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Wikipedia article
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| type = single
| artist = Russ Conway
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| B-side = Pixilated Penguin
| released = 1959
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| genre = Popular music, piano music
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| label = Columbia Records
| writer = Trevor Stanford
| producer = Norman Newell
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'"Side Saddle"' is a hit single which was number one in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks from 27 March 1959.
The honky-tonk style tune, composed and played by British popular music pianist Russ Conway, was written as part of the score for a television musical adaptation of 'Beauty and the Beast'. Conway, sitting in the TV rehearsal room, was asked to write a last-minute tune for one small scene set in a ballroom. He wrote 16 bars as an "olde-world gavotte" and hastily titled it "Side Saddle" in the margin.
The song was a staple of the BBC's 'Housewives' Choice' radio programme.
References
Category:UK Singles Chart number-one singles
Category:1959 singles
Category:1959 songs
Category:Columbia Graphophone Company singles
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