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"Saturday in the Park" is a song written by Robert Lamm and recorded by the group Chicago for their 1972 album ''Chicago V''. ==Background== "Saturday in the Park" was very successful upon release, reaching #3 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming the band's highest-charting single to date, helping lift the album to #1. ''Billboard'' ranked it as the No. 76 song for 1972.〔Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972〕 The single was certified Gold by the RIAA, selling over 1,000,000 units in the US alone. According to fellow Chicago member Walter Parazaider, Lamm was inspired to write the song during the recording of ''V'' in New York City on July 4, 1971 (actually a Sunday): The line "singing Italian songs" is followed by "Eh Cumpari" and then Italian-sounding nonsense words, in the studio version of the song, rendered in the printed lyrics as "?". Piano, guitar, and vocal sheet music arrangements have often read "improvised Italian lyrics" in parentheses after this line. However, in a film of Chicago performing "Saturday in the Park," at the Arie Crown Theater in Chicago, in 1972, Robert Lamm clearly sings, "Eh Cumpari, ci vo sunari," the first line of a song known as "Eh, Cumpari!", which was made famous by Julius La Rosa in 1953. "Saturday in the Park" has been used in a popular commercial in Japan, advertising a marketing campaign known as "Parkhouse". The song is played at Saturday afternoon baseball games at Wrigley Field in Chicago (as Terry Kath grew up on the North Side of Chicago), Yankee Stadium in New York, and Coors Field in Denver. The opening piano riff was sampled by Jill Sobule for her song "Cinnamon Park" on the 2004 release, ''Underdog Victorious''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saturday in the Park (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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