Over the Weekend

5 cited facts

September 18, 1964
3:56

What connects this song

Credits it shares with other songs, each from a cited source. Tap a number or a name.

Released on Mercury Records, also Livin’ on a Prayer (Bon Jovi), Space Oddity (David Bowie) and You Give Love a Bad Name (Bon Jovi)
Written by Joseph McCarthy, Jr., also Why Try to Change Me Now? (Frank Sinatra), Cloudy Morning (Tony Bennett) and The Riviera
Written by John Benson Brooks, also Just as Though You Were Here (Frank Sinatra), You Came a Long Way From St. Louis (Chuck Berry) and Where Flamingos Fly (The Gil Evans Orchestra)

Worth knowing

Counted from cited credits on fono.

Joseph McCarthy, Jr. first appears on fono in 1959, 5 years before this song

Credits

All 4 credits

Written by: John Benson Brooks and Joseph McCarthy, Jr.
Part of: This Is Love
Released on: Mercury Records

Written by: John Benson Brooks and Joseph McCarthy, Jr.
Part of: This Is Love
Released on: Mercury Records

Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.

Same writer: Joseph McCarthy, Jr.
Why Try to Change Me Now?
Frank Sinatra
1959
Same writer: John Benson Brooks
Just as Though You Were Here
Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, The Pied Pipers
1988
Same label: Mercury Records
Livin’ on a Prayer
Bon Jovi
1986
Same writer: Joseph McCarthy, Jr.
Cloudy Morning
Tony Bennett
1995
Same writer: John Benson Brooks
You Came a Long Way From St. Louis
Chuck Berry
1965
Same label: Mercury Records
Space Oddity
David Bowie
1969
Same writer: Joseph McCarthy, Jr.
The Riviera
Johnny Mathis, Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra
1961
Same writer: John Benson Brooks
Where Flamingos Fly
The Gil Evans Orchestra
1961

Elsewhere

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1MusicBrainz Over the Weekend was written by John Benson Brooks
Over the Weekend was written by John Benson Brooks
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2MusicBrainz Over the Weekend was written by Joseph McCarthy, Jr.
Over the Weekend was written by Joseph McCarthy, Jr.
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3MusicBrainz Over the Weekend is part of the release This Is Love
Over the Weekend is part of the release This Is Love
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4MusicBrainz Mercury Records is the label of the song Over the Weekend
Mercury Records is the label of the song Over the Weekend
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5MusicBrainz Over the Weekend was released on 1964-09-18
Over the Weekend was released on 1964-09-18
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