Year 7, Day 157

Good Morning! Today's song is Saturday Night by Bay City Rollers. 

Photo by: Rob Bogaerts

 The Bay City Rollers is a Scottish group active starting in 1964, and is one of those groups that has come in and out of the industry a couple of different times, and because of that and how long the run was there is a ton of people listed as members. They started out as a family trio called the Ambassadors made up of Alan Longmuir, Derek Longmuir, and Neil Porteous that played at a family wedding. Then Derek invited his friend Gordon Clark to join, with the group changing the name to the Saxons and some members switching instruments. Porteous left the next year replaced by Dave Pettigrew. Gregory Ellison and Mike Ellison joined the group, then they started getting local gigs before switching their name to the Rollers, but needed an American name in front of it, so they threw a dart at a map. It landed on Arkansas, which they vetoed, and threw again landing on Bay City, Michigan. They had a couple short term members after that before signing to a label releasing some singles including this song. So they became very popular, and had lots of member changes, and even changed the name of the group more, but I’m not going to get into it. They’re credited with fifteen albums over their career, the first from 1974 and the most recent from 2015, so if you’re interested in the whole history go look them up. 

Peace.