show-Show" segment of their ITV show Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway at the end of a series of performances by The Big Reunion special invitees.

Live from New York

Live from New York may refer to "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", a line ending the cold opening of each episode of the American television show Saturday Night Live (SNL).

Louisiana Saturday Night

"Louisiana Saturday Night" is the title of a song written by Bob McDill and recorded by American country music artist, Mel McDaniel.

Matt Goss

By January 2010, the live show had moved to Caesars Palace, playing at Cleopatra's Barge every Friday and Saturday night.

Midwestern Saturday Night

Midwestern Saturday Night is the self-published debut album by American singer-songwriter Susan Werner, released in 1993 (see 1993 in music).

NBC Saturday Night at the Movies

In 2009 and 2010, Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble purchased some Friday and Saturday night time on NBC and Fox to broadcast television films they produced such as The Jensen Project, though the ratings for these films were well below regular programming and like strategies pursued by Mattel with Nickelodeon with the Barbie series of films, mainly aired to sell those films on DVD in-store.

Night Fever

Producer Robert Stigwood wanted to call the film Saturday Night, but singer Robin Gibb expressed hesitation at the title.

Noisettes discography

C ^ The music video for "Saturday Night" was made up of recordings by fans using only Nokia mobile devices, at an exclusive live performance in East London.

Phina Oruche

Phina now lives in her native Liverpool where she is presenting and producing the Saturday night radio programme Upfront on BBC Radio Merseyside.

Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1983–1984

He often appeared on "Saturday Night News" with ideas to clean up New York City.

Rod Gilmore

He works with Joe Tessitore on the network's Friday and Saturday night telecasts.

Royal Vauxhall Tavern

Notable acts from this era include "Carla", famous for her Barbra Streisand impersonation and "The Great Lee Paris" on a Saturday night with Land of Hope and Glory, and There'll always be an England.

Samuel Armas

In 1999 Matt Drudge hosted a Saturday night television show called Drudge on the Fox News Channel.

Saturday Night Footy

The original Saturday Night Footy telecast may not air into some states, as the current broadcasting contract requires the local teams to be televised into their respective states (for example, Saturday night matches involving the Brisbane Lions must be televised into Queensland).

Secret Stash

The Secret Stash is a name given by the United States cable television channel Comedy Central to its mostly-uncensored early Sunday morning (late Saturday night) programming which generally consists of R-rated films or stand-up comedy.

Sudbury Saturday Night

"Sudbury Saturday Night" was covered by Canadian musician Kim Mitchell in 1998 on the compilation Summer Dock Party.

The Boys of Barr na Sráide

The song was first aired on Irish radio by singer Seán Ó Síocháin on a programme called The Balladmakers Saturday Night in the 1950s.

Thelma Todd

Todd had a wide circle of friends and associates as well as a busy social life; police investigations revealed that she had spent the previous Saturday night (December 14) at the Trocadero, a popular Hollywood restaurant, at a party hosted by entertainer Stanley Lupino and his actress daughter, Ida.

Transplants discography

The first recording to show up was "Saturday Night", which appeared on Barker's solo album Give the Drummer Some.

WAMU

In addition, WAMU 88.5 produces its own call-in talk shows, The Diane Rehm Show and The Kojo Nnamdi Show, Metro Connection, and music and entertainment programs, including Hot Jazz Saturday Night, and The Big Broadcast, which originated in 1964 as Recollections, hosted by John Hickman.

WCGQ

Current syndicated programming includes The Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40 hosted by Rick Dees on Saturday mornings, Saturday Night Online Live hosted by Romeo on Saturday nights, and American Top 40 hosted by Ryan Seacrest on Sunday mornings at 8.

WERZ

Specialty weekend programs helped to boost ratings, including American Top 40 with Shadoe Stevens, Rick Dees Weekly Top 40, and "Party Saturday Night" featuring uptempo party songs and "megamixes" of popular dance music, as well as frequent prize giveaways and heavy listener interaction and requests.

WQAL

Popular shows back then have included "Friday Night 80's," "Saturday Night Fever" featuring disco songs from the 70's and early 80's, and syndicated countdown shows hosted by Casey Kasem and Rick Dees.

WSGE

Classic rock is featured every Saturday night featuring mostly album cuts from the classic album rock era of the '60s and '70s.

WXKS-FM

Kiss 108 was also the flagship station for Open House Party Saturday hosted by John Garabedian, broadcasting from his house in suburban Boston, but on March 10, 2007, Kiss 108 dropped Saturday edition Open House Party and began a new show called The Saturday Night Mash-Up.