This song is the only reason I exist; my mom is from Japan was OBSESSED with this band and this was her favorite song. She really wanted to know whay they were singing about, which motivated her to take studying English in school seriously. She was a translator for the Ringling Brothers while they toured in Japan, and eventually moved to America where she met my dad and I was born.
True.. very true. I was a hard rocker & Country.. I was overseas in the US Navy when they really made it big.. I had one of their albums. Just too bubble-gummy for most of their stuff.
My step-sister passed away recently, I had to play this for the memory of her. Teen beats, posters, the album. We were different in so many ways including our taste in music, when I hear or think about BCR I gotta smile. RIP Jeri Ann❤️🕊🙏🏻
This came out in 1974. I started Roller Skating when I was 13 and that was 1978 This song was on the playlist it seems every Sat Night. it was the big thing to do and I was gladly driven by Mom to the rink which was in my Hometown of Bedford NH Round and round we went and it was the best fun!
1975, Grade 6, on a hayride, when the girls spontaneously began singing this song, have never forgotten that day, will never forget this song, this band, or how simple life is as a teenager. Thank you BCR for amazing music.
When I hear songs like this I'm completely transported back in time like I've jumpe d into a time machine. I have my older sister to thank. She loved this group
I had the trousers :| I remember buying a giant poster of them & rushing round to my elderly neighbours to fold it out & explain who was who. They had a lot to put up with , those neighbours ! Les was my favourite too. I wasn't quite a teen myself. Shang a Lang a yesterday :)
I beg to differ, Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty put Scotland on the map when they debuted as Steelers Wheel. What about Maggie Bell with Stone the Crows, let's not forget Ian Anderson who formed Jethro Tull a proud Scotsman, and finally and most important of all, Alex Harvey of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. These are the real folks who put Scotland on the musical scene.
We roller skated to this song! As soon as we heard the first few beats we were off the benches skating our hearts out! Wow, this sent me straight back, we were blessed, weren't we? THE best childhood !!!
It’s crazy but I think we all have a memory or two that just somehow sticks with you for no apparent reason(at a very young age) anyway I’m 55 and I can still remember back when this song came out, I was in second grade riding on the bus to school and hearing this song come on and just loving it! ❤ The memory seems like just yesterday actually..Wow 😊
Same here. Walked a block to school (uphill, both ways, in a snowstorm, in Dana Point 😂), but we’re the same vintage and this really brings the memories.
Patti it was innocent cause parents never mistreated their kids not let them do what they want they were punished properly without mistreating their kids not even one bit now parents only know how to make a baby not a child
I am close to 60 years old soon and their's iS the first Album that I eVer bought!👍Whenever I was feelinG bummed out about the craziness on Our Precious Planet Earth...I would crank up thiS SonG and get back into my Joyful SpiRit as I knew that the Bay City Rollers were doinG their beSt to uplift Humanity!✌😍🙏😇🌹🌞🌹🌎🌍🌏☕🍵☕🍹🌴
My dad showed me the video, I mean this video, in my mom's car. It was a amazing night and the song was fire🔥🔥🔥 I found it after I think 3 or 5 YEARS!!! Because I forgot the name somehow, what a great song🤘
It's not a "Planet" it's an enclosed eco-system, flat, with rivers, lakes, oceans, valleys and even shopping malls! 'What it's not is a spinning ball planet"! Write that down!
I was born in 90 and found out about Bay City Rollers via a cassette I brought online! I absolutely can't get enough of this song! This song is timeless!
The music of The Bay City Rollers fortunately will live on forever! Les McKeown was my favorite Bay City Roller. But he and his beautiful singing voice will never be forgotten.
That would be because it's so incredibly difficult to drum and sing at the same time that very few drummers are even singers, much less sing lead. He is incredibly talented to be able to varry this off.
Spoiler alert: He’s not the band’s regular drummer. That actually was lead singer Les McKeowan, and he was lip-syncing in this video (which was a very common practice for shows like this up through at least the 1980s). The actual drummer at the time was Derek Longmuir, who for some reason or another wasn’t present for the taping and they had Les sit in on drums. It’s not a Milli Vanilli thing, though, as Les was lip syncing to his own vocals. If you want to watch actual singing drummers in action, check out “Up on Cripple Creek” or “The Weight” by The Band (all of the members could sing, but drummer Levon Helm was one of two with the most prominent lead vocals), or live performances of “Hotel California” by the Eagles, or live performances from Genesis (their drummer Phil Collins took over as lead singer after Peter Gabriel’s departure, although Phil no longer drums these days due to various health issues).
