"Side Saddle" is a hit single which was number one in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks from 27 March 1959.
[3] The honky-tonk style tune, composed by British popular music pianist Russ Conway under his real name Trevor Stanford, was written as part of the score for a television musical adaptation of Beauty and the Beast.
[4][5] Asked to compose a tune at short notice, Conway wrote an "olde-world gavotte" which he called "Side Saddle".
[6] The song was a staple of the BBC's Housewives' Choice radio programme.
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