I can only hope you are enjoying my weekend music project as much as me. For the past few months I've sought on songs written about these two magical events we call Saturday and Sunday. After love and lost love, I'd say writing songs about days of the week is a pretty darned popular theme.

The other fun thing is getting a chance to find out the back stories of certain classic songs and also go back and read the stories of the performers themselves...some of them are song worthy, that's for sure.

Case in point: Sam Cooke. From the highs of a great singing to career to the most bleak of endings. Just too much to cover here. But you can find it here.

He did leave behind "Another Saturday Night", a song covered later by  singer songwriter Cat Stevens. Another 'cat' with an interesting 'tale.'

posted by Lisa Christiansen on Jan 30, 2010