I was born in 1965, these guys were plastered all over my bedroom walls, got me through my preteen and teenage years, broke my heart to hear about Les McKeown death so young 💔
Another "Classic" of tha 70's...🤔..juss been reminiscing fr My Childhood n Teens and 20's alot lately,, and Coming to Terms with tha Fact that Things will Never be tha same Again....Almost all of My Family...and Friends from those precious Days are gone now....and here I Sit Tonight with My oldest G-Daughter....thinking in My Mind how Wonderful it would be IF She could have grown up in the Era that I did....with tha Best Music 🎶 (( 70's and 80's))...and tha wholesome Television Shows back in a Time when it seemed that People really Cared about Each Other.... when young Boy's grew into Real Men and young Girls grew into Lady's...when grandma an grandpa sat on the front Porch in ah Swing Together and Everyone came Together on Sunday's for Dinner and tha grass smelt ah whole lot Sweeter and They called that little Smile on My Face ""PuppyLove""....🤔⚘️ Now I'm 59 n Look in tha Mirror at ah Rapidly Aging Man that seems to Wonder more an more...""Where tha H.ll did it All go Soo Fast 🤔⁉️. But at tha same Time Thanking tha good Lord for Every Single Day more that He gives Me..⚘️🙏⚘️. I Almost Never Write Comment's 😳🫣🤷Excuse Me for getting Lost for ah Moment 😅😅 .
Dancing in the streets to the BCRs when ever radio one played their songs .so proud off you guys for the great music and great memories you gave us all .R.I.P les .
When I was in 7&8 grade. There was four of us that was totally crazy for the B.C.R. we was always dressed like them, didn't care if anyone liked it, we was in our own little world...we still remember the songs, the outfits, where we were when certain songs came out..like it was yesterday...thank you for the great and silly teenagers from across the sea....they still put smiles on our faces and a tingle in our heart...
I remember Dave Boxer's Saturday night CJFM radio show always starting with this fun track. And, Hockey Night In Canada used a version of this song as an intro to the Saturday night broadcast.
My 5th grade teacher started playing this song randomly so 10 years later I decided to listen to it again and I love it. Also, he got diagnosed with cancer a year ago and I felt the need to listen.
Me too, was very sad when I read their history decades later. Alan Longmuir just died last year. May he Rest In Peace. The others are still very active but had all their money from this time stolen.
イイねぇ…。“Saturday
Night”。40年程前、我が日本にも旋風を巻き起こしました。
日本武道館でのライブ、見に行きたかったなぁ…。
果たして、私のコメント、どのように翻訳されるかが楽しみだなぁ…。
My father loved this band! And I found it because of him! Thank you dad.
Great memories.. roller skating Saturday nights to this song in the 70’s
Lynnwood WA Roll-A-Way, every Saturday Night until 2:30a
I was born 1964.......Big sensation when they came to Japan. They were all over TV.........Greetings from Japan.
R.I.P Leslie 素敵な思い出をありがとう。いつまでも貴方のことを忘れません。From Japan
小学校の英語の授業中に聞いたことがあってもう何年も経ってるのに
耳に残っていて気になって調べてきました。今聴いてもいい歌ですね。
This song is the only reason I exist; my mom is from Japan was OBSESSED with this band and this was her favorite song. She really wanted to know whay they were singing about, which motivated her to take studying English in school seriously. She was a translator for the Ringling Brothers while they toured in Japan, and eventually moved to America where she met my dad and I was born.
Fantastic origin story!😊
I love it, that's a great story. I heard these guys were more popular in Japan than anywhere else, including their native Scotland.
Very cool!
Amazing story 💜💜💜
@@kevinkim390 Reminds me of Cheap Trick, as I believe they were very popular in Japan before they made it big in the U.S.
Just saw the news of Les"s passing. Breaks my heart. Another icon of my teenage years gone. That Roller music lives on, though.
