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The Annotated "One More Saturday Night"

An installment in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.
By David Dodd

"One More Saturday Night"
Words and music by Bob Weir

"One More Saturday Night"

This note from a reader:
From: Alex Allan [mailto:alex@whitegum.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: One More Saturday Night/U.S.Blues

David

I just came across the following passage in Dennis McNally's book:

"[Weir and Hunter] clashed again over "One More Saturday Night." Having gotten Hunter's lyrics, Weir rewrote them--badly in Hunter's opinion--and then asked to call the resulting song "U.S.Blues," which Hunter refused to permit. In the end, he declined any association with the song and it was credited to Weir alone." [p393]
This throws as interesting light on the line:

"You can call **this** song the United States Blues"!

Alex

Recorded on

Covered by the David Murray Octet on Dark Star

First performance: Tuesday, October 19, 1971 at Northrop Auditorium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. "Saturday Night" appeared in the penultimate spot in the first set, following "Playing in the Band" and preceding "Casey Jones". Other firsts in the show, which was Keith Godchaux's first with the band, included "Tennessee Jed," "Mexicali Blues", "Jack Straw," "Comes a Time," and "Ramble On Rose." The song remained in the repertoire from then on. Although it was usually played on Saturday nights, this was not always the case.

Bruce Springsteen covered the song on at least one of his tours.


keywords: @planet earth
DeadBase code: [SNIT]
First posted: February 14, 1996
Last revised: February 11, 2003