Oliver Cheatham | Get Down Saturday Night (Change Request ReVision)
For this ReVision, I took on the most popular tune from an all-around Detroit mainstay, Oliver Cheatham.
“Get Down Saturday Night” is the first single on his second album, 1983’s Saturday Night. The song reached number 37 on the Billboard R&B chart, as well as reaching number 38 on the UK Singles Chart that same year.
Produced by A.D.K. aka Al Hudson, vocalist, Kevin McCord, bassist, and Dave Roberson of the producer of the Detroit group, Soul Partners. They would later change their name to One Way, after their debut on ABC Records with 1979s, Especially For You LP.
I took this initial idea and fleshed it out into an entirely different place, teasing the arrangement until the full statement happens midway into the song. I recreated this with standard and modern orchestrations of Oberheim Pads, Juno-106 Bass, Electric Guitar, and more.
This was created using their award-winning Eventide Audio effects processing, from the ground-breaking modulation of the Instant Phaser Mk II, to their one-of-a-kind and spatial design tools—#SP2016Reverb, #UltraReverb, and the Tony Visconti designed #Tverb Reverb—this was