True.. very true. I was a hard rocker & Country.. I was overseas in the US Navy when they really made it big.. I had one of their albums. Just too bubble-gummy for most of their stuff.
Too young to be gone. Even at 62.
@@JellyrollHorton 65
@@tammyramey7441 S A T U R D A Y night 😁
I think so.
懐かしいー☺️
日本で大ブームでしたね
My step-sister passed away recently, I had to play this for the memory of her. Teen beats, posters, the album. We were different in so many ways including our taste in music, when I hear or think about BCR I gotta smile. RIP Jeri Ann❤️🕊🙏🏻
I'm so very sorry for your loss. Your sister is in heaven rocking out with Alan, Ian, and Les. She's smiling big! ♥️♥️
Yes condolences, RIP to your sis!
My sister passed last Saturday night .
She loved the Rollers ...
I did the same ❤
Please accept my deepest condolences 😭
@@cybercat29 thank you very much ❤️
I'm 57 now and heard this and "I Only wanna be with You"
on AM radio in the 70's when rock and roll meant a great sound.
I worked in radio in the 80's and these tunes were almost 'made' for AM, sounded big & loud. The Brits had it nailed in many ways.
懐かしい🥰🥰🥰
レスリー素敵❣️
Hey, don't knock it until you've danced to it. Our childhood is priceless.
the best!! This generation has NO CLUE what a Life we had such freedom and
wow FUN!
Absolutely 👍
This came out in 1974. I started Roller Skating when I was 13 and that was 1978
This song was on the playlist it seems every Sat Night. it was the big thing to do and I was gladly driven by Mom to the rink which was in my Hometown of Bedford NH
Round and round we went and it was the best fun!
The best times
Absolutely
This band was my favorite band when I was a kid growing up in the 70’s. So many great memories.
1975, Grade 6, on a hayride, when the girls spontaneously began singing this song, have never forgotten that day, will never forget this song, this band, or how simple life is as a teenager. Thank you BCR for amazing music.
Yeppp,, We're getting old MyFriend 😅😅
similar thing happened to me on ride home on school bus in 1975 black lick, pennsylvania
Was s staple at the roller rink, really got the people on the floor.
I was 5 when I heard this in '76. That was when I became concious. My sister was a pop song freak. RIP, sis.
I loved this song, I was 15 when it came out. I'm 62 now😊
same 😁😁
I was 16 and the band made an impact on me as it did on many teens back then.
61 here, and did we ever dance to this song! 😂🤣
I was also 15 when this came out and had to have it the minute I heard Saturday Night.
時間の流れは早いものですね
僕は14歳だけど
懐かしくて泣く😭💕💕💕
When I hear songs like this I'm completely transported back in time like I've jumpe d into a time machine. I have my older sister to thank. She loved this group
I watched these guys Eva S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y. morning on their 30 minute show.🤌🏿🤌🏿🤌🏿
Zeit und Raum sind Illusionen! Wären Zeit und Raum keine Illusion, so würden wir nicht altern! Trotzdem war es eine schöne Zeit! Ortwin from Germany
Being a young teenage girl in the mid 70s . The bay city rollers were my idols Les being my favourite. RIP Les thank you for the music ❤️
I had the trousers :|
I remember buying a giant poster of them & rushing round to my elderly neighbours to fold it out & explain who was who.
They had a lot to put up with , those neighbours ! Les was my favourite too. I wasn't quite a teen myself. Shang a Lang a yesterday
:)
Saturday,2023..
Rest in Peace Les!! You put Scotland on the music map, absolute legend
NEVER SEEN HIM ON DRUMS
NOT OFTEN LESS ON DRUMS
I beg to differ, Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty put Scotland on the map when they debuted as Steelers Wheel. What about Maggie Bell with Stone the Crows, let's not forget Ian Anderson who formed Jethro Tull a proud Scotsman, and finally and most important of all, Alex Harvey of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. These are the real folks who put Scotland on the musical scene.
RIP.
@@markburrows1179 Jack Bruce too
Love this era of rock & roll. This is the great music I grew with.
The Bay City Rollers singing Saturday Night was the best boy band song ever.....number 1. A Scottish boy band started it ALL....RIP Les...Godspeed.
Theyre from Scotland? Then why are they called the "Bay City" Rollers? I thought they were from San Francisco?
