The Bay City Rollers were a Scottish boy band who scored their first UK hit in 1971 with "Keep On Dancing." In 1975, they had the UK's best-selling single with "Bye Bye Baby," and were primed to break through in America. This infectious pop song, with its very memorable chant (S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y... Night!) stormed the States, becoming the first US #1 hit of 1976 (America's bicentennial). The song got a huge publicity push, and the band made their US TV debut performing the song on Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell, which was an Ed Sullivan-style variety show that lasted just a few months, but had a huge viewership since there wasn't much else to watch.
This was written by the songwriting team of Bill Martin and Phil Coulter, who had written four UK #1 hits, including "Puppet On A String," which won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967 for Sandie Shaw.
The Bay City Rollers may not have lived up to the huge hype they received in America, but they did have five other Top 40 hits in the States, including "Money Honey," "You Made Me Believe In Magic" and "Rock And Roll Love Letter."
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