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Saturday Night Special is an American comedy- variety show that aired weekly on Saturday nights on Fox.
"Saturday Night Special" is a song by Lynyrd Skynyrd. It is the opening track on their album Nuthin' Fancy. The song addresses the issue of gun control.
Saturday Night Special may refer to:
- Saturday night special, an inexpensive handgun
- Saturday Night Special, a 1996 television show on Fox
- "Saturday Night Special" (Lynyrd Skynyrd song), 1975
- "Saturday Night Special" (Conway Twitty song), 1988
- "Saturday Night Special", a song by The Runaways from the album And Now... The Runaways
- Saturday Night Special (film), a 2007 motion picture directed by Justin Evans
- A single on Fad Gadget's 1981 album Incontinent
- An all-burgundy uniform worn by the Philadelphia Phillies on May 19, 1979
- Volcker's Saturday Night Special, a U.S. Federal Open Market Committee action to increase interest rates in 1979
- Saturday Night Special (album), a 1975 album by Norman Connors
"Saturday Night Special" is a song written by Larry Bastian and Dewayne Blackwell, and recorded by American country music artist Conway Twitty. It was released in June 1988 as the second single from the album Still in Your Dreams. The song reached #9 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
The song's title refers to the pejorative slang for an inexpensive handgun, which a young man purchases at a pawn shop.
The song's story tells of the man planning to kill himself after a failed relationship. The story opens with him bartering with a pawn dealer for the "Saturday night special" and one bullet. Before he is able to leave, he overhears the pawn dealer cruelly and callously deal with a young, distraught woman trying to hock her wedding ring ("Seven dollars, nothin' more!" he tells her, as the woman breaks down in tears). The previous customer turns around and stares angrily at the pawn dealer, placing his hand in his jacket pocket where he had placed the gun. The pawn dealer, knowing that a mistake in dealing at this point could cost him his life, relents and gives the woman a much fairer sum – $2,000 – for the ring. In the end, the young man and newly divorced woman decide to run away to Texas to start a new life.
'Saturday Night Special ' is an album by the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania jazz drummer Norman Connors.
Usage examples of "saturday night special".
Wendell Elbert pointed the remains of his Saturday night special at the sheriff instead, and Greeley either did not notice that the barrel of the Saturday night special was ruptured or pretended not to notice, and either way the result was the same.
For sure, it's a Saturday night special and can't be traced to him.
There was plenty to occupy him before the Saturday Night Special, since he hadn't even checked his mail after reading the note under his door, when he returned from Portobello.
Now he moved midway between Amor and me, a Saturday night special clutched in his right hand.
Julie had ordered us a Saturday Night Special, which I found out too late was a gallon-sized pitcher of dark beer.
Holding him down, he frisked him quickly, coming up with a small Saturday night special.