We roller skated to this song! As soon as we heard the first few beats we were off the benches skating our hearts out! Wow, this sent me straight back, we were blessed, weren't we? THE best childhood !!!
Great time to be alive
It’s crazy but I think we all have a memory or two that just somehow sticks with you for no apparent reason(at a very young age) anyway I’m 55 and I can still remember back when this song came out, I was in second grade riding on the bus to school and hearing this song come on and just loving it! ❤ The memory seems like just yesterday actually..Wow 😊
Yes...isnt memory a wonderful thing...I expect u know all the words too...as long as the music is playing,,,
Same here. Walked a block to school (uphill, both ways, in a snowstorm, in Dana Point 😂), but we’re the same vintage and this really brings the memories.
Same age (ish). Warren Sand Dunes in Michigan when I was kid.
Same age. I remember this song well!! I absolutely loved it.
similar story in black lick, pa and i'm 56
DVDで見ましたがいい映画ですね。この曲も大好き❤
I'm 56 and remember this song I'm grade school, those days were so innocent. How can 400 people not like this song shame on them!
Patti it was innocent cause parents never mistreated their kids not let them do what they want they were punished properly without mistreating their kids not even one bit now parents only know how to make a baby not a child
Saw em in concert in Anaheim CA USA 1976
Music was so much better then. Much happier
Never saw any band that brought such exuberance, smiles, and fun times..
My boyfriend and I go dancing on the first Saturday of the month. Then we race home and make love. ❤️
Rest in eternal peace Les Mckeown, thanks for all the great musical memories with the Bay City Rollers.
自分が高校生の頃、よく聴いていました。ローラーズの楽曲の中で、一番好きです‼️最高ですっ!
This song just popped in my head and it's now on repeat. LOVE the Scots!
Oh Les.. thank you for the songs that made my teenage years. I loved you. Now your journey here on earth is over. Love you with all my heart.
I am close to 60 years old soon and their's iS the first Album that I eVer bought!👍Whenever I was feelinG bummed out about the craziness on Our Precious Planet Earth...I would crank up thiS SonG and get back into my Joyful SpiRit as I knew that the Bay City Rollers were doinG their beSt to uplift Humanity!✌😍🙏😇🌹🌞🌹🌎🌍🌏☕🍵☕🍹🌴
My dad showed me the video, I mean this video, in my mom's car. It was a amazing night and the song was fire🔥🔥🔥 I found it after I think 3 or 5 YEARS!!! Because I forgot the name somehow, what a great song🤘
@@SJM-657 ✌☕
It's not a "Planet" it's an enclosed eco-system, flat, with rivers, lakes, oceans, valleys and even shopping malls! 'What it's not is a spinning ball planet"! Write that down!
I was born in 90 and found out about Bay City Rollers via a cassette I brought online! I absolutely can't get enough of this song! This song is timeless!
That's great to hear Jasmine, I got the album as a Christmas present when I was all of 13!
90 too
That's awesome.
I love it when a young person appreciates good music. 😍
@@wendyfutral3777 Definitely it shows they have great parents. No seriously though i agree with you there 100 % friend, im a kid myself hahaha 😆
I was 8yrs old, living in Pacific Beach, CA when this came out and I remember it well. Brings back memories.
🎉 Retro music greetings from coastal Mississippi. Man, how l loved Bay City Rollers back in the 70's. This song made my Saturday night 😂
1995 here.. both my parents are in their 70s, i was blessed to grow up listening to this & the beach boys
I cannot believe it. Another nail in the coffin of my youth. RIP Les.
Rest in peace Les! Thanks for the music and the memories.
God speed Les, you done good.
Still lovin their music...70s live on forever...
I was born in the late fall of 1978. Classic Musical Group! Classic Recording! Classic Song! Classic Video!
Man, I loved this song when I was a kid! ❤❤❤
The music of The Bay City Rollers fortunately will live on forever! Les McKeown was my favorite Bay City Roller. But he and his beautiful singing voice will never be forgotten.
The bass line in the chorus.....simple but gorgeous.
I liked how they put the drums and drummer up in front on the stage! Awesome! I don't think ANY other band has ever done this! It ROCKS!
