Number 199 of Top 200 Songs of All-Time, Another Saturday Night

I keep saying that I am generally not a cover guy but Number 200 and 199 are both covers.  Number 199 is the Cat Stevens version of Another Saturday Night. The brilliant Sam Cooke wrote the song and made it a hit in 1963.  The upbeat tempo sold me on the Cat Stevens version which reached Number 6 on the Hot 100 Charts of 1974.

Beside being a great song, it had one of the all-time great lyrics, "Another fellow told me he had a sister who looked just fine, instead of being my deliverance, she has a strange resemblance to a cat named Frankenstein'

That lyric alone should make the song a classic.

Ladies and gentlemen, Number 199 on my list of the Top 200 songs of all-time, the Cat Stevens version of 'Another Saturday Night'

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