On This Day in Music History September 20, 1975 The Bay City Rollers hit prime-time on the Saturday Night Variety Show and fired off their brand-new single, “Saturday Night.” What started as a UK skiffle-to-pop story exploded into full-on Rollermania in the States—by the first week of January 1976, “Saturday Night” had climbed all the way to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. A few fun nuggets: • That famous S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y chant came from writers Bill Martin and Phil Coulter, tailor-made for TV an

#OTD 1976: Bye, Bye, Bassist (Bassist Goodbye) - Alan Longmuir left the Bay City Rollers. | BBC Archive