Source: Barry Mann and Cynthia Weill, ‘Saturday Night at the Movies’, song recorded by The Drifters, 1964. Lyrics reproduced from http://www.metrolyrics.com/saturday-night-at-the-movies-lyrics-the-drifters.html
Text:
Well Saturday night at 8 o’clock
I know where I’m gonna go
I’m a gonna pick my baby up
And take her to the picture show
Everybody in the neighborhood
Is dressing up to be there too
And we’re gonna have a ball
Just like we always do
Saturday night at the movies
Who cares what picture you see?
When you’re hugging with your baby
In last row in the balcony
Well there’s Technicolor and Cinemascope
A cast out of Hollywood
And the popcorn from the candy stand
Makes it all seem twice as good
There’s always lots of pretty girls
With figures they don’t try to hide
But they never can compare
To the girl sittin’ by my side
Saturday night at the movies
Who cares what picture you see?
When you’re hugging with your baby
In last row in the balcony
Saturday night at the movies
Who cares what picture you see?
When you’re hugging with your baby
In last row in the balcony
Saturday night at the movies
Who cares what picture you see?
When you’re hugging with your baby
In last row in the balcony
Saturday night at the movies
Comments: Barry Mann (1939- ) and Cynthia Weill (1940- ) are an American married couple who have written many popular songs since the 1960s. Weill is the lyricist. American vocal group The Drifters was founded in 1953, and different permutations of the line-up have continued to the present day. ‘Saturday Night at the Movies’ reached no. 18 in the Billboard charts in the USA and no. 3 in the UK charts. Its basic theme was repeated in The Drifters’ 1974 hit ‘Kissin’ in the Back Row of the Movies‘.