That would be because it's so incredibly difficult to drum and sing at the same time that very few drummers are even singers, much less sing lead. He is incredibly talented to be able to varry this off.
Spoiler alert: He’s not the band’s regular drummer. That actually was lead singer Les McKeowan, and he was lip-syncing in this video (which was a very common practice for shows like this up through at least the 1980s). The actual drummer at the time was Derek Longmuir, who for some reason or another wasn’t present for the taping and they had Les sit in on drums. It’s not a Milli Vanilli thing, though, as Les was lip syncing to his own vocals.
If you want to watch actual singing drummers in action, check out “Up on Cripple Creek” or “The Weight” by The Band (all of the members could sing, but drummer Levon Helm was one of two with the most prominent lead vocals), or live performances of “Hotel California” by the Eagles, or live performances from Genesis (their drummer Phil Collins took over as lead singer after Peter Gabriel’s departure, although Phil no longer drums these days due to various health issues).
Umm Karen Carpenter????
The drum is the most important instrument in a band.
😂❤
Hey-Y'all I'm soon to be 71 - and let's Rock to this GREAT SONG
One of my favorites, I will never forget the rollers!!!! Bay City Rollers that is.
懐かしい🎵🎶🎵🎶👍
Bay City rollers. I loved that band when I was younger & still do.
I was born in 1965, these guys were plastered all over my bedroom walls, got me through my preteen and teenage years, broke my heart to hear about Les McKeown death so young 💔
ME TOO!!! ❤️ same…💔
Me too, I'm 60 years old
Me too!! I am 57, can't believe I still remember all of their full names too. I had it BAD for these guys!!!😍💕💃
Same here, loved their music and still do!
Right there with you!
Les, The world without you is very empty ... I'm lonely ...
Another "Classic" of tha 70's...🤔..juss been reminiscing fr My Childhood n Teens and 20's alot lately,, and Coming to Terms with tha Fact that Things will Never be tha same Again....Almost all of My Family...and Friends from those precious Days are gone now....and here I Sit Tonight with My oldest G-Daughter....thinking in My Mind how Wonderful it would be IF She could have grown up in the Era that I did....with tha Best Music 🎶 (( 70's and 80's))...and tha wholesome Television Shows back in a Time when it seemed that People really Cared about Each Other.... when young Boy's grew into Real Men and young Girls grew into Lady's...when grandma an grandpa sat on the front Porch in ah Swing Together and Everyone came Together on Sunday's for Dinner and tha grass smelt ah whole lot Sweeter and They called that little Smile on My Face ""PuppyLove""....🤔⚘️ Now I'm 59 n Look in tha Mirror at ah Rapidly Aging Man that seems to Wonder more an more...""Where tha H.ll did it All go Soo Fast 🤔⁉️. But at tha same Time Thanking tha good Lord for Every Single Day more that He gives Me..⚘️🙏⚘️. I Almost Never Write Comment's 😳🫣🤷Excuse Me for getting Lost for ah Moment 😅😅
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When I was a teenager I seen these guys at the State Fair in Michigan, had alot of fun screaming and singing!!!
Hello Claudine, How are you doing?
Bay City Rollers should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of fame.
I'm here because another small part of my somewhat happy youth is gone. But the 🎶 music 🎶 plays on 🎶 !
i love this song was a great tune and it was a part of you
Boy Bands who sang. Loved them then, love them still.
Saturday night will never be the same. R.I.P. Les McKeown
RIP from Belfast. U were the best.
I love this song!!! I blast it when I leave work on Saturday nights...
Love watching Les, play drums, in this video! XO
I play it, then it gets stuck in my head. ☺️ modern music does not have it anymore. Long live the greats!
Rest in peace Lesley xxxx will still listen in 2031!!!
Man what a treasure of a song...I remember this coming on the radio in my old ‘67 impala on my 1st day driving to high school in Columbus Ohio....
You set Edinburgh alight Les ..RIP...then you set the world alight .....never be another Les ....sleep well pal xxxx
R.I.P frontman.This is our youth.
God Bless him
So sad to see all my youth time legends pass on. RIP Les
My teenage years were spent listening to disco.
This was one of the most memorable songs from that era. RIP Les McKeown.
I’m sorry, I didn’t know the band members names....which member passed away?
