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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 by British popular music pianist Russ Conway under his real name Trevor Stanford, was written as part of the score for a television musical adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Asked to compose a tune at short notice, Conway wrote an "olde-world gavotte" which he called "Side Saddle". The song was a staple of the BBC's Housewives' Choice radio programme.

References

1. ^ "Russ Conway - Side Saddle (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
2. "45cat - Russ Conway - Side Saddle / Pixilated Penguin - Columbia - UK - DB 4256".
3. ^ Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives. p. 42. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
4. Joseph Murrells (1984), Million Selling Records from the 1900s to the 1980s, Batsford, p. 127, ISBN 978-0-7134-3843-7
5. Colin Larkin (2002), The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music, Virgin, p. 89, ISBN 978-1-85227-937-0
6. Dennis Barker (17 November 2000). "Obituary: Russ Conway". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
7. Adair, Joseph (2011). No.1 Hits of the '50s (Media notes). One Day Music.

• UK singles chart number-one singles
• 1959 singles
• 1959 songs
• Columbia Graphophone Company singles
• Song recordings produced by Norman Newell