'Come Saturday Morning' theme song.

"Come Saturday Morning" crew:

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Fred Karlin - Composer - Eclectic musician and composer best known for writing the music for more than 130 motion pictures and television productions, who won an Oscar for the song "For All We Know" (a #3 hit for the Carpenters) from the 1970 film "Lovers and Other Strangers", who won an Emmy for scoring the 1974 TV presentation "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman", among whose other compositions are "Come Saturday Morning", a top 20 hit for the Sandpipers, and the score to the film "The Minstrel Man", and who wrote several highly-regarded books including the text "On the Track" and "Listening to Movies: The Film Lover's Guide to Film Music", died March 26 (2004) of cancer in Culver City, California at the age of 67.


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Dory Previn - Lyricist-- Abused as a child, Dory Previn started her songwriting career in Hollywood as soundtrack lyricist with composer Andre Previn. In the late 1960's her work became autobiographical, baring her soul and relating her struggle to heal in songs of exquisite imagery, haunting emotions, tremendous melodic variety, delightful humor and pointed irony. Her seven albums, critically acclaimed, attracted a dedicated following. Despite the uniqueness and quality of her work, a short performing career limited exposure. Today, information about her passes from one person to another like some mystery of ancient wisdom.

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The Sandpipers - Performers - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Sandpipers were a US easy listening trio/quartet who carved a little niche for themselves in the world of 60s folk rock. Founder members Jim Brady, Mike Piano, and Richard Shoff first performed together in the Mitchell Boys Choir before deciding to go it alone, with no sense of irony, as 'The Four Seasons'. It was quickly pointed out to them that a group of that name already existed in New York and they changed their name to 'The Grads'.

Although The Grads didn't set the charts on fire with their early recordings, they were enough to secure them a residency in a Lake Tahoe nightclub where a friend brought them to the attention of trumpet playing A&M Records boss, Herb Alpert. Alpert was impressed enough to give The Grads a shot, but after a couple of singles without success the group agreed upon a name change to 'The Sandpipers' (Apparently blissfully unaware that there was a girl trio in Florida [1] using that name), after which their producer, Tommy LiPuma, recommended they record the Cuban anthem 'Guantanamera', and the boys finally had their first hit except they were no longer just 'Boys' and no longer a trio. With the name change came a fourth member. Although sidelined by the original trio for reasons which may never become clear, Pamela Ramcier had now become an integral part of The Sandpipers' sound. Her lyricless vocals were used much like a second string section, adding what several reviewers described as an "Ethereal" quality to The Sandpipers' sound.

'Guantanamera' charted in the US in September, and in the UK the following month, and remains the group's biggest hit. Nevertheless they had many lesser chart entries, including a 'Guantanamera-ized' version of Richard Berry's Louie Louie, and songs from the movies The Sterile Cuckoo and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

Having not had a hit in the previous 5 years, The Sandpipers finally broke up in 1975.

There is/was a South African group called the Sandpipers. None of the US group are in the line up and it is assumed that the two groups have no connection beyond their name.


The Sterile Cuckoo soundtrack album is highly recommended, though it is only available on old vinyl. Hope you saw my second post on the "bloopers and trivia" thread?

It was our graduation song when I graduated high school! I love it too. I had to search but I found the original Sandpipers version on a compilation CD.




God save Donald Duck, vaudeville and variety

Liza recorded this song as well - it's one I refer people to who aren't aware of how sweet her voice was when she was younger.

It took me almost 40 years to see the movie, however - I just watched it yesterday - I felt the song was over-used, but we were in post-GRADUATE territory here, and many films of this era included montage scenes or thoughtful scenes of characters walking while a song played on the soundtrack - they even did it in the original YOURS, MINE AND OURS.

"Stone-cold sober I find myself absolutely fascinating!"---Katharine Hepburn