Inexplicably, "Saturday Night" by The Bay City Rollers infiltrated my brain several hours ago and hasn't let up. It was a chart-topping hit at the beginning of 1976 and set the tone for most of that year's not-especially-cerebral smash hits. Everything about the lyrics is right on the surface; it's simply about someone wanting to keep dancing to the rock & roll on Saturday night.
"Saturday Night" wasn't Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" by a long shot--but, commercially, at least, it didn't need to be. Many of the chart-topping hits of '76 weren't intended to be anything more than feel-good dance tunes. Even though it sprang to mind involuntarily, I have to credit the tune for its staying power; not every song stays in your mind 42 years after it was a hit.