@@maureenmcgovern6119 Les the lead singer
Happy birthday to you up in heaven from Marie in Buena Park CA USA. Thank you for everything
RIP Les!!!! Hours of awesome music back in the 70’s!!!! Dancing to Bay City songs 💙💔💙💔💙💔💙💔💙💔
I waked up to be confoteble in Kumamoto city, Japan! Thanks you. Good luck!. Your welcome.
My papa is American and my mama is harf of chinese and Japanese. I am chinese and American. See you!
All over my bedroom walls back in the day. RIP Les. 😞
I had Samantha Fox on my walls. 😂😂🤣🤣
Had Les, and rest of Rollers, up on my walls and drove my folks wild with playing their Scottish songs.
Me too! My preteen angst! I had a huge crush on Derek and my friend had one on Les. Such simpler times back then.
RIP Les! You left a great legacy in music! Loved your band and music!
Julie, Rollermania will live on forever.
Not ashamed to
Admit I loved this group!
レスリーにドラムを叩かれたらカッコ良すぎてたまりませんね🤗🎶
ベイシティローラーズは私の青春でした💕😺💕
レスリーとアランの御冥福をお祈り致します🍀
Love em for everything. Rest in peace Leslie Eric Alan and Derek!!! Ian as well!!! I was a life long fan of them
I was a senior in high school when this song exploded in the U.S. Fond memories. RIP Les.
Very Handsome and Extremely Talented Singers and Musicians!
Les McKeown has passed away.. hard to reconcile the young men I remember from this group to the 65 year old who is now with the Lord.
Time is a thief!
I was 8 years old when this came out, and I LOVED IT!!!!! So awesome. ❤❤❤
Dancing in the streets to the BCRs when ever radio one played their songs .so proud off you guys for the great music and great memories you gave us all .R.I.P les .
High school 1976-79. Love the boys in tartan, and this was my favorite song.
Sing it loud and proud:
S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night. Pump you fist.
I’m the same age as you…and I remember this song so well back in the day…great memories 💕
✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊
This was how I learned to spell "Saturday" when I was in 1st grade.
Sane here !!!!
Same😂❤
When I was in 7&8 grade. There was four of us that was totally crazy for the B.C.R. we was always dressed like them, didn't care if anyone liked it, we was in our own little world...we still remember the songs, the outfits, where we were when certain songs came out..like it was yesterday...thank you for the great and silly teenagers from across the sea....they still put smiles on our faces and a tingle in our heart...
This comment hits hard. Makes me think of carefree middle school days listening to bubblegum music of the time and wearing what you want.
Sure miss those days 🙂😉
Uggh! I'm so old, I remember watching these guys live.
I remember Dave Boxer's Saturday night CJFM radio show always starting with this fun track. And, Hockey Night In Canada used a version of this song as an intro to the Saturday night broadcast.
I remember being a kid and going roller skating at the local skating rink - they played this song a lot - it had a great rhythm to skate to.
went from Whigfield to this amazing song! No complaints here - always awesome to discover new old whatever - great song!
Oh, that 8track....every Saturday Night
I practiced spelling Saturday with this song for a spelling test!! Love it 💕 Ontario Canada ✌️🤘🇨🇦
Blows away anything from the last 20 years.
Is it one of the greatest pop songs of all time? Yes. Have I listened to it a hundred times since hearing it in high school? Also yes.
My 5th grade teacher started playing this song randomly so 10 years later I decided to listen to it again and I love it. Also, he got diagnosed with cancer a year ago and I felt the need to listen.
Great childhood memories. Thanks, Les. R.I.P.
Was in junior high when this came out. Remember the girls pom pom team performing to it at half time of games. Fun times.
Love the rollers. Grew up with this music. They are legends. Inspired sio many xx
Great song! Love the Bay City Rollers!!!❤❤❤❤
I was born 2 years before this song, memories of this song.
He was my bias.RIP Les.Many thoughts for your family
Love this song!
This song makes me want to roller skate!
If this doesn't cheer you up I don't know what to tell ya!! I was so in love with them in 1976!!! LOL
Me too, was very sad when I read their history decades later. Alan Longmuir just died last year. May he Rest In Peace. The others are still very active but had all their money from this time stolen.