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“Saturday In The Park” by Chicago
From the album Chicago V (1972)
“Saturday In The Park” by Chicago appears on 12 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2014 and 2026. It was first released in 1972 on the album Chicago V. Its best result is #138 on the WMGK Philly 500 (2025). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,274 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Robert Lamm wrote "Saturday in the Park" for Chicago V, the band's 1972 album, and it's a sunny postcard from Central Park set to a bouncing, big-hearted groove. How it came about depends on who's telling it. Walter Parazaider remembers Lamm bursting back into the hotel on July 4, 1970, while the band was in New York making Chicago III, fired up by the steel drummers, singers, dancers and jugglers he'd just seen in the park. Lamm says it came to him while watching a film he had shot there over a couple of years, jotting down ideas as the footage rolled.
James William Guercio produced it. It rose to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, the band's highest-charting single up to then, went gold on more than 1,000,000 copies in the US and helped carry Chicago V to No. 1.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 576 | Big 100 | BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2020 | 713 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2021 | 486 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) | 1043 |
| 2022 | 563 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2022) | 1043 |
| 2022 | 393 | 97.1 The River | River 500 (2022) | 500 |
| 2023 | 691 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023) | 1043 |
| 2024 | 882 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) | 1043 |
| 2024 | 216 | WMGK | WMGK Philly 500 (2024) | 500 |
| 2025 | 643 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025) | 1043 |
| 2025 | 138 | WMGK | WMGK Philly 500 (2025) | 500 |
| 2026 | 524 | WYEP | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time | 1180 |
| 2026 | 395 | WMGK | WMGK Philly 500 (2026) | 500 |
Also listed as: Saturday in the Park.
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