Editing Side Saddle

{{About|the piano instrumental|the riding style|sidesaddle}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2011}}
{{Infobox song
| name       = Side Saddle
| cover      =
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Russ Conway]]
| album      =
| B-side     = Pixilated Penguin
| released   = February 1959<ref name="Discogs"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.45cat.com/record/db4256|title=45cat - Russ Conway - Side Saddle / Pixilated Penguin - Columbia - UK - DB 4256}}</ref>
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Pop music|Popular music]], piano music
| length     =
| label      = [[Columbia Records]]<ref name="500 Number One Hits"/>
| writer     = [[Russ Conway|Trevor Stanford]]<ref name="Discogs">{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Russ-Conway-Side-Saddle/release/1661695 |title=Russ Conway - Side Saddle (Vinyl) at Discogs |publisher=Discogs.com |date= |accessdate=2014-04-04}}</ref>
| producer   = [[Norman Newell]]<ref name="500 Number One Hits"/>
| prev_title =
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| misc       = {{External music video|header=Official audio|{{YouTube|0Riv3JVe7zY|"Side Saddle"}}}}
}}
'''"Side Saddle"''' is a [[hit single]] which was number one in the [[UK Singles Chart]] for four weeks from 27 March 1959.<ref name="500 Number One Hits">{{cite book
| first= Jo
| last= Rice
| year= 1982
| title= The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits
| edition= 1st
| publisher= Guinness Superlatives
| location= Enfield, Middlesex
| page= 42
| isbn= 0-85112-250-7}}</ref>

The [[Tack piano|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]]''.<ref>{{citation |title=Million Selling Records from the 1900s to the 1980s |author=Joseph Murrells |publisher=[[Batsford]] |year=1984 |isbn=978-0-7134-3843-7 |page=127}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music |author=[[Colin Larkin]] |page=89 |isbn=978-1-85227-937-0 |year=2002 |publisher=Virgin}}</ref> Asked to compose a tune at short notice, Conway wrote an "olde-world [[gavotte]]" which he called "Side Saddle".<ref>{{cite news |author=[[Dennis Barker]] |url= https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/nov/17/guardianobituaries |title=Obituary: Russ Conway |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=17 November 2000 |accessdate=2014-04-04}}</ref> The song was a staple of the [[BBC]]'s ''[[Housewives' Choice]]'' radio programme.<ref name="#1hot50s">{{cite AV media notes|title=No.1 Hits of the '50s|publisher=One Day Music|first=Joseph|last=Adair|year=2011}}</ref>

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[[Category:UK singles chart number-one singles]]
[[Category:1959 singles]]
[[Category:1959 songs]]
[[Category:Columbia Graphophone Company singles]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Norman Newell]]