| Side Saddle | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Russ Conway |
| B-Side: | Pixilated Penguin |
| Released: | February 1959[1] |
| Genre: | Popular music, piano music |
| Label: | Columbia Records |
| Producer: | Norman Newell |
"Side Saddle" is a hit single which was number one in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks from 27 March 1959.[2]
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. Asked to compose a tune at short notice, Conway wrote an "olde-world gavotte" which he called "Side Saddle".[3] The song was a staple of the BBC's Housewives' Choice radio programme.[4]